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Hey everybody. It's Kevin Weiss from BodyPerformance.net, brought to you by Rip Toned Home Fitness Products. And they asked me today to talk about the keto diet and my take on what the keto diet is good for, what it's not good for, and just some basics of it. So that's probably the best place to start is to actually talk about what the keto diet actually is, and just a real basic overview of it. So essentially, the ketogenic diet, a lot of people think it's a fad diet, but it's actually been around for probably well over a hundred years being used in medical interventions for epilepsy and stuff like that for children and various other things.
But we don't want to get too far into that right now because that's a very big topic. If you want to research it more, look up Dominic D'Agostino and he has done reams and reams of research on the ketogenic diet and therapeutic uses of it. So that's some interesting viewing if you're interested in that. But for me, I'm just going to talk about my experience and my take on ketogenic type diets. Now I used what would be considered probably a ketogenic type diet when I was doing my bodybuilding training and I kind of found it by accident almost. This would have been in the mid to late 90s is when I first was introduced to it. And I didn't even know what a ketogenic diet was.
I got exposed to a book from Dan Dushane called Body Opus. And that further led me to Mario Di Pasquale's Metabolic, or actually his original book was called Anabolic Timing or Anabolic Training, something like that. And then later on, it was changed to the Metabolic Diet. So I believe the first book he wrote, which would have been in the early to mid 90s was Anabolic Diet and then Metabolic Diet was kind of the follow-up to that. And that's kind of where I came into it was then. So I saw the terms in there, ketogenic diet and ketones and stuff like that, but didn't particularly know what they meant at the time.
And what I learned was that if your body was deprived of carbohydrates for any length of time and they get depleted in the body, the body starts breaking down fat essentially and making ketone bodies, which can be burned for energy by the brain and other systems in the body. And it's actually a fairly efficient system that works as far as energy goes. The brain actually uses the ketones fairly well. But I don't believe that the muscles actually use them that well. So that was where we came to problems with this was when I was doing it, I wasn't so concerned about being on a ketogenic diet. Although a lot of the principles that I was following the lower carbohydrate, the higher fat intake, I was doing these things that are recommended on a ketogenic diet. But I was doing them to reduce body fat because they were actually allowing me to have more energy in a lower calorie, like in a calorie deficit, a lower total calorie intake.
I had done the typical bodybuilding contest prep prior to that, where I was high protein, low fat, relatively high carbohydrate, which also worked quite well to get lean. But unfortunately, I felt like my testosterone, my natural testosterone went to pretty much zero, which makes your attitude, and your energy, and your strength, and everything also go to almost zero. And within a very short amount of time, you, if you can't train properly because you have no energy and you have no strength. You start to lose muscle mass as well.
So I didn't find that that was overly effective for me. And when I found the ketogenic diet, I found much, much later into the contest prep, my energy stayed up, my hormone levels stayed up, and my energy stayed up. So I was able to train harder, longer, even into the last few weeks where you get into like a very, very low level of body fat, you're going to suffer no matter what, but now instead of suffering for six, eight weeks feeling like trash, it was kind of that last couple of weeks where you had to give that final push. And even then I didn't find that it was nearly as bad as doing the typical, low fat diets.
So the thing that I have a problem with, with the ketogenic diet is people make it almost a contest to see how high of level of ketones they get. And they think that is the goal. And that is completely wrong as far as I'm concerned. I don't think there's anything wrong with being on a ketogenic diet. I think somebody that's a power athlete or someone that's any athlete of any kind, really your main focus is your performance. So some people can perform very well on a low carbohydrate diet. Some people need a higher level of carbohydrates and that's going to be an individual thing.
So I find for most people, what would be called a cyclical ketogenic diet...
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