Learning something new – getting rid of my arrogance

There is a delicate balance of knowing that you know something, and also knowing that there are some unknown unknowns.

The big thing I learned is that glucose / insulin is not purely a KETO thing.

It’s not only about eating Keto and reducing the Insulin spikes. That’s just one way.

Another way is to WORKOUT and activate the GLUT4

I understand this pathway: eating keto reducing insulin spikes which open the doors to the fat in the cells. A failure mode of this is eating too much saturated fat which I just dont want to do.

The other pathway: Zone 2 Walking, 15k steps and Strength training leads to GLUT4 activation, which reduces the glucose in the blood, thus reducing insulin spikes. Additionally, low intensity workouts also activate shuttling of fat.

Remember that thing about fat adaptation? I used to think that only keto could do it? Remember those phrases : eat fat to loose fat. This is FALSE.

The classic route is Calorie deficit + low insulin + active HSL = fat leaves fat cells and gets burned.

But there are alternative paths. And I am finding this super interesting.

let’s goooo