Chapter 2154: 2079 Ketogenic Diet Endorsed by Top Medical Journal

Watching Professor Gu leave, Su Yun and Zheng Ren headed to the Intervention Department, and Su Yun asked, "Boss, is the drug dosage you gave too high?"

"It's fine; the cyclophosphamide instructions say the dose is 0.2 grams per time, once daily or every other day; or 0.6–0.8 grams per time, once weekly."

"You said a 1-gram shock dose, but you didn't even see it; when you said that, Director Lin's face looked awful," Su Yun said.

"Shock therapy is like that; if the dose isn't enough, the condition may relapse." Zheng Ren said, "The shock dose needs to be of shock-dose magnitude."

"I haven't had much exposure to rheumatology and immunology, but I still think your treatment plan has a problem," Su Yun said.

This time his tone was calm, and he didn't directly retort Zheng Ren.

For things he didn't understand, Su Yun still had a clear idea in his mind.

Relying only on the instructions as evidence makes it easy for the boss to casually throw out ten or eight case reports to crush you.

But Zheng Ren didn't say anything and didn't continue discussing the case; he just smiled and walked toward the ward.

"Boss, are you sure?" Su Yun suddenly asked again.

"Sure, of course sure."

Su Yun shrugged; sometimes he really didn't like that overconfident, smug look of his, but when faced with a tough problem, he paradoxically liked hearing him speak so definitively.

Zheng Ren walked while pulling out his phone.

【I'm done on my end; where are you?】

Regarding phone chats, Zheng Ren had no particular fondness for them and even resisted a bit; he rarely chatted, unlike Su Yun.

But reporting his daily routine to Xiao Yi Ren, Zheng Ren was relatively accustomed to it.

If half of the WeChat function on his phone is for sending images to diagnose patients, the rest is prepared for Yi Ren.

【I'm waiting for Elder Sister Yue; she's feeling a bit unwell.】

Xie Yiren replied to the message very quickly.

Zheng Ren froze for a moment.

"Su Yun, Chang Yue is feeling unwell," Zheng Ren said solemnly.

"I've noticed she hasn't been normal lately either," Su Yun said. "Could it be a problem caused by the ketogenic diet?"

"It's possible," Zheng Ren said with a grave expression. "The ketogenic diet is hard to stick to; I never expected Chang Yue to persist this long. At first I thought if she was willing to eat, she'd eat, but she'd feel nauseous after a few days and then surely recover quickly."

"Chang Yue is very stubborn," Su Yun said.

Zheng Ren nodded, agreeing with Su Yun's statement.

【How is Chang Yue?】

Zheng Ren sent a WeChat message asking Xie Yiren.

【Not bad; she's breaking a light sweat and lying down.】

Zheng Ren was walking when he suddenly stopped, sighed, and said, "You persuade Chang Yue."

"Do I speak well?" Su Yun said scornfully. "If I spoke well, you'd think I'd insist on bringing her from Hai Cheng."

Uh… is there still a story here? Zheng Ren originally thought that when they were in Hai Cheng, Su Yun and Chang Yue were mutually fond.

Although you can't tell usually, who can say for sure about such matters?

He doesn't really understand these things; if others want to date, he doesn't need to meddle.

But hearing the implication in Su Yun's words, Zheng Ren curiously asked, "What's going on?"

"That guy's face blindness is severe, unlike your seeing the world as a mosaic; she… isn't face-blind, she basically has no aesthetic sense at all," Su Yun began to complain.

Hearing Su Yun say that, Zheng Ren understood his meaning and really couldn't help but mock. Being surrounded by a flower-like, jade-like girl, as if stars held the moon, isn't that good?

That's a life Zhou Litao would envy but could never attain.

Just as carbohydrates are the essence of life, once obtained they aren't cherished; Su Yun this guy actually takes interest in Chang Yue, who lacks aesthetic sense and doesn't give him any color.

This person is still pretty weird.

As the saying goes, a clever wife often sleeps with a clumsy husband, which also makes sense.

But the main issue now isn't Chang Yue's lack of aesthetic sense nor Su Yun's odd demands; it's solving Chang Yue's ketogenic diet problem.

Zheng Ren thought: usually Chang Yue that guy shows no respect to patients and their appearance, and toward himself he has not even a bit of the deference a junior doctor should have for a senior.

No wonder he was initially sent to the Medical Department.

Zheng Ren doesn't care about Chang Yue's attitude toward him; as long as the work gets done, that's fine.

But now, how should we persuade her?

"The ketogenic diet— they say the breast surgery's Da Lu lost weight by eating like that?" Zheng Ren asked.

"Yeah, Da Lu used to be extremely fat; you could often see him secretly ordering family buckets while on duty and eating them hidden in the duty room." Su Yun said. "Under 1.7 meters and over 220 pounds, no wonder his coronary arteries are blocked."

"Did he really eat well?"

"Yeah, I've seen it. But the ketogenic diet's side effects are too big; if you're not sick, I really wouldn't recommend it. Da Lu has no choice—if he doesn't eat this way, he'll die. At his worst, even after stent placement he could only walk about a hundred meters."

Heart coronary blood supply can only support walking about a hundred meters; even after stenting, that's still considered quite severe.

Zheng Ren wasn't familiar with Da Lu; he just had an impression of him.

He frowned, thought, and said: "The ketogenic diet appeared around 1920, originally to treat childhood epilepsy, and some adults were treated this way too. Aside from that, the ketogenic diet first alters cerebral electrical activity—are you just messing around?"

"The brain is most affected by glucose; a low-sugar diet has some effect in controlling cerebral pathology."

Having said that, both sighed; neither had a good solution.

In the 1970s, American doctor Robert Atkins slightly modified it, and the ketogenic diet appeared among ordinary people as the Atkins weight-loss method.

But the principle remains the same; if one can stick with it, the effect is good.

However, when the brain lacks glucose supply, many on ketogenic diets feel foggy and hungry; it's not actually hunger, just the brain releasing danger signals due to lack of glucose.

In fact, Zheng Ren also thinks that using the ketogenic diet to treat childhood epilepsy lacks large-scale data samples to prove it's effective.

'The New England Journal of Medicine' also had a 2008 research article stating that low-carb diets are more effective for weight loss than low-fat or Mediterranean diets.

The most professional medical literature has detailed research data… but back then it was only discussed among doctors, with a certain margin for error.

After all, it's merely a one-sided view, with no large‑scale sample data; if it's wrong, it's wrong, at most the academic community's reputation suffers a bit.

But by now, in the 21st century, the ketogenic diet has gone viral online. Especially in recent years, many popular apps recommend the ketogenic diet.

With top‑tier medical journals and professional literature endorsing it, what is there to Doubt?

Even recently, someone in China has claimed that the ketogenic diet can cure cancer.

Zheng Ren seemed to see a Tragedy unfolding.