Diagnosed with cancer in 2011 Hannah Bradley has undergone treatment to reduce her tumour.
This treatment has been very succesful and has lead to Hannah making lifestyle changes, including switching to a low carbohydrate diet with no sugar.
Here’s a lit of everything you need to do in order to avoid ketosis breath:
1. Make sure you’re very very very well hydrated.
2. Make sure your digestive system, enzymes and bacteria are well balanced as in take a good
quality probiotics, eat yogurt and take enzyme supplements.
3. Make sure you don’t have some sort of underlying fungal infection such as Candida or thrush as it can be aggravated by a change in diet particularly if that change involves eating more cheese and dairy.
4. The fact that we are eating a high fat diet does mean that the products of that fat being broken down will contribute to things that our body isn’t generally used to handling.
So as others have mentioned oral hygiene is very important and as the first batch of enzymes that our body uses to break down food start with our saliva and the enzymes within our saliva will change according to what we eat then there is always a period of readjustment. So yes it should go away.
In the meantime a good swish around with diluted hydrogen peroxide will tend to keep most things at bay. Now you can dip your toothbrush in hydrogen peroxide and then dip it in bicarb of soda and brush your teeth with that. It will have the effect of killing the bacteria, cleaning the teeth and as an advantageous side effect will also whiten the teeth gradually as well.
Hope that helps,
Mark
This is a copy of the comment I did on a forum post about low carb diet
I think we can lump Coke Zero and eating other artificial sweeteners into one. Rather than go into it at length here I would suggest you head over to aspartamesafety.com and find out why for instance airline pilots have been advised not to consume anything with aspartame in it.
My next question is would you consider drinking antifreeze? Well I’m guessing the answer is probably going to be no. Well the formula for some sugar alcohols so closely resembles that of antifreeze but you can actually use some of them as an antifreeze and seeing that antifreeze is unknown to be poisonous well that just speaks for itself.
The other thing about artificial sweeteners is that they are obviously produced by quite a complex chemical process and unfortunately the chemicals used in making them are themselves poisonous.
Whilst the manufacturers do obviously endeavor to remove as much of the poisonous chemicals that are used in their production as possible this is not a process which is a hundred percent and many of them are tainted.
Now whilst for an occasional consumption this may produce no detrimental effect, continual consumption over a number of years will mean that these chemicals can build up in the body and cause a whole range of problems.
As for low carb meal replacements my question is what’s wrong with real food?
Lastly the moot question of exercise, should it be aerobics or more strength? That depends on whose advice you want to follow. Unfortunately the professionals in the health and fitness industry have tended to go down the aerobics’ partway simply because it’s a great way of making money.
We all seemed to have been pushed into the position of thinking that the more effort and time we spend doing something the better it must be and exercise is no exception to this.
However more recent studies have shown that aerobic exercise does not do the heart nor virtually any other muscle as much good as was originally thought.
I would suggest you have a look at the work of Dr. Al Sears and a quick squint at Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Body book as they not only provide a wealth of information about what exercise does. They’re also extremely well researched and referenced and you’ll find many of the reports listed which both Tim and Dr. Sears have based their work upon.
Obviously these are all just my opinions. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether they’re right or wrong.
Hope that helps,
Mark
This is the comment I made on a forum post about artificial sweeteners
Generally speaking 2 or 3 slices of bacon won’t do you any harm whatsoever. In fact it may not be enough as some of the others have pointed out.
As for the flax seed well that does rather depend on what you’re having it for. If you’re having it because you think it’s a good idea then perhaps you could swap that out for something that gives more satiety through having a higher fat content such as cheese or that sort of thing. If it is because you think you need the fiber well that’s a personal decision. Only you can judge that particular need.
The truth of is it though the more you get in to the low carb way of eating the less you’ll find that you need to eat each day as the generally high quality food that we low carbers tend to eat means that we just need to eat less to be just as satisfied as we were on a non low carb diet.
Hope that helps,
Mark
This is a copy of the comment I made on a forum post about bacon
Ah yes the eternal question about fruit – how much we should have. The bottom line on that is your temptation threshold and the “just one more won’t hurt” syndrome.
There are however two things that you can do to help yourself. Stay away from temptation [maybe] and still feel like you’re eating lots of fruit and that is to choose vegetables that have a similar consistency to the fruit you want to eat and chop up smaller pieces of fruit into the roughly chopped vegetables. That way you get the sweetness and taste of the fruit without consuming high levels of fructose and remember to choose as much as possible fruits that are low in carb.
Hope that helps,
Mark
Here is another copy of a comment I made on a forum post about fruits and low carb diet
Below is a copy of the comment I did on a forum post about a low carb question
Hi Siltz,
I switched to low carb during my time as a body builder and I actually found that after I’ve got into ketosis I actually had more energy and less fatigue such that I cut my session time down from just under an hour and a half to between 25 and 30 minutes doing the same number of reps with the same weight and in fact the gym instructor used to follow me around because he couldn’t believe what I was doing in the time I was doing it in. I think if he would’ve had his way, he would’ve had me dope tested.
The only thing I would say the quality of protein that you are taking if you’re doing any form of serious exercise has to be high. I know a lot of people resort to whey protein shakes but I would tend to steer away from those because of the other ingredients they contain, things like soy and various artificial sweeteners.
Honestly the best protein you can take if you’re exercising to that sort of degree is good old fashioned grass- reared beef. I also agree with Doug wholeheartedly, you should give your body time to rest and also make sure that you’re not just drinking water but remember to make up the salts, literally with salt but don’t forget to dose up with potassium as well.
Hope that helps,
Mark