The use of anti-inflammatory foods and spices in conjunction with a ketogenic diet serve as a healthy strategy of reducing and managing inflammation. Inflammation is the body’s natural response to healing, yet when it persists it does more harm than good ultimately developing into chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation can display itself symptomatically as pains, allergies, […]

One of the inevitable reactions to folks becoming keto is a desire to get fit. The VAST majority of people who are keto have suffered, in some way, from some kind of illness or affliction. Turning to keto helps resolve a whole bunch of problems. Whether it’s diabetes, obesity, gastrointestinal issues, migraines, or other things, […]

For the past 40 or so years, because of the faulty calorie hypothesis, exercise was used as a tool for weight loss, often times the primary tool. The other being, “eat less”, but we’ll get into that later. Because the hormones responsible for fat accumulation and fat burning (LPL and HSL, respectively) are adjusted during […]

If you want to push yourself to the next stage in fitness and well-being, you’re going to want to involve some level of physical fitness in your weekly schedule. But that doesn’t mean you have to find and join a gym in order to access their exotic and intimidated machines and weight benches. You can […]

If you’ve heard any of my podcasts or read any of my articles regarding my exercise preferences, you’ll know that I always recommend lifting heavy stuff. Heavy, of course, is a relative thing. For some people, 45 pounds is a heavy bench press. For others, 315 pounds is a heavy bench press. Some people get […]

For years, I was told, and I believed that it was impossible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. The reason for this thinking was a belief in the incorrect calorie hypothesis. If the calorie hypothesis was true, the only way to gain muscle would be to have a calorie surplus, and […]

I get asked a lot about exercise. People who choose the the ketogenic diet and lifestyle will almost always experience energy like they’ve never had before, so they want to try to exercise. Of course, many first-time ketoers have never really gone to the gym and don’t know where to start. So the short answer […]