For those of you who are doing intermittent fasting, there is an easy way to really extend ketosis after one day of intermittent fasting.
I do 19:5 intermittent fasting. It is just the way I eat now, and don’t even have to think about doing it. But that means beginning at the 12th hour of my 19 hour fast, only then does ketosis begin with ketone production by the liver. So I regularly get just 7 hours of increasing ketosis, and then, when I eat, it stops abruptly.
The question is how to extend that ketosis the next day without doing an additional 24 hour fast? I’ve discovered a trick to do that with what I’m calling a “Keto day”.
I really don’t believe in the Keto diet because the long term results are not at all healthy with the most serious consequence being increased probability of heart disease. The body just isn’t designed to be socked on a daily basis with that huge quantify of fat in the diet.
But my Keto day is different, as it is just a single day. And here is the secret — fat doesn’t spike insulin at all — nothing, and with a Keto day, you get so little carbohydrates, it isn’t going to restore your glycogen levels at all.
So what happens is that, with me, at that hour that I eat, there is no insulin response for another 24 hours. So instead of getting just 7 hours of ketosis over the 48 hours, I will get 31 hours of ketosis — without having to do an additional 24 hour fast the second day. Pretty cool trick, no?
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