Search Results for “intermittent fasting” – Mojo Multiplier: Build Muscle, Burn Fat And Increase Energy https://mojomultiplier.com Burn fat, increase metabolism, raise testosterone and get your mojo back Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:02:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.18 The Truth About Cancer – Replay Marathon This Weekend https://mojomultiplier.com/the-truth-about-cancer-replay-marathon-this-weekend/ https://mojomultiplier.com/the-truth-about-cancer-replay-marathon-this-weekend/#respond Fri, 19 Oct 2018 08:00:46 +0000 https://mojomultiplier.com/?p=2182 This current weekend is The Truth About Cancer Replay Marathon. If you’re a regular on this site, you’ll have seen me write up a number of episodes on The Truth About Cancer documentary series. I’ve watched the whole series, some episodes several times, and it’s triggered my interest in further reading around the various topics ...

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This current weekend is The Truth About Cancer Replay Marathon. If you’re a regular on this site, you’ll have seen me write up a number of episodes on The Truth About Cancer documentary series. I’ve watched the whole series, some episodes several times, and it’s triggered my interest in further reading around the various topics discussed. I firmly believe that most people do not understand cancer for what it really is. I believe it’s time for it to be redefined – the “war on cancer” is not being successful. What it if were your body trying to tell you something? What if no one dies from cancer itself? That point blew my mind…

It is NOT actually the cancer that kills people. Statistically, 42 to 46 percent of patients who have cancer will die of cachexia. This is the wasting away of protein. They essentially lose all their lean body mass. The remaining percentage die from….the TREATMENT.

The Truth About Cancer really is a must see. We all know someone who has suffered from Cancer. In fact, in America, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women are expected to get Cancer. It’s a shocking and sad statistic. Yet, very few people truly understand what it is, and this explains it in beautiful detail – so we don’t have to live in fear of it every again.

I really think it’s important for us to know what is available out there in terms of treatments other than chemotherapy and radiotherapy, both of which cause cancer. This is fact. There are a variety of natural treatments which are regarded as “alternative” – which in my opinion is absurd. When I met with Dr Thomas Incledon in Phoenix a few years ago, who treats people naturally who have terminal illnesses, he mentioned how ridiculous it is, how natural remedies are regarded as “alternative”, and the norm is with drugs. Every single drug, bar none, has side effects. When was the last time you visited a doctor and they offered you nutritional advice? In the UK, this is improving. In the US, I get the impression it’s not.

For our own well-being, and this is not to disrespect oncologists or doctors, we must know the history of the training provided to doctors. I actually think this is step one to taking control of your own health. Have you ever wondered why we’ve always had this engrained expectation to be prescribed a drug when we visit the doctor? It all started in 1910 when Carnegie and Rockefeller began to reshape the entire medical landscape as we know it today.

WATCH THE REPLAY HERE FOR FREE

The medical profession was monopolised in the early 1900s. Towards the end of the late 1800s and early 1900s, there were all kinds of natural approaches to medicine – to true healing. They were all closed down in the US when Carnegie and Rockefeller commissioned the Flexner Report which eliminated all competition to patent petrochemical education. What this meant, in Layman’s terms, was that it gave them the ability, and power, to influence the course material taught to doctors – to make it about the drugs that they were manufacturing. They poured 100s of millions of dollars into medical schools throughout the US, and slowly steered the course material taught to doctors to make it prescription drug oriented.  This has seeped through to the rest of the world and it has remained the same ever since. This is MIND BLOWING in my opinion. This was one of my greatest aha moments I have EVER HAD!!

If you’ve the post on Episode 8, you’ll have seen a number of natural cures presented. They range from micronutrient therapy (vitamins and minerals in the form of juicing), colon cleanses, ketonic diet (when your body feeds on fat, rather than glucose – cancer only grows when it’s feeding on glucose form sugar), intermittent fasting, hypothermia treatment (when your body is heated up), vibrational treatment and lots more. Did you know that cancer feeds on sugar? Glucose it Cancer’s primary fuel and cancer cells have 15 times more insulin receptors than normal cells. It’s one method to test for cancer when a radioactive sugar solution is introduced into the body. All the solution gathers around the cancer cells as they suck it up.

