Here comes another article in which I will continue loading your brain with useful information so that your brain has more information to calculate.
Many of you who are following my work are frequently asking for a more detailed explanation about what is this big deal about carbohydrates in our diet.
The latest question was from bigwave,
“There has been a widespread shift towards the “keto” diet but there still seems to be a lot of misinformation out there.
Most “experts” who advocate for the keto diet are under the impression that eating up to 20g of carbohydrates per day is still okay, and that you will remain in ketosis.
This contradicts what you have said, which is that eating even a small amount of sugar will keep your body out of ketosis and glucose will continue to be the main source of energy.”
The problem that those “experts” have is the lack of knowledge and understanding.
We are told that when the blood analysis shows no problems and all of the parameters are normal, we are healthy. That there is nothing wrong with our health.
Many people go and visit their doctor because they are not feeling well just to be told that there is nothing wrong with them. They are told that it is all in their head because the blood picture showed no problems.
On the other hand, there re many people in their forties and fifties who were feeling great and went to have their medical checkup where their doctor discovered a problem which made them realize that they are sick and in need of medicine for the rest of their life since their health problem is age-related and it cannot be “curred”.
Now the question is, when are we sick?
Are we sick when we feel sick and show symptoms of sickness, or are we sick only if the blood picture is showing irregularities?
You know my answer to this question.
Diseases do not exist. What we call disease, is our bodies reaction to the increased level of toxicity in our body.
Depending on the type of toxin in question, and the state of our emotions, the symptom will develop.
Once the symptom is strong enough to be visible or to present itself as sensation, our body is actually so toxic that it can no longer handle the toxic level without advising us of the problem. Our body is simply alarming us and letting us know that it is important for us to change or this robot of ours will collapse.
This alarm we cal a symptom and it can come in a variety of forms.
A symptom can be expressed as pain, as discoloration, as a growth, as an emotional deviation like uncontrollable anger or a need to cry, a depression or an emotional outburst. The symptom can be insomnia or tiredness and melancholy.
A symptom of ill health can be a wound that won’t heal, and eye that won’t stop tiring, a cough that cannot be stopped, fever or diarrhea, constipation and on and on we can go forever.
Since we love things to be identified and labeled, we bundle several symptoms together and give them a name, calling it a disease.
In some cases, a single symptom becomes labeled as a disease. This is the case in diabetes or cancer. Often inflammation of an organ is given a name of a disease like conjunctivitis, laryngitis, enteritis, colitis…
On the other hand, there are many instances where no disease was pinpointed and we are under the impression that our health is perfect just to suddenly drop dead.
This has happened to many athletes where their physical fitness is misinterpreted as health and the “minor” symptoms are being ignored.
What has all of this to do with glucose and ketosis you may ask?
Well, the “experts” are saying that when ketone bodies are in the blood, we are in a state of ketosis and our cells are functioning correctly.
According to them, not having ketone bodies in the blood means that the cells are not functioning correctly because the ketone bodies are not present in the blood.
These “experts” do not know that our mitochondria produce ketone bodies whenever it produces energy and the surplus of the ketone bodies will be released into the blood. The increased blood level of ketone bodies will suppress our hunger.
When there is glucose present in our gut (no matter of its level) an energy impulse is sent to the pancreas to alert it for insulin production. This impulse we cal GIP marker. I have mentioned it in my last article. Insulin secretion will start and the poisoning of our body begins.
When our cells are producing the necessary sugar, none of this is happening since the sugar is produced in places where it is needed and it remains there. Only our liver can release sugar into the blood and it does it to keep small levels of sugar instantly available if there is a need for it.
As I have mentioned before, sugar is not a cellular fuel of preference. We are programmed to use fat for fuel and glucose only as a buster in a stressful situation.
The presence of dietary glucose in the gut creates changes in the gut’s environment. When the glucose absorbs into the blood, it creates a change in the environment of the blood. It reprograms the gene expression and changes the way cells behave.
A small amount of glucose will be forced into the cells and it will be converted into energy.
Since there was not enough glucose available, a sufficient number of mitochondria will remain active to fill in the energy gap by utilizing fat.
This means that people who consume small amounts of glucose daily have a larger number of active mitochondria from those people who consume a larger amount of carbohydrates.
This is no way means that those people who consume small amounts of glucose daily are eating correctly and have no consequences from that dietary glucose. Their genome is changed, they will have short lives (less than 140 years) and most likely no diseases other than poorly functioning immune system.
Since their cells have a relatively high number of active mitochondria, they will be able to produce enough ketone bodies and show them in the blood but on the cellular level and especially on the gene expression, those people have corrupted their health.
Remember it is not the amount that matters, it is the presence that triggers the changes.
An increased amount of daily dietary glucose in the food will do the progressive damage by further shortening the life, and demonstrating symptoms of ill health.
The ketosis “experts” do not realize what really happens in the body when processed carbohydrates emerge and because some ketone is encountered in the blood, they think that small amounts of dietary glucose are not just ok, but right out necessary for the properly functioning body.
This is false.
When we do not have any dietary carbs in our food and we haven’t eaten for some time, we will not have any ketone in our blood aether but our gene expression will be correct, our immune system will be fully functioning, we will be healthy, and we will have long lives (600 years as the Bible states).
This means that having ketone in the blood does not indicate a proper ketogenic state of the cells. The cells remain on the lookout for glucose and because they are kept in the state of fright and flight, they do not function correctly.
Only the total absence of dietary glucose can trigger the correct change of the environment and gene recalibration.
Love and light to us all.