In this week's podcast, we discuss how the ketogenic diet can help cure gout. Gout is a build up of uric acid in the blood. Once uric acid gets too a high enough point in the blood, it precipitates out into the soft tissues throughout our body, usually in the…
In this week's podcast, we discuss how the ketogenic diet can improve heart health. The current heart healthy diet promoted by the American Heart Association is a low fat, high carb diet. This diet couldn't be farther from "heart healthy" if it tried. A truly heart healthy diet provides adequate…
In this week's podcast, we continue our conversation on diabetes and how a low carb diet can help put diabetes in remission. I first wanted to clarify the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. A type 1 diabetic no longer produces insulin but a type 2 diabetic continues to…
In this week's podcast, we discuss how the ketogenic diet can reverse diabetes. Despite what traditional medical professionals tell you, diabetes doesn't have to be a chronic lifelong condition. It can be reversed. Low carb intervention can reverse diabetes because at its core, diabetes is a disease of too much fat…
In this week's podcast, we continue our conversation on therapeutic aspects of the ketogenic diet. More specifically, how the ketogenic diet affects the NADH/NAD ratio. What's that you might ask?Well, NAD stands for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. It's a cofactor found in every cell in our body and is a pivotal player…
In this week's podcast, we discuss the problems with relying on carbs as your primary fuel source. Compared to fat, carbs are simply too dirty as a fuel source to rely on every day. Topic of the podcast starts at the 7-minute mark.Carbohydrates have to first be pre-processed in the…
In this week's podcast, we discuss how to do the keto diet properly. There's a lot of misinformation on the internet about the ketogenic diet, including promoting various highly processed foods as keto-approved. That's what prompted us to do this episode. The foundation of a properly formulated ketogenic diet is a…
In this week's podcast, we discuss how the keto diet affects the performance of athletes.It is stated often that you need carbohydrates to perform optimally in competition, that you need carbs to perform explosive style movements. This isn't inherently wrong, however, what is wrong is the idea that you need to…
In this week's podcast, we discuss the many different ways you can do the keto diet wrong. The topic of the podcast starts at the 15-minute mark. The keto diet revolves around keeping your dietary carbohydrates low, preferably to 30 grams or less everyday. This allows your body to tap into…
In this week's podcast, we discuss the keto diet in detail. We first start with a discussion on what the biochemistry of ketosis really is. We then finish with a discussion of some of the reasons your cholesterol, specifically LDL, can increase on a ketogenic diet and why that's a good…