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Healthy low-carbohydrate diet (HLCD) reduces fecal branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and increases unsaturated fatty acids, which are positively associated with fat mass.
HLCD changes your gut environment by lowering BCAAs and increasing unsaturated fats, which are linked to lower fat mass. This suggests that what you eat changes how your gut processes nutrients, aiding fat loss.
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Compared with the non-HLCD group, a greater decrease in the fecal concentrations of BCAAs (including leucine, isoleucine, and valine)... and a greater increase in unsaturated fatty acids was observed among participants in the HLCD group... BCAAs were significantly positively associated with body weight, BMI, and fat mass...
Why this rating
RCT with metabolomic profiling, strong correlation data.
Source
Effects of healthy low-carbohydrate diet and time-restricted eating on weight and gut microbiome in adults with overweight or obesity: Feeding RCT
Lin Li et al. · Cell Reports Medicine · 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101801
rct · n=96Cited 27×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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