There is a lot of information on the internet on the power of a KETO diet, which is known for a low carb/high fat approach to eating with the intent of getting you into ketosis. Afterall eating low carb helps to burn fat, right?
Nope. If only it were that simple.
There are a lot of people who struggle with weight loss, and the question should be why is that? Afterall you just drop the calories and increase activity, and boom weight loss. There is some new research that the foods you eat really affect your ability to lose or maintain weight. In addition we are finding that the main problem affecting weight loss is not only the foods, but the environment. Free radicals specifically will damage your cells, and hurt your body to become energetically efficient. One simple way to be more efficient is to do weight training to grow muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is expensive for your body to maintain, and thus a good thing. The other way to be more efficient is to eat quality foods that optimize your health at the cellular level.
In the video above, I share some of my notes from different research on ketones, and getting into ketosis. News flash: you don’t need to go on a KETO diet to stimulate ketosis…more on that below.
The main takeaway from this is learn how to: uncouple mitochondria.
Ketosis: generating ketone bodies is done by free fatty acids entering the liver from circulation. The liver can convert free fatty acids into ketone bodies, which are short chain fats that are water soluble
They are water soluble molecules that have a benefit in getting to the brain, which free fatty acids can't because they're too big to get through the blood brain barrier
Ketosis normally should happen every night after 8 hrs of not eating (most people don’t have metabolic flexibility)
After about 8 hrs of not eating, your body will convert free fatty acids into ketones in the liver. After 12 hrs you’ve ramped up ketone production
Producing ketones is a normal process that should happen every 24 hrs that happens in a circadian pattern
Ketones stimulate mitogenesis, so you’ll have a lot more mitochondria in a cell generating more ATP
Glucose is not a better fuel than ketones
Ketones are the only fuel that can get past the blood brain barrier quickly, besides glucose
Mitochondria can live as long as possible as long as they’re not damaged
Mitochondrium is a engulfed bacteria and they still carry a bacterial identity, they can divide anytime they want without the cell division, and have their own DNA
Most people can not get into ketosis using a high fat diet because they have no metabolic flexibility
BMR goes up when on KETO because you are uncoupling mitochondria so you are burning oxygen without producing ATP
Ketones work by uncoupling mitochondria. And when mitochondria are uncoupling they don’t produce as much free radicals
Glucose does not uncouple mitochondria
Ketones are a less damaging source by protecting mitochondria from damage that would normally occur from burning glucose
Ketones were generated to be a alt source of fuel for the brain. Because free fatty acids can not get into the brain because they're so slow to get into the brain.
Ketogenic diet came about to treat child epilepsy with a 80% protein 10%carb 10%fat
Ketogenic diet fell off when pharm companies came out with drugs
There are 2 main antioxidants in the mitochondria - melatonin and glutathione
30% of goat and sheep dairy are MCT
MCT is a fat that goes directly to the liver where they are converted into ketones
If you have insulin resistance, or metabolic inflexibility then you can take MCT and generate ketones to begin uncoupling mitochondria
Melatonin may be the miracle molecule, and may treat cancer
The mediterranean diet has multiple sources of Melatonin. The benefit of the mediterranean diet besides all the polyphenols is all the foods and beverages are melatonin containing
Long term ketosis may not be good and associated with insulin resistance
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Be well.
Yelena
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