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Don't Do Kito!
Don't Do Kito!
Video: Tom Bilyeu interviews Dr Stephen Gundry about the keto diet and the latest research on weight loss.
This is an excellent video (apart from the evolution comments which we don’t agree with). It even mentions Adventists and other blue zones health groups and exposes the truth about the ketogenic diet which is not healthy and instead shows how eating foods including carbs at the "right times of the day" makes all the difference - including how to lose unhealthy weight.
Some herbs, essential oils with polyphenols are identified as well as MCT oil which cause mitrochondrial uncoupling - a process that is necessary for weight loss.
This is an excellent video (apart from the evolution comments which we don’t agree with). It even mentions Adventists and other blue zones health groups and exposes the truth about the ketogenic diet which is not healthy and instead shows how eating foods including carbs at the "right times of the day" makes all the difference - including how to lose unhealthy weight.
Some herbs, essential oils with polyphenols are identified as well as MCT oil which cause mitrochondrial uncoupling - a process that is necessary for weight loss.
Clove, cinnamon, myrhh, frankincense, purple sweet potatoes, coconut oil, MCT oil and the weed purslaine all contain polyphenols that cause mitrochondrial uncoupling.
Alpha - lipoeic acid (ALA) is also a mitrochondrial uncoupler. It is an antioxidant that is made in the body but is also found in foods. It breaks down carbohydrates and is used by the body to make energy.
Alpha - lipoeic acid (ALA) is also a mitrochondrial uncoupler. It is an antioxidant that is made in the body but is also found in foods. It breaks down carbohydrates and is used by the body to make energy.
The microbiome also effects the body's ability to convert fat into energy.
Information can be found in the Interconnected Series by Pedram Shojai. A slide from the video serires Interconnected Episode #6 - Obesity and the MicroBiome - appears below.Check out the gut microbiome if you are struggling to lose weight or to maintain it. Information is available in the article by Alan Christianson (NMD) which can be found here:
https://naturemed.org/4-ways-to-get-firm-by-lowering-firmicutes/ or in pdf format by clicking on the button below).
Information can be found in the Interconnected Series by Pedram Shojai. A slide from the video serires Interconnected Episode #6 - Obesity and the MicroBiome - appears below.Check out the gut microbiome if you are struggling to lose weight or to maintain it. Information is available in the article by Alan Christianson (NMD) which can be found here:
https://naturemed.org/4-ways-to-get-firm-by-lowering-firmicutes/ or in pdf format by clicking on the button below).
Other excellent information on the biomicrome can be found in the Interconnected Series by Pedram Shojai. A slide from the video serires Interconnected Episode #6 - Obesity and the MicroBiome - appears below.
Taken from the Interconnected Series
(Internet video series by Pedram Shojai)
(Internet video series by Pedram Shojai)
Metabolic Syndrome - No to Keto!
Vegan Style Eating
After following the ketogenic vegan eating plan for 8 weeks, we found our blood sugar was staying elevated for up to 5 hours after meals that contained high fat - specifically unrefined coconut oil.
As Dr Stephen Gundry reveals in the video here:
https://youtu.be/9GP5MChn_tw
Keto causes insulin resistance!!!
Thankfully we also found the information on the video below by Dr Michael Greger at NutritionFacts.org and information by Dr Michael Klaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQvaT3T6Y Dr Michael Greger (oils/fats)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQvaT3T6Y4 (Dr Michael Klaper - Salt, Sugar, Fat)
Coconut oil causes insulin resistance - at 2:25 mins into the video. The study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24422427_Effects_of_Dietary_Coconut_Oil_on_the_Biochemical_and_Anthropometric_Profiles_of_Women_Presenting_Abdominal_Obesity however revealed that the test subjects' change of diet from very low fruit and vegetables prior to the trial, to one that included more fruit and vegetables, might have been responsible for changes in the insulin sensitivity. The video link is given below this text box, or click on the link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDLZspJR5k
Eat ground chia seeds which are high in ALA (alpha-lipoic acid) which has been shown to help reduce tummy fat. ALA is a mitochonria uncoupler too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jwr2f4D4Yc
As Dr Stephen Gundry reveals in the video here:
https://youtu.be/9GP5MChn_tw
Keto causes insulin resistance!!!
