I may be a bit biased in believing that the ketogenic lifestyle is the best way to eat and live, but research backs me up! Outside of being the most effective strategy for weight loss, keto can enhance and prolong your life!
Check out these awesome benefits:
It’s anti-inflammatory – Burning fat for fuel creates far less inflammation than burning sugar does, and ketones themselves turn o inflammatory pathways. Inflammation is the body’s response to an injury, stress or illness. Think about bumping your head against something and the bump that appears afterward. The bump is a form of inflammation.
Studies have shown that most chronic diseases (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and cognitive disorders/decline) are all rooted in one cause: inflammation. Consuming processed carbohydrates, sugar, and toxin-laden foods cause poor gut health. This adds stress to the body, resulting in inflammation. Removing these toxic substances from your body will help reduce inflammation, which we often see as bloating and an inability to lose weight no matter how physically active we are. With the removal we are one step closer to whole-body health.
It builds a stronger, denser brain – Ketosis causes your brain to create more mitochondria, the powerhouses of your cells. You can literally generate more energy when you strengthen your mitochondria, leaving you with excess willpower and a sharper mental state
It burns body fat – Ketones influence ghrelin and cholecystokinin (CCK), the hormones that control your hunger. Hunger feels different when you’re in full ketosis – it fades from an obsession to a background thought. Once you are in nutritional ketosis and burning fat for fuel, it’s very easy to enter prolonged periods of not eating (fasting) and during that fast, your body is burning up your fat stores for energy.
You can eat like a king (or queen) – Bacon, grass-fed steak and butter, pastured eggs, olive oil, coconut cream… you can eat real, satisfying food on a ketogenic diet. Take THAT low-cal, low-fat diets!
Keto cures! – This is the number one reason I am committed to living a ketogenic lifestyle (and you thought it was the tasty fat bombs!)
A ketogenic diet has been proven to treat – and even cure – chronic and life-threatening disease.
These are just a few of the diseases that keto cures: Epilepsy, PCOS, Type-2 Diabetes, depression, certain cancers, autoimmune disease, dementia, and Alzheimer’s.
I am so passionate about keto’s ability to prevent, treat, and cure chronic and life-threatening disease that we will spend a lot of time talking about this topic.
Once you shift your focus from simply losing weight to actually improving and preserving your life, this lifestyle change will be simple and long-term.
When weight is no longer an issue – no longer the main thing that you are worried about – that’s when it becomes easy to burn up body fat!