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<h1>20150829 - Ketogenic Diet Working on Year 2</h1>
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Part way into year two on a Ketogenic diet, breaking the diet only once and a while on business trips.
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The diet is basically mostly fat, some protein, with almost no carbs.
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Initially established in the 1920s as a way to control seizures for people with epilepsy,
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the Ketogenic diet is being successfully used as a metabolic treatment for cancer
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by a few individuals, but is largely being ignored by medical professionals.
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The diet works by shifting the body's metabolism from glucose (sourced from carbs or converted from excess protein) to ketones produced in the liver (sourced from fat and oil).
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The diet has natural anti-inflammatory properties.
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The theory of how a Ketogenic diet fights cancer revolves around the idea that cancer is mostly a mitochondrial metabolic disease.
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Specifically that cancer cells tend to have damaged mitochondria which switch to a more primitive glucose fulled fermentation as their primary energy generation process.
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Starving cancer cells of glucose places them in extreme metabolic stress, allowing the body to fight back.
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One of the primary ways to track cancer is by looking at the process of tumor angiogenesis via periodic MRIs with contrast.
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Effectively watching over time as the cancer causes the body to develop ever stronger network of blood vessels to feed the cancer with glucose.
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Successful treatments of cancer can reverse this process.
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I suspect ultimately that everyone has cancer even if only at some undetectable amount.
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The question is if the body's balance shifts between a state which enables the cancer to grow, or a state which causes the cancer to die.
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Cancer becomes terminal when there is no longer a way to shift back the balance.<br>
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The Ketogenic diet for me is a lifestyle choice not made out of medical necessity.
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My personal tastes tend to really align with the diet, and it is a great way to stay in shape,
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more so when you have a career sitting at a desk typing away on keyboards.
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Counter to how the media vilifies fat as the source of the nation's obesity problem,
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it is near impossible to maintain body fat on the diet which involves mostly eating fat:
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the body is in a constant state of fat burning, instead of fat storage.
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Looking back, it was relatively hard to get started.
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The realization that America's entire food culture and supply chain
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is optimized for the delivery of carbs,
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leaves a demilitarized zone filled with land mines for the oil fueled consumer.
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Just finding things which are in the parameters required for the diet can be quite a challenge.
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After a while, planning every meal, weighting all ingredients, measuring ketone levels or blood glucose levels,
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is replaced with driving by feel alone.
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The transition between carb burning and ketone burning body state
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goes through a standard process of horrible sugar withdrawal symptoms, bouts of fatigue and brain fog, eventually returning to the feeling of being normal,
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but then unaffected by the standard cravings carb eaters have.
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The first transition takes weeks, however after being ketone burning for this long, the transition now only takes me a few days.
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Over time the diet becomes as enjoyable as the standard high-carb diet,
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and even more so in many regards, because of the ability to easily take in 70% fat at a given meal (like bacon wrapped sour cream).
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Unlike sugar, there is no crash afterwards, and the body provides some rather strong signals to stop eating before you over do it,
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instead of telling you to keep going as is the standard practice with sugars.
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Here is an example of the kind of foods my wife and I eat: butter on low heat, mixed in spice, garlic, and boiled shrimp. Consumed head, shells and all, with sour cream on the side straight to bring up the fat content,<br>
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