Strategies to Become More Metabolically Flexible

This really just depends on you know, the individual and where they're coming from. So, you know, depends on like, I like to what side of the spectrum they're on, and like how they're kind of like which one they're closer to. So if they, if I have a client who is coming, you know, from just consuming higher carbs their whole life, they never really played around with, you know, ketogenic diet, or they never really played around with fasting before that, and they're having, you know, issues with, you know, if they're trying to change their body composition, or lose body fat, or whatever it may be.

And they haven't been successful at that with what they're doing, then they're like, Okay, so what you're what you've been doing hasn't been working to, let's maybe, you know, try something else, and maybe try a Keto approach or a lower carb approach, maybe implementing intermittent fasting to help them become a little bit more or helped teach their body to rely on fat for fuel a little bit more, I think there is a period of time where going into like more of a strict lower carb diet can be beneficial, and testing that out for a little while and being strict for a period of time. But then also realizing that like, you don't have to stay there forever.

So I think there is definitely you know, an advantage to implementing a ketogenic diet for for a good amount of time to become adapted to really teach your body how to how to use not only produce ketones, but use them as a fuel source. And I think that is also going to be dependent on the person, how you know, how much body fat they have, how you know, what their activity level is, like, what their stress levels are, like, all of those things are going to play into it. I am definitely in like the moderate to higher protein approach, I've actually always been there even, you know, back in, when I first started to get into keto, and even within the study that I performed, the basis of this study was, hey, get your carbs under a total of 50 grams per day, don't an eat ad libitum, meaning just focus on the carbs and let protein and fat kind of fall where they may, I didn't you know, I knew from the beginning, just the research that I did that a high high fat keto diet was really, you know, more sore.

So for people who are, you know, looking to treat some type of medical issue or the need to have ketones super, super high, but for your average person who's, you know, looking to just maybe get the benefits, the overall benefits of ketosis and maybe lose some body fat, maybe, you know, the mental clarity side of things, you know, appetite control, I've seen just in my practice, and from a lot of the research that I've dove into that protein is, you know, is not is something that can be a little bit higher, and you don't need to have necessarily super high fat approach. And I think that that actually is a little bit of a kind of putting you in a place that's not going to make you successful for the long term if you're going to super high fat, super low carb and low protein. Because we know protein is just there's just so many benefits to protein that
that can't be overlooked. So