I once heard someone talk about Ketogenic diet i didn't know what i was now I'm curious can you enlighten me?
The ketogenic diet is high-fat and low-carb. It is named after ketone bodies.
When did people start with the idea of eating Ketogenic diet ?
I am not sure when it started but I know why! It is used for people with epilepsy to reduce the number of seizures they have, which is awesome!
So What Do I Eat on a Ketogenic Diet?
Ketogenic diet
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Normally, the carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is particularly important in fueling brain function. However, if little carbohydrate remains in the diet, the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies
into mitochondria, causing the accumulation of excess acetyl-CoA. The accumulation of acetyl-CoA in turn produces excess ketone bodies through ketogenesis. The result is a rate of ketone production higher than the rate of ketone disposal, and a decrease in blood pH.
There are some health benefits to ketone bodies and ketogenesis as well. It has been suggested that a low-carb, high fat ketogenic diet can be used to help treat epilepsia in children. Additionally, ketone bodies can be anti-inflammatory. Some kinds of cancer