DR. MERCOLA....change of mind.

What is a Ketogenic Diet?

Dr. Attia consumed what is known as a ketogenic diet, which is one that shifts your body's metabolic engine from burning carbohydrates to burning fats. Your cells have the metabolic flexibility to adapt from using glucose for fuel to using ketone bodies, which come from the breakdown of fats—hence the name "ketogenic." Another term for this is nutritional ketosis. As an aside, many types of cancer cells do NOT have this adaptability and require glucose to thrive, which makes the ketogenic diet an effective therapy for combating cancer.

A ketogenic diet requires that 50 to 70 percent of your food intake come from beneficial fats, such as coconut oil, grass-pastured butter, organic pastured eggs, avocado and raw nuts (raw pecans and macadamia nuts are particularly beneficial). One of the fastest ways to prevent nutritional ketosis is by consuming sugar or refined carbohydrates.

Besides restricting carbs and limiting protein, you can also strengthen your ketone engine with intermittent fasting, which is what Dr. Attia did. He restricted his sugar intake to about five grams per day, which is quite extreme and much lower than I recommend for most people. He consumed a moderate amount of protein, and the rest of his foods—80 percent of them—were fats. But his approach, as radical as it was, really proves that a ketogenic diet can have profound health benefits—not to mention blowing the saturated fats theory of heart disease out of the water, once again.

Please note that I have recently revised my position on using low carb long term and now believe that the low carb, low to moderate protein, high healthy fat diet is appropriate for most who are insulin or leptin resistant. Once that resistance resolves, then it likely becomes counterproductive to maintain a low-carb approach. Once your weight, blood pressure, sugar, and cholesterol normalize, you can increase your carbs. Personally, I now consume several pieces of fruit a day and have two dozen fruit trees in my yard, but my body weight, fat and insulin resistance are all optimized.

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Dr. MERCOLA  GIVES  MORE  ON  THIS  DIET.  BUT  HE  HAS  CHANGED  HIS  MIND  ON  "CARBS"  -  HUMMMM......MAYBE  HE'S  BEEN  READING  MY  BLOG.

SO  WHAT  IS  IT  ABOUT  "CARBS."  FIRST  IT  IS  THAT  THE  WESTERN  WORLD  LEARNT  HOW  TO  "REFINE"  CARBS  -  MAKING  WHITE  FLOUR.  AND  SO  ALL  KINDS  OF  WHATEVERS  HAVE  COME  INTO  EXISTENCE  FROM   THE  NUTRITIONAL  NOTHINGNESS  OF  WHITE  FLOUR,  SINCE  IT  WAS  MANUFACTURED  DECADES  AGO.  AS  GOOD  OLD  CHARLES  ATLAS  POINTED  OUT  IN  HIS  HEALTH  AND  STRENGTH  COURSE;  AVOID  WHITE  FLOUR  PRODUCTS  LIKE  THE  PLAGUE.

THEN  IT  IS  ALSO  TRUE  WAY  TOO  MUCH  SUGAR  IS  IN  OUR  DIET  TODAY.  PART  OF  THE  PROBLEM,  SUGAR  HAS  BEEN  ADDED  TO  THINGS  YOU'D  NEVER  GUESS  HAD  SUGAR  IN  IT;  SAME  TRUTH  IS  FOR  SALT.....WAY  TOO  MUCH  SALT  IN  THINGS,  WHICH  MEANS  FOR  THE  AVERAGE  PERSON,  TOO  MUCH  SALT.

AS  I'VE  SAID  BEFORE,  GOD  CREATED  GRAINS..... ANCIENT  ISRAEL  HAD  A  BARLEY [BEST  OF  ALL  THE  GRAINS]  AND  WHEAT  HARVEST,  FROM  SPRING [PASSOVER]  TO PENTECOST  -  ABOUT  50  DAYS  HARVESTING  THOSE  GRAINS.  THEY  WERE  100  PERCENT  ORGANIC  WHOLE  GRAINS.

NOW  IF  YOUR  BODY  METABOLISM  AT  ANY  AGE  CAN  HANDLE  GRAINS/CARBS  EATING [MODERATION  IN  ALL  THINGS  THE  BIBLE  TEACHES]  THEN  YOU  SHOULD  EAT  GOOD  HEALTHY  WHOLE  GRAINS - BREADS, CEREALS,  ETC.
THERE  IS  WONDERFUL  NUTRITION  IN  WHOLE  GRAINS.

SOME  PEOPLE'S  METABOLISM  CHANGES  WITH  AGE;  I  AM  ONE  OF  THEM.  SO  I  CAN  NOT  EAT  WHOLE  GRAINS  LIKE  I  COULD  UP  TO  AGE  40,  AND  EVEN  MORE  SO  AFTER  AGE  60.

IF  YOU  CAN  EAT  WHOLE  GRAIN  CARBS  INTO  YOUR  OLDER  AGE,  THEN  YOU  SHOULD,  AS  WELL  AS  EXERCISING  ON  A  REGULAR  ROUTINE,  AND  FASTING [MISSING  A  MEAL  OR  TWO  NOW  AND  AGAIN].

THERE  IS  MUCH  MORE  TO  STAYING  YOUNG  AS  YOU  AGE,  AS  I'VE  GIVEN  YOU  ON  THIS  BLOG  AND  ON  MY  WEBSITE.  BUT  FOR  ANYONE  TO  JUST  SAY CARBS/GRAINS  ARE  BAD  FOR  YOU  PERIOD,  IS  VERY, VERY  WRONG!!
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