This weekend, there is a free replay for all 9 episodes. Make sure to watch them, at least some of them!

Click here for the link to watch The Truth About Cancer

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Ketosis & Whole Life Challenge Day 3 https://mojomultiplier.com/ketosis-whole-life-challenge-day-3/ https://mojomultiplier.com/ketosis-whole-life-challenge-day-3/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2016 06:54:19 +0000 https://mojomultiplier.com/?p=2610 At the very last minute on Friday night, I decided to register for something called The Whole Life Challenge. This is designed to help you to create long-lasting habits in your life that not only improve your health and fitness levels but your overall fulfilment and happiness.  It’s an 8-week online, community-building, game that challenges you and your friends to create ...

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At the very last minute on Friday night, I decided to register for something called The Whole Life Challenge. This is designed to help you to create long-lasting habits in your life that not only improve your health and fitness levels but your overall fulfilment and happiness.  It’s an 8-week online, community-building, game that challenges you and your friends to create happier, healthier lives by making small, daily changes – apparently. We shall see..

These 7 Daily Habits are:

  1. Nutrition. Your food choices have the single greatest impact on your health, well-being, and community. When you make choices that keep you healthy, you give yourself the fuel to fulfil all of who you are.

  2. Exercise. Humans are designed to move daily. Whether through workouts, activity, or simply enjoying the full use of your body, daily movement keeps you healthy and vital.

  3. Mobilize. In a sedentary world, our bodies get stuck. Daily mobility and stretching helps you move the way nature intended and continue enjoying freedom of movement into your later years.

  4. Sleep. Modern schedules tend to dictate how many hours of sleep we’re entitled to. A practice of increasing that time, even by a little bit, can make big strides in robust health.

  5. Hydrate. More than anything, your body is made of water. This habit ensures that your body gets enough of its most basic resources for life.

  6. Lifestyle. These weekly practices turn a life into your life. Learn to step back, take stock, connect, and turn your attention to what is really important to you.

  7. Reflect. Looking back, looking inward, or looking forward, daily reflection draws your awareness to what is working and what needs your attention today. Read more

As you know, the gap between knowing something and doing it can be wide. The Whole Life Challenge turns doing it into a game that requires the three most fundamental tools necessary to create new habits: structure, support, and accountability.

So far so good. In terms of nutrition, you can pick one of 3 different levels of nutrition – I chose the performance category which is the top level.  This requires strict paleo – so no alcohol, no grains, no sugar, no dairy, no high GI carbs, just veggies, fruits, meat, fish, eggs and anything that is natural. It’s pretty much the diet I follow normally, except I’m normally a little relaxed about various forms of rice and eat quinoa (officially a seed) and buckwheat and millet. I normally drink wine (not a lot, a few nights a week) and also the occasional treat – normally dark chocolate. I also normally eat butter (from grass-fed cows) and a decent quality cheese like brie.

I chose to go one step further and re-enter the awesome world of ketosis. This is when you completely eliminate sugar and high GI carbs, including sweet potatoes (that are actually allowed on this plan) and tell your body to stop burning glucose (from carbs) for energy. Instead, your body burns ketone bodies from fat (dietary and stored body fat). This is for both your physical energy and your mental energy. Your brain functions incredibly effectively on ketones – some say it’s like a super fuel for it.

Ketosis is safe and one of the most effective ways to burn fat fast, and also to reverse type-2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, various forms of cancer (as you’re not feeding cancer its #1 fuel which is glucose), and it helps with many neurodegenerative disorders and even seizures – so it’s been proven to help with epilepsy too. Since you can’t eat anything that is high glycemic (high in glucose) you can’t eat a few veggies that grow below the ground, such as carrots and beetroots – and of course white potatoes and even sweet potatoes. You fuel off fat instead. You still get s ton of micronutrients from plant-based foods from vegetables that grow above the ground.

