In this video I’ll uncover exogenous ketones and the benefits they have to offer.
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In this video we are talking about exogenous ketones and the benefits they have to offer.
When we look at exogenous ketones it is something I’ve been experimenting with quite a bit
myself, and I’m really liking it.
I want to talk about not only the energy sources that are actually in the body and how they
operate but also the benefits you get from exogenous ketones and I will share some of
my personal stories and what I notice from supplementing with these exogenous ketones.
Now when we look at the bodies fuel sources, basically let’s start with carbohydrates
and sugars.
If you are someone who is consuming a carbohydrate rich diet, what’s going to happen those
carbohydrates are going to break down into glucose for immediate energy that’s glucose
for current bodily functions so your body can operate.
You’re also going to have carbs break down into glycogen this is stored energy stored
sugar in the liver basically.
Now what happens when we deplete these glycogen stores then we are going to start burning
energy from fat.
So, the question is, how do we deplete them?
We are going to deplete them by following ketogenic diet, long term calorie restriction,
long term sustained exercise, or even doing fasting.
That’s how you are going to actually deplete down those glycogen stores and start burning
that fat for energy.
Once you actually started burning that fat for energy what is going to happen is fat
is going to break down and its actually going to give you these ketones.
Some people say I don’t actually want to do the ketogenic diet nor fasting or any of
that stuff, they go right from carbs to fat for energy and that’s ketones and that’s
where exogenous ketones come in.
When we look at exogenous ketones, they have a ton of benefits they give the benefit of
a ketogenic diet without actually doing the ketogenic diet and that’s pretty cool.
That’s where researchers actually came in and said we notice the benefits these people
are getting from the ketogenic diet how do we offer that to people in a supplementation
form.
Exogenous ketones are not by any means a replacement for the ketogenic diet.
The keto diet in its own right has many benefits you’re not going to get from exogenous ketones
alone, but the exogenous ketones can certainly help you out while you are on the keto diet
or certainly help out people who don’t want to go through he effort of being on it but
still want to get some of the benefits.
Let’s go ahead and talk about exogenous ketones and what it has to offer here.
First of all, it’s a carb free fuel source for the muscle and brain.
This is very interesting because we know ketones are a better fuel source, they are a more
sustainable fuel source for the muscle, for the brain for everything, so for someone who
is actually trying to lose weight the exogenous ketones can be very powerful for that.
The other thing is when people are suffering from neurological conditions, let’s say
someone who is suffering from epilepsy suffering from problems like Alzheimer’s.
Sometimes it can be very difficult for these people to go follow the ketogenic diet, well
if you take the exogenous ketones you’re still going to get some of the key benefits
they keto diet has to offer.
Its also going to help you with hunger, its going to help decrease hunger, if you are
someone who is trying to get into intermittent fasting, if you are someone who started following
the keto diet and find yourself hungry all the time the exogenous ketones can be very
powerful for that.
Especially when it comes to weight management, once again if you’re someone who is trying
to lose weight you an actually start adding in the exogenous and it can be powerful for
that as well.
Its going to help stimulate that metabolic shift, if you’re someone who is a carb burner
or a sugar burner and you are trying to switch to a fat burner, its kind of going to help
promote that state of ketosis.
The other thing we have to look at when we look at when we look at stimulating that metabolic
shift when you are trying to get into the state of ketosis and you’re making that
metabolic shift something comes along, and it’s called the keto flu and it’s not
so pleasant.
Taking exogenous ketones is once again going to help promote you getting into ketosis but
its also going to help get rid of the keto flu during that process and make it more comfortable
for you to do, so anyway the exogenous ketones are very powerful here.
Basically, when you put those ketones in your body and your body uses them as a fuel source,
your body wants more of them, so it starts to promote the building of ketones in the
body.
Now the next thing here is its going to help increase cognition.
One of my personal stories I can tell you with using exogenous ketones is it really
offers a lot of brain power.
A lot of people who actually start following the ketogenic diet say, “man my brain works
so much better while on it” The other thing if you’re actually following the ketogenic
diet and you’re using some exogenous ketones it acts as a really good boost a fuel source
for your brain.
People who are going into a meeting, people who are trying to increase their focus, people
who are trying to increase their memory and cognitive function exogenous ketones help
quite a bit.
I noticed my brain is like cranking and working so well and so focused when using the exogenous
ketones, so I’ve been really liking them for that purpose.
The next thing is immediate and sustained fuel source, when we look at this it is cool,
and this is another way that I’ve been actually going and using the exogenous ketones.
By the way I’m talking about all my experience using the exogenous ketones while on the ketogenic
diet.
When we look at this fuel source, its very incredible for a couple reasons.
Using it as a pre-workout is very powerful, its going to really help give you that extra
energy especially while on the ketogenic diet to really perform well and exercise.
And the other thing it is actually good for is long term sustained running, if you’re
going long distance run this is also really great for that.
The last thing I want to mention on this topic if you are actually combining carbs and these
ketones it is absolute fire.
Its like a double energy source, and in fact it actually acts as 4 energy source and preserves
our endogenous energy for later on in the exercise but actually using the exogenous
ketones for immediate fuel source, which is really powerful.
This is really great for a pre-workout as well.
A couple of things I want to mention, when I look at the exogenous ketones you want to
make sure you use one that’s mixed with MCTS because MCTS actually promote ketosis
and promote ketone productions.
The one I use has MCTs in it.
It also has a patent exogenous ketones blend in it that’s really going to make sure you’re
getting the most benefit from those ketones, not just raising them up and having them drop
off but raising them up and having them stay at a sustainable level in the body to get
the most benefit.
A lot of the exogenous ketones do not taste very well, the one I use is very refreshing
it’s a cucumber lime flavor.
The last thing I want to mention about exogenous ketones its not going to be something you
use on an everyday basis a bottle of exogenous ketones lasts me 2 or 3 months that’s because
I’m using it intermittently.
I’m using to actually get a lot of these benefits we are talking about, I love it as
a prework out, I love it as a midafternoon energy source, I love it as a way to actually
improve cognition.
So, I’m using it that way but that doesn’t mean I’m using it every day.
I’ll put a link to the exogenous ketones that I love and use in the description below,
go ahead and go there read on them and check out all the research on it you can see for
yourself.
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