Fat for fuel, my ketogenic diet experiment while endurance training.

What is a ketogenic diet?

The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Normally, the carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is particularly important in fuelling brain function. However, if there is very little carbohydrate in the diet, the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. The ketone bodies pass into the brain and replace glucose as an energy source. An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood, is a state known as ketosis.

Endurance Planet Podcast: Ketogenic Diet Info

Click the link below for the latest episode of Endurance Planet where Tawny talks to Ben Greenfield about sports nutrition questions that listeners have wrote in. This week they cover the ketogenic diet quite extensively and it is very useful info. Check it out.

 

http://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=28246188&refid=asa