The Keto Diet For Health - What Is Ketosis? How Does It Benefit Health? Video 2

Exactly What Is Ketosis? The Science Behind The Keto Diet For Health.

Our human body cells can either burn sugar or fat for creating energy that we need.

In this video we're going to go a little bit deeper in what actually happens inside the cells. Inside each cell there are two to three thousand organelles called mitochondria whose job it is to break down molecules of food to create the energy we need to live.

You can think of them as an energy factory, an assembly line. Raw materials go into the cell by being absorbed through the cells membrane, and energy is produced by the mitochondria.

Actually, this process could be called a disassembly line, because larger molecules are broken down into smaller ones for nutrients.

When a cell Burns sugar - cells can burn either sugar or fat and they are very good at flipping from one to the other, which served our ancestors very well. When cells burn sugar certain toxic by-products are produced, namely lactate, acetate, ethanol. Acid is also produced. Normally the liver cleans out these toxins and they are eliminated from the body.

Generations ago the sugar burning season would pass and the toxins would be eliminated more thoroughly during the season when the cells burn fat. However, if the body continues to use sugar in excessive amounts continuously the waste by-products accumulate and eventually damage the mitochondria by starving them of oxygen.

The damaged mitochondria make less and less energy until they cannot function at all, and trigger inflammation and disease. This is an invisible process that seriously harms our health, after decades of eating the wrong things.

Now let's look at the cell metabolizing fat for energy. There are no toxic byproducts. It is simply a clean process. It is therefore much more efficient at creating energy.

There are no waste products to overload the liver or to clog up the veins, arteries and capillaries. We all have a choice about what we eat. But it's not so easy to make this choice if we don't have the correct information to guide us in the next lecture.

You will find that all foods are not what they seem. We need to look at the way that foods are presented in the supermarkets and what the labels tell us.

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