Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: Long timer reporting in.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Re: [fast5] Re: Long timer reporting in.

My understanding is that ketones get produced when there is not enough glucose to keep the brain happy. Your brain can run off ketones when it doesn't have enough glucose.

Now, you don't have enough glucose if you don't eat carbs, is the usual case. Which was the rationale behind the Atkins diet. However, long-time low-carb eaters ... like bobcats and tigers, or old-time Inuit ... eventually adapt and their bodies learn to produce glucose from protein. Long-time American low-carbers may adapt too.

On fast-5 ... it may be that if in your window you eat mainly low-carb, and use up all your glycogen stores during the next 20 hours, your body could go into ketogenic mode. Depends how much glycogen you have stored, how much you exercise, and how much you have eaten.

Mostly though, esp. once your body adapts to this way of eating ... probably not. Your body resists running on ketones ... it's not the preferred mode. You'll eat "just enough" to make it to the next eating period, most likely. From what people have said here, it seems many of them WERE on Atkins at one point, and would know ketosis if they were in it, but I haven't heard them mention that as a side-effect (nor the bad breath that often comes from low-calorie diets).

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Kim Finley <bkimberli@cox.net> wrote:

I am exploring IF and have a question while I was reading through the ebook yesterday. I read a lot about the "ketones" in the body and I recall hearing about that a lot while the Atkins diet was big...and how that was not healthy and I wondered if the IF does the same thing as the Atkins did with the ketones thing? Does anyone know?

Thanks for any information!

Kim