Diet Variation
“Better Health Begins At The Cell.” -Dr. Bill Cole
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Hey folks, today I want to talk with you about a concept called diet variation. Diet variation is something that we utilize in our clinics with great success. We’re a big fan of ketogenic diets, for instance, but I’m also understanding that for most people it’s best not to stay in that state all the time. I’ll give you an example.
For women who are hypothyroid, it’s not a good thing for most of them to stay in a ketogenic diet or on a ketogenic diet all the time. What we have found is that the ability to convert thyroid hormone T4 to thyroid hormone T3, which is the hormone that gets into your cells, gives you energy, helps you lose weight, sense of wellbeing, all the good metabolic things that happen from T3, that conversion of T4 to T3 can be damaged. You can wind up creating a situation where you’re not converting T4 to T3 the way that you should, and now you don’t have this major metabolic hormone if you stay in a ketosis situation all the time.
With carbohydrates added to the diet periodically, now, you’ll ramp up that conversion of T4 to T3. That’s what brings us to this idea of diet variation. Instead of just staying in ketosis all the time, we would do one of two things. We would pick two days a week, maybe Monday and Thursday, or Tuesday and Friday, something like that. Days spread apart a little bit, where, instead of staying in ketosis, we raise carbohydrates up to 100. About 100 grams a day for women, and maybe as much as 150 grams a day for a larger man. Coming in and out of that ketosis situation, adding these carbs in these two days. We want to make them clean carbs, right? We want organic yams, sweet potatoes, berries, apples, and things of this nature that’ll bring up the carbs.
We don’t want to be having junk food during that time. That’s going to be counterproductive. Raising these natural, healthier carbs is going to do some profound things. Not only with the conversion of T4 to T3, but a lot of other things that’ll happen metabolically, hormonally in the body that will really keep the ball rolling. You’ll see even more profound benefits with weight loss and muscle increase. There’s just a lot that goes on from a hormonal perspective whenever you’re going in and out of this ketosis, what we would call diet variation.
The other thing that you could do instead of picking two days a week would be to, especially for you women that are still having your monthly cycle, you want to take about the week beforehand, and you want to increase your carbohydrates. So, three weeks out of the month, you’re in ketosis. One week out of the month, you’re going to raise up your carbohydrates to between 100–125 grams for women. Men would be around 150 grams. Then, you can do that once a month thing, too, where you’re just picking out any set of five to seven days out of the month where you’re going to increase your carbohydrates. But that in and out stuff where you’re changing the diet, diet variation, has just been gigantic for our patients in terms of these added benefits, keeping the ball rolling, and really accentuating the benefits of a ketosis existence to begin with.
I hope that helps you guys, and if you want to learn more information, go to ColeClass.com.
Take care, guy. God Bless.
