Understanding Weight Loss with Ketosis
Our body burns fuel from only three sources to produce energy: sugar, fat, and ketones.
Your body will use the fuel that is most plentiful.
Sugar burns inefficiently and leaves four waste products that cause disease and inflammation. It also burns quickly causing you to be hungry more often, eat more, gain weight, and cause inflammation, disease making it more difficult to lose weight. Americans tend to have a diet that is high in sugar and thus their blood is high in sugar.
Burning fat is great and stops the spread of chronic disease throughout your body. It burns efficiently with no waste products and maintains energy for a long time but isn’t as awesome as burning ketones.
Ketones are water-soluble chemicals in the body made from fat.
To convert your body to using ketones, called ketosis, you must increase your healthy fat intake and reduce your carbohydrate and protein intake. There are several ways to do this.
Other benefits are that ketosis turns off your bad DNA, reduces inflammation, lengthens telomeres, reduces insulin, reduces MTOR, reduces blood sugar, reduces inflammation, turns on the brain, provides incredible endurance, and detoxifies the body. It MUST be cycled until determined otherwise, you go in and out of ketosis. Each person is different on how often. But regardless, getting into ketosis allows your body to burn cleanly and a much easier time losing that extra weight.
Yours in Health,
Dr. Darren Schmidt, D.C.
