Keto Wars 2019 Affiliates beware of fasting and keto programs, the chop is coming
2019 has kicked off in the health niche with a war on keto, and the keto proponents some of whose protein powders and books you see in this image seem to be amping up the volume in retaliation but don't be fooled by the loud noise they are making at the moment nor by the lucrative commissions on offer eg by David Jockers in his Fasting summit with the HTO platform because the health niche is divided with many doctors and researchers and patient testimonies coming out against keto now, many people have died or wrecked their metabolism and health.
David Jockers | irresponsible doctorpreneur?
David Jockers spent all last summit year saying how little his wife ate during pregnancy and after it to get in shape, her fasting lifestyle being suggested to other women 'to get in shape', and even here at WA we had Sandy attest to the death of a postpartum woman on keto. You think that is a coincidence that woman tried to eat like David Jocker's wife? Hell no, and don't get sucked into it as an affiliate marketer or health blogger when they eventually shut that guy up you do not want to be silenced alongside him.
It's only digital marketing has people like David Jockers and keto so prominent at the moment - but a huge lashback is building like a tsunami out there.
I've also noticed and called on him in the summits to reference his sources properly, it's plagiarism when you quote the work of others to make it look like your own - that is why people think he is good, they don't know when he is quoting someone else, and then he slips in some fad of his own and people are swallowing it whole. THAT is also how some of these guys have bloated out the size of their sites...his results won't be measured in monetary terms ulitmately but the fear of food, destruction and death out there caused by his positioning.
Saying No to Keto
The cover picture for my blog here was released this week by Chris Wark, as in Chris Beat Cancer - I'm no propenent of Chris, I'm not a vegan and I'm not religious the way he is, but he came out with an expose on keto from 'the research'. And by the end of 2018 the health niche was beginning to explode with angry practitioners and doctors against keto, at that time they were the minority voice being heard but in the wake of so much destruction out there that voice will be heard clearly in 2019, keto is going to get its assed kicked, you don't want yours kicked with it!
The Truth About The Truth About!
Disappointing to see the buddies and inner circles close ranks this week with Ty & Charlene of TTAC the truth about cancer affiliate program take sides with Josh Axe who has invested huge money in his own keto line of supplements - but that is the bottom line, he is a multimillion dollar doctorpreneur with millions invested in his new keto range and Ty boasts about being the highest paying affliate program out there paying out several millions each year - you think any of this is about 'truth'? To make it worse these guys never stop quoting either 'the research' or 'the scripture'! But 'Health Experts Academy', with a surprisingly similar sounding name to Brendon Burchards 'Experts Academy' named Josh Axe as a top multimillion dollar earner along with Dr. Eric Zielinksi as it enticed other doctors to become 'doctorpreneurs' with their training!
And how sad that good people with a good message are getting sucked into all this, you with your blogs, others in natural healing and practitioners and doctors with good protocols for cancer, but listen out to the protests:
- The Truth About Food is a book being written by David Katz exposing fads like keto, he is also hitting out at bloggers for not writing accurate content!
-The entire iThrive affiliate docuseries exposed keto
- my previous blog on keto listed a number of other voices deconstructing keto and fasting fads eg Dr Alan Christianson, Naveen Jain, Joel Furhman, add to that many others eg Joel Kahn https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/mozmary/blog/why-im-not-prom...
... many many things happening and coming along in 2019 to shake the dominant marketing position that keto held in 2018, get ahead of the game.
Will the health summits go down with keto?
Well we are all fed up with doctorpreneurs, there's a brilliant article by Evan Alden in the Elephant Journal about how much she got messed around by all the summit speakers when she took them on as pracitioners in her own health journey. The summit model was invented by Brendon Burchard style marketing, they offer you $29.50 to say what they want you to say, they take your traffic, the doctors get so rich they launch their own line of supplements - you can't even make commissions on anything now!
The Future of Summit Affiliate Programs
- If you were promoting them without being able to comment on the contents, and they sort of encourage that with their 'swipe copy' and humongous email lists all shooting the same fish in the same barrel, then that was never the model encouraged at WA and when they go down you'll be left with nothing.
- If you know how to engage the content and criticize it then you can work them to your advantage, if you know your niche and are not dependent on them. But if you have a conscience you will show your audience the fads and fallacies and the nuggets that sometimes are buried in there. {But I have not met many people with the expertise to do this, it is impossible be around negative content without some of it seeping in and influencing our own behaviour!}
Up till now I had been happy to share nuggets and guide people away from the dangers, but the thing has tipped in favor of too many bad things vs anything worthwhile, the doctorpreneurs have amped up their greed. We are all fed up with the same speakers saying the same contradictory things over and over.
Why is it the same speakers at every summit no matter what the topic?
