The New Trend Called Ketogenic Diet (Keto)

Few months ago, some of my friends picked up the attitude of posting funny looking food on their social handle with hash tags like #keto, #ketogenicdiet, #ketoworkingwonders and so forth. I was absolutely out of placed due to the fact that I wasn't taken along, maybe due to distance as we stay in different location and I don't have more flesh as they do.
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Well, it didn't make much sense until they started losing stomach fat and the body weight they have been struggling with and Ta-Da!!! It became very clear they had been on a food plan.
I without delay became interested by this weight loss plan that works like magic, I joined numerous online groups with the name Ketogenic or Keto.. Lots of before and after pictures that were mind blowing popped up. I was definitely galvanize, however very confused on what the food regimen is all about. So I started my search on ketogenic diet.

History of the ketogenic diet

Do you know that ketogenic diet has existed for almost 100 years and was invented to help epileptics?
The treatment of epilepsy some century ago is what brought about this diet called ketogenic. In fact, it was the number one treatment for epilepsy.
The ketogenic diet, a close cousin of the low-carb food plan, was invented in 1921 by Dr. Russel Wilder in Minnesota. He wanted to reproduce the effects of fasting in a regime that could be maintained indefinitely. Fasting had beneficial effects on patients with refractory epilepsy: depriving the brain of sugar seemed to protect it from seizures.
With the arrival of anti-epileptics on the market such as phenobarbital, phenytoin and new drugs, the diet was quickly forgotten.
The ketogenic food plan (diet) returned to the forefront in 1994 thanks to Jim Abrahams, famous American producer of comic films like "There is a pilot on the plane" or "Hotshot".
His son Charlie began his epilepsy about 2 years (in 1993). After seeing 6 doctors, tried many ineffective medications on seizures with disastrous side effects, Jim Abrahams commenced research by himself.
After locating an experiment on the ketogenic eating regimen at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (northeastern United States in the state of Maryland), Jim took his son there. His son went from a hundred crises a day to zero under 48 hours of Keto eating regimen. Charlie observed the ketogenic diet for 5 years, he's now taken into consideration cured, he's presently studying at the college.

Ketogenic Diet

Ketogenic diet is a food regimen that is very low in carbohydrates and excessive in fats. Even as the intake of carbohydrates is significantly reduced, which goes from sugars (glucose, fructose, white sugar, and so on.) to the starch contained in potatoes, pasta or bread, the liver begins to produce small molecules called "ketones" or "ketone bodies". The body is then "in state of ketosis". The body enters the state of ketosis whilst it lacks glucose, and transforms fat into energy.
These ketones are remarkable source of energy for the entire body tissues. In the absence of most carbohydrates in the diet, ketones will form from the fat to provide energy.
The whole body uses ketones in a safer and more efficient way than the energy source from carbohydrates - sugar, that is, glucose. Our body produces ketones if we adopt a carbohydrate-free or low-carb diet (less than 60 grams of carbohydrates per day). With a diet very low in carbohydrates or no carbohydrates at all, we become keto-adapted.
Under a ketonic diet, carbohydrate consumption is greatly reduced while fat intake is increased to avoid muscle wasting (if the body drew from the proteins there would be a catabolism effect with risks of muscular atrophy).
Fats (fatty acids) become the source of energy for the brain and other organs or tissues. If your carbohydrate intake is high, the hormone insulin makes you end up storing fats and carbohydrates in your adipose tissue. A ketogenic diet is not a diet high in protein, which in this case can also stimulate insulin. It is essentially a diet where you depend mainly on foods of animal origin and especially their fats.

Importance Things to Know About Ketogenic Diet

1. Ketones are the ideal fuel for our body, unlike glucose which is harmful, less stable, more exciting, but in reality shortens your lifespan.
2. Ketones are non-glycating, which means they do not have a caramelizing effect, causing the body to age.
3. Healthy ketosis also helps to starve cancer cells because they can not use ketones as a source of energy, they can only grow with glucose. 
4. The energy production plants of our cells - the mitochondria - work much better with a ketogenic diet because they can increase energy levels in a stable, efficient, constant with long burning.
5. The ketogenic diet induces epigenetic changes that increase the energy efficiency of our mitochondria, reducing the production of harmful free radicals and promote the production of GABA - a major brain-inhibiting chemical.
6. Ketosis also helps to cleanse our cells of proteins that behave like debris which contribute to aging by disrupting the proper functioning of the cell. It achieves this by autophagy - which preserves the health of cells and tissues by replacing cellular components overwhelmed or damaged by new ones. This prevents degenerative diseases, aging, cancer and protects you from microbial infections.
7. A ketogenic diet does not only rejuvenates you, but also makes it less susceptible to viruses and bacterial infections
8. The ketogenic diet acts on several levels at once, which no drug has been able to imitate. This is because the mitochondria are specially designed to use fat as a source of energy. When they use fat as an energy source, their toxic load decreases, the expression of energy production genes increases, their energy efficiency increases and the load of inflammatory energy by-products decreases.

You go into ketosis after 3 to 7 days, when you consume less than 30 grams of sugar per day.

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Look out for the next post... Do's and Dont's of Ketogenic Diet.