The Ultimate fat-Burning Secret is: How the Keto Diet Resets Your Metabolism

 

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For a lot of folks, pursuing the ideal body is a painfully frustrating struggle against the forces of their own metabolism. You reduce the calories, exercise more, and still that pesky fat is not budging an inch from your body. You’ve been misled to believe that to lose weight, all you need to do is burn more calories than you consume yet this simplistic advice leaves many of those desperate to lose weight with results that are rarely sustainable. What if the true secret has nothing to do with counting calories, but everything to do with changing how your body uses energy?

The ketogenic diet is not a fad diet. It’s an incredible metabolic reset and a catalyst that turns your body from a sugar-burning organism to the highest quality fat-burning machine you could ever dream of. When you switch to fat adaptation, you free up your body’s secreted fat stores and can achieve long-lasting and deep-seated fat loss.

 

The Ideal Metabolism: A Sugar-Burner

To get why keto is powerful, you need to why a high-carb metabolism (above) doesn’t work. When you consume carb-rich foods — like bread, pasta, and sugar — your body turns them into glucose. This glucose is your body’s favorite (and most readily available) fuel.

When glucose gets into your bloodstream, your pancreas releases a hormone called insulin, and its job is to push that glucose into your cells for immediate energy. Any leftover glucose that doesn’t get used immediately is stored in your muscles and liver as glycogen. When those glycogen reserves are full, the excess is turned into body fat.

The problem with the system is two-fold. First, regular spikes of insulin can cause insulin resistance, a condition in which your cells are less responsive to the hormone. And that makes it difficult for your body to deal with carbs — sugar in the blood can sky-rocket, resulting in more fat storage. Second, as long as there is a steady supply of glucose, your body will burn that for fuel. It thus reserves your body fat. Literally locks away your stored bodyfat in a safe as a backup energy source. Your body is a sugar burning engine that never needs to touch its spare fuel tank.

 

The Metabolic Reset – Accessing the Fat Stores

The keto diet is the granddaddy of breaking this whole system. By reducing your carb and overall calorie intake down to very low levels, usually between 20-50 grams per day (yes, per day), you set into action 3 things that lead to an incredibly potent metabolic shift:

1. You deplete glycogen stores. With no fresh carbs coming in, your body rapidly burns through its saved glucose. This is a process that occurs over 2-4 days depending on how active you are.
2. You get the production of ketones going. Your body needs a new source of fuel after running out of glucose. Your liver gets involved, too, and starts to metabolize fatty acids into ketone bodies, including beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB).
3. You enter a state of ketosis. This is the metabolic state in which your body and brain are no longer gluttons for glucose from carbohydrate, but rather are now minimalists and have become machines that run well on ketones from rated fat.

This is the metabolic reset. Your body has converted from being a sugar-burning engine to an incredibly efficient, fat-burning one. You are no longer running on a hidden reserve — your body fat — you are actually running off it.

 

Hormones and Appetite: The Physiology behind the Changes

And the advantaged of such metabolic adaptation isn’t just theoretical, it’s powered by unfathomably huge hormonal changes that help initiate fat loss like never before.

• Insulin Levels Drop Dramatically. Because there are so few carbs, your body is forced to create very little insulin. Reducing insulin levels is vital because insulin is a storage hormone. With low, steady insulin, you send the signal to your body that it’s time for it to release fat from its storage cells to be burned for energy.
• Appetite is Naturally Suppressed. Ketones are themselves a natural appetite suppressant. And a ketogenic diet is inherently high in protein and fat, the most filling macronutrients. This powerful combination helps you feel full and satisfied for longer as you crush those constant hunger pangs and appetite cravings destroying most diets.

That means you’re not playing tug of war with your own body. Your hormones and your appetite are finally working for you and not against you.

 

The Long-Term Fat-Burning Advantage

After a few weeks, when you’re fat-adapted, your biochemical machinery operates not as though it were a hybrid, but as if it were a full-time fat-burning furnace, the kind that you’d find in the basement of a hippie commie socialist, for example. The fat you’re burning during a workout isn’t just coming off then, but all day, 24/7—even while you’re sleeping. This is also why so many who do keto find themselves feeling like they have sustained energy and it is easy for them to stay at their goal weight once they get there.

Unlike calorie-restricted approaches that may slow your metabolism, the keto diet gives it ammunition. It helps your body learn to access and use its most abundant fuel source: fat.

The ketogenic diet is more than just a fad diet for quick weight loss. It is a basic change in how your body functions. Get carbs out of your diet to reduce insulin, and you’ll unlock your body’s stored fat., The effect of cutting carbs can be seen in the steps of the Four-Hour Body: Insulin is the one of the reasons you will turn your body into a toned, lean, and mean fat-burning machine. It’s the one big secret to a healthier, more efficient metabolism and a body that cooperates with you rather than conspires against you.