A good resource of practical nutritional solutions

Missing from the book description and many reviews of this book is that this is a very good reference book to match nutritional solutions to physical problems.

I am going to buy 4 copies of this book in hard copy version. One for myself, and the three others for people who could benefit from the nutritional (suggested food or vitamin) solutions offered for a variety of specific problems. (Weight, Fertility, Hair Loss, Eczema, Heart, Diabetes, Allergies, Digestion, Energy, etc etc etc. - the examples shared in her book are numerous and varied.)

Maria Emmerich's nutritional advice is helpful to people who want to lessen reliance on pharmaceuticals.

The application of the Ketogenic Way Of Nutrition is explained, but this book is different from the other ketogenic books I've read in that it offers very usable, practical, applicable information. Like how to choose vitamins, and which vitamins to take in the morning or evening, before eating, or with food. With the price of supplements, that one feature makes purchase of this book valuable - buy the best vitamins or minerals or food for your health, and save money by not buying the wrong stuff. I didn't know there were different kinds of magnesium, for example, and she explains the difference and why one kind is better than another.

Yes, I agree with other reviewers that portions *appear* to be self-promoting. And, for that reason I held off listening to this book - choosing other keto-related books first. BUT, this one book would have helped me to make better choices when I started buying vitamins and supplements recommended (vaguely) in the other books. I appreciate the specificity in this book on how to choose vitamins, or minerals, and like the succinct way Maria Emmerich can put in a few sentences why certain people need certain vitamins or minerals and how lack of, or addition of, these supplements will harm or help the body.

The audio version is enjoyable and educational, but because the information is detailed a hardcover will be handy to use as reference. It's easier to flip to a section in a hardcover to look something up than with an audio version. Also, it's easier to share information with friends and family with an actual book to show them when a chapter or paragraph addresses issues they are dealing with.

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Still wondering...

Interesting take on the keto diet. I heard a lot of new information explained in a down to earth manner. However I still don't know what the author means by the phrase "well planned keto adapted diet!" How do you actually plan a meal or menu? The book was filled with great tips that support her plan but the actual framework for applying this is lacking. The book has a ton of supporting info for why she promotes keto but not enough on applying to your own life. Her web site sells menu plans... That she really didn't promote which I am glad. If I like a message I will check it out without a book long ad. She's extreme about everything but if what you are doing isn't working..... Perhaps another read of this will clear things up more. I haven't read her first book so maybe there's info there?

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Quite possibly my best purchase recently...

After listening to jimmy Moore's ketoclarity book I wanted further inspiring and knowledgeable works to support my newly decided on lifestyle change. I chose this book, it was amazing. I have now purchased the hardcover of her two recipe books (everyone likes a hard copy in the kitchen) and a hard copy of this book to lend to friends. Thank you Maria. After only two weeks on this new journey I am already seeing positive changes.

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Faithful to the ketogenic lifestyle.

The sole distinguishing and redeeming value of this book from other keto books is that is takes the time to enumerate ailments and their causes that may be addressed with the ketogenic diet. The listener must be satisfied with endless testimonials as proof, and these often prove to be overly self-congratulatory to the author. These comprise a large chunk of the total text.

The performance tends to sing song and drone on so that the listener is beside themselves when they hear the words, "the end."

I would recommend the following in order: "Good Calories, Bad Calories" or "why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes, "Living Low Carb" by Bowden, and, if you decide that the keto diet is for you, "Keto Clarity" by Jimmy Moore and Dr. Eric Westman. "Keto Adapted" should be about the tenth book you should buy.

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keto adapted?

The title of this book doesn't really accurately describe the contents. A more appropriate name would be "A Supplement Salesman's Wet Dream" The author spends more time taking about supplements you "need" to be taking and less time on the subject implied by the title. If you want to learn about the keto diet this book isn't right for you. If however you want to spend hundreds of dollars a month on supplements, then I highly recommend this book. she seriously lists like 45 different pills you "need" to be taking. I'm pretty sure she broke the record for number of times the word "supplement" appeared in any publication.

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Very difficult to differentiate between testimonials and author

Testimonials are good--and maybe better outlined in written form--but very difficult to differentiate between testimonials and author. I bought the book for the author's insight and musings--but roughly 50% of the book is of client stories I'm not interested in and do not relate. Cannot recommend.

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Good but...

