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What is the ketogenic diet?Keto or Ketogenic Diet is a diet (meal management) low in carbohydrates and high in fat (healthy) and protein as needed. In classic ketogenic the percentage is 75% fat, 20% protein, 5% carbs. Ketogenic turns the body into a fat burning machine. This diet is proven to have many benefits for weight loss, health, and performance / stamina. |
Ketones in the body
The “Keto” in the Ketogenic Diet comes from the fact that our bodies produce small fuel molecules called “ketones”. It is an alternative fuel for the body, when blood sugar (glucose) is in low supply.
Ketones are produced when we eat very few carbohydrates (which are converted into glucose very quickly in the body) and eat enough protein, according to the body's needs (because some of the protein is also converted into glucose in the body). Ketones are produced in the liver, from fat.
They are then used as fuel for the body including our brain. The brain is a “hungry organ” that consumes a lot of energy every day.
And this can't be done directly by fat, but it can be done directly by glucose or ketones. In the Ketogenic Diet, our body converts its fuel supply from glucose to fat.
Insulin levels become very low and fat burning will occur dramatically. It becomes very easy to access the fat stores in the body and burn them.
Of course this is great if we are trying to lose weight. And another advantage of the Ketogenic Diet is that we are not easily hungry and always have energy.
When our body produces ketones, it is said that our body experiences "ketosis". This is where the weight loss process will be effective.
One of the fastest ways to reach ketosis is by "fasting", eating nothing (except water, tea or unsweetened coffee). However, no one will be able to fast forever.
The Ketogenic Diet is a diet that regulates eating patterns to produce a state of "ketosis" in the body (nutritional ketosis). In the Ketogenic Diet, our bodies will get all the benefits of the "ketosis" condition, one of which is weight loss, without us having to fast.