A medical ketogenic diet is a very low carbohydrate, high fat diet which changes the metabolism in the body from
burning glucose for energy to burning fat for energy.
It does this by shifting your metabolism from
burning glucose as your primary fuel to burning fat instead.
These are organic compounds that the body will provide when it starts to burn stored fat instead
of burning glucose or sugar when it requires energy.
It is simply impossible to avoid free radicals, in fact, your
body burns glucose for energy and then naturally produces harmful by - products.
Cancer cells can
only burn glucose, they can not burn fat or ketones for energy so I'm starving them and going in for the kill with another 11 evidence - based strategies.
Some people become mildly resistant to insulin's action, so that their muscles and other tissues no longer take up and
burn glucose efficiently.
If you're consuming 30 grams of excess protein you are
burning glucose made from the excess protein.
If you're
burning glucose then the high fat you're eating is going to be deposited as fat in your body.
On the one side it helps to
burn glucose left in the body, but on the other it can increase your cortisol levels.
Insulin also plays a key role in fat storage: when insulin levels rise, our cells are forced to
burn glucose rather than fat.
A little carbohydrate won't hurt, but if you eat over your maximum allowance it will start your body
burning glucose again.
If you're in this peripheral zone between
still burning glucose but not utilizing ketones as effectively, then you'll never adapt completely.
Also, you will need to reduce your carbohydrate intake since you do not want to
burn glucose as much as you want to burn fat during the cutting stage.
Cells in the body will
burn glucose for fuel, but will also be sent to the liver.
Insulin is the hormone that escorts glucose (blood sugar) into our cells, and sends our cells the message to
burn glucose instead of fat.
If your
cells burn glucose quickly you are regarded as a fast oxidizer and require higher levels of protein and fat in your diet to balance the rapidly metabolized glucose.
It is ketogenic because when the carbs are kept very low and protein is not too high, then the body will switch from a dependence
on burning glucose for energy and will start burning ketones.
Now new research from the University of Toronto Scarborough shows they are equally adept
at burning both glucose and fructose, which are the individual components of sugar; a unique trait other vertebrates can not achieve.
After a decade of study, biochemist James Hurley at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues have now shown that the retina's rods and
cones burn the glucose, convert leftovers into a fuel called lactate, and then feed that back to the RPE.
The ketogenic diet is a switch of your metabolism from processing food through a glycolytic pathway,
burning glucose coming from carbs, to ketosis burning ketones coming from fat.
Extrinsic (phasic) muscles (trapezius, rhomboids, posterior rotator cuff, etc.)
prefer burning glucose for fuel, but the deep intrinsic support muscles require more oxygen.
Keto - adapted means you are able to
burn glucose if available and needed, but a sugar - burner has no choice, they can't flip back and fourth.
This bodily function
also burns glucose and excess fat (particularly around the belly, buttocks and hips) and uses it for energy.
This horrible phenomenon is thought to be a result of the body switching from
burning glucose as its primary fuel source to adapting to ketone body production.
That's why it's vital to keep your body out of the vicious dependency of being reliant
on burning glucose and that's why it's important to teach it how to burn fat more efficiently.
Under most conditions, cells use oxygen to
burn glucose in their mitochondria, located in cells» cytoplasm, the gelatinous filling around the nucleus.
If they deprive the RPE of lactate, then those cells switch to
burning the glucose instead of delivering it to the retina, the team reports this month in eLife.