there are nine very clear signs that will tell you if you're in ketosis or not now being in ketosis is very very important not just to lose weight but to get rid of a lot of health problems diseases inflammatory conditions that someone has and the problem with testing yourself for ketones to see if you're in ketosis or not is when you're doing a urine test for example or a breath analyzer test they're not very accurate well maybe at first they might be a good thing but as soon as you start to burn ketones more efficiently
those extra wasted ketones are not going to show up in your urine they're not going to show up in your breath but those values could be zero so those tests are are not very accurate now blood test is pretty accurate but you know it's expensive you have to stick yourself there's a little pain involved but I'm going to show you nine different signs or Clues to tell you if you're in ketosis or not now number one relates a bit more to transitioning into ketosis usually it takes about two to three days depending on how low
your carbs are and there's usually three uh symptoms that a lot of people have if they don't do either the B vitamin supplements or electrolytes and sea salt because all three of these transitional signs or symptoms can be related to something missing in the diet because when you do keto you need more B vitamins and a lot of times you need more electrolytes and that would be number one keto flu number two keto fatigue and number three keto rash now if you're doing the healthy version of the ketogenic diet and you're really making sure that
your foods are nutrient dense and higher quality the chances of you getting these symptoms are much less versus someone doing the dirty version of Keto which is basically you're just doing low carb and you're not paying attention to the quality of foods and another side note on that if you get diarrhea for example um that usually is related to consuming a lot more vegetables because I recommend that you do include a good amount of greens or Salad on this program to get certain minerals and certain vitamins but some people are just not used to consuming
like seven cups or ten cups of salad per day and so because they don't have the microbes to break all that fiber down they might get diarrhea on the flip side people that have keto breath that's usually related because they're not consuming enough greens to kind of counter some of the the ketones that you're breathing out but let's go to number two this is a big one this is called weight loss okay you're going to lose weight initially you may lose a lot of weight like 7 to 14 pounds in the first one to two
weeks now why do you lose so much weight initially because simply the first part of this weight loss is going to be water weight loss when your body has been consuming a lot of carbs with that stored glucose you also store a lot of water so for every gram of glucose that you store your body stores 3 grams of water so it's like three times as much water so people that do a high carb diet are literally they're just filled with water when you start getting them off carbs they dump and get rid of a
lot of water weight so the first week or even week and a half they might lose a ton of weight and then it comes down to like one to two pounds loss and they're usually depressed at that time because they think wow it's not working anymore so maybe I should go into another diet when in fact it was working they just didn't realize it was water weight you have to realize that the most fat you could possibly burn per week is about two pounds and that's with a healthy body now that's not including a lot
of fasting that's just going on this Keto Plan because if you start adding more fasting and like you're fasting for some days and then the weight loss goes up to three four five or even a little bit more weight of actual fat loss per week but when you start losing weight especially after the second week when all the water is gone then you can kind of know that you're burning fat and the way it's coming off all right number three this is a good one your clothes are looser around your midsection this is a really
good indication that you're in ketosis and it's working because the first thing that's going to happen is your liver is going to start dumping fat and when you start getting rid of the fatty liver you also start losing weight around your organs and that's called visceral fat and that's in your midsection so as your midsection shrinks it's a really good indication that it is working which is way more important than losing weight because of this what you're fixing when you're doing the ketogenic diet is insulin resistance and the insulin receptor is becoming more receptive and
it's working in one of the functions of insulin is to help you absorb nutrients especially amino acids so you're healing the body with more proteins especially if you're menopausal you have atrophy that's a good thing so you're getting more protein and that's a bit heavier per weight if you compare that to actual fat per weight so it's all about getting healthy to lose weight not lose weight to get healthy and part of getting healthy is to be able to absorb these nutrients and allow these proteins to get in your body when a lot of people
start out they have insulin resistance and they're usually deficient in amino acids because they can't pull it in so they have a hard time absorbing protein all right that was number three number four energy increase why because ketones come from fat dietary fat and your body fat and if we take a look at the two fuel sources we have fat in glucose we look at the calories in fat per gram compared to the calories in carbs per gram fat is nine carbs are four that's less than half of the calories so there's more than twice
as much energy in fat than glucose and when you go into ketosis you're tapping into all this store fat your potential energy so you get to have that back and use that to actually get things done versus when you're not in ketosis you're running on glucose and you're dependent on the next meal that you eat because you're eating so darn frequently and the burning of fat and ketones are much more efficient and cleaner fuel number five is your cognitive function increases that's memory focus and attention that that's because ketones fix your brain they fix the
nerve cell if you have damage in your neurons from too much sugar okay because that basically damages the mechanism and it kind of starves out the neurons and this is why diabetics have a greater incidence of dementia and problems with a cognitive function because of the destruction in the brain but when you're in ketosis these ketones feed the brain cells directly they bypass this damage and finally your brain cells get fuel and your cognitive function increases like when I am fasting in the morning I'm really in the hardcore ketosis and I do these videos I
have much less editing they just like I can just go right through it very fast versus if I eat and try to do a video takes a lot more editing all right number six ketones will help with inflammation and pain why because ketones are anti-inflammatory mole molecules if you have any type of inflammatory condition whether it's an autoimmune problem or arthritis and you go on the ketogenic diet you're going to feel a lot less inflammation and that's a really good clue to tell if you're in ketosis or not all right number seven when you eat
food you are going to feel more satisfied okay and this relates to another thing I talked about when you have insulin resistance you can't absorb as much nutrition because insulin is not working to help transport those nutrients into the cell so when the cell becomes more sensitive to insulin you are now going to absorb more nutrients and you're going to feel more satisfied when you eat whereas before you're eating eating eating and it's everything is just not filling you up and or satisfying you now it could be the type of food that you're eating is
is not nutrient dense but there's also the factor of your body absorbing the nutrients all right number eight better mood if you were depressed before if you had anxiety you're going to find that you're just happier you're just going to feel better it's going to uplift your mood why because there's this thing called brain insulin resistance okay and you're fixing insulin resistance in the brain and the Brain the neurons are getting more fuel and that greatly helps the neurotransmitters it helps your hormones it helps your mood I mean there are 15 studies okay that I
looked at that all associate your mood changing when you're on the ketogenic diet but the results are kind of mixed but I'll tell you why there mixed okay because some of the studies are on mice and how do you really know if that mice had a shift in mood I mean it's it's kind of difficult you can't really compare a mouse that's in depression with a human that's in depression I think that's a real difficult one so just because something is high fat doesn't mean it's ketogenic diet and in some of these studies they're using
it just a high fat diet but the carbs are really high like 30 of the calories are carbs when it should be like five percent of the calories other studies they just use ketones they don't actually put the person on the ketogenic diet and then they say oh yeah see ketogenic diet doesn't work for for uplifting your mood because we use ketones well taking ketones is different than doing the ketogenic diet all right number nine and this is the best indicator to know that you're in ketosis out of all of these and that is no
appetite you lose your appetite okay you can go for a longer period of time without being hungry why because your body is finally eating fat when you're not eating because when you're going between meals you're no longer are dependent on the carbs your body can actually eat the fat on your actual body which is a New Concept for a lot of people that are dieting and not having an appetite makes it really easy to stick to long term all right so now that you have that information the next best thing to know is what is
the best version of a ketogenic diet to start and how do you do it and for that I put up this video right here
