What actually happens inside your body when you eat. Nobody explains it like this.

I've said this so many times at dinner tables, at barbecues, to friends who look at my plate and ask what I'm doing.
So let me just say it the way I always say it.

When you eat the way most of us grew up eating, carbs, protein and some fat, your
body takes the easy road. It grabs the carbs first, converts them into glucose, and uses
that as fuel. To do that, it sends out insulin, the hormone that moves glucose into
your cells.
Fast, easy, done.
And while all that glucose is burning, most of the fat you just ate gets stored. Your body
doesn't need it at that moment. It has plenty of easy fuel. So it just saves the fat for later. That "later" never arrives. This explains the belly and the weight that sits there no matter what you do.

Now think about your morning orange juice. Feels healthy, right? But without the fiber of
the whole fruit, that sugar hits your blood fast. Glucose spikes. Insulin spikes. And then
glucose drops. Fast.
An hour or two later you're hungry again. So you eat again. Glucose spikes. Insulin
spikes. Drops again. Hungry again.
That cycle repeats all day. Your body never gets a break from it. Then there's the craving for sweets after lunch, that's not weakness. It's your glucose crashing and your body asking for more fuel.

Keto interrupts that cycle.

When you cut carbs, your body runs out of its easy fuel. And instead of shutting
down, it adapts. It starts breaking down both the fat you eat and the fat already stored in your body, to produce Ketone bodies, a vital alternative energy source.

I'm no scientist, I can't tell you this is "better fuel".
What I can tell you is what I felt:
By the end of the first week, the hunger dissappeared, my energy stopped crashing in the afternoon, I didn't fall asleep after lunch anymore and I slept better at night.
Something in how my body was running felt different and steadier than it had in years.
Now, I know what you're thinking, "all that fat can't be good for your heart".

That's what we've been told for decades.

I'm also not a doctor so I'm only going to tell you what happened to me.
My triglycerides went from 642 to 108.
My cholesterol ratio went from 7.7 to 4.5.
No medication. Just food.
What I believe damaged my health was everything else, the sugar, the processed
flour, the ingredients I couldn't pronounce and the stuff that comes in a box and somehow lasts three years on a shelf.

Real fat was never the problem.
We just forgot that somewhere along the way.

Gustavo Rodriguez, Founder