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Step eight: What have the mitochondria got to do with weight loss and should I care?8th: Next is looking after your mitochondrial health and what a difference this might make. The mitochondria are important because they exist inside nearly all our cells. For example we each have approximately 50 trillion cells, and except for immune cells and red blood cells, each one of these has about 2000 mitochondria, unless one is sick, in which case this number drop. In cases where one is quite ill, this number can drop to as low as 200 (two hundred) mitochondria. The brain, heart and eyes in fact have many more mitochondria per cell. Some 10,000 (ten thousand) mitochondria and with the first born, (the first born has the most), the mother"s egg will hold as many as 70,000 mitochondria.Mitochondria have a shelf life of about 6 weeks. However, this changes drastically and very suddenly if they are assaulted by toxins including heavy metals such as copper, cadmium and mercury. Why is mitochondria health so important for my diet plan? Your mitochondria do something quite miraculous. They produce some 80lbs (eighty pounds) of ATP (adrenal triphosphate) this is the battery of the cell and indeed, our own little furnace that powers all our movement. If our mitochondrial health is dysfunctional, then we are working with a flat battery so to speak. You may be asking how can mitochondria produce half my body weight in energy every day? Well, it does this by recycling about 96% of the existing mitochondria in our bodies. Mitochondria are sensitive creatures; they need lots of antioxidants and polyphenols to stay healthy. This is achieved through diet! They also need to avoid toxins and poisons or at least take stuff to invoke a very rapid repair. Which again is what we consume, like with supplements. For your mitochondria to be healthy they also need good gut health, and exercise. There are some tricks in the book that will promote an even healthier bunch of mitochondria. For example, fasting boost their health and so does eating a keto diet also cold showers seem to have the ability of killing off old obsolete mitochondrial cells too, which then go on to help with the production of new mitochondrial cells in their wake, but again how does this help? Having mitochondrial health is at the root of all health and weight loss. Why is mitochondrial health at the root of weight loss? The reason mitochondria play such an important role in weight loss is because they can burn just fat for fuel if need be. This is brilliant news. Getting our bodies into a metabolic fit state, so that our bodies burn fat for fuel all day and all-night means that losing weight is now easy. How do I get my body into burning fat? This is where all the books come in online now, on getting into ketosis. There does not seem to be one book on the subject that can cater for every type of person of all ages in all manner of different degrees of health. So, my suggestion is to read as many books on the subject as you can, pertaining to your need. I do have some recommendations: According to and all those that came before him including in their efforts to understand the root of cancers it was discovered that mitochondrial dysfunction play a role in whether one may get cancer. The discoveries that healthy mitochondria go some way in protecting you from getting cancer led to the question how? It turns out from modern day studies suggest that a high fat diet with lots of antioxidant and polyphenols, like may help protect one from mitochondrial dysfunction, which in turn may protect one from getting cancers. Here is a good place to start if cancer has a big interest for you. Also for an easier introduction to the keto diet and cancer in a less scientific language, and the one that helped me the most, then one cannot beat If just getting into keto and burning all your fat away is the top priority, then you could do a lot worse then getting Another book for a deeper non cancer or weight loss perspective on keto fitness and its age-related impact one could do worse than the excellent book byStep ten: Where energy mitochondria and keto and fasting converge?10th: Next is how fasting will also give your body a kick in the right direction. How does fasting help with weight loss? Anything that takes your body closer to being in ketosis will ultimately go some way to help your mitochondria to burn fat as a fuel. Fasting is the fastest way to train your mitochondria to burn fat for fuel. Some people are thinking that intermittent fasting is good for weight loss. I am not so sure. Because, if after fasting you go back to eating carbohydrates, you are accidentally undoing all the gains achieved with fasting, from a metabolic perspective. The reason for this is that your body can store lots of calories as fuel in the muscles, in the form of a ready supply of energy, called glycogen otherwise known as sugar. This is always going to be used first by your body if you stop eating. This supply of energy is enough to last for almost