Diet & Healthy Eating

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Well, it's a massively stressful thing for the body to suddenly switch to a ketone-burning organism to a glucose-burning organism, which is why people get the dreaded "keto flu" phase.

For Keto to properly work, you really need to be on it for at least 3-5 weeks, minimum, to get past the keto flu and let the body start becoming adept at staying in ketosis and optimally utilizing those ketones. Every human body is different in how well it can adapt to ketosis, what levels of carbs can be tolerated to not interfere with ketosis, etc.

One of the world's most respected experts on nutrition, Dr. Dean Ornish (who has clinically proven he can reverse heart disease and numerous other lethal conditions with a plant-based diet) has stated (in an excerpt from an article i saw back in May 2018):

While Dr. Ornish admits weight loss is possible on a ketogenic diet, he asks whether 'you are mortgaging your health' when doing so.
He says: "The answer is yes. When you look at the arteries of people on a [carnivorous / omnivorous] keto diet, they tend to be more clogged, even though they may be losing weight.
"Weight loss is good but you can lose weight in lots of ways that aren't good for you. Smoking cigarettes is an excellent way to lose weight, chemotherapy is a good way to lose weight, getting profoundly depressed is a good way to lose weight.
"I don't recommend any of those approaches - you want an approach which promotes health."


That's why, if you're going to play with a Keto diet, you've got to really do it to the max, but do it in the healthiest way possible, going plant-based with avocados, nuts, seeds, nut-butters, etc. to get those high amounts of fats/oils without piling up inflammatory toxins and endotoxins in your system.

Inflammation is the key to so much of this. All honest and informed medical scientists today know that INFLAMMATION is the #1 culprit behind so many of our "civilization diseases"-- the big killers like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity.

It's not just meat/eggs/dairy that are sources of inflammation. Unfortunately, since the 1990s, because of GMO (genetically modified organisms) from Monsanto et al., some major plant groups are also now inflammatory sources-- corn, wheat and soy-- which is why Europe has banned imports of these crops from the USA unless it's organic (they realized that children's skyrocketing rates of allergies and asthma were due to these GMO products).

That's why i've entirely cut out of my vegan diet any GMO products --the way you do this is to always buy ORGANIC forms of corn, wheat and soy. Very easy to do in our era, where every supermarket let alone the TraderJoes, Sprouts, Costco and health food stores have loads of organic products.