For exercise, you need to be active every day (we need to be anyway). Workouts must comprise something that is measurable, so you can see your improvements over the 8 week period. You must hydrate daily

Here is my food diary so far

SATURDAY:

Breakfast: Nothing. I had to skip it as I was at an event with free breakfast and by the time I had arrived, there wasn’t anything left I could eat – including fruit. I decided to just drink a few cups of water and coffee and breathe deeply whenever hunger pangs showed up – a remarkably effective and simple way to get over hunger pangs! Taking a break from food is actually a good thing believe it or not. Intermittent Fasting for example has so many health benefits as you’ll see here.

Lunch: Large assorted salads from Lemonade and a img_953416 oz green vegetable juice (no fruit). Snacked on cashew nuts.

Dinner was quite a challenge. I ate out with five friends, none of whom drank any alcohol so that wasn’t so bad, but it was an Italian. Needless to say, the focus was wheat and carb-based dishes. img_9535
I chose sea bass and pork loin – with sides of veggies and a starter of tuna and lettuce (a ridiculously over-priced dish that didn’t fill me up in the slightest). This restaurant really lacked vegetables. Note to self: Never choose Italian again unless there are main dishes with veggies!

I meditated for 10 minutes using Headspace (a very cool app, get it, you won’t regret it), did a 20 minute workout comprising 4 sets of push ups: 51, 26, 16, 14 (to failure each time) with sit ups in between not to failure: 50, 45, 40, 35, 100 bodyweight squats and then a 2 minute plank (possibly the hardest part of whole exercise). These are all compound exercises meaning the span your largest muscle groups and gear you up for some decent hypertrophy, muscle toning and fat burning for up t0 2 days after the work out.

I drank tons of water, easily a third of my bodyweight

SUNDAY

No breakfast and a 2 hour hike in the Hollywood Hills with fimg_95901riends and entrepreneurs – a fairly regular activity of mine. I’m very fortunate to be in LA right now. Lunch comprised a Greek Salad with chicken – which actually meant I screwed up as I completely forgot about the feta cheese until I was 3/4 of the way through it! I had to deduct points for that on this day (I forgot to mention it runs on a personally-scored points system and requires for you to be honest to yourself and your team mates).

In the evening I attended a friend’s bbq. I ate an awesome beef patty (organic beef from grass-fed cows of course) with various salad dishes. I ate a bite of a veggie burger as a friend couldn’t finish hers and immediately realised the ingredients probably possessed something I shouldn’t eat – and it did – wheat flower, corn flower, potato and even sugar. Sugar in a veggie burger?!! Really? This is why I don’t buy packaged stuff ever. I had to deduct points for that too.

img_95941Later in the evening I was hungry again so I fried up some cut veggies in coconut oil and threw in 3 whole organic eggs. Super tasty actually.

MONDAY

Breakfast: After a 30 min run I had a green veggie juice with ginger. I ate the remainder of coconut oil fried veggies with 3 whole organic eggs to make an omelette again.

img_9604Lunch: I ate out and had a 6 egg white omelette loaded with cooked kale (it was meant to have quinoa in it too but I had it removed so I could remain in ketosis). Side of avocado and covered in extra virgin olive oil and various spices with chia seeds – rich in omega-3s. I had a green veggie juice too to load up on the micronutrients.

img_9609Dinner: First home cooked meal in ages: Coconut oil fried veggies –
zucchini, broccoli, leeks, egg plant with chicken in various spices and a side salad of spinach, vine tomatoes, avocado, celery and cucumber laced in olive oil.
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Check out the Whole Life Challenge here:

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Why Conventional Advice For Type-2 Diabetes Is Wrong https://mojomultiplier.com/why-conventional-advice-for-diabetes-is-wrong/ https://mojomultiplier.com/why-conventional-advice-for-diabetes-is-wrong/#respond Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:21:56 +0000 https://mojomultiplier.com/?p=2570 Yesterday, I got into a cab with a driver who I couldn’t help but notice, was dangerously overweight. After the usual inane chitter chatter as one normally has with their cab driver, such as the weather and the scenery, we got talking about real stuff. After we spoke about him for a few minutes, he asked me what ...