an entire marathon, if you fancy running, or up to 3 days if you just wait around and do not do too much activity. It is only when this supply of sugar energy has depleted that your body will begin to look for other sources of food. This of course is fat. This transistion from sugar to fat does not happen like jumping off a cliff, but it can be quite dramatic. In runners and cyclists this is called the wall or the bonk. It is when you run out of glycogen too fast. With runners or cyclists if they have never trained their bodies to burn fat then they will almost come to a complete holt! These participants simply looked like the plug had been pulled. This process in less dramatic for normal individuals sitting at home and under these circumstances is much more gradual. It can leave you in a very tired state, almost unable to do anything. However, it is at this precise moment when your body is struggling to find carbs that an opportunity has arisen, that of pushing your body to consider a fat source instead of carbs as an ongoing fuel source. It is at this juncture of running out of sugar and your body looking to burn fat for the first time that all the difficulties hit at once. Like any addiction to sugar one may have or any withdrawal symptoms from additives or the change in the level of intra cellular calcium levels or if you are lucky, it will be just massive tiredness as your body begins the battle to find a sufficient fuel source to feed the brain. However, this transition can be eased and made as easy as possible if when you do eat, you decide to eat non-starchy vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower or resistant starches, which may contain a little more sugar like carrots, turnips or if you are really desperate to keep going with this almighty change, but just need to ease the way into ketosis, than one could start with a medium sweet potato a day and when you have got used to that, if you are not producing ketones yet increase the fasting period or reduce the sugar (sweet potato) or do more walking during your fast. This combined way to getting into keto does work. Keep easing the process so you stick with it, but at the same time push the variables that bother you the least. If you really do not mind walking do more and more of it. Or if fasting is your strong point, than fast for 23 hours a day and eat your one sweet potato with as many vegetables and olive oil or hemp oil or coconut fat as possible and keep doing this until you at least produce ketones. Once you are producing ketones, the next thing is to keep this up until your blood fasting glucose levels return down to a safe level and then wait a little longer until your energy levels begin to rise. You can help the later, that of your energy levels, by adding beta hydroxy butyrate (BHB) these are exogenous ketones to your morning drink. These can be useful if you need to get stuff done. However, this will only work if your body has developed some way to utilise the ketones you are producing. Otherwise, just stick to the vegetables and some sweet potato (resistant starch) and make sure you cover all these with plenty of olive oil or fat of your choice. You can add cold showers at this stage too if you want to speed up the process, because this will help kill off any old and obsolete mitochondrial cells that you may have that are hanging on, when really, they need to go or die off. You want as many new mitochondria as possible as it is these new ones that are going to be most likely able to burn fat. Detox can be scary. It can be really difficult to combine intermittent fasting with the keto diet along with exercise and protein and veg on a lectin free diet, which might include excluding dairy and all grains, but it would accelerate the healing process. But it would also accelerate the detoxing process which can be painful and even dangerous. So if you space out all these changes with a two to three week gap, and take magnesium 800mg, zinc 66mg, selenium 400mcg, and boron 30mg along with drinking a glass of water with half a teaspoon of Himalayan seasalt dissolved into it, because this allows more active molecules (toxins) to bind with the salt as it leaves the body, after they have been released into the blood stream, due to the other supplements and exercise. Find someone to help you through this. Really. This toxin problem is not nothing, it could easily be so uncomfortable that you think you are ill again or getting worse. There is a thing called keto flu, which is no small thing and cannot be rushed as it requires the birth or re-cycling of new mitochondria, there are also serious problems with the bromide detox, including swelling. Also this process of cutting carbs will have you climbing the walls if you were a carb junky, so do one change at a time and hold on. It will be worth every effort and sacrifice. You might need someone who knows what you are going through to help during the tough times. So get them onboard before you begin.Back to the top of the page.
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