from the theory of fasting?

I'm Thomas DeLauer with Keto-Mojo

and I want to help you understand

how testing your blood ketone levels

also understanding the relationship between ketosis

and fasting can truly help you get even more

out of your body composition goals.

And get more out of your overall health goals with fasting.

You see, believe it or not, the ketogenic diet

and intermittent fasting are very, very similar.

The whole idea with intermittent fasting is you're trying

to abstain from food for a certain period of time.

So that your body ultimately creates ketone bodies.

Now when it comes down to ketosis, of course,

you're eating the foods that are going to help your body

stimulate ketones and refrain from the foods

that would stop ketone production.

So at the end of the day we're really after the same thing.

Generally, intermittent fasting is fasting

for a minimum of 16 hours.

Although personally, I recommend pushing it

a little bit longer because the benefits start at 16 hours.

But when you're fasting you generally come across

a couple of hurdles.

Now I like to categorize them into two things.

We have the physiological hurdles.

And then we have the mental hurdles.

You see we have this Pavlovian response to food.

From the time that we are born, we are conditioned

to eat food at the sound of a bell or at a specific time.

Our alarm clock goes off, we eat food.

The school bell rings, we eat food.

The dinner bell rings, we eat food.

So we have this mental conditioning

that we should just be eating at set periods of time.

And when we first have to overcome that

it's exceptionally difficult.

We have a lot of mental roadblocks.

We feel hungry even though we're not hungry.

So what does keto testing have to do with this?

Well, if you're actually testing your ketones it'll tell you

are you really hungry.

And if you're testing your glucose, it can tell you

if you're truly hypoglycemic.

Are you really feeling that way?

Or is it just your mind playing tricks on you

because you're used to eating at a specific period of time?

So you're truly trying to determine

if you're actually hungry or if you're just mentally hungry.

You can simply look at your blood ketone levels.

And if your ketone levels are high enough,

you know that you have some fuel.

And if you're looking a little bit lower,

then you know that you might truly actually be hungry.

It's really going to give you a little bit more

of an indicator of whether you're actually hungry or not.

Then we move into the more physiological effects.

Because yes, of course, fasting does have an effect

on the physical body.

And the same holds true when it comes down to testing.

You can now figure out if your body is actually

utilizing your own stored body fat as a source of fuel.

This is really powerful and it's motivating.

When you're going through a fasting period

and you take a look at your ketone meter,

and you see that your body is actually utilizing ketones

and actually utilizing fat as a fuel source,

nothing is more motivating than seeing that.

Because you are now realizing that you're not wasting away,

you're not burning up all your precious muscle,

you're actually burning body fat

and your body is getting in an optable ketone range.

So truly intermittent fasting is a great way to leverage

the power of ketones.

But the only way that you can truly tell that you're getting

the most out of your fast is if you test.

So I encourage you to test multiple times throughout the day

if you're experimenting with intermittent fasting.

It's gonna tell you a lot about the peaks

and the valleys throughout the day.

But it's also going to tell you if you're doing it right.

So as always make sure you're keep it locked in here

with Keto-Mojo,

So that you can get the most out of ketosis and now,

get the most out of your intermittent fasting regimen.