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That's why
we evolved ketosis to resourcefully live off stored energy
(fat) when it becomes necessary, like hard
winters or times of drought. When scarcity of food
and fresh water made it very hard for life to
survive, like those times of intense famines fashioned
by the world's longest ice ages.
Our current predicament is to an extent of our own
making. We are in fact the victims of our own evolutionary success, having developed wasteful
food production systems that provide the wrong type of
food for us all to eat.
Commercial
agriculture has produced monoculture farming and
ultra modern food
processing methods which is the practice of
relying on a very small number of genetically modified
plant
and animal variants that require large amounts of potentially
toxic chemicals to survive for our long-term survival strategy.
These high risk money making methods leave us open
to total disaster from even small environmental
changes in global weather patterns and food based
ecosystems.
As if that's not bad enough we pollute our calorie
packed food with unnecessary chemicals that do
substantial harm to our body's cells including
that of creating cancer. These calorie packed
diets are supplied by every means that can
minimize the amount of energy required to obtain
the food, thus reducing our physical activity to a
minimum.
It's therefore not strange to hear people say
after they have stopped slimming, they put more
weight-on than ever before within a short time of
stopping their weight loss diet. It's called the
"yo-yo effect".
The yo-yo effect works
because when you diet, you are eating less, so
your fat cells start to reduce in size. This is
because you are using the fat cells to create and
burn ketones as energy. As the fat
cells reduce in size the body starts to divide the
fat cells, and soon you have twice as many fat
cells as before.
In this way your body can make
your fat cell energy reserves last longer. This
was a
very successfully inherited energy supply survival strategy,
for our hominid ancestor was a successful ice age person.
It's believed the process of fat cell division
increased in Cro-Magnons throughout the last three
long ice age periods, as a resistance technique to
the low availability of food and water. Basically,
it's a fundamental part of life's minimalist
survival strategy, much like that in the wild
brown and polar bears that hibernate through the
ice age like Artic winters today.
So using weight loss diets, over and over again, just
encourages your body to gain weight, and hence
obesity. You are essentially, not in tune with
your body's correct level of food intake and
output requirement. You are not doing the right
amount of exercise each day, and are exercise
deficient.
How It Works
The human body uses two types of fuel to power
all body functions. The more commonly understood "Glucose",
and the less well known, "Ketones".
The human
body can run on
two types of fuel. One that the body uses as its
primary fuel is called Glucose, and the other
called Ketones. You keep it stored in the bodies
bulk storehouse of fat cells for emergences only.
It's only used when your body cannot get
you to provide glucose via your mouth and stomach.
Ketones are your inbuilt complementary fuel source. Instead of
using consumed glucose (food converted to
glucose), you use stored body fat. And, it was your
consumption of
carbohydrate packed glucose foods, which created
the fat cells in the first place.
Ketones fuel your body just the same as Glucose,
and it's there to keep you alive when the going
gets tough when there's no food around to eat.
You know
when it's happening because you start to get
hungry, and some times feel faint and even
light-headed. But soon your body decides it's not
going to wait for you to provide the glucose, so
it starts using your stored fat and puts you into
a "lipolysis production state". This process
starts making Ketones, and you use it to
rejuvenate your body's cells, and power your
brain, plus all vital bodily organs.
This process is a normal human bodily process.
Nature made it that way to save your life in times
of hardship, and to keep your motor running when
away from your normal hunting and
gathering areas (the local supermarket).
So
stop thinking it's some how wrong, it's perfectly
normal to be hungry at least once a day - it's
simply your body telling you to eat.
Whenever your ingestion of food is inadequate for
a long enough period of time, your body will reach
a point where it needs to extract fuel from your
alternate energy supply system - the fat reserves
you built from excess amounts of food you ate
earlier.
Simply
put it's the natural adjustment of the
body's reduced intake of food, and the body shifts
the source of its energy giving fuel from ingested
food to your stored body fat.
If you burn
larger amounts of fat via extreme exercise, any
excess ketones is redundant and is therefore
normally excreted in your urine.
Ketones
have been shown by research to improve both heart
and brain functions by over forty percent, and
it's much more efficient than carbohydrate at
producing the energy you need.
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