Turbocharging Your Keto Diet
The Keto Diet is a recently popular low-carb, high-fat diet that switches the body to a fat-burning mode (ketosis) for weight loss and other health benefits. Useful resources for understanding the Keto Diet and step-by-step instructions to implement the Keto Diet were discussed in the previous blogs.
This blog describes two methods to turbocharging your Keto Diet for significantly improved results.
Focusing on the Right Fats to Reach Ketosis Faster
Total Health’s Dr. Nick explains in a Youtube video the differences in types of fats (saturated, mono-unsaturated – MUFAs, and poly-unsaturated – PUFAs) and describes how recent studies have indicated that to MUFAs and PUFAs help reach ketosis significantly faster when starting on the diet. Foods rich in MUFAs and PUFAs include fatty fish, olive oil, avocados, olives, nuts and seeds.
Combining Keto Diet with Intermittent Fasting
While the Keto Diet prescribes what to eat to reach a fat-burning state, Intermittent Fasting prescribes a pattern of eating (when to eat) to reach a similar ketosis state. Intermittent Fasting has significant proven health benefits, and this blog provides a step-by-step guide to implementing Intermittent Fasting.
The combination of the Keto Diet with Intermittent Fasting offers a synergy that can yield powerful results. Dr. Berg’s blog “The Healthy Keto(TM) Diet for Beginners: Your Quick Start Guide” has a detailed section on how to gradually phase-in Intermittent Fasting into a Keto Diet.
Dr. Berg’s Youtube video discusses the intermittent fasting ratio at which the synergy from the combination works well.
