One of the cool things about the ketogenic diet is that it has a similar affect on your body to fasting. Notice I said similar, not same. That’s a very important distinction. While you can get a lot of the benefits of fasting by living a ketogenic lifestyle without actually going without food, the only way to get all the benefits of fasting is of course to fast.
And that’s where another benefit of the ketogenic diet comes in. By reducing your hunger pangs, when you do decide to fast to get all the benefits, it becomes a lot easier.
The logic is simple on this one. When you live a ketogenic lifestyle you’re constantly in a state of ketosis. Now if you want to be nit picky, yes, there may be times when you fade a little in and out of ketosis but for the most part you are in ketosis. What does being in ketosis mean? That means you have a higher level of ketone bodies in your system. And where do you get ketones from? Ketones are derived from fat in the liver.
So if you are in ketosis you are running your body off of fat. Now on a regular day you are ingesting fat to power yourself. Even if you’re on the ketogenic diet to lose weight you’d still be taking in a good amount of fat. But what happens if you don’t take in extra fat? Or food at all for that matter.
Since your body can already use fat for fuel your body goes looking for fat. And as mentioned in previous posts, you have plenty of that in your system even if you have a low body fat percentage. So your energy needs can be maintained strictly by your fat reserves. From 16 hours (the shortest period you’d want to fast) to days, depending on how much of a reserve you’re carrying. And during all that time your body is being powered from within, you’re receiving all the benefits of fasting. And when you do eventually decide to go back to consuming food you’ll go back to getting most instead of all the benefits.
This has been a really brief discussion about fasting and ketosis. If you’d like more information on the subject I highly recommend reading The Ketogenic Bible by Jacob Wilson and Ryan Lowery. They cover the topic in much better detail, along with a lot of citations to the latest research. You can get as in depth as you want from the information provided. I’ll include an affiliate link to the Kindle version of the book below, just click on the picture. If you’d like a physical copy, I’ve had that before too. It’s a decent sized book, which is why I prefer the Kindle version.
That’s all for today. Hope you’re having a great day and hope to see you again soon.
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