When mitochondria are burning sugar, the amount of damaging free radicals produced is significantly greater in comparison to when mitochondria are
burning ketones for fuel.
After the transition to
utilizing ketones for fuel, many people report feeling better, having more energy, and experience improved mental clarity.
Being in ketosis is simply the state in which your metabolism functions primarily
on ketones for fuel.
At low intensities, you're burning mostly fat and
ketones for fuel so that your body could spare its muscle glycogen for higher intensities.
This suggests some societies, like the Inuit for instance, would be in ketosis, using
ketones for fuel rather than glucose.
Also a positive is that while your body is running on fats /
ketones for fuel most people report feeling pretty good overall, sharper concentration and just a well balanced feeling everyday that is probably tied to the fact blood sugar is stable and you don't see the up and down movement like you do when eating carbs.
I know from my own experience I can perform well and feel great off 100 - 120grams carbs per day (still low carb) but likely above the threshold that I am
making ketones for fuel.
There's an Adkins vibe associated with ketosis and unfortunately, that keeps many from exploring the many benefits of
burning ketones for fuel.
Even if you take the right precautions like optimizing electrolytes, keto flu as you transition into
utilizing ketones for fuel can be intense enough to turn some people off keto diets.
Using a high - quality coffee source, such as Bulletproof coffee (that doesn't contain mycotoxins), with grass - fed butter and MCT oil can be a great way to give your body an extra supply of healthy fats, which will allow your body to produce
more ketones for fuel (these fats are also anti-inflammatory).
Keto adoption essentially means that your body is running
on ketones for fuel (as opposed to glucose).
When you're walking or doing very easy aerobic cardio then you're burning mostly fat and
ketones for fuel.
Unless you've already been eating a paleo or primal diet and are somewhat keto - adapted (burning
ketones for fuel), it is a good idea «reset» the body in order to regain the metabolic flexibility to go into ketosis or even stay in ketosis despite eating some carbohydrates.
Your body must first adapt to using
ketones for fuel, instead of glucose.
The ketogenic diet is one that forces the body to use
ketones for fuel, because too little fuel is available from carbs and proteins.
When you're in ketosis and you haven't eaten recently, your body breaks down your fat stores into free fatty acids, which it then converts to
ketones for fuel.
Even the brain will keto adapt and start to use
ketones for fuel.
She cured her husband's Alzheimer's disease using coconut oil and ketones, which are basically the fat molecules that your body makes in response to coconut oil, and your body can burn
ketones for fuel.
When you start using fats /
ketones for fuel your body uses fat at rest, and a ketone yields 7 cals per gram when burned.
During high intensities we won't be able to use
ketones for fuel, unless we've become extremely well adapted.
I have mentioned in previous posts (here and here) that a ketogenic diet requires a person to minimize carbohydrates in order to induce ketone creation and begin to use
ketones for fuel.
Your body then adapts by using fat and
ketones for fuel (Laffel, 1999; Adam - Perrot et al., 2006; Westman et al., 2007; Paoli et al., 2013; Paoli, 2014).