Cancer & Alzheimer's May Be Prevented
Processed foods and grains, which Americans consume as they go out of style, are loaded with sugar. Eating all these sugars builds up leptin and insulin resistance in the body and it keeps the body fat. Additionally, this resistance can cause inflammation and cellular damage.
How can you fix this?
It may be time for nutrients to enter your body. This means your body starts burning fat instead of glucose (sugar). As more research has revealed, studies indicate that a ketogenic diet may be the answer to many health problems, including cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer's.
The ketogenic diet is a very low carb diet that consists mainly of healthy fats, omega-3 fatty acids and omega 9 fatty acids. You can get most of these from sprouted nuts and seeds, avocados, coconut oil or olive oil among many others. The goal with this diet is to eliminate glucose completely by eliminating whole fruits and vegetables, so that your body starts burning fat for energy. Once glucose is no longer available, the body burns fat only for energy. This help is not only for optimal health, it helps you to lose weight more efficiently considering whether your body is constantly burning fat for energy.
There are certain people who should not be right on the ketogenic diet. If you are on diabetes, take medication for high blood pressure or breastfeed, you need to take some extra measures, so do a little research before starting the diet.
Benefits of nutritional ketosis:
Weight Loss: By switching to a ketogenic diet, you are basically turning your body into a fat burning machine. Your sugars use fats more efficiently than carbs and fat burning usually helps establish a healthy metabolism.
Fighting cancer: Cancer cells eat sugar. This is a fact. By eliminating sugar and carbs from your diet, you may be able to effectively prevent or fight cancer. Unlike our body cells, cancer cells cannot convert to using fat for energy. Sugar cancer cells die of starvation, which they need many times over. Ideally, you want a diet that is 70% healthy fats (not junk food), 20% protein (ideally not from meat) and 5% healthy sugars (lemons, nuts, whole grains or whole fruits and vegetables).
Improves brain health: Many more medical studies reveal that ketogenic diets can be a natural cure for Alzheimer's disease. By entering your body in natural ketosis you establish a natural flow of ketones (small fuel molecules) in your brain. Eating certain foods negatively affects your brain, so it is understandable that foods that nourish your brain can improve cognitive function. Diet increases your focus and mental performance.