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Yesterday, I got into a cab with a driver who I couldn’t help but notice, was dangerously overweight. After the usual inane chitter chatter as one normally has with their cab driver, such as the weather and the scenery, we got talking about real stuff. After we spoke about him for a few minutes, he asked me what I did for a living so I told him I was an author and health coach and that I had an online program to help people reverse inflammation. He told me he was suffering from that. I wasn’t surprised. A few minutes later, after I went into greater detail about what it was, he opened up to me and told me that he was suffering from Type-2 Diabetes.

I asked him what nutritional advice he had received from his doctor and he told me the usual – and that is that he’s been on various medications. I asked if he knew why type-2 diabetes happens in the first place and he had no idea – his doctor had not explained this. I asked if he had adopted a high fat, low carb diet and he said no. I asked him if he knew what insulin was and he told me he didn’t know. I asked if he had been told about ketosis and intermittent fasting and he said no. Those three approaches are 100% tried and tested, proven methods to reverse type-2 diabetes.

This is absolutely typical of a modern and Western approach to medicine. And in honesty, it made my blood boil, as unsurprised as I was.  I decided yesterday to do a Facebook live on this experience, in which I explain insulin (also your fat storing hormone), its role in the body (managing blood sugar) and how when you’re exposed to high levels of it over a long period of time, that leads to insulin resistance and then you have type-2 diabetes.

If you haven’t read my bestseller, The Vitality Secret, you can download the first few chapters here. You’ll discover why the medical industry is all about drugs, and not at all about nutrition and prevention, and you’ll learn how to reverse inflammation completely naturally – the root of most health conditions and chronic diseases including type-2 diabetes.

Recently I entered the weird and wonderful world of ketosis. This is when you tell your body to only burn fat, and not feed on glucose, from carbohydrates. Your body undergoes a perfectly natural transition from being a carbohydrate burner for energy, to fat – dietary fat and stored body fat. It’s simply awesome. It takes a few days of pain as your body undergoes the transition and then you feel like a superhuman and your brain functions way more effectively – without the highs and lows from a high carbohydrate – and sugar – loaded diet. See my posts here, for more information on that.

Finally…

I’ve just finished reading ‘Eat Fat, Get Thin, by Mark Hyman, MD. This is a superb read and compliments everything I have learned to date over the last 5 years. Fats are absolutely essential for hormonal regulation, including to increase testosterone, for metabolism (to burn body fat, yes!) and for cell health throughout our body, including our brain cell health and general brain health (brain cells are made up of 70% fat) and much more. A must read. The healthy fats are also critical in reversing inflammation and helping to maintain insulin sensitivity.

 

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Day 3 Of My Journey Into Ketosos with – I’ve Arrived Safely https://mojomultiplier.com/day-3-of-my-journey-into-ketosos-ive-arrived/ https://mojomultiplier.com/day-3-of-my-journey-into-ketosos-ive-arrived/#respond Thu, 14 Jul 2016 06:18:50 +0000 https://mojomultiplier.com/?p=2520 Today is day three of my journey into ketosis along with intermittent fasting. You can see yesterday’s post here. This is when you burn ketone bodies derived from stored fat (or dietary fat) instead of glucose from carbohydrates as your principle energy source. Normally our brain fuels off glucose as its primary source. For physical energy too, we ...

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Today is day three of my journey into ketosis along with intermittent fasting. You can see yesterday’s post here. This is when you burn ketone bodies derived from stored fat (or dietary fat) instead of glucose from carbohydrates as your principle energy source. Normally our brain fuels off glucose as its primary source. For physical energy too, we normally burn glucose. It takes several days to get into ketosis and these transitional days normally involve hunger pangs, headaches, mood swings, a lack of energy and a general feeling of wobbliness. I think that’s the first time I’ve ever used that word.

