Why do a ketogenic diet? What are the benefits of keto

in health •  6 years ago 

Benefits of the ketogenic diet are similar to any Low Carb diet, but it's more effective as it so supercharged low carb diet. Read down further to know the benefits of a keto diet

Most effective diet for weight loss-
Our body changes its energy source to fat it derives energy from stored fats in the body. Thus our body turns into a fat burning machine. All of the weight loss that occurs in the body during ketosis is all due to the loss of stored fat. It does not affect the water balance and deterioration of muscles and does not degrade the stored protein in the body thus maintain the muscles of the body

Reduces appetite-
Ketogenic diet helps to reduce the appetite as it metabolizes the Stored fat in the body as energy so the body has a constant supply of energy thus keeps the stomach full.
Thus it helps to eat less and speed up the weight loss process. not having to fight the feeling of Hunger can lead you to the reduced cravings for sugar chocolate addiction to junk food etc. Which results in a Healthy lifestyle

Improves mental well being and provides constant energy-
Ketosis provides a constant supply of energy to the brain for this helps to increase mental performance, focus, and concentration. Any brain fog will be long gone.
A lot of people experience an increase in body energy during ketosis. This fact is scientifically proven as when fat used as a fuel provide more energy than that of the carbohydrates

Controls blood sugar level-
keto diet reduces the blood sugar level and is excellent for reversing the type 2 diabetes it is scientifically proven that a keto diet lowers the blood sugar level and reduces the negative impact of high insulin levels.

Improved health marker
low carb diet improves the health markers of the body such as cholesterol level blood sugar level insulin level and blood pressure

Improvement movement of stomach
it helps to keep the stomach with left cramps and painless or no gas

Epilepsy
the keto diet is a proven an effective medical therapy for epilepsy using this diet in epilepsy can allow people to reduce medications of epilepsy totally stop them and still can avoid seizures.

Got much more potential benefits
Normalize blood pressure
Reduces acne
Cure migraine attacks
Fewer sugar cravings
Treating brain cancer
Cure’s Alzheimer

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