Benefits of Ketogenic Diet

When you actually get into ketosis, which is fat burning,

you're running your body in a different fuel source called ketones. You're no longer

running on just glucose.

Ketones is a superior fuel. It's the original fuel that our bodies ran on a long time ago.

And so we do very well on it.

It's a clean fuel and it's very, very healthy. So number two, it produces the most weight

loss of any diet that I know of. That's cool.

Targeting the belly primarily. So it will shrink the belly. Number three, it improves your

memory and your cognitive function.

It's awesome for kids that have epilepsy. It's great for if you have Alzheimer's,

Parkinson's. Number four, it improves your mood.

So your overall emotional state. It'll actually help that because when you're running your

body on the sugar, you get highs and lows. You get irritable, grouchy all the time.

So you might want to get your spouse on this diet. Okay, number five, rid cravings and

hunger. Yeah, I mean, how are you going to actually do a program on top of cravings and

hunger? It's insane for you to try to diet when you have cravings or you're hungry all the

time.

It's not going to last. So this will handle that because when you run your body on

ketones, you don't have that fluctuation in blood sugars. Number six, it improves your

metabolism.

It actually can repair a set point that is stuck at a certain weight. It'll help allow you to

bust through that plateau because you're fixing this next thing right here called insulin.

So number seven, it fixes the insulin dysfunction.

And this one is very, very powerful because think about it. What does having high insulin

or insulin resistance or diabetes turn into? You get strokes, high blood pressure,

polycystic ovarian syndrome, a fatty liver, Alzheimer's. I mean, like aneurysms, all sorts

of terrible things happen to people when they have high levels of insulin.

There's this one hormone called insulin, which is the key to determine whether you're
going to burn fat or burn sugar. So you want to keep it low to burn fat. When it goes
higher, your body will burn sugar.
Very simply, lower your carbs and eat less meals. That's different than lowering your
calories. Now by eating less meals, you are going to lower your calories, but that's not
the goal.
You could actually eat larger meals, just not as frequent. Why is it a good idea to eat less
frequent meals? Because every time you eat, you trigger insulin. Every time you eat
carbs, you trigger insulin.
So we're just trying to lower this insulin. The combination between these two are very,
very powerful. So what are you going to eat in a meal? Well, first thing, you have to eat
low carbs.
So you want to cut down all your carbs. That includes sugar. I'm talking about honey,
agave nectar, brown sugar, white sugar, date sugar, all sugar.
You can replace it in various recipes with what's called sugar alcohols. I put some links
down below of examples of that so you can learn about that, but there's these sweet
alternative sugar sources that you can use. So that means that when you go buy food,
you have to start reading the labels and looking at the sugar content.
You want it as close to zero as possible. You want to avoid fruit except for berries.
There's three berries, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries.
You can have those in small amounts, but no other fruit, especially apples. Grains like
wheat flour that they make breads, pasta, cereal, crackers, biscuits, you want to avoid
that. But guess what? There's a substitute.
People use almond flour to make all sorts of things from pizza crust to bread to you
name it. So there's a lot of recipes that you can use as an alternative grain. Avoid
starches like potatoes, but guess what? There's all these recipes that you can make out
of cauliflower that is very similar to the starches.