reliable energy source , not encouraging the body to stay on the ever present glucose drip addiction always searching for more blood sugar energy from carbohydrate resources . This really puts us in a place of always relying on sugar sugars and sugars . Ergo stimulating insulin and then lowering blood sugar . While that blood sugar is lowering our insulin is taking the energy that we don ’ t have room to immediately use ( more muscle more efficient carb use , less muscle less efficient ) and then storing it in reserves for later as fat . Yes our bodies are very efficient at this . It ’ s called a biological incentive of evolution for survival necessity . Especially if we have been a carbohydrate feeding machine from the time that we were babies through our youth and adulthood . Our brain wants those sugars and it will do what it can to get them . In the absence of that blood sugar , counter regulatory hormones glucagon and cortisol release to find sugars for the brain to do this by turning muscle into that sugar like available energy . If we can get the body passed that catabolism by keeping our bodies fed with protein , keeping those sugars out of our body will ultimately and eventually tap into stored fat as its new reliable energy source . Now if we can program the body to extract efficient energy from what is more available at the time in the body , fat , then we have a much more cued up and on point metabolic system . There is one efficient , effective and rather quick way that we can achieve this , and in my professional opinion it comes first before all else . It is the process of getting into ketosis . It is important to mention that proper intermittent fasting can play a very necessary part in this also . Remember we are a carbohydrate feeding machine and if we never truly deplete our body of carbohydrates / glycogen , our bodies are always going to look for carbohydrates to burn first . The unused sugars will store as fat . We store carbohydrates in our liver and muscle and fat tissue and if we truly never burn that out , we never get into an optimal fat burning state . So by triggering the body ‘ s production of ketones we get into an optimal fat burning state , and the way to do that is a complete state of
“ There are very important specifics that we must follow ” glucose deprivation , dropping starch and sugary carbs . So from this we are creating insulin sensitivity , lipolysis at its most efficient form , and we are resetting the body ’ s nutrient energy resourcing mechanism . This makes it much easier to switch back-and-forth between energy sources that are available as opposed to taking several days up to weeks in some cases for you to get out of the carbohydrate / glycogen burning mode and a tap into stored fats . The highest state of fat burning comes from ultimate glycogen depletion . When we are in ketosis and in an efficient energy resource and state , a body can be fat burning all week . I then can give somebody a high carb cheat meal and that can stimulate thyroid production by the release of insulin , increasing metabolism and then within a matter of hours because of how efficient the body is working with energy resourcing , the body goes back into a state of high fat fuel use “ ketosis ”. When this ketogenic state occurs it truly is a metabolic marvel . We are so used to eating carbs to meet energy levels , blood sugar stable as not to burn muscle to keep metabolism running etc . We are always on that 2 to 3 hour meal clock . Now that ’ s great because we want to continue to feed our body , especially protein , but protein itself does not give us a lot of energy right away . The body is always searching for energy from carbs and as our blood sugars go low we get pretty despondent , grumpy and out of sorts . Most specifically because our brain is eating a ton of milligrams per minute of glucose and without that available there is an energy disconnect . By being in ketosis our neurological and our physiological energy is steady because we are feeding our brain a reliable source of steady stream energy from fats that are being covered and burned . Our body is fed and our energy in our blood is always stable and we ’ re not lowering it constantly by the insulin mechanism being metabolic rate the rate at which metabolism occurs in a living organism . “ many people come into my office convinced that they have a low metabolic rate ”
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