❌️False myths about the keto diet to be debunked❌️

 

“Ketosis is dangerous” – FALSE! ❌️

 

Ketosis is a physiological mechanism that occurs with a very low carbohydrate diet. 

In this situation, in fact, the body begins to degrade its reserve fats and a part of these fats is transformed into ketone bodies. 

So ketone bodies are a physiological product of fat burning. 

Ketosis does not represent any danger for the body; indeed it is desirable in a diet because it has multiple positive effects: 

•allows you to eliminate the feeling of hunger, through a direct action on the hunger and satiety regulating center, located in the brain 

•it gives a beneficial euphoric effect and a feeling of general well-being 

•it allows you to effectively "nourish" the brain tissue which uses this energy source with extreme ease 

•reduces oxidative stress (ageing).

•recent studies show that ketosis helps deprive cancer cells of their nutrients since they are unable to use ketones as fuel and rely solely on carbohydrates for their growth. 

 

It must also be remembered that over the course of millions of years of evolution, man has almost always lived in ketosis, given the limited availability of carbohydrates, and this condition has allowed him to survive frequent famines and evolve.

The ketosis induced by the normo-protein ketogenic diet is physiological and controlled and does not involve any risk. It is comparable to that which occurs even after intense physical effort

 

 

“In the ketogenic diet you must completely eliminate carbohydrates” – FALSE! ❌️

 

Carbohydrates are essential for 3 reasons:

1.they serve the correct functioning of some glucose-dependent cells (glucose belongs to the carbohydrate family) which cannot use fats as an energy source (such as, for example, red blood cells) 

2.they allow you to produce the right amount of ketone bodies 

3.they avoid lowering the basal metabolism

 

Therefore carbohydrates should not be eliminated, but reduced, as established by the doctor, based on the patient's ideal weight and body composition (measured through a bioimpedance test). And that's what you do on the normo-protein ketogenic diet.

 

 

“The ketogenic diet is bad because it contains too much protein” – FALSE! ❌️

 

You only go into ketosis when you reduce carbohydrates and NOT when you increase proteins! 

 

In the normo-protein ketogenic diet, proteins are present in the quantities recommended by all scientific associations (and in line with those of the Mediterranean diet). Furthermore, these are proteins of natural origin (milk, eggs, soy) and with high biological value

 

 

“Once you finish the diet, you immediately regain the weight you lost and your skin remains relaxed” – FALSE! ❌️

 

If you don't follow a balanced diet, you'll gain weight back after any diet. However, clinical studies demonstrate that: 

the normo-protein ketogenic diet is the diet in which you regain less weight over time compared to other diets. Furthermore, it is included in a global weight management program that offers the patient the tools to maintain the results achieved with the diet

 

Furthermore, the normo-protein ketogenic diet: 

preserves lean mass and promotes the production of collagen (which gives tone to the skin) so skin sagging is much less than that resulting from any other diet

 

I hope these brief notions can be of help to you!! 😉👍