Bottom line, digital marketing- belonging to the same mastermind group - Brendon Burchard and deviations from that initial model. The doctorpreneurs unfortunately are at a point of doing a lot of harm, I'd encourage you to resist the commissions and never copy or promote content you don't understand, don't use 'swipe copy' ie don't be told what to say for a fee, you are capable of better things.
Interesting times ahead in the health niche. Let's hope for a better and safer audience centered 2019, ie good content ;)
Mary
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Interesting post. I have been on Keto to do a fitness challenge with my wife. Unfortunately, the Bootcamp facility's management did not do a good job of informing us of the potential dangers.
I am type 2 diabetic and one of the medications I am on has a warning in fine print that basically says you cannot do Keto.
I did not know that.
I lost 7 pounds on Keto and then was rushed to the hospital because I could not breath. Turned out to be Ketoacidosis due to Keto and the med I was on.
They told me one more day and I would have been in a Coma.
So all I want to say is, make sure you know the risks of any diet, whether it works or not.
I recommend eating a healthy balanced diet and getting consistent exercise all the time. No fad diets for me.
So glad you are still alive, too close a call that!!!
Yes, they are all backpaddling now with their precautions and blaming people for not doing it right so I tend to remind them of the top names in the health niche who did it right and ran into trouble, then what you said about not doing a good job of informing you of the potential dangers - they are only getting around to this late 2018/2019, and that's at the very source of the keto programs
closing the stable door after it has bolted...your fitness bootcamp aren't the only ones and they should really be called out for it, playing with people's lives! Bad thing is all people will get tarred with the same brush, the FDA or someone will sweep in and not allow any of us talk because of these extremists
Best wishes for 2019!
Symptoms were that I could not take two steps without running out of breath. I basically could not move and had zero energy.
The medication is Jardiance. Don't take it and do Keto. Very dangerous.
The fine print on Jardiance does say it may cause Ketoacidosis but no one reads that and my doctor nor my Pharmacists warned me.
Moral of my story:
All type 2 diabetes have to be careful with fad diets.
Interesting post. I personally have tried keto and intermittent fasting both and they help my blood sugar (I'm a type 2 diabetic). But it is hard to stay on both - just as soon as I start, there is a party or my dh wants to have certain food -he won't eat keto or fast at all. I'm personally on a "salad" thing right now and have an affiliate blog about salads.
That's quite a swing from keto to salads! Well salads will never go out of fashion, you are making me hungry! :)
It also helped my blood normalize, right before I spent the night in the hospital with an IV in my arm.
What an interesting post because I am seeing both sides of the coin from here.
From my own experience I will never get into the health market.
Well never say never as I do have a reasonable good story to tell - nothing as dramatic as some I have heard though.
Having been diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis a long time ago I was on a range of medications including methotrexate and diclofenac. The latter caused my BP to go shooting through the roof - I was a stroke waiting to happen (and that is just part of the story). As a result I decided to do my own research and landed up changing my lifestyle to a "whole food plant based with no oil" one. Threw my medication away and the rest is history.
I don't take any medication now at age 63 and my Blood pressure is down from its all time high to 135/83 (not ideal but it is a work in progress and a huge change from 186/135)
My flatmate is a 39 year old female who is, in my opinion morbidly obese, and on Keto!
She won't listen to me - despite the fact that she sees what fresh, natural and healthy food goes into my mouth compared to her greasy and highly processed gunk. I feel sorry for her but she won't have a bar of what I suggest and so I watch with interest as she posts "everything" that she puts into her mouth on Instagram. And I know she does not post about the chocolates and rich desserts that she consumes daily.
It is really sad that people buy into this, doctors, who should know better fall for it (some even make money from it).
And yes there must be affiliates who are lured into programs for the sake of commission without thinking of what harm they may be doing to an individuals which in turn has a ripple effect and impacts hugely on family and communities.
So because I know from my own experience that diet plays the major role in good health I would be very uncomfortable promoting anything other than lettuce - and there ain't much commission in lettuce last time I looked. :)
I enjoyed your post and I sincerely hope that Keto and all unhealthy diets come crashing down. If greedy affiliates go tumbling too then they only have themselves to blame.
Lawrence
wow Lawrence, big congrats on turning around that condition - it's an amazing story and a niche in the waiting in itself
- autoimmunity is one of the hottest topics in the health niche at the moment, would be great to hear your story in full sometime
...and there are docs out there with 'wholefood plant based diets' with affiliate programs, and some organic veg shops and veg growing and education programs too :)
That's incredible about your flatmate!!
Good luck with the bp!
Great Story for sure Lawrence!
Keep doing what you're doing! Your story alone is something to celebrate.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Greg
Good evening Mary,
It is not easy to separate the corn from the chaff.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
yes Taetske, we are in a place where people will be tempted to set the whole lot ablaze! If I didn't know about the good stuff I burn it all myself as they are just going too far now...
