We know that our bodies' burn fuel in order to function.  Every action we take, every thought and feeling we have, and every physiologic process we use to be alive, burns fuel.  Without the right fuel in the right amounts, we cease to be alive.  

So what is the right fuel for the human body?  If you choose to believe the American food industry and their subsidiary agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, they will tell you that our body is designed to burn sugar for its ideal fuel.  What you need to understand is that once basic carbohydrates like bread, pasta and potatoes are digested, they turn into sugar. Now take a look at the food pyramid. The base or bottom level is all sugar.

In fact the second step of the pyramid is also all sugar, as fruits and vegetables are all made of carbohydrates that turn into sugar with a little bit of fiber left over.  Keeping these facts in mind, what the pyramid is really suggesting is 11-20 servings of sugar per day. The third level is the protein group with a suggested 4 to 6 servings per day.  The fourth and top level is for fats, which are not even given a serving suggestion other than "use sparingly".  So that means 3/4th of our diet should be sugar, 1/4th protein and little or no fat according to them.

This recommendation is all based on a faulty theory about the nutritional causes of heart disease that was developed way back in the fifties.  Since that time it has been conclusively proven that this theory is not only false, but that it has been responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans from heart disease.  Recent studies have shown that diets high in sugar have a 400% higher incidence of heart disease than diets low in sugar.  Yet the established authorities still push the food pyramid diet thinking with 3/4ths of our calories coming from sugar foods.

The belief in sugar as our main source of fuel has been so pervasive that even medical research and textbooks on nutrition have all been written with this assumption.  At every level of education it is taught that sugar is the fuel of choice for human bodies.  But what if this is all a big fat lie?   I believe it is.  

In spite of the propaganda machines from government and industry, there are always hard core scientists that live by the numbers.  They want the facts, and they want them proven over and over by many different people in every manner possible.  These are the people that gradually, over the years, have revealed the truth - that sugar is not the preferred fuel of the body, fat is.  More specifically the ketone breakdown products of fat called beta-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate, and acetone are the preferred fuels for the body.  

I will bet that less than one person in a thousand has ever heard of these or knows they are fuels for a healthy body.  We all know about sugar, but beta-hydroxybutyrate?  I first learned about beta-hydroxybutyrate a few years ago when I was learning about gut bacteria fermenting undigested fiber in our gut.  The bacteria release hydroxybutyrate as they break down the fiber and this helps heal the gut lining.  The hydroxybutyrate is the main fuel for the gut lining.

I also came across hydroxybutyrate while studying brain trauma, seizures, and brain disease.  When you convince the brain to burn just hydroxybutyrate for fuel, the brain damage halts and symptoms settle down.  Research into this for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's is currently being done on a small scale.  The work on seizures was done almost a hundred years ago and was at the time the preferred treatment for seizure disorders.  They were using a diet of 90% fat for these people to stop their seizures.

What I am talking about is a Ketogenic diet.  The purpose of a Ketogenic diet is to promote a state of nutritional ketosis in the body, which means that your body is burning the ketones mentioned above for energy.

Why might this be a good idea?  Let's look at how the body is made.  Is the body made to burn fats or sugars?  Well, the liver stores about 400 calories of sugar that it can mobilize for energy for the brain and organs.  Our muscles store another 1200 calories just for themselves.  That means that the total storage of energy for survival in our body will only last about 18 hours and then we are done for.  Does that make good sense?

On the other hand, an ideal weight person with a perfect fat content will at any moment be carrying over 100,000 calories of stored energy in the form of fat.  That is enough energy to meet our survival needs for a couple months.  Which form of energy do you think your body finds the most important to store for later?  The choices are 18 hours of storage for sugars compared to 2 months of stored energy from fats - I think the body really prefers fats over sugars.

Every cell in the body, except white blood cells, can burn fats for energy.  And the body can make the sugar it needs for the white blood cells from either fats or proteins.  Sugars are toxic and produce free radicals when they are metabolized.  That is why white blood cells need sugar, because they need the free radicals to form hydrogen peroxide, which they use to kill bacteria and viruses.

Many studies of endurance athletes show their performance greatly increases when they adhere to a Ketogenic diet.  Weight lifters do better on a Ketogenic diet.  Brain function is enhanced on a Ketogenic diet.

All the modern chronic diseases can trace their origin to carbohydrate/sugar based diets.  Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's, most mental disorders, liver disease, gall bladder disease, colon disorders, even autoimmune diseases, all are directly attributed to disorders in carbohydrate metabolism and digestion.  None of these are promoted when you are on a Ketogenic diet.  Most of them are improved or even cured by a Ketogenic diet.

