Are There Any Adjustments I Should Make to the Keto Diet If I Am in Menopause?

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Are there any adjustments I should make to the Keto Diet if I'm in menopause? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity nutrition expert and fitness hall of famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Sarah from Facebook asks, are there any adjustments I should make to the Keto diet if I'm in menopause? Hey, it's JJ and I've got my longtime pal Dr. Anna Kabeca here here with me to answer this question. And she's the perfect person to do it. She's a hormone expert and the Author of Keto Green 16. She specializes in using a keto approach during menopause. Plus she's quite the tequila aficionado as well.

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If you're in menopause, you absolutely should make a few key adjustments to a standard ketogenic diet. Now remember, there's always keto dirty versus keto clean, which is keto green for women. This is especially important for hormone balance because much of our hormones are detoxified, metabolized, made in our gut, not just our hormones, but our neurotransmitters. So, so we have to support healthy gut. And what do we know that does support a good, healthy, strong, powerful gut bacteria and diversity of the gut bacteria. We know that plant based eating is really important for that. So in menopause we need to make sure we're getting a variety of the low carbohydrate, dark green leafy vegetables and cruciferous vegetables to help us balance our hormones, get more alkaline and and strengthen our immune system by empowering healthy gut diversity. Healthy gut bacterial diversity. And that is a key adjustment. Additional adjustment with the keto diet is intermittent fasting and no more snacking. A benefit of going keto green is that we become more insulin sensitive and that can happen very quickly when we adopt just these two key lifestyle habits such as intermittent fasting and no more snacking. When we do this, we're exercising our body's capability to get into ketosis on a more regular basis. And this makes a tremendous difference. Not just for fat loss, especially that fat around the middle, but for brain power, energy and all of the benefits that come along with a ketogenic based healthy diet. So that we're using these amazing ketones for fuel to power up our brain, power up our energy, power up our metabolism and get us feeling passionate and living our purposes with great joy and great passion. I write about this in my book keto green 16 the 16 day program to really push us into ketosis the healthy way, the healthiest way possible for those of us in menopause and for our families and guys too.

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