Ketogenic dieting pointers

[TreeFrogTrader]

And by the way, just in case anybody is wondering what happens if you burn up all your fat stores and the body has no more triglycerides to convert into glucose for the brain? That's when the body will literally start to eat away at muscle tissue and internal organs in order to create the glucose necessary to survive which is often referred to as "wasting away". Death occurs shortly thereafter due to organ failure.

Extreme wasting leads to death. However, as with many biological processes, small doses of the process or nutrient/supplement are often beneficial even if fatal in the extreme.

A micro-experience of wasting comes from fasting which is beneficial. Fasting promotes autophagy - the body's self-devouring of cells when the body begins to look to its own tissue for sustenance. The body is always killing off or consuming weak cells to get on with clearing out the brush and creating new ones. With even light short fasting, this process is enhanced because the body consumes the weakest and damaged cells first. Then -rather than getting into wasting- you return to eating after having done a very light housekeeping.

Methinks.

Refer to pubmed for more on autophagy studies or not as needed/desired.

 

[El OchoCinco]

And by the way, just in case anybody is wondering what happens if you burn up all your fat stores and the body has no more triglycerides to convert into glucose for the brain? That's when the body will literally start to eat away at muscle tissue and internal organs in order to create the glucose necessary to survive which is often referred to as "wasting away". Death occurs shortly thereafter due to organ failure.

Just to be clear because some people are misinterpreting the above, doing a keto diet does not mean you burn your fat until you are down to less than 3% body fat and waste away. That is NOT a ketogenic diet. People on Ketogenic diets still EAT.

People are taking the extreme with respect to Keto without taking a moment to understand how it works. Ketogenic plus maintenance caloric intake means you are not eating up all your fat stores.

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

. People on Ketogenic diets still EAT.

Actually it is amazing how much good stuff you can eat on keto, given that fat is good.

We are not talking about a kale and lettuce diet here.

 

[El OchoCinco]

Actually it is amazing how much good stuff you can eat on keto, given that fat is good.

We are not talking about a kale and lettuce diet here.

I am enjoying it. I usually feel like crap after pizza or other carb crap.

 

[Baron]

Just to be clear because some people are misinterpreting the above, doing a keto diet does not mean you burn your fat until you are down to less than 3% body fat and waste away. That is NOT a ketogenic diet. People on Ketogenic diets still EAT.

Thanks. Yeah, just to be clear, I wasn't referring to anything related to keto when I was talking about wasting away. I was just referring to literally what happens to the body when you starve to death from either a lack of food, an inability to eat because of old age or medical condition, etc.