Thankfully we also found the information on the video below by Dr Michael Greger at NutritionFacts.org and information by Dr Michael Klaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQvaT3T6Y Dr Michael Greger (oils/fats)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQvaT3T6Y4 (Dr Michael Klaper - Salt, Sugar, Fat)
Coconut oil causes insulin resistance - at 2:25 mins into the video. The study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24422427_Effects_of_Dietary_Coconut_Oil_on_the_Biochemical_and_Anthropometric_Profiles_of_Women_Presenting_Abdominal_Obesity however revealed that the test subjects' change of diet from very low fruit and vegetables prior to the trial, to one that included more fruit and vegetables, might have been responsible for changes in the insulin sensitivity. The video link is given below this text box, or click on the link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDLZspJR5k
Eat ground chia seeds which are high in ALA (alpha-lipoic acid) which has been shown to help reduce tummy fat. ALA is a mitochonria uncoupler too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jwr2f4D4Yc
Read the scientific article above about fats and losing weight. Incorporation of ALA-DAG in a regular diet for 12 weeks may lead to a reduction in VFA, BMI, and serum TAG in men and women with overweight.
VEGAN, ALL RAW EATING PROGRAMME
We used our vegan, all raw eating programme to help reduce our inflammation, improve our heart health, oesteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, migraines, food intolerances, energy production, fatty liver, gallstones, insomnia, pre-diabetes and weight control.
Why We Eat Vegan, All Raw
We were sick! But we had what we thought was a good diet. Lots of fresh fruit and veggies, grains, legumes, nuts. Good cold-pressed coconut oil and virgin, first press, cold press olive oil. No processed foods, no junk food, no additives. But we were still suffering from migraines, arthritis, no energy, hormone imbalances, foggy thinking, insomnia, urination multiple times in the middle of the night, severe oesteoporosis, heart palpatations, dizziness, loss of balance, backache, neckache, inflammation, bowel issues, digestion issues, hot flushes and the list went on and on. Clearly we needed to make some changes, but what else could we do? Go all raw food?
So we went all raw - increasing our sweet fruit intake, but the results were not all good. We didn't know about the dangers of eating processed, extracted, organic coconut oil. A diet that is high in processed, extracted free fat is dangerous! Coconut oil is a saturated fat - 85% saturated fat - and it causes insulin resistance - the very thing we were trying to remedy by going onto a low carbohydrate, higher fat, medium protein ketogenic-like vegan diet! Even olive oil is 18% saturated fat and in its free form, it appears to have the same effect of causing insulin resistance. We didn't know that carbohydrates were not our enemy! Thanks to the medical studies presented by Dr Michael Greger and Dr Michael Klaper, we found out a more natural, and safer way to eat.
So now we have made some adaptions - again.
Getting our health back required a lot of research and effort. We liked fruit a lot and bought mangoes by the half tonne at a time. We grew a lot of our own pawpaws, bananas and passionfruit. We were almost fruitarians, but we used 'natural' oils that we thought were healthy for us and which we thought supplied us with the fat necessary to produce cholesterol, Vit D and hormones.
What We THOUGHT was Happening - But Wasn't True!
We were misled by the ketogenic 'experts' and we erroneously believed that eating large amounts of sweet fruit raised our blood sugar (glucose) very quickly and that caused insulin resistance, which caused inflammation and malnutrition as the nutrients could not get into the cells. It is true that insulin is a hormone that is needed to take the nutrients into the cells, but we thought our cells were insulin resistant due to our blood containing too much glucose. We were told that too much glucose is toxic to the cells, so the cells refuse to open to admit the insulin. This is simply not true. We were pre-diabetic and didn't even know it - and most people don't know that they are doing exactly the same thing to their bodies, but it was not caused by carbohydrates or simple sugars. Our insulin resistance was caused by free fatty acids - oils/fats - clogging up the insulin receptors. The insulin was unable then to enter the cells and the glucose built up in the blood stream. It was not the glucose at fault, nor the insulin, but it was the high levels of fat in the bloodstream that caused the high blood sugar levels. It is not the fat that is bound to fibre in the foods that is the problem. Those natural fats are only able to be extracted very slowly in the digestive process and they don't cause insulin resistance. It is the extracted, processed oils/fats that hit the digestive system in tsunami amounts that cause insulin resistance. It does not matter if the oil is raw, unprocessed, unrefined, virgin, 1st press, cold-pressed, or if the source is from animals, vegetables or from our own human fat being broken down into our bloodstream when we are losing weight - free oils cause insulin resistance and inflammation and heart/blood vessel disease.
