COVID and Keto
Let’s face it, COVID has been around since the dawn of time while this variation of COVID-19 appears to have been around for only a few years. With that being said, it is here to stay and will most likely remain on our planet for eternity. Are we going to cower and live in fear? Will you never leave your home again? Is life now a self inflicted prison of the innocent? For some, yes. There are stories of some who build bunkers in the 60’s to save themselves from a nuclear attack and never came up. After only a short period of time, the human mind begins to change and lose the ability to function in society. What may end up happening is a greatly enhanced desocialization effect when one combines the social media effect with the refusal to function. Perhaps this resonates with some. Unfortunately, it appears many minds are too far gone to understand real facts as opposed to fear and statements such as the previous are met with violent outrage. This aspect is terrifying. One has a greater chance of dying in a motor vehicle accident than from COVID-19. The chances of death by motor vehicle accident can be decreased or increased based on a variety of factors such as: air bags, seat belts, distracted driving, impaired driving, health of the vehicle, reaction time by the driver etc. The same goes for COVID-19. It’s apparent that if one has a metabolic condition and continues consumption of glucose laden foods, is elderly and lives in poor physical and mental conditions such as an assisted living home, their chances of contracting and dying from this disease (along with many other diseases) is increased. This means a senior citizen who lives in an assisted living facility and consumes a breakfast of coffee, juice and cereal, lunch of a sandwich of some sort with a piece of fruit and dinner of pasta (add a soda and some milk in for good measure) and perhaps a cookie or slice of pie/ cake for dessert; has a very habitable environment for disease to consume them. Yet what was described is the standard American diet (S.A.D.). Note there is no official one size fits all treatment for COVID-19. Many different therapies are being tested and tried. The best we can do is just that- our best. So what can be done to reduce the risks of this illness?
The purpose of this research is to really hone in and understand on number five. It is interesting that it appears by optimizing your metabolic health may be an effective way to mitigate the severity of a COVID-19 infection. This is because when you're metabolically flexible, you're not insulin resistant, and insulin resistance and diabetes are significant risk factors. A ketogenic diet was developed as a very powerful treatment for pediatric epilepsy (1920’s). The dawn of anti-seizure drugs (1930’s) put a keto lifestyle on the shelves. In 2020, we face a growing epidemic of insulin resistance including it’s effects such as diabetes, heart disease and increased susceptibility to viral infections. As of 2018, 34.2 million Americans have a diagnosis of diabetes. This is 1 in 10 Americans!!! 88 million have pre-diabetes and could be part of the increasing diagnosis any moment. In 2017, diabetes was mentioned as a cause of death in a total of 270,702 certificates. Diabetes may be underreported as a cause of death. Studies have found that only about 35% to 40% of people with diabetes who died had diabetes listed anywhere on the death certificate and about 10% to 15% had it listed as the underlying cause of death”. This means that just two years ago, 28 million more Americans contracted diabetes, which is preventable, than have COVID-19 thus far. As of 2017, more have died of diabetes than have COVID-19. Yet it’s being shown that those with insulin resistance are far greater at risk to contract diseases such as COVID-19. To better understand how this happens, let’s delve into some science for a moment. The four fuels your body utilizes on a daily basis are carbohydrates, fats, proteins and ketones. Each has it’s purpose and can be both manipulated either consciously or subconsciously to be positive or negative for your entire body (brain included). Carbs and fat are your two main sources of fuel. Carbs are your instant fuel while fats take longer to break down and can be more of that long slow burn. Protein is broken down into amino acids as your building blocks to repair and recover. Protein can be converted into glucose through gluconeogenic pathways and be used as fuel. However, the ideal fasted fuel is ketones. Protein can also be converted back into glucose through gluconeogenic pathways. When you fast, protein can be used as an alternative fuel, but the ideal fuel is ketones. Our bodies were designed to utilize glucose as the primary fuel of choice. Once a carbohydrate is consumed, it is broken down in what is known as a glycolytic pathway and either is burned or processed through 10 steps before reaching a molecular state known as Acetyl-CoA. This then enters the citric acid cycle and it’s substrates enter the electron transport chain to produce ATP (useable fuel). The consumption of carbohydrates releases insulin into the blood stream. With the release of insulin, you turn off the processing of fat (beta oxidation) as fuel and begin lipogenesis (build and store fat). On the flip side, when insulin is low as is during a state of ketosis (brought on by fasting, a ketogenic lifestyle and/ or exogenous ketones), beta-oxidation ensues and your body will use fat for fuel. Remember that while there’s 4 calories per gram of carbs and protein, there’s 9 calories per gram of fat. What does this mean? More energy can be released with less grams of fat than carbs or protein! Remember that fat burning is turned off by a high level of carbohydrates (specific to the individual). With low levels of carbohydrates, you burn fat and generate ketones to burn as fuel. Levels of insulin are low at this point and will signal to your adipose cells (fat cells) to release body fat stored at triglycerides. This occurs for the most part in the liver. For those with an unhealthy liver, this process can be inhibited. With increased beta-oxidation, oxaloacetate is pulled out of the mitochondria. As Acetyl-CoA can no longer combine with oxaloacetate, there’s a build up of Acetyl-CoA and then converts instead to acetoacetate. This then gets converted into beta-hydroxybutyrate. Beta-hydroxybutyrate enters the blood stream as fuel. With today’s Standard American Diet, most individuals never reach the ability to allow their bodies to experience fuel by ketones. The constant consumption of high glycemic foods keeps insulin raised and eventually leads to weight gain and worse yet, insulin resistance. Without the ability to shuttle glucose into cells as insulin does, excess glucose is allowed to float freely. Glucose is very rigid and therefore damages both the epithelial lining (blood vessels) as well as nerves. When it comes to a ketogenic lifestyle and viruses such as COVID-19, the keto bread is in the keto pudding. Many health officials talk about social distancing and mask wearing but do not address an issue that puts so many at risk and that is metabolic dysfunction. The virus exposes this risk and is capitalizing on individuals lack of desire to be well. There is extreme bias in the thinking of humans and how we react. The fact that human decision making is done out of fear as opposed to a full accounting of fact proves disproportionate. A true balance in our lives as individuals must be realized in order to achieve a true balance as a world that must either come together or fall apart. We spend an absurd amount of money each year in sick care as opposed to health care and watch the numbers of the sick rise higher and higher. Instead we have a free installation of health care in our bodies called ketones. This is extremely potent and powerful and ready to be accessed to those who are ready to step out of fear and into a reality where false evidence appearing real does not exist! Remember, in life we cannot control things but merely increase or decrease odds of an occurrence. Staying locked up in a prison without proper sunlight, proper nutrition and exercise while we gain weight and become insulin resistance is a method to contract disease. I thank you from the bottom of my heart and forever wish you only the best.
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