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September 20 2019

Keto Plateau – Should you supplement L-carnitine?

L-Carnitine is a natural compound primarily obtained from meat, and is one of the key mobilisers of fat from stored fat cells (adiposites) to muscles to burn for energy. However for L-Carnitine to be most effective in mobilising fat to burn for ATP we must keep certain things in mind:-

L-Carnitine works best in a fasted state. Have it in the morning before any food or other nutritional intake like butter coffee.
L-Carnitine will help mobilise fat from stored reserves when liver glycogen is burnt.
L-Carnitine is a mobiliser of fat (it makes it available for your body to use) not the burner, so to burn the fat you still have to work for it. Try 20–30 min fasted cardio to deplete liver glycogen, and allow muscles to access fat stores for energy.
L-Carnitine has other key functions which are beneficial apart from fat mobilisation. It’s a cognitive enhancer (specially the form Acetyl L-Carnitine), Anti-aging, anti-oxidant, and boosts healing of fatty liver disease.
While extra L-Carnitine helps everyone, as its primarily available from meat, poultry, fish, and dairy it is particularly beneficial for vegetarians on keto due to the incomplete nature of essential amino acids in vegetarian proteins.

Carnitine is supposed to help fatty acids enter the mitochondria of the cell to be converted to ATP (energy). On a ketogenic diet, fat is the primary source of energy. However, our bodies are primed to use glucose as its main source of fuel. Carnitine may, theoretically, help with the transition given its purpose is to help use fat for energy.

It is better to work your way from about 500 to 2000mg daily, and then take a week off to reset the receptors for Carnitine. Also one can use Actyle-L-Carnitine intermittently. it works synergistically with Co-Q10 and Chromium supplements.

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March 1 2016

7 Lesser Known Ways Coffee Affects You

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Morning time. I will gladly join any length of queue for a caffè all’americana to kick start the day. Chances are you’re the same. But, what doesn’t come to mind in the a.m. is the affect coffee drinking has on your body, mind and waistline.

It turns out there is more to drinking coffee than meets the eye. It has a secret – 7 secrets in fact! Read on to learn how to improve your long term memory and unlock the fat burning potential of your body – while you’re up all night with the jitters!

1. Coffee can prevent you from getting your beauty sleep

Coffee picks you up. But excess caffeine makes it harder to sleep. It can also be hard on your stomach. The effects of coffee last 3 to 6 hours. However if you have more than a couple in a day, even if you finish drinking by 2 or 3 pm, you can still have difficulty nodding off that night. So try to keep it to the equivalent of a couple of Costa or Starbucks coffees a day – that’s still 4 to 6 shots of espresso!

2. Coffee helps you relax, surprisingly

While caffeine blocks alpha waves (stick with us on this one!), indirectly, the coffee you drink while taking a break relaxes your body and mind. As the smell of coffee reaches your nose, you experience an increase in alpha wave activity in your brain, which relaxes your body and lowers your stress levels. I’m hoping someone can plug me in to test this theory!

3. Coffee helps you burn fat

Coffee is a stimulant. By combining coffee and exercise you will be able to workout longer. It’s as simple as that. Drink coffee 20-30 minutes before exercise. Not too much, about a cup is fine. But note – only by increasing your activity, by utilising the stimulant and exercising more, or faster, or longer, does coffee help to burn off fat.

4. Coffee helps you eat a little less

For those less inclined to exercise after drinking a cup of coffee, it’s also known to be an appetite suppressant. Whew!

5. Chromogenic Acid for Weight Loss and Anti-aging (Wha’?!)

Coffee contains a polyphenol called chromogenic acid (about 5% of the total coffee bean) that is connected to the color, scent, and taste you get out of coffee. Polyphenols are believe to help fight cancer, unclog arteries, and produce an anti-aging effect with antioxidants to promote healthy fat burning in your liver.

However, this only works if chromogenic acid is protected. In fact, most of the polyphenols in coffee are lost during the roasting process. The more heat applied, the less chromogenic acid. When choosing which types of coffee to buy, go with the lightly roasted variety. There’s more chance of some chromogenic acid remaining. Chocolate coated coffee bean, anyone?!

