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let’s talk about the relationship between ketones and your hormones

how do ketones actually affect your hormones well let’s take a look at the

number one hormone first that’s involved with ketones insulin in fact what

controls the production of ketones is when insulin is lowered okay when

insulin is too high you cannot get into ketosis your body is forced to run on

glucose and if you don’t have any it’ll tap into glucose from your stored sugar

as glycogen or it will start making sugar as this term called

gluconeogenesis and it could make it even from muscle protein so what

triggers insulin is mainly the carbohydrates and frequency of eating so

when you’re going to low carb diet and you lower insulin you have all these

ketones it’s very very very therapeutic for your body in many ways also when you

go on a low-carb diet and you run your body on ketones and your lower insulin

you’re giving the pancreas a chance to breathe and relax and recover now

there’s this opposing hormone in the pancreas okay there’s actually two

different hormones one is insulin when is glucagon this is different than

glycogen glucagon is a hormone that helps mobilize and burn fat it’s

stimulated by a moderate amount of protein or intense exercise or the

reduction of carbs as well as the reduction of insulin so they kind of

work back and forth alright next one is something called IGF insulin-like growth

factor number one now what is that that is a hormone that’s made by your liver

that works very similar to growth hormone so growth hormone is an anti

aging hormone it’s a hormone that helps you make proteins in the body muscle

protein for example cartilage collagen is made by the pituitary gland and it’s

sent down into the liver and then it triggers this process to make a GF

so the functions of IGF are very similar to growth hormone so growth hormone is

an anti-aging it’s a fat burning hormone and so is IGF IGF increases as you

decrease insulin so they kind of work back and forth so IGF mobilizes fat fuel

okay when you’re not eating or when you’re keeping insulin low as soon as

you eat everything switches this goes down and this goes up so now we’re into

storing fat and using the calories that you’re eating as energy whereas this

hormone mobilizes the energy from your storage your fat cell as well as stored

sugar as well so IGF number one and growth hormone that’s right here let me

add cortisol what is cortisol cortisol is an adrenal hormone that’s made by the

outside of your adrenals and it’s called a glucocorticoid because it’s involved

in glucose in that when cortisol goes up what it does is it mobilizes the storage

sugar as well as protein and breaks up the protein it’s called deamination okay

you’re breaking up these amino acids and it turns that into glucose which then

triggers insulin so if you go through a lot of stress chronic stress and you get

this elevation of cortisol this is why you get fat in the gut because the

body’s mobilizing the proteins and turning it into sugar and actually help

you make more sugar and all that sugar is being converted into fat around your

gut it’s a survival mechanism so your body wants to hold on the fat in case

it’s starving and you’re not eating and you can survive so this is why some

people can even get fat by having too much cortisol because cortisol

eventually leads to a spike in insulin okay next one is thyroid hormones now

when you go on a ketogenic diet you make Ketones many times you’ll see a drop in

t3 this is the active form of thyroid hormone so it’ll go a little bit lower

is it a problem no it’s not because ketones allow your body to extract more

energy from the calories if you compare it to sugar so it’s more efficient at

extracting fuel so is less waste less co2 so the thyroid actually does not

have to work as hard so this goes down a little bit what you won’t see is the

thyroid stimulating hormones from the pituitary and this is how they diagnose

a hypothyroid condition so if we see no change with this but this goes down it

just means that your body has adapted and it’s becoming more efficient and

you’ll find that you really won’t happen to negative symptoms your t3 will be a

little bit down but you feel fine you have a lot of energy because ketones

actually give you more energy ketones also by the way act as an

antioxidant so it actually can help protect against free radical damage now

let’s talk about estrogen estrogen has the effect of increasing the sensitivity

of insulin so if you are low on estrogen what you may find is that you have more

symptoms with insulin resistance this could be one of the reasons why a woman

as she gets older and loses estrogen and she has all those symptoms then she has

blood sugar issues on top of that now some women have estrogen dominant

depending on much weight that they have because postmenopausal if they have a

lot more fat it’s the fat that makes the estrogen not the ovary or not really the

adrenal too much so if you have extra weight after menopause you may find that

your more estrogen dominant if you have normal weight going to menopause you may

find that your have low estrogen and you may have an insulin problem because

you’re losing the sensitivity so thereby you’re having a bit of insulin

resistance and that’s more of a blood sugar issue and that you might crave

carbs you definitely need to do more the

ketogenic diet so if you think about it going on a ketogenic diet improves

insulin resistance thereby improving estrogen now antigens in a male body

you’re going to decrease testosterone if you’re on a high carb diet and you’re

running more on insulin and you’re not in ketosis when you go into ketosis by

lowering the carbohydrate you have the ability to enhance testosterone now the

female body it’s a little bit different when you actually are not into ketosis

you’re doing a lot of carbs you develop insulin resistance your body starts to

make the male hormone testosterone and this leads to hair loss facial hair a

deep voice a gut and the mechanism for that is very interesting I put a link

down below if you’re interested but that condition is called polycystic ovarian

syndrome and you have this relationship between high insulin is causing antigens

but what will solve that is getting on the ketogenic diet so if you’re

consuming a lot of refined carbs or sugar you’re going to be reducing your

growth hormone ketones help the thyroid to become more

efficient they help balance estrogen as well as antigens if you wanted to see

that video on PCOS I put it right here check it out