Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet by Jimmy Moore Read Free Book Online Page B
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itself, which closely resembles ketoacidosis, a medical term that’s used to describe a life-threatening condition in type 1 diabetics. Many doctors scoff at the idea of allowing one of their patients to get into a state of ketosis because they immediately think of all the negative side effects associated with ketoacidosis. This confusion may have allowed many patients to remain in a diseased state when they could have seen tremendous improvements in their health with the use of a ketogenic diet. It’s a sad reality that this kind of ignorance happens in the medical profession, with the very people we trust to be our purveyors of knowledge on health.
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When I ask patients if they have ever heard of a ketogenic diet, the response is usually a blank stare. If someone is interested in trying this type of diet, they likely won’t get much help from their traditionally trained family physician. Most doctors have little training in nutrition, and their only exposure to ketosis is in dealing with diabetic patients and ketoacidosis. As a result, many physicians have an inherent bias against ketosis. That means that most people will need to become self-educated. I believe this book you are reading will go a long way in correcting this information void.
– Dr. Bill Wilson
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One of my blog readers is a sixty-year-old man named Chris from Austin, Texas, who shared a story about what happened when he went to see his doctor after being on a ketogenic diet for a while. When he went in for a physical as required by his job, Chris gave a urine sample to the nurse, who discovered the presence of ketones and began lecturing him about how dangerous that was. Chris’s physician asked him if he was starving himself, but he explained he was eating a low-carb, high-fat diet. Upon hearing this, the doctor insisted Chris begin flushing the ketones out of his body immediately or else he would risk becoming diabetic. The doctor threatened to fail Chris on his physical if he did not comply.
“I was stunned,” Chris told me. The doctor was dead serious.
Thinking back on this encounter , it frustrated Chris that so many other patients who are also trying to use ketosis to improve their health are being discouraged by the very people who have been charged with helping them get better. “It just goes to show you how ignorant these doctors can be,” he said. “A simple misdiagnosis about ketones can wreak havoc with a person’s livelihood.” His doctor’s confusion regarding what the presence of ketones during a routine lab workup underscores one of the biggest obstacles facing people who want to go on a ketogenic diet.
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Nutritional ketosis is not ketoacidosis. Yet many in the medical profession have a knee-jerk reaction to ketones. Their knowledge is limited and possibly biased. Hopefully the information is this book will educate both consumers and health-care practitioners and ease their minds about a ketogenic diet. It is a safe and healthy tool to address the obesity crisis we face.
– Jackie Eberstein
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Here’s why doctors are so concerned about ketoacidosis: When diabetics do not get an adequate amount of insulin, their bodies respond as if they are starving. Their bodies think there’s no more glucose to be had, either from diet or glycogen stores, and they switch to burning fat instead and ramp up ketone production so it can be used as an alternative energy source. The problem is, these diabetics aren’t out of glucose—in fact, they have elevated levels of blood glucose. Insulin is the hormone that allows glucose into cells, and without it, the blood sugar has nowhere to go and accumulates in the bloodstream, even as the body can’t stop making ketones. Once levels of the blood ketone beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) approach 20 millimolars, a diabetic patient will get very sick and may fall into a coma. Ketoacidosis can even be life-threatening. It’s an extremely serious thing and certainly should not
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When I ask patients if they have ever heard of a ketogenic diet, the response is usually a blank stare. If someone is interested in trying this type of diet, they likely won’t get much help from their traditionally trained family physician. Most doctors have little training in nutrition, and their only exposure to ketosis is in dealing with diabetic patients and ketoacidosis. As a result, many physicians have an inherent bias against ketosis. That means that most people will need to become self-educated. I believe this book you are reading will go a long way in correcting this information void.
– Dr. Bill Wilson
----
One of my blog readers is a sixty-year-old man named Chris from Austin, Texas, who shared a story about what happened when he went to see his doctor after being on a ketogenic diet for a while. When he went in for a physical as required by his job, Chris gave a urine sample to the nurse, who discovered the presence of ketones and began lecturing him about how dangerous that was. Chris’s physician asked him if he was starving himself, but he explained he was eating a low-carb, high-fat diet. Upon hearing this, the doctor insisted Chris begin flushing the ketones out of his body immediately or else he would risk becoming diabetic. The doctor threatened to fail Chris on his physical if he did not comply.
“I was stunned,” Chris told me. The doctor was dead serious.
Thinking back on this encounter , it frustrated Chris that so many other patients who are also trying to use ketosis to improve their health are being discouraged by the very people who have been charged with helping them get better. “It just goes to show you how ignorant these doctors can be,” he said. “A simple misdiagnosis about ketones can wreak havoc with a person’s livelihood.” His doctor’s confusion regarding what the presence of ketones during a routine lab workup underscores one of the biggest obstacles facing people who want to go on a ketogenic diet.
----
Nutritional ketosis is not ketoacidosis. Yet many in the medical profession have a knee-jerk reaction to ketones. Their knowledge is limited and possibly biased. Hopefully the information is this book will educate both consumers and health-care practitioners and ease their minds about a ketogenic diet. It is a safe and healthy tool to address the obesity crisis we face.
– Jackie Eberstein
----
Here’s why doctors are so concerned about ketoacidosis: When diabetics do not get an adequate amount of insulin, their bodies respond as if they are starving. Their bodies think there’s no more glucose to be had, either from diet or glycogen stores, and they switch to burning fat instead and ramp up ketone production so it can be used as an alternative energy source. The problem is, these diabetics aren’t out of glucose—in fact, they have elevated levels of blood glucose. Insulin is the hormone that allows glucose into cells, and without it, the blood sugar has nowhere to go and accumulates in the bloodstream, even as the body can’t stop making ketones. Once levels of the blood ketone beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) approach 20 millimolars, a diabetic patient will get very sick and may fall into a coma. Ketoacidosis can even be life-threatening. It’s an extremely serious thing and certainly should not
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