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Training Impact on Diet and Metabolism

February 02, 2023

Well, the thing is, see, I, I think it's more surrounded education and the guru shit. It's like, it's, it's, it has less to do with the way you're eating and more with your internal belief of what it's doing for you. And that's where commercialism has screwed up all the different types of diets. Right. So it's like, if you, if you're like drinking bulletproof coffee and you're biohacking and you think this is the way to go. And yeah, that it's going to be difficult to pull someone out of that when it's time when, when keto is probably not the right thing for them because keto, keto can be good for a lot of different things. It can be a lifestyle thing because you feel better on it. Your brain works better for your certain physiology on a higher, with a higher level of ketones. You could be using it as your overweight and using it as a way to control appetite because it does seem to control appetite really well in a lot of people, but it's people look at us like it's magical. Like there's no magical way of doing this. The magic is in the protein. That's the magic. So, but the keto doesn't actually have a high amount of protein, which is the thing like people. No, no, no. But this is the misconception. This is the misconception that's coming from people who are looking at standard ketogenic dieting that you would give somebody if they're epileptic, you're giving 20% protein and 80% fat. I'm going to tell you right now, there are other ways of doing keto other than that and i've done you know i don't want to say my own research but i have the athletic ketogenic diet but the people don't know the differences i know that's what that's what and that's what yeah we'll roll into that it's like when you look at a diet okay we let's say we've got 10 diets here and if you don't train they all pretty much work like you're looking at all these things and you're saying okay this works this way this works this way this way they all have their own inherent way that they work. The minute you add training into it, that changes a lot of things, right? So if you look at a ketogenic diet as being super low carb, like say Atkins, like an induction phase of 20 grams of carbs until you start making ketones, and then you start slowly raising your carbs over time until you get out of coast and you bring it back down, and there super high fat super low protein That diet was made for people who are massively obese those people aren training They not going to be training Training may even hurt Like they may go I don go to the gym because exercise hurts Like okay well until exercise doesn hurt you probably not going to do anything other than maybe walking So, you know, in a situation like that, where somebody is not going to train and they don't need that much protein, it works. It can, it, you see people, people lose massive amounts of weight. And this is where you look at, you know, people that are anti-keto and they throw literature that supports that their bias but then you look at tens hundreds of thousands of people who have actually lost weight and sustained massive amounts of weight like half their body weight 150 kilos 200 kilos using that and it works so we have to look at things say everything's in context every it all works um there's no best diet you just have to find the one that you can live on for the rest of your life or one that can be modified it's a fundamental foundational diet that you modify.