Why Most people are doing Keto wrong?

The ketogenic diet, when it is properly formulated, can (and should) be sustained over the long term.

In order to do that, you need to be consuming foods that feed the microbiome (the billions of bacteria that live in your gut), that are inherently healthy for you, and are anti — inflammatory.
The keto diet, when properly formulated, fulfills all these requirements, but there are common pitfalls most people fall into.
The reason why most people fail at keto in the long term is due to the fact that HOW and WHAT they are eating cannot be sustained very long.

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Dirty Keto Vs Clean Keto

“The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.” — Joel Fuhrman
Most people, when they first start eating keto, use an approach I call ‘dirty’ keto.

A properly formulated ketogenic diet should have high fat, moderate amount of protein and low carbohydrate intake.

Most people “get” this intellectually, but the practical application of it oft falls short.

This is why many people will start off getting their macros on target, but after 2 or 3 weeks are absolutely starving, no matter how much fat they eat.

There are many reasons why this happens, and one of the most common reasons is that your microbiome is starving, and it will direct all your attention to lusting after pizza, or burgers, or both.
Enter the binge. The carb coma. The falling off the wagon. And the feeling of failure once again.

This is how most of the weight loss industry works.

Dirty keto is no exception.

The weight loss industry is rigged to keep you on the yo-yo routine so that you’re constantly buying more ‘stuff’ and feeling like you’re not good enough.
You might get a quick win, but the weight always comes back, because you have not been taught the skills to keep it going on your own.
Have you ever thought “I’m not good enough?”

Have you ever worried that there will never be an “after” photo?
That someone having a body you are proud of is not in cards for you?
I work from a different vantage point.

I always start with the premise that your body WANTS to be healthy, no matter what label you have been given.
Essentially, dirty keto, is what is commonly available in the market right now.

What to eat and avoid



It is when people will eliminate all carbs from their diet, including vegetables, and then proceed to eat equally nutritiously devoid toxic garbage.

I may be breaking some hearts here, but you can’t just eat bacon, lard, and greasy burgers forever.

Dirty keto is a substitution of one bad habit for another.
Sure, getting rid of processed carbohydrates is awesome, but substituting it ONLY for bacon, butter and burgers is not.
Reducing your carbohydrate load has a direct impact on mortality … but are you really going to eat bacon fat fudge as a snack forever?
What are we, 6 years old with no executive brain function? How is this a reasonable long term solution, or considered healthy by any means??
Like I said…play the long game. Bacon fudge, butter, and lard all day err day is not taking into consideration longevity or vitality.

Yes macros are important, but so are micronutrients — the minerals and vitamins derived from plants and other living things.

On a cellular level, eating a properly formulated, clean ketogenic diet will support enhanced mitochondrial function, reduce ROS that cause oxidative damage, prevent cellular senescence, and increase the production of butyrate, B-hydroxybutyrate.

It amplifies autophagy, prevents cellular aging and precancerous pathways like mTOR.

Now, if you are a meat eater, I’m not saying you can never eat bacon.
Of course you can.
And I’m not AGAINST bacon and butter — I love them both.
But I am always going to look at things from both a practical perspective, and from a longevity and vitality lens.
Bacon all day every day (which is what a lot of keto “experts” will recommend) is not a long term solution for optimal health and vitality.
A properly formulated ketogenic diet is primarily plant based.
Meaning we are eating a large amount of vegetables (like green leafy ones with a high fiber content), and then layering appropriate fat and protein on top of that.

What’s nice about a “clean” ketogenic diet is that vegetarians can also be successful in becoming fat-adapted, and also profit from the benefits from a fasting-mimicking diet.

When you layer fasting along with a fasting-mimicking diet — you’ve hit the jackpot.

When we think about playing the long game with your health, we should always be asking the following questions:

What are the things I can eat that are anti — inflammatory?

What are foods I can create that will nourish and feed my cells?

What will help with regular and consistent elimination?

What will make me feel good and stabilize my mood, increase my energy, focus, and clarity?

How can I keep my brain happy and healthy?

The answer my friends, are your vegetables and your fats. Just like mom used to tell you.

I realize, as someone who spends most of her time educating people about brain health and optimization, that the brain is often forgotten.
We cannot see the brain, and changes in function are often not noticed because they are so subtle, and because the way the brain is is the way we are.

It is immensely difficult to detect changes unless they are severe.
It is hard to detect changes in your brain, because you ARE your brain.
We need to be thinking about the brain, and optimizing the brain’s performance, because your body, in all its glory, is simply a reflection of brain health and function.

One of the ways in which you can protect your brain is by the fuel you feed your brain in order to perform its best.

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Everything follows the brain.

In fact, when we look at your body ,all parameters of your body — HRV, blood pressure, respiratory rate, forced vital capacity, grip strength, hormones, lab markers — will give you a good picture of the health and vitality of your brain, too.

Hormones out of whack? We need to look at the brain.

Overweight? We need to look at the brain
Low energy? We need to look at the brain
Cannot sleep through the night? We need to look at the brain.
Poor focus? We need to look at the brain.
Mood swings? We need to look at the brain.
We need to stop looking at the end organ as the primary focus, and instead look a level or two up to find why downstream changes are happening at the organ or behavioural level.

So, when we are talking about the best fuel you need to feed your brain (and therefore your body), we need to be thinking about the best possible foods for lowering inflammation, improving autophagy, removing cellular senescence, enhance energy production with whole, nutrient dense foods.

Because all these things help your brain.
We need to be thinking about a clean ketogenic diet.
Not dirty keto.
Not bacon, burgers, and butter.
Just because it fits the macros, doesn’t mean you should do it.