I seriously got tired of constantly hearing about “the Maria way”. Like we get it, you wrote the book, get over it. I’m listening for the knowledge not to hear someone tell me how amazing they are.

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Fluff

#1 complaint is the really obnoxious and overblown testimonials. Couldn't make it all the way through the book but they claim everything from helping conceive to curing a child's autism and increasing their IQ! It wouldn't surprise me that if in later chapters they claimed that once they adopted Maria's "well formulated keto adapted diet" they started to shit gold nuggets.

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Started out great but became Woo quickly

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Eliminate all of the stuff about hydration, supplements and above all the testimonials

What do you think your next listen will be?

probably nothing on this topic

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

less emotional additions

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Keto-Adapted?

all the stuff for which there is little medicl evidence to support the claims made. But then it woould probly be a pamphlet.

Any additional comments?

Having read pretty much every other book on low carb I was hoping that this would be an easy book I could recommend to fellow physicians who have yet to accept that the standard low fat high carb diet is the cause of many of our current medical problems. And to empasize to them that low carb is not just a diet but a way of life for people who are carb sensitive.

Unfortunatley, no. In fact I hope they don't accidentally come across this because after listening to a well present summary of the documented known benefits of a low carb high fat diet, they will then be subjected to a myriad, which for lack of a better term, is called woo. Because at that point, they might well consider everything that came before in the book as woo as well.

In fact, this book seems to be doing exactly the opposite of what the people that she refers to and quotes (Taubes, Attia, wetc) are trying to do, i.e. bring true science to the area of nutrition.

For example:
1) hydration - don't driink while eating because the fluid will dilute the digestive juices? Also, drink twice your body weight in ounces? Why 2 why not 1 or 3 or 4? Where's the data that hydration does anything?

2) supplements - any evidence that any work? And when you put people on multiple ones at the same time, if there is some benefit, how do you know which if any of the supplemts worked? And of course, all of these observations she made were in people also who had radically changed their diet. So which of these changes were responsible?
Now I know her response would be one of the most frightening phrases one hears in medicine "Well, in my clincial experience I've found that my patients all respond to ....(fill in your preferred woo).

3) the testimonals - at least farm out the ones that are clearly silly. For example, the women with the migraines who was found to have a pineal cyst on, I assume, an MRI after a severe headache. First of all these are not at all uncommon and and almost all incidentally when someone has an MRI for something else as they have no relationship to migraine or other symptoms when small. Long before they get large enough to cause headaches, many other symptoms would have developed and it would have been diagnosed. Thus when a doc listens to this and the suggestion implied that the standard amercian diet caused it and that a low carb diet caused it to get smaller, they will roll their eyes and probably question whehter the low carb diet had anything to do with her migraines getting better, which it most likely did. As for the cyst getting smaller. Get several radiologist together to measure a 1 cm cyst on MRI and you'll get several different answers. Those measurements are just not that accurate.

4) The the whole hormone chapter. Not losing too much fat quickly during pregnancy because of the toxins released from the fat might adversely affect the baby? Sorry, but I've seen too many neurologic complications of pregnacy for which obesity was a major factor. Also I've heard that same argument used to tell people to lose weight slowly. Again, where is there any credible data to show that toxins are actually released from fat during weight loss? And the testimonials that low carb will increase the chance of a successful pregnancy?

5) All of the comments about the pathophysiology for all of the conditions she mentions and how varios supplements all improve or cure them.Clearly these are all speculations and should clearly be indicated as such, not as accepted knowledge.

6) Probiotics and the immune system, how exercise improves the immune system, and on and on, all presented as if there is data out there to support any of these claims and that she is just giving us a summary of something everyone in her area of nutrition already knows.

I think you can get why I talking about.

If you are looking for a Taubes, Attia, Teicholz, or the others that have written well researched books, you won't find it here.

But if you are in the mood for truth mixed in with alot of unsubstantiated claims for supplements ( I love the recurring comments about sea salt and the theory as to why we need supplements but our ancestors didn't) along with inspirational stories about people attributing whatever they were cured of to a low carb diet then you might find this interesting.

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A book of self congratulation

The info in this book is valuable but it’s dwarfed by the incessant gushing testimonials that come out of nowhere without warning. I could never figure out whether Maria was speaking or one of the dozens of people offering high praise to her.

It’s very difficult to enjoy this audiobook and it’s putting me off from buying any more of her books.

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