I’m a Keto Fan. BUT ALSO with Intermittent Fasting.
Keto-IF involves a keto diet with 1-3 days a week of limiting calories to under 600. This method reduces IGF-1, resolves Type2 Diabetes, improves all blood labs including total cholesterol, etc etc etc.
Other methods involve fasting for 15-18 hours a day and eating Keto or regular food in just a 6-8 hour window per day.
Still OTHER methods involve doing keto for 5-6 days a week and eating regular food 1-2 days.
Limiting carbs and the amount of time your body is involved in processing food is really good for a body - I am convinced.
Look up “autophagy” - the process where your body’s ability to dispose of old cells and produce new, healthy ones is unhampered by digestion, which uses more energy and resources than anything else in a body.
But yes - Keto is great for weight loss, and improved energy and focus.
Look up “autophagy” - the process where your body’s ability to dispose of old cells and produce new, healthy ones is unhampered by digestion, which uses more energy and resources than anything else in a body.
Autophagy is one of the missing factors in aging, health and disease. Yoshinori Ohsumi won the
2016 Nobel Prize for his
work.
The field is "hot" and is filling in the missing pieces to many metabolic processes. One of the papers discussing mito, macro, and chaperone autophagy:
Macroautophagy and Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy in Heart Failure: The Known and the Unknown
Autophagy is also critically important for the brain and particularly neurons. Autophagy does not begin for at least 12 hours after the last meal and accelerates thereafter depending on the length of the fast. Neuronal autophagy is critical for mitochondrial health as well as recycling on non-ferrous iron in the brain. The loss of autophagy is theorized to be the primary cause of neurodegeneration with iron buildup (MRI findings) in Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Huntingtons and other disorders of brain iron metabolism.
One of the more exciting findings is in the area of chaperone assisted autophagy. The ketone beta-hydroxybutarate was discovered to assist in all autophagy processes and represents 30% of the total all all three recycling metabolic processes. We found (in our research) a work around with medium chain triglycerides (MCTs-C8 and C10) to stimulate this process as well as other benefits.
Here is an interesting paper on that subject:
Ketone Bodies Stimulate Chaperone-mediated Autophagy
It is impossible to argue with "testimonial" claims to authority. People who are expressing their opinion based on this are not interested in exploring the complexity of metabolic processes to form their own opinions. Sorry if I appear impatient with some posters.