Here’s what I did:

When I first woke up I did some meditation and breathing exercises to get my brain working and to alleviate stress and tension. (It’s a new thing, this meditation malarkey. I dig it.) Normally I go for a 30 minute run or do some kind of work out. Since I’m also intermittent fasting, I choose to work out just before I eat, so I can feed my muscles with protein when they need them. Since there is no insulin (or very mild amounts) it’s harder to become Arnold Schwarzenegger – namely, build lots of muscle. However, the very act of strength and conditioning training alongside any kind of new nutrition regime / fat-burning regiment, whatever you want to call it, is very powerful. (Notice I didn’t say “weight loss” plan, except I did just – it’s possibly the worst term as your weight is everything inside your skin. It can be excess water retention, muscle, fat, even what’s in your lower intestines! It’s the excess body fat we care about, and the best measure of that is body fat percentage.) Anyhoo. As your body goes through damage and repair, you expend a ton of calories so you increase your BMR – your basal metabolic rate – your metabolism. This can last for days after your workout. You turn your body into a fat burning machine, raise your metabolism, and your testosterone – great for both men and women.

For intermittent fasting, I’m using the 16:8 regime. This is 16 hours of fasting and an 8 hour eating window. I hear you can turn into Wolverine like this, so I’m giving it a shot. The fasting means you release more growth hormone which is secreted most during REM sleep. This is your fountain of youth hormone. During this fasted state, your body, particularly when it is used to it, undergoes some very cool processes, like hormonal regulation, excretion of toxins, it reduces oxidative damage to cells, improves insulin (your fat storing hormone) sensitivity and leptin sensitivity (your “I’m full” hormone).

I actually didn’t eat until about 5pm today. I aimed for 2.30pm since I ate late last night didn’t finish until 10.30. (That would have meant a 16 hour fast).  I had a lot of work to get done all morning and I seemed to hyper focus for a solid 5 hours…Interesting. I drank several pints of water, a cup of green tea (as I normally do to start the day) and a cup of black organic coffee made in a French Press. For “lunch” I met a friend at Urth Caffe at 5pm. I ate a salad that comprised leafy greens, nuts, avocado, organic chicken breast, artichoke hearts and a few other non-sugary vegetables. I swapped the vinaigrette over for olive oil as I didn’t trust the vinaigrette (you can never trust those blighters) and had an organic Americano coffee afterwards (black). IMG_8167

I worked out late at 8.30 pm. This comprised 4 sets of push ups – 50, 25, 15, 15 and in between those, I
did 150 lunges, one side at a time, 50 each time. I then did a plank for 2 minutes. This is such a killer but man you feel good afterwards. I then wobbled around the apartment on my newly found wobbly legs and made my dinner which looked like this:

This was 3 whole organic eggs hard/softly boiled, spinach, kale, organic vine tomatoes, cucumber, half an avocado, broccoli and broccoli stems (so good for you). I used Mark Sisson’s Primal Mayonnaise which is made from organic everything and avocado oil. It’s so tasty. (You can buy it here at Thrive Market. I recommend joining if you haven’t – you’ll save on organic produce and lots of other tasty stuff).

Side effects: No headaches today. I just felt hungry when I had time to think about it. The best time to do ketosis and/or intermittent fasting is when you’re so busy that you have no time to think about food. Set yourself lots of deadlines and work like a beast and you won’t notice you’re hungry!

I also peed on ketone sticks to see my progress. This was my first time doing such thing. I can safely say I’ve arrived as my urine is showing small levels of ketones. I’d like for there to be more. We’ll see how that goes tomorrow.

If you want to see the replay of the live feed, it’s here: https://www.facebook.com/NeilCannonHealth/

 

 

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Join Me On My Journey Into Ketosis https://mojomultiplier.com/join-journey-ketosis/ https://mojomultiplier.com/join-journey-ketosis/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2016 02:40:12 +0000 https://mojomultiplier.com/?p=2503 After a few weeks in LA after being in Europe for a month, I appear to have accumulated a few extra pounds without changing my diet. I hear this happening to people when they come to the States from Europe and I hear the opposite when people go to Europe. Scroll down to learn about Ketosis, ...

