‎"A ketogenic diet - a diet based on animal fats- is the one thing that would help stabilize mitochondrial DNA since mitochondria runs the best on fat fuel....It is our mitochondria the one that lies at the interface between the fuel from foods that come from our environment and our bodies' energetic demands. And it is a metabolism based on fat fuel, a ketone metabolism, the one which signals epigenetic changes that maximizes energetic output within our mitochondria and help us heal.

The most important tool you have to change your health is the food you eat. It doesn't rely in the latest stem cell study or genetic tweaking in mad scientist lab. Food is information that talks to your genes and that are capable of turning them on or off, telling them what not to do or do. The food you eat has the information needed to affect your health in the fastest way. 

We are hardwired to respond to carbohydrate restriction in a reliable and healthy way. From a genetic point of view, our ability to thrive under a low carb diet is highly conserved as opposed to our ability to tolerate a high carb diet intake. Low carb eating seems to be the normal metabolic state associated with health, which is consistent with the view that throughout most of our human evolution, we thrived under a low carb diet.

Animal fat was our primal energy, as it was - and still is - the most efficient, dense and long-burning fuel. It is agreed by experts that our extended dependence on meat and animal fats (i.e. fish fat) throughout these continual freezing periods of time actually encouraged our brains to enlarge and develop so that we became human. We became smart because we ate animal fat and meat. Thus, it is not surprising to note that evidence is growing that vegetarians and members of agrarian societies have smaller brains.

The case for our evolutionary history is a strong one and it is made by evolutionary biologists which have been researching and writing about this for a long time with no agenda to support the food industry as the medical profession researchers have."


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