August 12, 2024

Episode 406: Keto as a Cure

58 minutes

Can keto be a cure or reverse disease in the body? Curious about the therapeutic benefits of keto beyond weight loss? Want hard scientific evidence to help you back up your keto lifestyle? Tune in to hear us define what it means to use ketosis as medicine for weight loss, regulation of neurological conditions and reduction of inflammation. Learn WHY keto works for conditions like diabetes and obesity, anxiety, infertility, and beyond and how to tweak your keto approach to achieve maximum benefit!

In this episode, we cover some of the most important mechanisms of a ketogenic diet when it comes to disease prevention and even reversal. From muscle sparing and fat burn to reduction of cravings to antioxidant activity and neuroregeneration, ketones can do some pretty amazing things. Learn about how a real food approach along with high quality supplements and lab testing can take your keto to the next level!

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Mechanisms of Keto

Muscle Sparing, Fat Burning

A low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet versus a low-fat diet to treat obesity and hyperlipidemia: a randomized, controlled trial

Effects of a low-carbohydrate diet on weight loss and cardiovascular risk factor in overweight adolescents

A randomized trial of a low-carbohydrate diet for obesity

A randomized trial comparing a very low carbohydrate diet and a calorie-restricted low fat diet on body weight and cardiovascular risk factors in healthy women

Topography of human plasma alpha1-acid glycoprotein

Reduced Cravings

A randomized pilot trial of a moderate carbohydrate diet compared to a very low carbohydrate diet in overweight or obese individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus or prediabetes

Change in food cravings, food preferences, and appetite during a low-carbohydrate and low-fat diet - PMC

Short-term low carbohydrate/high-fat diet intake increases postprandial plasma glucose and glucagon-like peptide-1 levels during an oral glucose tolerance test in healthy men

Keto Curbs Inflammation

The effects of ketone bodies in pathological conditions: ketosis, ketogenic diet, redox states, insulin resistance, and mitochondrial metabolism

Role of glucose and ketone bodies in the metabolic control of experimental brain cancer

Ketogenic diet-induced peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ activation decreases neuroinflammation in the mouse hippocampus after kainic acid-induced seizures

Keto as a Cure

Diabetes and Obesity

A randomized trial comparing a very low carbohydrate diet and a calorie-restricted low fat diet on body weight and cardiovascular risk factors in healthy women

The effect of a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet versus a low-glycemic index diet on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus

Neurological Conditions

Do ketone bodies mediate the anti-seizure effects of the ketogenic diet?

Ketone Bodies as Anti-Seizure Agents

Study of the ketogenic agent AC-1202 in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial

Dietary ketosis enhances memory in mild cognitive impairment

The effects of a ketogenic diet on behavioral outcome after controlled cortical impact injury in the juvenile and adult rat

A ketogenic diet as a potential novel therapeutic intervention in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Inflammation-mediated memory dysfunction and effects of a ketogenic diet in a murine model of multiple sclerosis

Infertility & Hormonal Imbalance

Weight loss improves reproductive outcomes in obese women undergoing fertility treatment: a randomized controlled trial

Immune Health

Naturally Nourished Episode 262 The Keto-Immune Connection and Natural Immunity Updates

Anxiety and Mood Stability

The Anti-Anxiety Diet

Top Supplements for Keto

Digestaid

Carnitine Complex

Relax and Regulate

Keto Essentials Bundle

Berberine Boost

Baseline Labs to Monitor

Advanced Metabolic Panel

Keto Checkup