Podcast episode hosted by JJ Virgin titled "What Is a Keto Diet?" (Ask the Health Expert). The episode includes several sponsor/read segments (Earth Breeze, Wayfair, Monarch, Buffalo Trace) and a guest interview with Dr. Anna Kabeca, who defines a ketogenic diet (using ketones for fuel rather than glucose), contrasts unhealthy vs. healthy keto ('keto dirty' vs 'keto clean'/'Keto Green'), and describes a "keto green plate" (high healthy fats, quality protein, ~75% low-carbohydrate dark leafy greens) plus practical tips (chew well and limit fluids at meals to avoid diluting digestive enzymes).
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I get asked this all the time. We hear keto keto everywhere. So what exactly is a keto diet? A keto diet is one that gets you to be burning ketones for fuel or using ketones for fuel over glucose for fuel. That's the goal. But it's been associated with a higher fat, low carbohydrate diet. There are healthy ways to do keto and unhealthy ways to do keto. I like to say there's keto dirty versus keto clean, which is keto green. And I write about this in my book Keto Green 16. When we are looking at what does a healthy ketogenic diet look like, I look at our keto green plates and this would include healthy amounts of fats, nuts, oils. Think about looking at your plate. Put 75% low carbohydrate greens, dark green leafies, add in their powerful sprouts and herbs and spices, your grass fed beef burger would be in there. Hopefully you've added in some parsley, garlic, onions, herbs in there as well. Makes a tremendously tasty and nutritious burger. And it's got healthy fat in and of itself. And you can create homemade mayo or use a mayo on top of that and some spicy hot sauce that we like in the South. That would be a perfect keto green plate. Healthy fat, high quality protein and lots of dark green leafy vegetables. Now a caveat, when you're eating that plate, no more than 4 ounces of fluid, you don't want to dilute your digestive enzymes with your meals. When we chew our food, we that is the first place digestion starts. So chewing our food and not drinking, you can just imagine we eating this beautiful grass fed beef burger and we pour acid on it as our stomach's designed to do. That will help digest the beef. But you then pour 8 ounces of your favorite drink, water, beer, whatever it is, and you've dial diluted your own digestive enzymes and that is going to take longer to digest that food that you've eaten. And oftentimes food gets pushed through partially digested, which can then create havoc or small intestinal bowel overgrowth and some disruption in our gut bacteria. So get keto green, chew your food really well and don't dilute your digestive enzymes with too much drinking at your meal. Here's to getting Keto Green.
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