This is always tightly controlled, as your blood sugar will never vary on this diet. Your body will only convert what it needs to survive which is about 5 grams of glucose per day.
I've been reading studies that show that your brain and heart actually run 25 percent more efficient off the body's own ketones, rather than blood sugar. The catch is, though, that you have to eat lots of fat and make sure you get some form of saturated fat. If not, you will become very ill because Fat is now the primary source of energy for the rest of your body. And lots of water. It's optimal to get about 150-250 grams of fat per day (65-70 percent being saturated, yes that's right SATURATED).
Saturated fat is not the devil America has made it out to be. It's eating saturated fat in conjunction with a high carb diet that is dangerous.
Look at the chemistry of fats. There are three main types of free fatty acids. Saturated, mono-unsaturated and poly-unsaturated. Saturated fats have all of their bonds occupied by hydrogen, so oxygen can not infiltrate the molecule. Mono-unsaturated fatty acids have one unoccupied double bond, and poly-unsaturated fats have multiple unoccupied bonds. Oxygen infiltrates the unoccupied bonds and therefore oxidizes the molecule.
This is the secondary cause of premature aging, called oxidation and free radical production, right behind high insulin levels. High insulin and oxidation are what make people look so sick when they age.
The need for "anti-oxidants" is reduced on this diet. Insulin damage and high blood sugar combined with eating all this vegetable oil and trans fat garbage is what creates a lot of oxidative stress in our bodies. Of course there's also pollution and just the mere fact that we exist and have to breathe oxygen.
But you don't need to supplement anything on this diet. Look up the Stefansson experiment. He ate nothing but meat and came out on the other end healthier than before, with no supplementation. Meat only prevents scurvy because meat has just enough vitamin C to stave off scurvy.
Make sure you eat it rare or raw if possible. Cooking destroys a lot of nutrients in the meat tissue, although according to Stefansson this is not required for optimal health.
Despite our teeth, despite what many believe humans are carnivores first with an ability to ingest a small amount of carbohydrates. The problem is we've based our diets around carbohydrates and our bodies have not had enough time to adapt to this.
This is the cure for diabetes. Meat only. Only eat from the animal kingdom. If you're insulin dependent you can minimize the amount of insulin you have to inject. If you're non-insulin dependent you can return your body to normal again. I can go days without food now and not feel hungry. It takes a little while of eating this way, but it's WELL worth it once you get past the first few weeks of adjustment.
Try it out!