People don't have to eat junk food in order to get diabetes or the multitude of other health disorders that start out as being barely noticeable symptoms, but advance to being life-threatening diseases. We didn't want to wait until we had a life-threatening disease before we changed our eating habits.
Sacificing eating sweet fruits is not necessary.
To Lose Weight
It is vital that those who want to lose weight realise that they need to avoid eating carbohydrate foods within 6 hours of ingesting foods containing high levels of oils. No pasta and oilives (carbohydrate/sugar and fat). No ice-cream (cream/fat and sugar). Due to how the body must deal with its oxidative processes, glucose must be digested before fat. This means that fat is left in the bloodstream for longer which causes the insulin resistance. Dr Michael Klaper explains this process in more depth in his Youtube video which can be viewed below or follow this link www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQvaT3T6Y4
So salad can be eaten with avocado and nuts. Sweet fruits can be eaten alone.
Sacrificing eating processed and refined foods and extracted fats are necessary for health. Sacrificing eating junk food won't seem as traumatic as receiving a cancer diagnosis and treatment or suffering from the crippling effects of arthritis and migraines etc.
We found that high glycemic fruit can be eaten with some blueberries, blackberries, strawberries or raspberries so the glucose goes more slowly into the blood stream to prevent the spiking of glucose and thus also of insulin rising too quickly, but this is not such an issue when oil is not eaten within 6 hours of eating the fruit.
A lot of our protein is in the form of raw hempseed hearts and a small amount of soaked and dehydrated tree nuts. We use a lot of sprouts and these are eaten raw. Mung bean sprouts are one of our favourites.
We are grain-free also and 100% raw food people. We used to eat coconut oil and olive oil for our fat intake, but now we only eat oils/fats as they are in already existing buried in the fibre of the olives, avocado, nuts and seeds.
If we eat extracted fat or free oils, and it causes insulin resistance, we'll feel:
- Tired and in need of a rest/sleep after our meal
- Hungry soon after our meal
- Carbohydrate cravings
- Short of breath without exertion
More about our vegan & raw diet will be posted here in the near future. In the meantime, if you are interested in seeing some of our recipes that we use on our natural, vegan, all raw eating diet, please visit our recipe page.
Time Restricted Feeding
We also practice Time Restricted Feeding - (sometimes called intermittent fasting)
We fast for 16 hours and eat during a 6 hour window. We eat breakfast around 8- 10 am and then have lunch 2 pm).
NOTE:
All our recipes that use coconut oil are now going to be revised as we can no longer recommend eating extracted oils due to the deleterious effect on our bodies from insulin resistance.
Those recipes that need to be adjusted or eliminated are:
Carob Crumbles
Carobolates
Click the button below to view the vegan keto food chart that we use to help plan our meals. It shows our most popular foods and their carbohydrate contents. If you can't open the chart, you can refer to the chart at the end of this page.
Trevor Justice wrote the following article here
http://www.veghealth.com/what-do-healthy-vegetarians-eat-meal-plans.php
" In The Vegetarian Mastery Program, Dr. Michael Klaper explains that when you bake, fry, or roast any starchy food — whether potatoes, bread, French fries, crackers, cereals, or cookies — you will inevitably create acrylamides.
