09/10/2025
Ketosis, the state that all human babies are born into, is when your body is using ketones and fatty acids for energy instead of carbohydrates. Nutritional ketosis is when you actively enter this state by fully cutting carbohydrates from your diet (ketogenic diet and fasting can facilitate this process). Our ancestors in Paleolithic times were in ketosis, this was how they survived and evolved to be. The reality is that our bodies (which are evolutionarily identical to our ancestors) did NOT evolve to eat loads of highly processed carbs seen in todays world - like sour patch gummies, jelly donuts, frozen pizzas, etc. Naturally, chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease, dementia, etc. are much more prevalent now than they were back then. Metabolic health is drastically important for our overall health.
Learn more about cancer as a metabolic disease by checking out the book linked in my bio “Cancer as a Metabolic Disease” or visit my website tomseyfried.com