The ketogenic diet, or keto, has become a popular way to lose weight. The high-fat, low-carb diet is a drastic change from the diet that the USDA recommends for Americans. It’s also a huge change for your body’s metabolism.
And while keto is proven to help you shed the pounds, the diet can come with some side effects, like the notorious keto flu.The high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet, or keto for short, has become a popular way to lose weight. And while keto is proven to help you shed the pounds, it’s a huge change for your body’s metabolism and can come with some serious side effects.
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Step aside Atkins. There’s a new fad diet in town.
The ketogenic diet, or keto for short. Celebrities like Halle Berry, Kourtney Kardashian, and Vanessa Hudgens all swear by it.
And if losing weight is your goal, keto works! It’s proven to help you shed pounds fast. But there’s more to this diet than meets the eye.Keto basically replaces carbs with fat. A typical keto diet looks like this: 70% fat, 25% protein, 5% carbohydrates. It’s a drastic change from the diet that the USDA recommends for Americans: Less than 30% fat, 20-35% protein, at least 50% carbs, and it’s a significant change for your body’s metabolism too. Usually, when you eat carbs, like a starchy potato, enzymes in your mouth, stomach, and small intestine break them into a form of sugar energy, called glucose, which your brain and body use for fuel.
So, when you skip out on carbs, the first couple of days you might experience some strong sugar cravings. Because your body is switching gears, from burning carbs to the only energy it has left: fat.
Once you’re burning fat regularly, you’ll start to see the pounds melt away. Depending on your weight, you might lose up to 3.5 pounds within the first week. As you burn more fat, levels of insulin — the fat-storing hormone — will drop significantly. This triggers your kidneys to release large amounts of sodium into the blood.
Which can actually lead to a common side effect known as the “keto flu.” Many keto dieters report symptoms like: Nausea, Headaches, Dizziness, Muscle cramps, and low energy levels.
But most of these symptoms will only occur within the first couple weeks of starting the diet.
After the first month, the scales will look better. But some of that lost weight isn’t actually fat. It’s water.
Because some of the carbs you’ve metabolized include glycogen, which retains water and therefore helps keep you hydrated. As a result, you’ll likely pee more, which will lower your sodium levels even more, leading to: Dehydration, Constipation or diarrhea, and bad breath.
Once you’re a couple months in you might hit the notorious keto plateau. It’s a common term in the keto community and refers to when people find it harder to continue losing weight. One study, for example, found that overweight people lost an average of 15 pounds in the first month. Another 11 pounds over the next two months. But after that, they saw no change in body weight — despite sticking to the keto diet.
At this point, many people quit keto. That’s why researchers often find it hard to study the long-term effects of the diet. But, as it turns out, there is one group that typically sticks to keto.
It’s unclear why, but keto has been proven to reduce the symptoms of epilepsy. And studies show that epileptic children who stay on very restricted keto diets for several years can suffer from: Kidney stones, High cholesterol, and bone fractures.
But a typical keto diet won’t be nearly as strict and if you do want to try keto, you should talk to a doctor first. In the meantime, go ahead and enjoy that bread and remember, the best diet is a balanced one of fat, protein, and — yes, even — carbs.
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What The Keto Diet Actually Does To Your Body | The Human Body
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50lbs lost in 4 months. If you try it make sure you do it correctly. Just avoid all processed foods, anything with a long ingredients list that comes in a packet, the fat you eat should be healthy fat like from avocadoes, eggs, grass fed beef, extra virgin olive oil. Up your intake of fermented food like kimchi, and supplement with fibre such as psyllium husk to make sure the food going through you slows down to absorb the nutrients. If you take these measures the inflammation in your body will disappear, your skin and hair will look great, your face will be less puffy people will say you look healthier, and the fat on your body will drop dramatically. Make sure you avoid all trans fats, and processed oils like canola oil, rapeseed oil, these are inflammatory, will trigger cortisol , then unwanted insulin release which can make you store the fat you eat. Eating the correct types of fat is criticial if you want success in this diet.
Now do the standard American diet
This video is such a joke!
Although you don't necessarily need to go full keto for health benefits, but the FDA recommendation of 50 % carbs is a complete disaster, anything more than 25 % of carbs is not good on long term.
Who TF liked this video.
26,000 retards?
Keto isn't a fad diet. It was designed by a doctor over 100 years ago. That was long before big pharma captured the medical profession.
Humans are the only obese land mammal and we’re the only ones who eat a balanced diet. Think about that
I lost 90 pounds in 9 months while doing nothing, and ingesting 2,500 calories daily.
No, the kidneys don’t release salt into the bloodstream.
The body is designed to use fat for energy, not glucose.
The Atkins diet is the keto diet, as is the Banting diet from 1860.
Top G 🪖
The plateau part lacks context and is not true. Cba explaining why if u reply ill educate you
Keto diet started in 1919 for people who suffer from seizures
Well our ancestors lived off of pretty much keto way before inventing agriculture and cultivating grains for thousands of years. I’d say it’s pretty natural lol
Last year I was prediabetic and had fatty liver disease. I went on keto though i did not suffer those side effects. But 3 months later my doctor was amazed my blood sugar was down to normal levels and he no longer saw the liver enzymes in my blood which meant i no longer have fatty liver disease. Ilost 20 lbs overall but I am at that plateau and can’t seem to lose the additional 5 lbs to reach my goal.
Plus people need to make sure they are consuming the right fats in the form of extra virgin olive oil real butter not margarine or vegetable oils, because these will reck your body. You need oils high in Omega 3.
There is a whole food industry created to keep people hooked and sick ready to be passed on the drug industry.
51 years old. Went on a 7 day water fast before starting Keto. Lost 19 pounds Feels awesome. Knee pain and persistent cough is gone. I'm convinced we're not meant to live on high carb diets. Just look at the food companies that support the USDA and that should tell you all you need to know about the 'recommended' food groups.
YOU VILL EAT THE SUGAR!
In the mean time, keep eating pasta, cake, donuts, cookies and candy. The FDA said so. Also check out our diabetes medications!
This is BS from the system! Yeah yeah, eat bread, get diabetes we will sell you insulin for a fair price of a ferrari!😂
I'Ve been doing Keto to control my diabetes. Took 3 weeks for it to kick in and now I'm no longer diabetic and I've lost 76 lbs. not only that I'm no longer have acid reflex, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I will continue to stay on this path.
Vegetable carbs are more than sufficient. Carbs from bread, pasta, rice etc are bad. They are as bad as sugars.
You do not want to do keto if you have trouble with fat!
This video is a fraud.
It claims bad side affects and doesn't mention why … lmao
my family was already diabetics, i started the keto out of the huge fear i felt when my tested showed I'm also prediabetic in 30yo.
I lost 30 kg in more than a year and I'm in best shape of my life
My brother been on keto for 6 months. Lost tons of weight, blood pressure went from dangerously high to normal and he's much healthier. But weight loss has halted after 4 months he don't understand why.