Marco Rubio says keto diet was a ‘near psychotic event’

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his brief stint on the keto diet left him so irritable he would have been ready to declare war had he been secretary of state at the time.

“I did, at one time, maybe four, five years ago, I tried this thing called keto. And you just eat all this protein. And so you go through this massive withdrawal from sugar and carbohydrates. For the first 72 hours, it was a near psychotic event for me,” Rubio said on The Katie Miller Podcast Tuesday. 

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