Keto: What is the science behind the diet? – Podcast | Science

While other diet fashions go and go, the low -cost carbohydrate diet seems to resist. But while scientists begin to understand how the diet works, it is also discovered more about its risks. To find out more, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Javier Gonzalez, professor at the Health Department of the University of Bath, with a special interest in personal nutrition. He explains how the diet works, what could do to our bodies and what could really be behind the weight loss that people experience while on it