The Ketogenic Diet

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The Ketogenic Diet involves limiting your intake of carbohydrates, and eating plenty of Fat and some Protein. This lowers the blood glucose levels, and forces the body to burn fat. The metabolism of fat produces ketones in the liver, and these replace glucose as an energy source. In addition ketones have anti-inflammatory and pro-immunogenic properties.

For Nutritional Ketosis, and weight/fat loss, we can simply eliminate foods high in carbohydrate (starchy fruits and vegetables, bread, pasta, grains and sugar) whilst eating more fat and up to 100 grams of protein a day.

For Therapeutic Ketosis, we limit carbohydrates to 12 grams a day, (basically only eating green salads with herbs), whilst eating plenty of fat, (olive oil, coconut oil, butter, cream) and 10+ tablets of MyAMINO (protein replacement) a day. MyAMINO produces virtually no glucose (much less that dietary protein) and provides all the building blocks to help maintain muscle mass and support immune function.

Measure your blood ketones (click here for meter info) with a finger prick blood test meter. First thing in the morning will produce the best reading after fasting all night. You are in Nutritional Ketosis at 0.5 to 3.0 mmol/L. When dealing with Cancer we are aiming for Therapeutic Ketosis, which is from 3.0 to 6.0 mmol/L. This occurs by replacing all dietary protein with MyAMINO. Also measure your glucose levels. They should progressively decrease and remain stable to the lowest possible value and NOT increase much after meals.

• Too much carbohydrate is the main reason people fail to achieve a good level of ketosis. You MUST measure your carbohydrate intake.
• Emotional stress will raise your cortisol, which will increase glucose levels, which will lower your ketones. Practice gratitude and acceptance.
• A sedentary lifestyle as opposed to exercise shortly after eating which helps to burn up the glucose and get you into ketosis. Go for a brisk walk.
• No medium-chain triglycerides in the diet. You need these to produce ketones. Use plenty of coconut oil.
• Eating too much protein (except MyAMINO®) Limit your protein to 100g per day.

Fat Sources

Have at least 1 teaspoon of Coconut or Palm Oil with each meal. Have butter on your veggies.

Ketones are produced from fats high in Medium-Chain Triglycerides.

Best Fats & Oils

Protein Sources

Allow for 100g per day of eggs or meat. More than this will generally drop people out of ketosis. For other meals take 5 tablets of MyAMINO® as a protein source. (Take 10 tablets of MyAMINO® if weight loss or hunger is a problem).

Best Protein Source [4].

Good Protein Sources [4].

Poor Protein Sources [4].

Carbohydrate Sources

Aim for a carbohydrate load of no more than 20g per day. The lower the better for ketosis levels.

Low Carb Vegetables - less than 6g a cup
Grams of carb per 100g [1].

Medium Carb Vegetables - 7 to 14g a cup
Grams of carb per 100g [1].

Low Carb Fruits (& low GI/GL)
Grams of carb per 100g [1].

Medium Carb Fruits (& low GI/GL)
Grams of carb per 100g [1].

Low Carb Nuts
Grams of carb per 100g [1].

Cheese

High fat cheese may be eaten in moderation as the fat has little effect on blood glucose levels but the casein (80% of the protein) is mostly converted into glucose.

Cheese
Grams of X per 100g [1].

Weight Management Problem

Losing too much weight on a ketogenic diet can be addressed by increasing consumption of macadamias, avocados and MyAMINO® tablets. Up to 50 MyAMINO® tablets a day can be consumed with no more than 20 being consumed at any one time.

If weight loss continues to be a problem then protein (fatty meat, fish, eggs) should be increased until the problem ceases.