[toggle title = “Show Notes”] [callout] Keto made easy for you! Have you been purchasing keto books or purchasing all kinds of apps for your phone to help with keto? Maybe you someone who spends a lot of time learning about keto on different platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. If this sounds like …

[toggle title = “Show Notes”] [callout] The ketogenic diet for cancer treatment Hi everyone! Jessica here! Today, I am going to interview Ellen Davis, who is the author of four different books. The book we will be talking about in this interview today is Fight Cancer with a Ketogenic Diet. Some of her other publications include Ketogenic diet …

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Learn how intermittent fasting can supercharge your health

Have you hit a wall in your weight loss on your keto diet or other dietary plans? Are you looking for a way to break this stall on the scale? If so, turn to intermittent fasting to not only help with weight loss but to supercharge your health! When it comes to fasting, sometimes the word in itself can seem scary. The thought of restricting food for a period of time can seem very repulsive to people. However, one thing that you must realize is that we aren't designed to eat three meals a day! In fact, going for a prolonged period without food is actually advantageous and can boost your brainpower.

Think about paleolithic times. Do you think they ate three meals a day? No, during the day they hunted and gathered their food during the day to feast by the fire at night. I know this isn't the era of the saber tooth tiger or wooly mammoth, but maybe we should base our life on how they lived. It's not healthy to always have an overabundance of food, really it's counterintuitive. We are meant for times of famine! Think about the word breakfast - there's two words in there. Break and fast. When you eat breakfast, you are essentially breaking your fast! The conventional world always says breakfast is most important meal of the day! This is far from the truth. Actually, breakfast is not essential and it will give you more energy throughout the day to fast right through.

 

Types of fasting

Before I discuss intermittent fasting health benefits, I am going to briefly go through several types of fasts. Overall, there are many different ways to incorporate fasting into your life! You can choose to eat within a time-restricted window or even a 24 hour fast on a daily basis. It is entirely up to you and there is no one size fits all type of fast. I've even taken on a 3 day fast before and found out that it was absolutely rejuvenating. An important thing is to always make sure that you clear fasting with your health care provider before delving in.

Eating within a window of time / 16:8 method

This happens to be my favorite type of fast and it is easy to incorporate into your everyday life! In this type of intermittent fast, you are mostly eating within an 8-hour timeframe and fasting for 16 hours. For example, if you finish eating by 8 PM, then you wouldn’t partake in any food until noon the next day. This is the standard time frame for this protocol, but you can fast longer! In fact, the longer you stay in the fasted state, the more metabolic practice you will get at burning stored body fat, and the deeper your fat adaptation will get1.

Generally, if one of my patients wants to take on this type of fast, I tell them to start with smaller increments of the fasting intervals. For example, start by ending your meal in the evening around 7 pm in the evening, and do not partake in breakfast until about 7 am the next day. This would allow you to start the fast at a 12-hour interval and then you can gradually increase to the desired interval of 16 hours. As I mentioned earlier, you can go past the 16-hour fasting interval if you want and narrow your window of eating. For example, maybe you want to stop eating a 7 pm at night and then fast for 20 hours, which will allow you to eat around 3 pm the next day. You then could then choose a 4-hour interval ( which would mean you would eat between 3 to 7)instead of an 8 hour one. If you do choose a longer fasting interval, that is very beneficial for you in terms of fat-burning and cellular repair!

24-hour fasts

This method of intermittent fasting is just as it seems, you fast for 24 hours at a time. Essentially, you could have an eating interval from 5-6 PM and then eat the next d

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Does it really have to be Keto versus Vegan?

Hi everyone, Jessica here. I am sorry that it has been so long since I have published a podcast!  I have had to get my life back in order, I recently moved and I had to slow down to take out time for family.  Anyway, I am ready to get back to business! That means I am ready to get back to helping you acheive your goals!

Choose both for ultimate healing power!

In this episode, my primary focus is to show you that there is no such thing as keto vs vegan. You can absolutely have the best of both worlds! In fact, it is much encouraged for you to do both.

The benefits of doing both numerous! You get to take the mitochondria fueling fats from the keto world and the energizing vegetables from the vegan world. The result is a nutrition powerhouse! Say goodbye to the processed meats, cheese, and dairy out of the keto and the bread, pasta, and beans out the vegetarian!

Are you not ready to part with some of these food items? No problem! You will not have to eliminate the carbs forever. You will simply learn to intermittently cycle them in your diet a few days a week after doing at least 2-3 weeks of strict keto.

If you know me, then you know that  I am not a big proponent of long-term carb restriction! There are several different theories on this, but overall the keto diet is meant to be cycled off and on throughout the year! I will explain this more when I discuss keto-carb cycling!

An important takeaway is to remember that before even choosing between keto vs vegan, you need to make the ultimate decision to consume foods to fuel your mitochondria and avoid those that are highly processed. I think one of the things that turned me into the keto vegan or vegetarian is the relentless times I have explained to people that hot dogs, sausage, and other processed meats are not healthy. I have had many people ask me, "well isn't it low carb?" Well, yes it is, but you are putting carcinogens into your body. It doesn't count!

 

Keto diet and chakra balance

Okay, before you even decide on a keto vs vegan lifestyle, I would like to reiterate the importance of incorporating chakra balance into your life. I feel that before you start any type of diet, you should always lay the groundwork for mental stability. By this I mean, get your head screwed on straight! If you don't have the right attitude or don't pay attention to your chakra centers, then it will be hard to follow any kind of diet.

Once you are done listening to this podcast, I highly recommend you refer back to my following two podcasts, which are Keto diet and chakra balance for your health and How balancing your solar plexus chakra can help with weight loss.  I would recommend that you first listen to the Keto diet and chakra balance for your health and then proceed on to the one about the solar plexus. In order to learn the most, I would listen to the whole season of podcasts regarding the Keto diet and chakra balance for your health! All of it is pertinent to your success on the keto diet!

Getting started on the keto vegan diet

Necessary tools

Ketone monitoring devices

Prior to starting your keto vegan diet, it is necessary for you to gather all of the supplies that you need. The tools that I recommend include the Keto mojo blood monitoring device and the Breathalyzer. You can also purchase

   

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