Your Weight is Controlled by Hormones
Gaining Weight is a Hormone Disorder
Prof. Tim Noakes says that obesity is a failure of the appestat in the brain to regulate food intake. This is a hormone disorder.
Steve Phinney says that by controlling the carbohydrate we eat, we can influence the way hormones behave in our body. It's possible to eat a diet that keeps insulin spikes very small, or perhaps have none at all. If we do that, our bodies will tell us when we are "full" and the appestat will start working again.
Dr. Stephen Phinney - 'The Case For Nutritional Ketosis'
Dr. Stephen Phinney (4 minutes)
Published by:Low Carb Downunder - 1 Apr 2016
Dr. Phinney is a physician-scientist who has spent 35 years studying diet, exercise, fatty acids, and inflammation. He has published over 70 papers and several patents. He received his MD from Stanford University, his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from MIT, and post-doctoral training at the University of Vermont and Harvard.

A Well Formulated Ketogenic Diet
The brain uses about 600 kcal/day. If your brain is not getting energy, the lights go out, you'll collapse into a coma.
When people start on a LFHC diet, most people were burning 2800 kcal/day. ON LCHF, they often drop back to 1800 kcal/d, and they lose weight quite rapidly. However, that doesn't last. In the long term you need a diet of about 2200 kcal/d which is 70% fats.
People often say that the LCHF diet, is expensive. It can be, but it need not be. For instance, Dr Phinney can buy two 3lt jars of olive oil for a food warehouse for US$23. That's 57c for each 1000 kcal. Of course we don't want to live on olive oil (or coconut oil); we love to eat a variety of foods.
Try to buy steak without the fat trimmed off. If you can't do that, put a tablespoon of butter on your steak, when you serve it.
There are many books and web sites, to give you help creating a wonderful selection of LCHF recipes. You just need to learn one or two new recipes every week, until you have enough variety to keep you happy.
After a while, you won't need to measure what you are eating, to maintain ketosis. You'll know just by looking at the plate that it's OK. But in the beginning, measuring what you are eating, and if possible measuring the ketones in your blood, is very helpful.
Seven Steps to a Sustainable Ketonic Lifestyle.
Eat moderate amounts of protein.
Eat enough fat to give you energy, 70% of total diet measured in kcal.
Eat the right fats, mono-unsaturated fats and saturated fats. Avoid seed oils.
Get enough minerals, you need sodium and magnesium. Drink juice from cooked vegetables, and the juices of cooked meat.
If in doubt eat more fat.
If in doubt, refuse to eat carbohydrates.
Seek to eat a diet that is both a pleasure to eat and highly is satisfying.
Regulation of Insulin Release and Insulin Action
(4 minutes)
Published by: PhysioPathoPharmaco - 28 Sept 2017
Understanding what insulin does in your body. This video discusses the mechanism that causes insulin release from the beta cells of the pancreas and how insulin causes uptake of glucose into cells.
