It seems like this topic has come up in several other threads, but we have a dedicated thread to the specific discussion of a Ketone-based diet.
In super simple terms, the body can run off of two fuel types just like the military trucks that are multi fuel and can run off of gasoline or diesel or kerosene or whatever.
if you were taking in enough carbohydrates, your body will run on sugar. But this is not how we were designed or "evolved" to operate.
before farming, consider how people lived. They would hunt meat. If they also found plants that were edible, that was great. But that would be a slight add on to whatever they killed that day.
When you take in mostly protein and only additional plants, your body runs off of the protein. Out of the protein we get ketones and the body runs on them.
Back then on those rare occasions that the people took in a bunch of carbs their body would switch into energy storage mode and they might put fat on. Like a bear getting ready to hibernate. The plants fruits and nuts were abundant enough to add fat. But when they went back to Ketone burning mode, they would be burning fat as they went.
So all of this is a long-winded way to say that if you eat a diet that is 50% protein and 25% carbohydrates and 25% fat (or something close to those numbers), you would be on a ketone diet. And your body would be in fat burning mode.
The Atkins diet, the Balance diet, the Raw food diet, the Paleo diet and several others all advocate this balance.
There are also many studies that show that being away from these carbohydrates lessons your susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease multiple sclerosis and all the other neurological disorders. In fact if you have them this diet has been shown to stop the progression of them. *I can link the medical journal that has several articles about this..
In super simple terms, the body can run off of two fuel types just like the military trucks that are multi fuel and can run off of gasoline or diesel or kerosene or whatever.
if you were taking in enough carbohydrates, your body will run on sugar. But this is not how we were designed or "evolved" to operate.
before farming, consider how people lived. They would hunt meat. If they also found plants that were edible, that was great. But that would be a slight add on to whatever they killed that day.
When you take in mostly protein and only additional plants, your body runs off of the protein. Out of the protein we get ketones and the body runs on them.
Back then on those rare occasions that the people took in a bunch of carbs their body would switch into energy storage mode and they might put fat on. Like a bear getting ready to hibernate. The plants fruits and nuts were abundant enough to add fat. But when they went back to Ketone burning mode, they would be burning fat as they went.
So all of this is a long-winded way to say that if you eat a diet that is 50% protein and 25% carbohydrates and 25% fat (or something close to those numbers), you would be on a ketone diet. And your body would be in fat burning mode.
The Atkins diet, the Balance diet, the Raw food diet, the Paleo diet and several others all advocate this balance.
There are also many studies that show that being away from these carbohydrates lessons your susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease multiple sclerosis and all the other neurological disorders. In fact if you have them this diet has been shown to stop the progression of them. *I can link the medical journal that has several articles about this..
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