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Ketosis and Fatty Liver

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Fatty Liver

I was doing some searching on PubMed and came across an article describing the benefits of a ketogenic diet for patients with fatty liver and fibrosis.

They placed 5 patients with biopsy proven fatty liver on a ketogenic diet for 6 months and guess what… the mean weight loss was over 25 lbs.  At the end of the study, they did biopsies of the liver, and they found that there was overall improvement in inflammation, degree of fatty liver, and fibrosis.

Pretty amazing isn’t it?

This is probably due to removing the inflammatory influence that chronic carbohydrate ingestion has on the body and liver.… Read More

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Day 18 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 18Weight: 179.4
AM Ketones: 1.2
PM Ketones:
AM Blood Glucose: 72
PM Blood Glucose:
Hours of Sleep: 7:56
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: Crossfit

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I didn’t measure my PM ketones for two reasons.

1. I don’t think it provides an accurate reflection as to what’s going on in my body since it’s taken so close to when I eat dinner.  And since I include coconut oil and other fats in my dinner, that can skew the measurement of ketones since the liver breaks down medium chain triglycerides immediately into ketones.  … Read More

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What happens to my ketone levels after BJJ?

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BJJMy BJJ class with David Boehme, was scheduled for the morning today, so I couldn’t eat breakfast at my normal time.  Since I didn’t want to throw up or start burping in Dave’s face during the class, I decided to just go without eating anything.

With my prior experience  I knew that since I’m ketoadapted (my AM ketones today were 1.0 mmol), I wouldn’t bonk out from hypoglycemia, so I felt pretty comfortable going in a fasted state.

We had good training with some reviewing of techniques, position specific drilling, and some light rolling.  … Read More

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Day 15 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 15Weight: 180.6
AM Ketones: 0.5
PM Ketones: 1.2
AM Blood Glucose: 80
PM Blood Glucose: 81
Hours of Sleep: 6:43
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: 60 lb kettle bell swings x 200, pushups x 100, jump rope

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Glad to see that I’m barely in the range for nutritional ketosis!  Today I wandered into the low carb friends forums and wrote a post asking people there what they thought of my results so far and if they had any ideas as to why my weight loss has seemed to stall and why I’m so inconsistent in staying in nutritional ketosis

They had some great ideas, the most valuable being: keeping better track of my intake… in terms of calories and macronutrient composition.  … Read More

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Day 14 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 14Weight: 180.6
AM Ketones: 0.4
PM Ketones: 0.4
AM Blood Glucose: 85
PM Blood Glucose: 84
Hours of Sleep: 7:10
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: None

Ack!  Again I somehow popped out of my desired range of 0.5 – 3.0 mmol ketones to maintain nutritional ketosis.

When I saw the AM level of 0.4 and how different it was compared to last nights 1.8 I wanted to figure out what the cause of this variation is.  While my initial intention wasn’t to track my diet very thoroughly (I never liked counting calories or calculating exact amounts of macronutrients), I think I’ll probably need to start keeping a food log.… Read More

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Day 13 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Weight: 181.6
AM Ketones: 1.1
PM Ketones: 1.8
AM Blood Glucose: 81
PM Blood Glucose: 81
Hours of Sleep: 6:45
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: Tabata Intervals x 3.  First two sets alternating between 60 lb kettlebell swings and burpees.  The last set alternating between body weight squats, bent over rows, and kettlebell swings.

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Even though I didn’t get the full 7-8 hours of sleep today I felt fantastic!  Something about sleeping in your own bed just makes everything better.  My weight is still in the normal range.  … Read More

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