June 29, 2019

Is Keto Right for You?

A friend of mine has been doing the Keto diet for nearly two years now.  She swears by it and tells everyone she knows to get on it.  But, as much as she’s excited about it, she’s also admittedly worried she’s now losing too much weight.  She’s one of the people that I’d be worried about because of possible long-term effects.

Not All Bodies Are the Same

From fitness expert to stay-at-home mom, too many lay people play doctor with their own bodies and others’.  Do this diet, do that diet,  jumping from one fad to another, as if drinking pineapple juice for two weeks or eating grapefruit only or raw meat is really the solution to everything and everyone.  But, we must remember, we are not all the same.  We have different genetic makeup, different bodies, different heritages, food sources, daily routines, and different metabolisms.  We cannot all eat the same!  No two bodies are exactly alike.

Ketogenic Diet, The Problem

In the Ketogenic Diet, aka Keto, the liver produces “ketones”, a small molecule which gets used by the body as a fuel source when blood sugar (glucose) is of short supply.  If you moderate your meat, restrict your carbs and eat larger amounts of good fats, your liver will produce these ketones from fat and your body switches to fat as its fuel supply. 

Here’s the problem.  On Keto, one person out of three might be very happy, thriving, in fact, their body responding exactly the way it should, they are ecstatic with their weight loss, they have energy and health, the second person will have no change and feel nothing, the third person will get sick, because their body cannot tolerate or adapt.

A Solution: Metabolic Typing is Personalized to You

Metabolic Typing Diet is a lifestyle, not a diet or fad.  In Metabolic Typing (MT), your doctor or dietician tests your metabolism and finds the correct foods for you and your metabolism type, whereas diets like Keto, South Beach, Mediterranean, Vegan, are very generic.  But it goes even a broad jump further, MT is detailed and in depth and tells you exactly what the wrong and right foods for you are, down to whether you should be eating broccoli or cauliflower.  In MT, it’s how the body handles the food, not how the food handles the body.  The major plus point of the Metabolic Typing diet is you can establish your metabolic type then tailor your diet (whether it’s Keto, Autoimmune Protocol, Paleo, etc) to your metabolic type.  So, yes, you can be vegan and do it with Metabolic Typing.  Once again, it’s how the body handles the food, not how the food handles the body.

For example, a Metabolic Type which mostly thrives on vegetables will feel sick on a meat diet and conversely, a metabolic type that thrives on red meat will feel sick on a vegan diet, and a mixed-type will thrive on a both.   The fundamental of metabolic typing is how their body handles the food.

by bodycontourz