6. Coffee can be both the cause of, and solution, to headaches

Coffee is a vasoconstrictor. Vasoconstriction is the shrinking of the blood vessels. This can reduce the swelling in your brain that causes a headache. However – because caffeine is addictive, abstaining from your usual coffee can result in withdrawal symptoms, once of which is – you guessed it – headaches!

7. Coffee is very low in calories

A cup of black coffee contains around 4 to 12 calories and so it is considered a calorie free drink. Certainly if you are on a fasting diet such as the 5:2 or Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat, then black coffee is permitted and encouraged during the fasting period. I have certainly found it helps.

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200 milligrams of caffeine improves your memory

200mg of caffeine, the equivalent of 2 espressos or approximately what you get in a ‘small’ sized Costa coffee can improve your long term memory according to New Scientist, so it has to be true! Specifically it enhances memory consolidation – the process of strengthening memories between acquiring them and retrieving them as long as it’s taken in the run up to the memory being created, rather then recalled.

July 21 2015

2 Ways To Loose Fat Cells

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You’ve lost weight. You look great. But there’s something niggling in the back of your mind.

Fat cells tend to hang around even after they deflate and you lose weight. So is it true that you’re stuck with the fat cells you have? Or is there some way you can lose them? Ok – it’s not gonna be easy… read on.

The good news is no, you’re not stuck: You can shed fat cells, but you won’t find it to be a stroll in the park. When we gain weight as adults, we are mostly enlarging the fat cells we have instead of adding more. This process has a medical name: hypertrophic obesity.

Reversing this type of weight gain requires shrinking the cells, but they don’t put up a huge fight when being shrunk from plus size back to normal. While not exactly easy, this type of weight loss is more doable than reversing the other kind of obesity: hyperplastic.

When we quickly put on a lot of pounds in early childhood, at puberty, and sometimes even as adults, we can grow new fat cells. Known as hyperplastic obesity, it poses a daunting challenge. The only way to be thin if you have an excessive population of fat cells is to shrink them below normal size, which is where things get really tough. The cells begin to produce less leptin, a hormone that signals the brain when you’re full. Hunger feelings increase.

However, if you find the will to lose more than 10 percent of your body weight (more than 20 pounds for someone who weighs 200), eventually you’ll induce a process called apoptosis — or cell death. You could begin trimming your population of fat cells. Once you do, you’ll find that maintaining a lower weight gets easier.

And option 2? Get your wallet out. CoolSculpting treatment is non-invasive way to gently and effectively reduce fat from those stubborn areas that are resistant to diet and exercise, pregnancy pouches, love handles, muffin tops and back fat. CoolSculpting is FDA approved to spot-reduce fat by up to 20% to 40% in these stubborn areas with NO surgery and NO downtime.

How It Works

During the procedure, a non-invasive applicator is applied to the skin surface to deliver precisely controlled cooling method called ‘Cryolipolysis’ to target, cool and eliminate fat cells in specific areas of the body. Basically your fatty area is clamped between two plates.

As they are exposed to sub zero cooling, the fat cells begin a process of natural fat cell removal. The fat cells in the treated area are gradually eliminated through the body’s normal metabolic processes – over a period of 1 to 4 months.

People see results after one treatment however a clinic will advise you on the amount of treatments you require for your best result. Lipo massage is often used to compliment a CoolSculpting treatment.

Unlike traditional invasive surgical procedures, the CoolSculpting procedure is completely non-invasive with no needles and no need for surgical incisions. Therefore, recovery time is not required; you can resume normal activities on the same day as your treatment, including work and exercise. Some patients experience minor redness or bruising or numbness but this is temporary.

However – worth keeping in mind, it is believed that your body will recalibrate itself over a period of fixed weight change of 12 months or so. So if you loose weight and maintain it you body should naturally rebalance fat cell count.

June 7 2015

No.1 At All Times

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Fortunately, the delicately flavored and versatile almond is available throughout the year to make a healthy and tasty addition to both sweet and savory dishes. Although packaged almonds are available year round, they are the freshest in mid-summer, which is when they are at the height of their season.

The almond that we think of as a nut is technically the seed of the fruit of the almond tree, a medium-size tree that bears fragrant pink and white flowers. Like its cousins, the peach, cherry and apricot trees, the almond tree bears fruits with stone-like seeds (or pits) within. The seed of the almond fruit is what we refer to as the almond nut.

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