Glennith's Journal, 01 Feb 15

Basically as far as I understand, getting into ketosis, is not as hard as everyone makes out. Have dinner at 7pm, go to bed at normal time. After more or less 6 hours your body will have digested most of the food in your stomach, and after another 6 hours or so you will have used up most of your Glycogen stores. So when you wake up at 7am the next morning you will be in ketosis. Skip breakfast, and you definitely will be in ketosis. The following statement seems to be quoted on several websites including wikipedia: "During the usual overnight fast the body's metabolism naturally switches into ketosis, and will switch back to glycolysis after a carbohydrate-rich meal." I would like to find the original source for this paper. But I did find this video on SciShow which supports the claim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RehCW0KM8RM 

You've echoed my thoughts in a lot of ways. If you think back to our ancestors, (I bet they have never been as thought of until recently. I hope they are impressed.), they would have had days of feast and probably days of near famine. They would have had high carbohydrate days when they came across tubers, fruit, nuts depending on the season. Days of mainly protein and fat, when they caught game, foraged eggs. Days of glucose overload if they came across a wild bee hive. They would have been in and out of ketosis - and never giving it a thought. Perhaps we have too regular a supply of everything. Thank you for the link to the video, great site. What sort of food lifestyle do you follow? If any. 

I like the ideals of the palaeolithic lifestyle. It seems to make sense that our bodies haven't evolved for 100,000 years that our bodies might not be adapted to a modern diet. However... adult lactose tolerance seems to suggest that (some) of us are able to process food otherwise excluded from a paleo diet. The other old adage is that eastern cultures sterilised water by boiling it and making tea, whilst western culture discovered fermentation did the trick, and so westerners supposedly have a greater tolerance to alcohol. One thing is for sure, we live longer than our palaeolithic ancestors. I certainly wouldn't turn down life saving medication because my ancestors didn't have access to that. This kind of reminds me of another video about The "Is / Ought Problem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT7yXG2aJdY 

Giles, the link you gave me in the comment above was 12 steam engines driving to Dorset! My husband greatly enjoyed it thank you. I did find the correct video - and my mind is no less confused! 

FatSecret seem to deliberately cut web links short, or block them. I don't know why. I have only just realised that most of my links don't work. If you just Google "GilesBathgate", you should come across my wordpress blog. I have Just added an interesting links section there. 

Found it. Head over to my other job, which I somehow got involved in www.woolerwheel.com