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After a few weeks in LA after being in Europe for a month, I appear to have accumulated a few extra pounds without changing my diet. I hear this happening to people when they come to the States from Europe and I hear the opposite when people go to Europe. Scroll down to learn about Ketosis, or continue to read if you’d like to know how I think I gained these extra pounds recently in the US.

This might be down the quality of the food, namely the hormones, antibiotics and GMO corn feed that is given to animals. It might be down to the hormones and “gender bending” chemicals in the water supply that are causing male fish to grow eggs and alligator penises to shrink (true story), which is also having an impact on men’s testosterone levels and sperm counts, and also an increase in gynecomastia (man boobs).  These environmental toxins or ‘xenoestrogens’ are also causing problems with teenage girls and women too. Girls are starting their periods much younger and infertility problems among women, and men, are rife. Since these hormones trigger a rise in the female hormone, oestrogen, it’s far easier to gain fat, and they make it even harder to burn it.

The fat gain might be attributable to the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides that are carcinogens (cause cancer) and cause endocrine-disruption (hormonal imbalance, namely a rise in oestrogen).  They all trigger inflammation too. It might also be down to excess alcohol consumed over July 4 Weekend, and a higher carb load diet, with a little wheat here and there. Who knows. It’s probably a mixture. Anyway, whatever the cause, I decided it’s about time to ditch these unwanted extra pounds.

The fastest way to do this, I believe, is by entering the weird and wonderful world of nutritional ketosis whilst eating the purest of organic meats an vegetables. What is Ketosis? Here’s a definition from BodyBuidling.com:

The metabolic state of ketosis simply means that the quantity of ketone bodies in the blood have reached higher-than-normal levels. When the body is in a ketogenic state, this means that lipid energy metabolism is intact. The body will start breaking down your own body fat to fuel the body’s normal, everyday functions. Read more

This is a really cool, fast and effective way to burn fat, fast and safely. Simply put, your body transitions from being a glucose burner (which you get from carbohydrates) to being a ketone burner derived from body fat – and also dietary fat. Interestingly, we do not actually NEED to eat high glycemic (GI) carbohydrates. High GI carbs are the ones that trigger a very sharp blood sugar response, and thus the insulin spike that follows. Insulin’s job is to regulate blood sugar to prevent it from becoming toxic. It’s a critical hormone. It’s also your fat storing hormone.  Over time, the consistent exposure to high levels of the hormone insulin can lead to insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes. And insulin resistance is accompanied by inflammation, which leads to almost every chronic disease there is.

Sadly, our typical Western diet, or Standard American Diet, is heavily geared towards an excess of carbohydrate consumption, and excess sugar of course, so has led to a drastic surge in pre-diabetes, type-2 diabetes, obesity, and also inflammation, among many other health problems. PCOS for example, is directly linked with insulin resistance. Ketosis is a very effective way to regain insulin sensitivity and also fight inflammation and even to kill cancer cells. (Cancer’s prime fuel is glucose, so you can starve the cancer cells of their primary fuel.)

So what are high GI carbs? These are the likes of potatoes, rice (white and brown), breads, pastas etc. All grains essentially, the main one being wheat which is the most inflammatory of all grains.  We can get sufficient glucose from leafy vegetables that grow above ground to provide sufficient amounts of glucose. The fat intake, from the likes of avocados, olive oil, nuts, seeds, eggs and fatty fish, provide the rest of the energy required for brain function and also physical energy.

It can take a few days to transition into ketosis. It’s actually a survival mechanism which is perfectly safe. During this time, you can get headaches, you might feel dizzy, find it hard to think and focus, and you might feel a little wobbly. It might be hard to sleep and your mood may fluctuate. However, once you’re in it, you turn into a superhuman. By this, I mean ketones are like a superfood for your brain and you find your focus improves dramatically, you can concentrate with ease, mood fluctuations flatten our and you feel way more balanced.

