🥑 A better way to support your metabolic with a ketogenic diet may be to do keto a little differently.
🥦 Focusing on diverse plant foods helps protect your mitochondria through mitochondrial uncoupling and boosts your fiber intake. According to [@drstevengundry]([ Ссылка ]), mitochondrial uncoupling is the beneficial downstream process of ketones. But you can stimulate mitochondrial uncoupling in other ways too.
🙋 First, what is mitochondrial uncoupling?
⚡️Mitochondria make our energy. We want to protect mitochondria and stimulate their production. We can do this by stimulating them to uncouple. Uncoupling leads them to waste fuel/calories. This protects them from too much oxidative stress from metabolic processes and prompts them to replicate.
🍽️ If you’re on a keto diet, you’re really on a mitochondrial uncoupling diet. Ketones stimulate the upregulation of uncoupling proteins (UCPs). However, you can stimulate uncoupling without extreme carbohydrate restriction.
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✅ What you can do
🍓🥕🍋🥦🫐🍆 Eat polyphenols, plant compounds. You can get them by eating a rainbow of fruits and veggies. Polyphenols are abundant in the Mediterranean diet and the Okinawa diet.
🥥Add medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil. MCTs go directly to the liver and are converted to ketones. So you could add a tablespoon of MCT oil to a bowl of fruit and still produce ketones.
🍎 Add acetic acid to your diet via apple cider vinegar.
🥗 Eat a wide variety of high-fiber foods to boost your gut microbiome and produce butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid that’s beneficial for gut and metabolic health. People with Type 2 diabetes have been shown to have low levels of butyric acid-producing bacteria in their gut (1). And animal studies show that butyrate boosts insulin sensitivity (2).
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