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What Is Ketosis ?

What Is Ketosis ? 


Ketone Bodies are chemical molecules that your body makes after 10-12 hours of not having any sugar. They are the byproducts of fat burning, they break down fat instead of sugar to create glucose for energy. 
When we convert our body from sugar to fat, it takes between 3 days to 2 weeks, up to 6 weeks (depending on how long you've been running your body on sugar). 
Let's say that sugar is dirty fuel (diesel for example) and fat is like solar, a very clean source of fuel. 

When we run our body on Ketones, it's much more stable with your blood sugars, you don't have these highs and lows anymore. That's why you're going to be so level headed and your brain is gonna love it, your memory is gonna be more sharper, and you'll be much more focused.
Ketones are the original fuel source of the brain, our bodies long ago ran on ketones, they're originally designed to run on ketone bodies, not sugar. It's only until very recently that we've been eating sugar so we're gonna go back to what our bodies are designed to run on, and it's much healthier.

Ketosis protects protein, means when we go to our Ketogenic meal plan, we'll not be worried about the body breaking down his own protein cells, this happens only when we have high insulin levels in the blood. 

The ketosis state, once reached, will make you lose a lot of weight at the very first days, this is not fat weight, this is just water weight because your body is gonna be depleting the carbohydrates and the fluids will follow (One molecule of carb retains 4 molecules of H2O). 



What Is Ketosis ?

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