Health Benefits Of Keto Diet

Medical science is progressing day by day but obesity is still a major health concern globally. Continue reading to know the health benefits of keto diet and keto diet rules. Obesity serves as a growth medium for several chronic diseases like Diabetes, Hypertension, Stroke, Heart attack and many more.

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A properly planned diet can help in dealing with this global health issue. Ketogenic diet has proved to be effective for rapid weight loss in several studies.

Health Benefits Of Keto diet In People With Following Conditions:

• Obesity
• Epilepsy
• High Cholesterol
• Type 2 Diabetes
• High Blood Pressure
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• High Blood Sugar
• Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
• Migraines

The Keto Diet Can Help Reduce The Severity of These Conditions:

• Type 1 Diabetes
• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Parkinson’s Disease/Alzheimer’s Disease

Even healthy individuals can enjoy the general benefits of keto diet. Here’s is the list of four primary benefits of keto diet for all.

1. Helps In Rejuvenation

Ketogenic diet helps in rejuvenation by reducing oxidative processes that causes oxidative injury to the body. This keeps the level of inflammation towards the lower side. People who suffer from chronic pain can have a pleasant feeling due to reduced inflammation levels.

2. Improves Stamina and Energy

Research have shown that, the individuals who are on strict keto diet has improved mitochondrial function. This translates into lesser oxidative injuries.

Improved mitochondrial function equates to more energy for your cells. In others words, this low carbs, high fat diet allows you to get the most out of your cells. This helps you get the most out of life.

3. Improve Mental Stamina and Performance

Ketones as an energy source are more efficient than glucose. Ketogenic diet triggers health promoting neurotropic factors which helps in improving the efficiency of neurons and signal conduction.

Ketogenic diet helps neurons to balance the neurotransmitters called glutamate and GABA (gamma-Aminobutyric acid). Glutamate is the primary excitation neurotransmitter (promotes stimulation) in the body and GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter (reduces stimulation) in the body.

Thought fogging and delayed responses can be caused by having too much glutamate and very little GABA. This will happen if your brain has to use glutamate and glutamic acid for fuel, which leaves little left over to be processed into GABA. While on ketogenic diet, brain has another form of energy to utilize as fuel. So your brain will be able to balance out the neurotransmitter production.

This balanced out GABA is also helpful in stress and anxiety relief.

4. Rectify Overall Body Composition

Several studies conducted have showed calorie restriction to be inferior to the ketogenic diet when goal is to achieve weight loss. In a small study involving 132 individuals split into two groups: a low-carbohydrate diet (30 grams or less of carbohydrates a day) group and other a calorie-restricted, low-fat diet group.

At the end of six months, the researchers concluded that severely obese individuals with a high prevalence of diabetes and the metabolic syndrome lost more weight in six months on a carbohydrate restricted diet than on a fat and calorie restricted diet.

So, keto diet is wonderful for people who want to lose fat, but what about people who want to gain muscle mass?

Ketogenic diet is a perfect diet plan for increasing muscles mass. This is because you will be consuming much more protein than many other diets.

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In Nutshell

The ketogenic diet has unique effects on the body up to cellular levels. This diet provide benefits that reach beyond what any other diet can accomplish.

The combination of carbohydrate restriction and ketones generation reduces insulin levels, triggers cellular clean up, increases mitochondrial efficiency, reduces oxidative injury and there by inflammation, and burns fat.

This broad range of effects provides a cluster of benefits to different people with a variety of goals and health issues.

In the next blog we will be discussing the benefits of ketogenic diet in specific disease groups like diabetes, epilepsy, cancer and so on.

Thanks For Reading!!!

Some Must Reads:

1. Ketogenic Diet: An Introduction
2. Ketogenic Diet Chart: What To Eat And What Not To Eat
3. 10 Secrets To Healthy Weight Loss
4. How to Use Green Tea For Weight Loss