The high fat diet is becoming widely known as the best way to loose weight, improve energy levels and boost mental performance. There are a whole list of benefits associated with eating a high fat diet .
The benefits of a High Fat Diet
The benefits of a high fat diet result not only from the fat being consumed but also from the absence of sugar being burned as a primary fuel.
- Disease avoidance: Because there is less glycation of proteins in the blood when we eat more fat and less sugar we suffer less chronic inflammation. Fat is a clean burning fuel so at the cellular level there are fewer Rective Oxygen Species (ROS) generated and therefore less mess for the immune system to clean up.
- More energy: Ketones are broken down from dietary fats. Ketone bodies are much more efficiently converted into Adenosine Tryphosphate (ATP) than glycogen. This means more energy is produced within the cell and more energy is then available to the body as a whole.
- Mental clarity: The brain prefers ketones bodies for fuel over and above glycogen. In a fasted state or in nutritional ketosis a greater clarity of thinking is experienced.
- Improved gut health: The profile of bacteria in the gut shifts as we move away from carbohydrates (sugar) as a primary fuel. The absence of sugar means that species of bacteria that tend to be pathogenic in a state of dysbiosis have their sugar fuel advantage removed. As a result the diversity of the gut broadens and stabilises.
- Food cravings go away: As the body adjusts and adapts to burning fat as a primary fuel food cravings become a thing of the past. Many refined wheat and grain products are addictive due to stimulating pleasure receptors in the brain. Fat doesn’t do this and does not illicit food cravings like carbs. In fact we become more genuinely in touch with our hunger on a high fat diet.
- Long range fuel tanks: When we burn fat we have access to all the fat store of the body without any switch over necessary. It becomes easy to spend several days without eating!
- Better power to weight ration: improved muscle mass is experienced as the protein sparing effect makes sure that proteins in the body are not broken down into sugar as some suggest. Muscle mass is increased and fat deposits reduced, and a better power to weight performance is noticed.
- Slower aging: The rate of aging is reduced due to less glycation of proteins and fewer ROS, but also a lower fasting insulin level means lower levels of IGF-1 resulting in an upgrade of mend and repair functions of the body. Also mTOR is not triggered on a high fat diet and this also upregulates repair functions as well.
- Improved athletic performance: Increased levels of VO2 max have been measured in athletes giving them a competitive advantage over their conventional colleagues.
- Dental health: A high fat diet with the commensurate low levels of sugar (and that is an important thing to note – you must not eat high fat AND high sugar or you get the worst of all worlds!) means teeth enjoy the benefit of a better profile of bacteria in the mouth and less sugar for tooth decay. Dental health improves on a high fat diet.
- Weight loss: Oh yes, and you naturally stabilise at your bodies ideal weight with zero effort or calorie counting. The hunger mechanism begins to work reliably as it should as food addictions become a thing of the past.
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Very Informative blog. I have always been on the fence about how much fruits should I consider. Thanks
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