I have friends that have lost a LOT of weight on KETO and promote it, however, I always thought any diet that limits your food options can't be good for the long haul. Aside from lacking some nutrients, what happens to your body when you go off and how someone sustain something like this for years?
I still say (and you many not agree) that if you're going to be on a Plan, Weight Watchers is the best. It allows you to eat whatever you want but you have to be accountable. It teaches you how to make the right choices. After all, isn't it all about eating properly and moderation on "junk"? Just my thought.
~Debbi
Sounds wise Debbie, showing people how to make the right choices - freedom, no fear of food there, variety too which is essential for nutrients and macronutrients - and so true about not coming off...I've met some people who can't even cycle off a few days they are so messed up...really scared them
Keto works, is it healthy? That is another argument and many things point to it being unsustainble for your health.
It reminds me of the Acai berry scams out there, there is a lot of validity to it, but you can simply eat keto without having to join a Keto MLM or auto ship program. That is where the vultures have come in and made a mess of this industry, like they typically do with others
As for fasting, I have been doing it for 8 years now, 5 days per week. It helps me maintain my weight, and this is based on the concepts of how our ancestors ate. Like Keto, this has been overcome with companies that are turning something that you can simply do, to building MLM and other schemes around the very concept.
Very interesting post here and a ton of valid points you have been made. Like the Acai Berry scams, I think many Keto ones are going to follow the same demise. I see a lot this taking place within another valid niche, CBD...and others, like water.
Did you see Dr Michael Murray saying he had to pull the plug on keto, he began to lose muscle and his biomarkers all went the wrong direction he couldn't even get to the end of his first trial. He was lucky to be in a position to measure his biomarkers with advanced functional medicine lab testing. Most others can't.
Because I speak openly against it I get a lot of testimonies, those people for whom it works are in the minority, those for whom it doesn't work risk death but also by the admission of Elle Russ and David Jockers - who are among its biggest proponents:
- it can screw your thyroid
- many people have an undiagnosed thyroid condition in the first place
- it can alter hormones, give heart problems, for some the fat has caused serious issues on a number of levels, for others the blood sugar messed them up real bad, others like Naveen Jain of Viome are attesting to the endothelial lining damage, others like Dr Alan Christianson and Dr Joel Fuhrman are attesting to the immune boosting foods not allowed on keto
So 'works' is a whole relative concept
As for ancestors - well I've heard the social anthropology reconstructions and never been convinced, it's a bit like the days when people argue for or against evolution as a fact...gets too fabricated and misquoted regarding cultures in existance today too
Older fasting protocols involved a few days with high intensity nutrition and organ cleansing eg the Master Herbalist tradition in the west extending back to the Native Americans with versions of this in the east in the other traditions, modern versions of this exist outside of keto
- I'd hope you are getting those advanced tests from labs like Genova diagnostis, even then, there are alternative ways to achieve what you are doing with less risk. Today we are hearing stories from vegans and vegetarians who went 20 years before they noticed any damage...yet for some people it will work. We recently had Patrick Holford of Optimum Nutrition in the UK say he had to go onto salmon to get the nutrients he needs, and he was heading a vegan lifestyle, also now attesting to vegan infant deaths...these diets can never be launched on everyone, even if marketed correctly
ps bear in mind that fasting is tied to keto the way it's being sold here
'fasting' and 'ancestors'...phew...too much interpretation there though
Sorry, Kyle, this is a poor way to control your weight. This will, in the end, cause diabetes. Then again it all depends on what you call fasting. Fasting with just water and juices is not good for you. If drinking protein power and vegetables this will not hurt you.
Sandy
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Yes, it's sad that they have ruined two things: keto diet as well as fasting. Hypocrites said if you couldn't cure a disease by fasting that it was incurable in his opinion. I was in nursing school and even wrote a book about it so I know it's way better than the diet they tout now. This is part of what I have done to get income too, but this is what I found about the programs. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B78ZRQY
Great article though and relevant images.
I've heard Hippocrates quoted on 'let food be thy medicine' that seems to be interpreted as 'let lack of food be' these days. Dr John R Christopher came out with an Incurables program but fasting was juice fasting, worked for me, they told me it was game over 14 years back after medical error, so I like his 3 day juice fasts, but I also did Gerson therapy, another incurables program and it was loaded with juicing and food and that got me walking inside 4 months..the secret sauce was the digestive enzymes took the digestive burden off the body, there were no inflammatory foods in there or junk, so the body had both the nutrients and the energy to heal...today the hype would put me on keto, I know I wouldn't have made it so the sooner the smoke clears on the latest fads the better, the old stuff works even generations later...