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The Critical Role of Sleep in Metabolic Health
When it comes to metabolic health, diet and exercise often take center stage. While these factors are undeniably important, sleep is frequently overlooked — despite...
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Discover the benefits of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity.
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Reversing Neuropathy with Nutritional Ketosis: A Journey of Hope and Healing
Peripheral neuropathy is a debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It occurs when the nerves that transmit signals between the brain, spinal cord,...
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Four Functions of Ketones Beyond Fueling Your Body
Ketones are an energy source your brain and other organs use during ketosis, where fat is used as your main fuel instead of glucose. However,...
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Navigating Anti-Nutrients on a Ketogenic Diet
Anti-nutrients are receiving a lot of attention within the keto and low-carb community. Are you wondering how these plant compounds might affect your health and...
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Flexible Lifestyle Strategies for Achieving Optimal Ketosis
By Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE The ketogenic diet is often considered an extremely strict, low-carb, high-fat way of eating. The truth is that a ketogenic...
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Can the Keto Diet Help with Fatty Liver Disease?
UPDATED BY FRANZISKA SPRITZLER, RD, CDCES Fifty years ago, the condition we now know as Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) didn’t even have a name....
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How Keto Affects Your Hormones
When you hear someone say, “Keto affects your hormones,” it might leave you wondering: Which hormones exactly, and how? It’s a good question. Are they...
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Is the Keto Diet Safe for Your Liver?
Your liver is one of the largest organs in your body. It sits under your ribcage on the right side of your abdomen, and it is...
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Can the Keto Diet Boost the Immune System to Help Protect Against the Coronavirus?
As the coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread throughout 2020, one thing has become clear: certain groups have an increased risk for severe complications. Beyond older...
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Biohacking Your Keto Diet: 5 Strategies For Enhanced Ketosis
UPDATED BY FRANZISKA SPRITZLER, RD, CDCES The term “biohacker” conjures images of a cyborg — part man, part machine — a genetically-engineered specimen with electrodes...
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Why Keto Pills Don’t Work
There’s a huge online buzz about keto diet pills, but not for the reason you might think. Perhaps you’ve heard they’ve been on Shark Tank....
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Telehealth Is The Future of Medicine. Remote Care for Obesity, Diabetes, and Beyond
With the fast-mounting cases of COVID-19 and the need to shelter in place in 2020, the US began increasingly turning to telehealth (remote healthcare using...
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11 Significant Health Benefits of the Ketogenic Diet
The ketogenic diet is becoming known for being beneficial in so many areas of health and medicine, it’s important to get a clear understanding of...
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How the Ketogenic Diet Reduces Inflammation
If you’ve been hearing about the ketogenic diet in relation to treating or eliminating inflammation in the body, there’s good reason: aside for being great...
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What Is Autophagy? Your Body’s Way of Recycling Damaged Cells
Autophagy: Cellular Cleansing and the Secret to Longevity When your home gets dirty, you clean it. If you’re feeling ambitious, you might even replace some...
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Why Keto Is Good for Leaky Gut & Gut Health
Why Keto Is Good for Leaky Gut & Gut Health There’s some really interesting new science. Proving that the ketogenic diet has extremely powerful effects...