So what does a Ketogenic diet look like?  It is not the same thing as the high protein low carbohydrate weight loss diets that have been popular for many years.  In a Ketogenic diet 70% to 80% of your daily calories come from saturated and monounsaturated fats.  That means animal fats, butter, coconut oil, olive avocado oil, and nuts.  The diet only has a low to moderate intake of proteins, because the body converts excess proteins into sugar.  We are talking about only 50 to 60 grams of protein a day.  The rest is high fiber low carbohydrate vegetables and one serving of low carbohydrate fruit per day.

Visually this will look like 10 to 12 cups of leafy greens, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, summer squash, mushrooms, onions, green beans, and avocados. It also includes a half a cup of meat, poultry, fish or eggs, half a cup of nuts, and a half a cup of fats and oils to cook, season. or make dressings with.  Some versions include dairy foods like cheese, which will replace much of the fat and protein needed, while the really healthy versions leave dairy out.  When your system is stable, then one serving of low carbohydrate, high antioxidant fruit per day is added.

If you want the heart of a healthy lifestyle, I believe this diet is it.  This is the anti-aging diet, particularly when you add in high intensity low impact interval training exercises and intermittent fasting with general lower level of calorie consumption.

This is the cutting edge intense science-based discovery understanding of what the human body really needs and runs best on.  It will probably be another 20 years before mainstream media and government bodies acknowledge this information.  And even then they will water it down so much that the information will be useless.  Too many special interest groups are opposed to this information, as acceptance of it by the public would wipe them out.

But for those of you that want to step out of the mainstream experience of life and into abundant health, take the plunge into a completely different way of feeding your body and health.  Do what your body was actually designed to do.  Eat the way that truly supports your health.

Understand that some people are genetically designed to live on carbohydrates and this lifestyle would not work for them.  The common lifestyle being currently taught works better for them.  But if you are not experiencing abundant health right now, then changing your diet is the first step to regaining your health.  Most likely you are not a carb burner.  If you were, you would not be reading a health newsletter. The people who read health newsletters are generally concerned for their health because something in their current health is not working for them. Most of that concern can probably be traced to inappropriate diet.  We are what we eat, so aligning your diet with your genetic design is the most important thing you can do for your health.

Take care,

David

2/15/14 - It is Saturday night and I am finishing day 13 of my green fast.  As yesterday was Valentine's Day I did go out to lunch with Ellen and had a nice big salad at our favorite Vietnamese Restaurant.  I could only eat half of it as my stomach has shrunk.  But I had the other half that evening after work.  Mostly I have just been having the green smoothies each day plus I have been adding various supplements to support gut healing and decrease body inflammation.

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Vitamin C keeps cancer at bay

 

Many years ago Linus Pauling insisted that he could treat cancer with vitamin C.  He did many successful trials with IV drip vitamin C to get very high concentrations of C into the body to get therapeutic doses.  The science establishment tried to replicate his work with just oral doses of vitamin C and proclaimed his Vitamin C cure did not work.  Of course you can't get high doses of vitamin C into the body by mouth so the studies were designed to fail from the outset.  Well here we are 40 years later and researchers are trying his ideas once again and finding out he was right all along.  To make the results acceptable the angle is that vitamin C will enhance chemotherapy effectiveness when given in intravenous form.  The research suggested that maybe we should study this further. 

 

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Ingredients in chocolate, tea and berries could guard against diabetes

Flavonoids like anthocyanins are coloring chemicals found in chocolate, tea, and berries that have been found to reduce inflammation and improve blood sugar regulation.  Less diabetes is one benefit, but inflammation affects us in almost every disease process.  Most of these beneficial compounds are destroyed by processing so dark unprocessed chocolate, green tea, and fresh dark berries are the forms you want to use. 

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Our address is  9725 Fair Oaks Blvd.

Finding the new location is very easy.  Coming from highway 50 up Sunrise Blvd, you turn left and go up a block.  We are on the right hand side - the building just past the Subway Sandwich shop.  If you are coming down Sunrise from the Mall area then just turn right on Fair Oaks Blvd and up a block on the right.

 

If you are coming from the Roseville area you could come down Sunrise Blvd, but that is a long trek.  It is probably shorter time wise to come down Auburn Blvd - San Juan Ave like you have been for the Sunset office, but instead of turning left at Sunset, keep going straight 3 more lights to Fair Oaks Blvd and turn left.  Go down 2 lights to New York Ave, go through the intersection, and immediately turn into the turn lane once the center divider ends.  We are on the left.

 

About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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