Acrylamides are nasty chemicals, known to damage chromosomes, increase oxidative damage in tissues[1], injure nerve cells,[2] and be a low-grade carcinogen.[3]
As food browns during frying or baking, you are watching acrylamides being produced. Heavily overcooking foods produces large amounts of acrylamide, as does microwaving.[4]
That’s why Dr. Klaper recommends steaming or boiling starchy foods, rather than baking or frying them." (end of quote from article)
http://www.veghealth.com/what-do-healthy-vegetarians-eat-meal-plans.php
" In The Vegetarian Mastery Program, Dr. Michael Klaper explains that when you bake, fry, or roast any starchy food — whether potatoes, bread, French fries, crackers, cereals, or cookies — you will inevitably create acrylamides.
Acrylamides are nasty chemicals, known to damage chromosomes, increase oxidative damage in tissues[1], injure nerve cells,[2] and be a low-grade carcinogen.[3]
As food browns during frying or baking, you are watching acrylamides being produced. Heavily overcooking foods produces large amounts of acrylamide, as does microwaving.[4]
That’s why Dr. Klaper recommends steaming or boiling starchy foods, rather than baking or frying them." (end of quote from article)
Vegan Food Chart
The following list shows the carbohydrates in grams. Those who advocate eating a keto diet would advise that you eliminate or severely restrict high carbohydrate foods from the diet. Look at the wonderful, natural foods - with all the necessary nutrition - that a keto dieter would be missing out on.
All food measurements are raw and unprocessed, unsweetened
Fruit (per 100g weight) (grams of carbohydrates)
Raspberries (frozen or fresh) 7.3
Strawberries (frozen, fresh) 7.68
Coconut, raw fresh 7 (different amounts given)
Avocados 7.82 -8.64 (depends on variety)
Dragonfruit 9
Lemon 9.32
Pawpaw/Papaya 9.81
Limes 10.5
Blueberries (frozen or fresh) 14.49
Blackberries (frozen or fresh) 14.49
Mango 16.93
Banana 22.84
Passionfruit 23.38 (one passionfruit is 4.21g)
Vegetables (per 100g weight)
Carrot, raw 9.58
Beetroot, raw 9.56
Lettuce leaves -
Salad leaves -
Cucumber 4
Fats (per 100g weight)
Avocados 7.82 -8.64 (depends on variety)
Coconut oil 0
Olive oil 0
Nuts & Seeds (per 100g weight)
Pecans 4.26
Brazil 4.24
Macadamia 5.22
Walnut 6.7
Chia 7.72
Coconut (dried) 7.35
Almonds 9.05
Sunflower seeds 11.4
Sesame seeds 11.65
Hempseed hearts 14
Coconut raw 15.23
Pumpkin seeds 35.35 (NO!!!)
Super Food Supps (per 100g weight)
Moringa 38.2
Spirulina 24
All food measurements are raw and unprocessed, unsweetened
Fruit (per 100g weight) (grams of carbohydrates)
Raspberries (frozen or fresh) 7.3
Strawberries (frozen, fresh) 7.68
Coconut, raw fresh 7 (different amounts given)
Avocados 7.82 -8.64 (depends on variety)
Dragonfruit 9
Lemon 9.32
Pawpaw/Papaya 9.81
Limes 10.5
Blueberries (frozen or fresh) 14.49
Blackberries (frozen or fresh) 14.49
Mango 16.93
Banana 22.84
Passionfruit 23.38 (one passionfruit is 4.21g)
Vegetables (per 100g weight)
Carrot, raw 9.58
Beetroot, raw 9.56
Lettuce leaves -
Salad leaves -
Cucumber 4
Fats (per 100g weight)
Avocados 7.82 -8.64 (depends on variety)
Coconut oil 0
Olive oil 0
Nuts & Seeds (per 100g weight)
Pecans 4.26
Brazil 4.24
Macadamia 5.22
Walnut 6.7
Chia 7.72
Coconut (dried) 7.35
Almonds 9.05
Sunflower seeds 11.4
Sesame seeds 11.65
Hempseed hearts 14
Coconut raw 15.23
Pumpkin seeds 35.35 (NO!!!)
Super Food Supps (per 100g weight)
Moringa 38.2
Spirulina 24
MTHFR Experts video link (zoom)
https://zoom.us/recording/play/XQCweFNY2HOlUGJDzoyKTTGv4_q0QE6NGOXDUuBDD2pWvnhlBeYz3ih0GURJTD77?continueMode=true