Nick Bare

and bodily processes to using fat stores and dietary fat as energy.

So you become more effective and efficient at utilizing fat, fat stores, dietary fat, because your body can't rely on the glucose because it's not being provided, carbohydrates.

It typically takes three to four days

to reach ketosis, which is a metabolic state, as I've said.

And you know you're in ketosis, you can do blood readings.

I've had some friends over the years who have followed the ketogenic diet and they'd have this device and they'd prick their fingers and it would take a blood reading and it would give them their ketone readings.

Like how many ketones are in their blood?

A blood ketone reading greater than 0.5 millimole per liter technically states that you are in ketosis.

0.5 millimole per liter is technically in ketosis, but anywhere from 1.5 to 3 millimoles per liter are ideal.

So, I mean, I've seen a lot of friends and watched people who follow ketogenic diets.

They're poking their finger multiple times a day to check if they are actively in ketosis, in this fat burning furnace of a metabolic state.

Again, why does the ketogenic diet work for many people?

You are eliminating an entire macronutrient for the most part.

of carbohydrates from your nutrition protocol and daily diet.

And also that protein and fats are more satiating than carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates, you get obviously this blood sugar spike, insulin responds, brings the blood sugar back down.

And when you eliminate

carbohydrates or minimize carbohydrates in your diet, you don't have these blood sugar spikes and drops, and you have a more steady state of energy throughout the day, and protein and fats are more satiating.

They keep you more full than carbohydrates can, especially simple sugary carbohydrates compared to, say, fibrous carbohydrates.

So I want to take a quick break in the middle of this episode to talk about one of the products we've created here at BPN.