Dietitians - Metabolica Med

10/09/2025

🦠 Your gut is more than digestion, it’s a communication hub for your entire body. When your gut is inflamed, your brain, hormones, and even immunity feel the effects.

Switching from a high-carbohydrate to a ketogenic lifestyle can heal your gut. Ketones can reduce inflammation in the digestive tract, support beneficial bacteria, and help calm the “leaky gut” response that drives many symptoms, such as bloating, IBS, or food sensitivities.

💡 A calmer gut often means clearer skin, better mood, and stronger immunity. Have you noticed any changes in your digestion when you lower your carb intake?


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07/09/2025

Adding Red Meat to Your Diet is a Powerful Choice for Health. 🥩

Red meat nourishes in ways plant foods can’t:
🥩Supports metabolic health (stabilizes insulin, lowers inflammation)
🥩Provides heme iron (the most bioavailable form → prevents anemia)
🥩Rich in B vitamins (especially B12 for energy & brain health)
🥩Source of carnitine & creatine (muscle strength & mitochondrial energy)
🥩Supplies zinc & selenium (immune function & hormone balance)
🥩Delivers choline (critical for liver and brain health)
🥩Packed with high-quality protein & healthy fats (for repair and hormone production)

For example:
Just 100g of grass-fed beef gives you more absorbable B12 than any plant source, plus iron, zinc, and creatine, nutrients that fight fatigue, sharpen focus, and build resilience.

💪🏼The result? Stronger muscles, sharper brain, healthier hormones.

Red meat isn’t just food, it’s foundational human nutrition.

03/09/2025

Your brain has its own “calm switch”?

That switch is called GABA, a calming neurotransmitter that helps quiet racing thoughts, reduce anxiety, and support restful sleep.

When your body produces ketones, it can help increase GABA activity. This means steadier moods, a calmer nervous system, and better mental focus.

In simple terms:
Carbs = quick highs and crashes
Ketones = calm, steady fuel

30/08/2025

Every time you eat sugar or refined carbs, insulin spikes to store the excess as fat. When those spikes happen day after day, insulin stays chronically high — driving faster aging, diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer.

Keep insulin low with real food.
Give insulin a break with fasting.
Because either you control insulin, or it controls you.

29/08/2025

🍅🥦 Did you know vegetables aren’t carb-free?

Many people think they can load their plate with unlimited vegetables, but the reality is that the sugar (carbohydrate) content varies a lot depending on the type and preparation method.

For example:
100g raw tomato = 2.3g net carbs.
100g sun-dried tomato = 43.5g net carbs (almost 9 teaspoons of sugar!).

Cooking and drying often concentrate sugars, meaning the same vegetable can go from “light” to “high-sugar” quickly.

That’s why in my nutrition plans, I always highlight raw salad vegetables as the base choice. It’s about keeping your blood sugar stable, reducing insulin spikes, and giving your body what it actually needs to heal.

👉 If you thought vegetables were always “free,” this is a game-changer.

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25/08/2025

There’s something powerful about cooking real food in nature. 🥩🔥

Full-fat beef isn’t just delicious, it’s nutrient-dense fuel for your body. Iron, zinc, B vitamins, and heme protein (highly bioavailable) support energy, muscle, hormones, and even mental health.

For me, meals like this represent both health and freedom. No labels, no additives, just real food that heals.

👉 This is what I want for my patients too: nutrition that works with your biology, not against it.

Would you choose a “diet” snack bar over this? I wouldn’t.

skaapstadsa

dietitian

18/08/2025

🌱 Your Body’s Secret Superpower: Ketones

For decades, we were told fat is dangerous, carbs are essential, and ketones are just a “backup plan.”
But science tells a different story.

✨ Ketones are not just fuel, they’re a healing signal and can:
✔️ Calm inflammation
✔️ Protect your brain & heart
✔️ Improve insulin sensitivity
✔️ Support fertility & hormone balance

I see it in practice daily: when patients change their fuel source, they change their outcomes. From energy and weight loss to memory, mood, and even fertility, the results are often life-changing.

This is why I’m so passionate about a low-carb, healthy fat lifestyle. It’s not about restriction, it’s about giving your body the fuel it was designed to thrive on.

If you’re ready to explore what ketones can do for your health, I’d love to help guide you. 💡

👉 Message me to find out more about how I work with patients at Metabolica Med.

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/13/6/1484

Ketone bodies (KBs), particularly β-hydroxybutyrate, are crucial metabolites that provide clean and efficient energy, especially during periods of low glucose availability. Ketogenesis is a promising therapeutic avenue for conditions such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes. This review ai...

17/08/2025

✨ When science meets real life ✨

A new study showed that ketones (β-hydroxybutyrate) lowered both blood sugar and male hormones in women with PCOS — in just hours. That’s powerful.

But here’s what inspires me most:
I’ve seen women who struggled for years to fall pregnant. After switching to a low carb, healthy fat lifestyle, they restored balance… and within months, they were holding a positive test in their hands.

PCOS isn’t a life sentence. Hormones can shift. Insulin can come down. Fertility can be restored.

This study confirms what I witness in practice: when you fuel the body the right way, miracles happen. 💫

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40393075/

11/08/2025

It’s Not Just About Salt – The Sugar & Blood Pressure Connection

We’ve all heard it before:
“If your blood pressure is high, cut back on salt.”

But here’s what most people don’t know — sugar can quietly push your blood pressure up just as much (if not more) than sodium.

Here’s why:
🩸 Glucose → Insulin spike → Kidneys hold onto sodium
When insulin is high, your kidneys stop excreting sodium and water. This increases blood volume, which raises blood pressure.

🍬 Fructose → Uric acid → Less nitric oxide (NO)
NO is what keeps your blood vessels relaxed and flexible. Less NO = tighter vessels = higher blood pressure.

The result?
🔹 More fluid in the system
🔹 Blood vessels that can’t relax
🔹 A perfect storm for hypertension

The takeaway:
If you’re trying to manage blood pressure, it’s not just about putting down the salt shaker — it’s about reducing the processed carbs and sugars that are silently telling your kidneys to raise the pressure.

Your kidneys listen to insulin far more than to your salt shaker. Keep insulin low, and you give your heart and vessels a real chance to thrive. 💪🫀

08/08/2025

Smiling because avocados are blood sugar–friendly, hormone-supporting, gut-healing powerhouses 🥑✨

Here’s why I include them in almost every low-carb meal plan:
✔️ Monounsaturated fats = reduce insulin spikes & calm inflammation
✔️ 7g fiber per fruit = slows glucose absorption + supports the gut
✔️ Potassium + magnesium = regulate blood pressure + stabilize energy
✔️ No blood sugar crash — unlike high-carb “health” foods

Avocados help you stay full, keep glucose steady, and support the metabolic calm your body needs to heal.

Real fat. Real food. Real results.
🧠💚💪

05/08/2025

🥩🥩Red meat isn’t the villain.
It’s one of the most potent tools for metabolic health.
L-Carnitine. Iron. B12. Zinc.
Everything your mitochondria need to burn fat and think clearly.

I broke it all down in this video:
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YIShbjG2pY&feature=youtu.be

01/08/2025

🍞 Don’t Let “No Added Sugar” Fool You
Marketing trick: label a product “no added sugar” but load it with starches that spike glucose just the same.

Bread, cereal, and rice break down into sugar in your bloodstream.
If you’re trying to heal your metabolism, look beyond the label.