Ketogenic Diets – Page 6

Carb Back-Loading Results After 8 Weeks

Posted on April 28, 2014May 9, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

Carb Back-Loading Results After 8 Weeks

Carb Back-Loading (CBL) is John Kiefer’s variation on a targeted ketogenic diet in which a large load of carbs are only eaten after heavy resistance training (optimally in the afternoon). This theoretically takes advantage of the body’s hormonal and metabolic response to stimulate muscle cell growth while at the same time increasing the breakdown of fat cells. You can read more about the basics of this approach from my review of the book. If you want to see my results from the first 4 weeks, you can check them out here.… Read More

More Carb Nite and Carb Back-Loading Tips

Posted on April 25, 2014June 25, 2015 by BJJ Caveman

Over the past few weeks I’ve been listening to a steady stream of some of John Kiefer’s podcasts, some of which are from his own site, Body.io and some from when he appears as a guest on other folks’ podcasts. For those that don’t know, Kiefer is the author of both The Carb Nite Solution and Carb Back-Loading, both ways of eating that I’ve been playing around with recently.

Each time interview or discussion I listen to I end up coming away with another tidbit of information that he reveals that wasn’t quite written in either of his books, so I wanted to aggregate some of these nuggets here. … Read More

A Day in the Life of My Ketones – Part 2

Posted on April 20, 2014May 9, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

Part 2 of my day in the life experiments (here is part 1). This was a much shorter experiment, and looking back I think I was mainly interested in seeing how a bulletproof coffee (upgraded coffee + grassfed butter + Upgraded MCT oil) would effect my ketones. At least in this case, it looks like it will raise them by 0.1 – 0.2 mmol in the 1-2 hrs immediately after ingestion.

Can I exclude normal ketone variation from this? Nope, but I imagine the more I test it, preferably at various times of days, the more the answer will become clear… but at this point I’m not sure this is something worth testing. … Read More

A Day in the Life of My Ketones – Part 1

Posted on April 16, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

When I first received my ketonix acetone breathalyzer, one of the experiments I tried to run was to see how it changed along with my ketones over the course of a typical day. I decided to document everything I did along with the specific times, so that when I tested my ketones, it would give me a clearer picture of how certain actions affected my ketones.

I was hoping that the ketonix acetone breathalyzer would be able to give me the same level of moment by moment detail that blood ketone testing would give me, but alas, as we saw in my final review, it didn’t. … Read More

Even Ben Greenfield Has Thyroid Problems While In Ketosis

Posted on April 1, 2014October 9, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Ben Greenfield

Even Ben Greenfield Has Thyroid Problems While In Ketosis

In the span of a week or so, Ben Greenfield appeared on Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof Exec podcast AND John Kiefer’s Body IO FM podcast where he discusses his experience training for and performing in Iron Man races while in full nutritional ketosis.

He describes one of the main side effects that he encountered being severe hypothyroidism… manifesting as severe sensitivity to cold, poor libido, and poor overall energy.

The way they treated this was to eat a lot of liver, dessicated thyroid, and sweetbreads which seemed to fix things for him.… Read More

A Successful Targeted Ketogenic Diet Experiment

Posted on March 29, 2014June 25, 2015 by BJJ Caveman

This is a guest post written by Bosona who I met through one of the reddit/keto threads where he shared the findings of his own n=1 experiment using a targeted ketogenic diet (TKD), with great results. I asked him if he was willing to write a guest post for this site describing his experiment in more detail and he kindly agreed.

I think it’s useful for folks who visit to see that not all experiments with variants of ketogenic diets end up with crazy lab numbers. … Read More