Eat Fat To Loose Fat?
It seems too good to be true for those of us who love our butter, "extra whip", and crunchy peanut spread. But the evidence is right before our eyes and the lifestyle change you need to make to get that sexy beach bod is quite the opposite of what you may have first guessed...
Going "KETO"
How do ketogenic diets work?
When carbohydrate containing foods are digested, they are broken down into blood sugar (glucose) in the body. The more carbohydrates we eat, the more glucose is made. As diabetics know, high blood sugar is toxic to the body. Eating more fats and protein and less carb causes our internal biochemical pathways to switch to using our stored fat for fuel instead of burning sugar. This switch produces ketone bodies while at the same time reducing blood sugar levels. As glucose drops and ketone body levels rise in the bloodstream, the heart, muscle and brain stop burning sugar and instead use the ketones as an alternative fuel. This is called being "in nutritional ketosis."
Once the body is using ketones as a main fuel source, all sorts of beneficial effects become apparent. A ketone producing, high fat, low carb diet is terrific for weight reduction, slowing the aging process and addressing health issues such as heartburn, fatty liver and achy joints.
However, these diets are much more powerful than those popular uses would suggest. In fact, being in ketosis can alleviate many serious diseases. The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effect of nutritional ketosis is potent. In fact, nutritional ketosis and ketone bodies themselves are being studied extensively as a treatment for many metabolic diseases. For instance, there is strong research evidence that ketotic diets can:
Act as an extremely effective diabetes treatment plan; in some cases, just switching to a ketogenic diet can reverse prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. I am currently writing a detailed book on treating diabetes with a ketogenic diet with my co-author, Dr. Keith Runyan, a type 1 diabetic himself. We hope to have that book available by December 2014. If you want to sign up for free updates, you'll get the announcement when it's available.
Drive cancer into remission with new and effective cancer treatments. The keto diet for cancer patients is somewhat different than the treatment for other illnesses, and is discussed in detail in my e-Book "Fight Cancer with a Ketogenic Diet."
Improve epilepsy treatment outcomes by reducing, and in some cases, eliminating seizures.
Help patients with Alzheimer's disease regain memory and thought function.
Reverse heart disease and improve cardiovascular risk factors shown on blood tests.
Alleviate the symptoms of autism.
Reverse PCOS.
Treat severe outbreaks of acne.
Provide mitochondrial support for a wide variety of neurological disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinsons Disease and ALS.
Treat metabolic energy disorders such as glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT1) deficiency, pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDHC), McArdle disease, and mitochondrial myopathies.
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