what is keto diet and how it works

 

Today's article is all about understanding the keto diet. This is the first article, in a five part series that I will be releasing over the next five days. This series is meant to help you understand what the keto diet is? Get started in the easiest way possible and see results topics we will cover over the next five days include what foods you can eat, on keto understanding macros how to avoid the keto, the flu and whether or not you need to intermittent fast. Now I am very passionate about the keto diet because not only have I seen it improve my own health but I have seen it improve the health of hundreds of patients.

Some of the benefits of the keto diet include sustainable weight. Loss  stabilized blood sugar, increased energy, decreased inflammation and improved mental clarity. I have even observed people who have reversed type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. Keto is a powerful tool and I want to help as many people as I can.

Get started and see these results for themselves with that said starting any new diet can be overwhelming and keto is no exception, but honestly once you get over that initial learning curve the rest is history and I promise that by the end of this five-day series you will be equipped with everything you need to start the keto diet and get results. So today's we're going to be talking about what the keto diet is? Why is it so effective and debunking some common misconceptions? If you already eat a keto diet a lot of what we talk about in this article might not be new to you, but if you do have any friends or family who you think could benefit from the keto diet make sure to share this article with them so they can get started on the right foot.

What is keto?

The ketogenic diet or the keto diet for short is a way of eating that is high in fat and low in carbohydrates. Eating this way gets your body into ketosis. Ketosis is a metabolic state where your body is burning fat. Its main source of energy, this means both dietary fat and stored body fat. The reason this is significant is that most people nowadays are mainly burning glucose or carbohydrates for energy and they have lost the ability to burn fat.The body always burns through energy from carbohydrates first, but when we reduce the amount of carbs we are eating our body switches to burning fat. Now you might be thinking why it matters which energy source I am burning surely either or is good. But here is the difference between the two when you are relying on carbohydrates for energy body can only store a limited amount about 350 grams or 1400 calories once.

This starts to run out you need to refuel with more carbohydrates right away or else your energy will crash. I'm sure most of us have experienced this type of energy crash where a couple of hours after lunch you can't focus your stomach's grumbling. You absolutely need a snack but what if I told you you could go several hours in between meals without energy crashes and without needing a snack that is the case with ketosis.

When you're in ketosis you do not rely on carbs for energy but fat instead your body can store much more energy with fat. Then with carbohydrates even a very lean individual has significantly more fat than stored carbohydrate. Energy someone with 15 percent body fat has over 800 000 calories of energy that can be tapped into through ketosis. This makes it a more stable energy source where you don't have huge spikes and crashes.

Ketosis is a normal metabolic function and without it humans would have not have been able to survive until.

Now I briefly mentioned some of the benefits of the keto diet at the start of this article but now I wanted to get into them a bit deeper as we have already discussed.

The keto diet is an efficient to burn through stored body fat.

Of course this is beneficial for weight loss, but there are other benefits as well such as lower fasting blood sugar, lower fasting insulin, increased energy, decreased mental clarity, decreased inflammation and better appetite control.

Because you are not constantly eating foods that spike blood sugar and insulin levels throughout the day. This allows your blood sugar and insulin to remain more stable, and this also translates to more consistent energy and better appetite control ketones a byproduct of ketosis are also a cleaner burning energy source for our brain. Which allows us to think more clearly.

When we take refined sugars and starches out of our diet inflammation often decreases as well. This can mean less joint pain migraines or acne which is the keto diet. For the keto diet was originally created to treat epilepsy in patients. Who are prescribed the keto diet. Their rate of seizures decreases significantly. Sometimes they stop entirely, but it is not just people with epilepsy who benefit from keto. Most of the population can as well those who might find it particularly beneficial include anyone who is looking for sustainable weight loss looking for increased cognitive function diabetic,   pre-diabetic or insulin resistant, busy and wants to spend less time thinking about food and endurance athletes. Most of the population can as well those who might find it particularly beneficial include anyone who is looking for sustainable weight loss looking for increased cognitive function diabetic, pre-diabetic or insulin resistant, busy and wants to spend less time thinking about food and endurance athletes.

How do you know if you are in ketosis,?

There are several ways you can test to see if you are in ketosis, there are urine strips breath readers and blood readers.

The first two measure how many ketones the body is excreting and not actually how much the body is creating and using? For this reason these methods are not very accurate.

A lot of people show really high ketone numbers on urine strips when they first start the keto diet. However a few weeks later they might show a lot lower or even no ketones at all. If this is happening to you, this does not necessarily mean that you aren't in ketosis.  This could mean your body has figured out how many ketones you need? This could mean your body has figured out how many ketones you need? This could mean your body has figured out how many ketones you need?

If you already have a blood glucose meter, most of these readers test ketones as well if you just buy different strips but with that being said you do not need to test ketones.

Every day in order to get the benefits of the keto diet really the simplest way to tell if you are in ketosis or not is how long you can go in between meals. If you are hungry or even hangry two to three hours after eating you are probably not in ketosis. If you can go several hours without worrying about food and your energy being stable then you probably are in ketosis.

At the end of the day what matters is if you are getting results testing and tracking ketones can be exhausting. So it's better to focus on what you are actually achieving, as I said at the start of this article the keto diet is a powerful tool that can benefit many. If you are thinking about starting the keto diet in 2021, make sure to click that subscribe via email so you don't miss the rest of this series.

 

Next is going to be about what foods you can eat on the keto diet? And how to understand macros which is the breakdown of how much fat protein? And carbs you should be eating in a day? And before I wrap up I just wanted to mention that this keto diet for beginners series.

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