1. What is ketosis?

Ketosis is a natural, safe body condition, where our bodies are burning fat
rather than sugar, as the primary fuel source. The sugar our bodies usually
burn is glucose, which is produced from the carbs we eat. Any extra
glucose is stored either in the liver or the muscles as glycogen or converted
to fat for storage.

By lowering carb intake, insulin hormone levels also drop, and we

reprogram our metabolism to shift into fat burning mode. Healthy foods that
are high in healthy fats and eating a moderate amount of healthy protein is
what helps control the appetite and reach the wanted weight. When our
bodies are in this fat burning mode we are technically in the state of
ketosis.

Ketosis is a natural state of the human body and its safe, while the body
burns fat rather than sugar.

We actually tend to come close to ketosis when we sleep, if we dine around

6 in the evening and fast before going to bed, everybody's very close to
ketosis after 12 hours of fasting or more.
After we eat breakfast in the morning, or we break our fasting in anyway,
the body usually does not return into the ketosis state for the rest of the day
because the body it's busy digesting the food that we have eaten or
drinking, and it's busy breaking down the carbs.
So when we eat a high carb diet we will have our body busy digesting for a
long time.
When we eat a low-carb diet and high fat intake we go into the ketosis
where the body burns fat and believe it or not the stubborn fat around the
belly is the first one to go. That is the fat targeted in ketosis, because of the
anti-inflammatory benefits of the diet. We will talk much more detailed
about intermittent fasting and the characteristics of the ketogenic diet in the
upcoming lectures of the course.
For now, I want you to imagine your body instead of digesting carbs and
store them as fat, in ketosis, the body burns fat all day long. It also makes
us sharp and alert, way more energetic and with less food cravings for the
whole day.
To be able to have a well-rounded perspective and understand how a low-
carbs, high-fat diet affects the human body, before getting into the
characteristics of the ketogenic diet and its amazing benefits, before talking
about insulin, cholesterol, and other important elements which are going to
be affected by ketosis, we need to learn more about nutrients, especially
macronutrients and their effect on our health and our energy production.