This isn’t as important as balanced and nutrient dense. If you are vegan be vegan if you feel best with plants and meat do that. DO EAT PLANTS regardless.

Meat should only be eaten alone or with vegetables never starch or fruit.

Salad, meat fish or chicken is a perfect pairing.

If vegan be sure to choose low glycemic load vegetables, fruits, nuts seeds and grains.

LOW GLYCEMIC LOAD TABLE (stay as close to 15 as possible)

VEGAN KETO IDEAS

LOW CARB VEGETARIAN IDEAS

LOW GLYCEMIC LOAD FRUITS

What about fruit juice fasting???

Waste of time and money; here’s why:

#1 A detox without autophagy IS NOT A DETOX. Autophagy means “to eat self” — that would be the junk weak sick cellular matter.

#2 Autophagy is induced by ketosis which is induced by fasting or extreme protein/carbohydrate restriction.

#3 A fast is NOT drinking a bunch of sugary bottled fruit juice which does NOT induce either ketosis or autophagy.

***Next person that wants to sell you a “detox kit” ask them point blank, “Does this inhibit mTOR, activate AMPK, promote autophagy or induce ketosis?”

If they look at you like a deer in headlights say, “No thanks.”***

Fructose which converts in liver to Glucose halts not only Ketosis but mTOR inhibition, AMPK activation AND autophagy (the whole point of fasting!!!) especially if you ingest more than 30g a day— thats about one 8oz glass of fruit juice. So instead of “juice feasting” all day long accomplishing nothing but wasting a bunch of money and overdosing on fructose an intelligent strategy would be to eat your fruit whole WITH IT’S FIBER (less blood sugar spikes) at the BEGINNING of your feeding window/pre workout.

Fruit without fiber is straight fructose.

Here’s what’s wrong with too much fructose:

Fructose Utilization and Associated Metabolic Dysfunction

“Consumption of fructose has been shown to be highly correlated with the development of diabetes, obesity and the metabolic syndrome. Consumption of soft drinks (high in HFCS) is associated with an increased risk for obesity in adolescents and for type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women. Excess fruit juice (also rich in fructose) is associated with the development of obesity in children.

Consumption of fructose by laboratory animals results in their developing several features of metabolic syndrome, including obesity, visceral fat accumulation, fatty liver, and elevated insulin and leptin levels. It is likely that the increase in leptin following fructose consumption represents leptin resistance, which could account for the increased food intake observed in fructose-fed animals.”

SOURCE: HERE

Choose high NITRIC OXIDE producing plants like beets and arugula.

More on nitric oxide and longevity HERE

LINK: CANCER AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH METABOLISM, CALORIE RESTRICTION, MTOR INHIBITION, AMPK ACTIVATION, AUTOPHAGY AND GLUCOSE

(CONTINUED IN THE NEXT BLOG “GLUCOSE DISPOSAL AGENTS”)