In addition to that, you deprive your body of insulin, so your body has no option, but to burn fat. Once you get past the pain barrier, you turn your body into a 24-7 fat burning machine and can hyper-focus like a monk. Ok, I may have gone a little far. The point is, is that it’s super cool and a great bio hack.

More benefits of Ketosis:
  1. Ketosis has a protein-sparing effect, assuming that you are consuming adequate quantities of protein and calories—0.7 grams per pound of body weight per day—in the first place.1 Once in ketosis, the body actually prefers ketones to glucose. Since the body has copious quantities of fat, this means there is no need to oxidize protein to generate glucose through gluconeogenesis.

  2. The main benefit of ketosis is that it increases the body’s ability to utilize fats for fuel, which gets very lazy on a high-carbohydrate diet. When on high-carbohydrate diets, the body can usually expect an energy source to keep entering the body. But in the state of ketosis, the body has to become efficient at mobilising fats as energy.

    Another benefit has to do with the low levels of insulin in the body, which causes greater lipolysis and free-glycerol release compared to a normal diet when insulin is around 80-120. Insulin has a lipolysis-blocking effect, which can inhibit the use of fatty acids as energy. Also, when insulin is brought to low levels, beneficial hormones are released in the body, such as growth hormone and other powerful growth factors.

    Another small but very important benefit of the ketogenic diet is that when in the state of ketosis, ketones, along with a high protein intake, seem to suppress appetite.3 A high-carbohydrate diet, on the other hand, increases hunger levels. Because you have to consume a lot of fat on a ketogenic diet, which hold 9 calories per gram, you are not getting much food volume. It’s not mandatory to be hungry on a reduced-calorie diet. Read more on BodyBuilding.com

    Pretty cool I hear you say?

    My first 2 days: Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 July 2016.

    On Monday I chose to do a green vegetable juice fast during the day and in the evening ate this meal:

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    The meal was simply 3 organic eggs cooked in coconut oil, salt and black pepper, accompanied by a whole avocado, organic vine tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, kale, red peppers laced in olive oil. Yum. Normally I’ll add turmeric to my eggs as it’s highly anti-inflammatory and the King of Spices.

    And I looked like this…

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    I know what you’re thinking: Who ate all the pies? My jeans are tighter than ever and I appear to have grown a winter blanket about 6 months early.

    My side effects: I had a mild headache for most of the day. It might have been down to the green tea and Americano coffee (organic of course) too, but I don’t normally get a headache when I drink those drinks. I normally start my day with green tea and have a black Americano after breakfast. It’s my treat.

    I also felt a little wobbly on my feet. I didn’t feel the most balanced of people.

    Tuesday 12 July

    I decided to combine my ketosis with Intermittent Fasting which entails an 8 hour eating window, and therefore a 16 hour fast. This has tremendous benefits for the body – but it’s not for everyone. See my post here for more info on Intermittent Fasting. One key component is that you release more human growth hormone – your fountain of youth hormone – that keeps you young. It also helps to build and maintain muscle and bone, and helps organ functionality too. I chose to engage in sprints, a form of HIIT, in a fasted state. This helps helps to maintain muscle and the after burn effects of HIIT are far superior to endurance cardio. You’re pushing your muscles, lungs and hearts to their limits so your body goes through a process of damage and repair, raising your metabolism after the workout, for up to 2 days. You also increase your pulmonary performance (lung capacity) and your heart stroke volume (the amount of blood your heart pumps per beat). It comprises sprints of your chosen form of aerobic exercise for 30 seconds, and resting for a minute or two, before engaging again. Start off slow, maybe 2-3 sprints. I did 8 today, and I felt very wobbly afterwards! Read about building muscle in ketosis here.

    Soon after my midday exercise, I chose to eat my breakfast which was almost exactly the same as my meal last night. It’s kept me fuelled and focused all afternoon. Overall today, I’m still feeling light headed but I don’t feel the headaches as I did yesterday.

    Look out for my post tomorrow…

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