What is Ketosis?

What is Ketosis?

Ketosis is a metabolic state in which the body burns fat for fuel instead of carbohydrates. This happens when carbohydrate intake is very low, leading the liver to produce molecules called ketones, which serve as an alternative energy source for the brain and body. One would find elevated levels of ketone bodies in their blood or urine. Physiological ketosis is a normal response to low glucose availability, such as low-carbohydrate diets or fasting, that provides an additional energy source for the brain in the form of ketones.

In addition, when one starts limiting how much sugar/carbs they consume, and basically begins to deplete their blood sugar and glycogen stores (stored up sugar in the form of glycogen in the liver), after 10-12 hours (usually, not the case for all) their liver will begin to use fatty acids (fat) to make ketone bodies.

This is the ultimate fuel source not only for our body but especially for our brain. Our brain loves this source because it’s pure and clean. When we use this fuel, our mitochondria does not produce a lot of inflammation (think of inflammation in our body as the black smoke a factory makes), and is actually able to make more energy in the form of ATP (4x more energy) and more metabolic water (more on this in a later blog). All of the cells’ processes and functions begin with and need ATP and this no-so-talked-about metabolic water. Side note: the new quantum paradigm explains that a cell needs much more energy than that found in the ATP produced by ATP Synthase, and that the rest of that energy is accounted for by this metabolic water produced at Cytochrome C Oxidase of the electron transport chain. The new paradigm explains that metabolic water produced by the mitochondria is more than just a byproduct of a chemical reaction. Stay tuned for a blog about this.

The longer we practice getting into the metabolic state of Ketosis, the easier it will be to switch into it after having a sugary or carby diet (after being in glycolysis - the opposite metabolic state). This is called flipping your G to K switch. And when you can do this easily after cutting carbs and sugar again for a few hours, this is called metabolic flexibility. The more metabolically flexible you are, the healthier you most likely are. This is the most simple way to put it.

Other amazing things take place when your body is in a state of ketosis. For example, autophagy is upregulated in cells and one will be able to perform autophagy during daytime, not just at night while sleeping. What is autophagy? Self-cleaning. You want your body in tip top shape, and to do this you want it cleaning itself around the clock.

Apoptosis is also upregulated in the cells when we are in a metabolic state of ketosis. What is apoptosis? Programmed cell-death. Cells that are bad or malfunctioning (like the big C cells) will automatically die as to not replicate bad cells (to prevent malignancy).

Ultimately, your cells become so efficient at cleaning themselves and even regenerating that you begin to notice reverse-aging occur. It occurs on the smallest quantum scale in the cells and over time is visible on you, your body, your face, your eyes. Everything changes and you look healthier. You can heal many conditions this way (not medical advice - to learn more, email us regarding this and I’ll send you more information).

The ketogenic diet promotes this metabolic state. But there are other ways to enter ketosis.

Stay tuned to learn more about the ketogenic diet and the different ways of entering ketosis and improving your mitochondrial functioning. Also stay tuned to learn about how light and sunshine play a major role in our health.

Do you practice ketosis? Or have you ever in the past? Let me know in the comments. I’d love to chat!

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My next Blog is titled: Why Body Motion & Love Mechanics Began and Since Then. I'd love to make a proper welcome blog for my visitors so you can understand the bigger picture. That will be this upcoming blog. I'll tie together why it all began and what have been some life developments since then (why I started practicing a ketogenic sun-loving lifestyle and why it is important for everyone to learn about it all, how to implement the principles, and adopt their own variation of it to live their best life.) For you, for me, for us.

In future blogs, I will share on all topics, pelvic health-related, occupational therapy-related, about the ketogenic diet, more on ketosis and different ways of entering it, more on ketosis and medical findings and applications in the literature, nutrition and pelvic health (certain diagnoses do better with certain diets), variety of conditions or symptoms in pelvic health and ones I can treat (will cover different diagnoses in blogs), different populations, circadian health, light and sunshine, hormones (including menopause and perimenopause), all things womenhood, motherhood, health/wellness, and life