Speaker (Dr. Tabatha Barber) explains the premise of the ketogenic diet: when "fat adapted," the body uses fats (producing ketones) for energy instead of glucose from carbohydrates. She notes that while keto often works well for men, women experience different results because of daily hormonal cycling and varying metabolic needs.
If you're not fat adapted, if your body has gotten used to being a sugar burner, it kind of forgets how to burn fats for fuel. And that's the premise behind the ketogenic diet. So the ketogenic diet is this idea of eating high fats to burn those as your fuel source. And so you make energy from fats called ketones, as opposed to glucose from carbohydrates. And for men, this usually works great, but for women, we have hormones that are cycling and changing every day, and our needs are vastly different.
