By: Charlie Dannelly Personal Trainer Recently, some of my clients have been asking about a ketogenic diet. Should they do it? Would I do It? Leave it to Hollywood to push a “medical diet” to popularity. The ketogenic diet has been used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy for nearly 100 years, mainly in children. In 1972, Dr. Atkins Branded this type of diet calling it the “Atkins diet”. Over the years, other fad diets incorporated a similar approach for weight loss. How does the ketogenic diet work for weight loss? The ketogenic diet causes the body to release ketones into the blood for energy. This happens when there is an absence of blood sugar from carbohydrates, your main source of cellular energy. When blood sugar is missing, your body starts breaking down stored fat into molecules called ketone bodies. The process is called ketosis. Once you reach ketosis, most cells will use ketone bodies to generate energy until we start eating carbohydrates again. The shift, from using
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