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As you know, the surest way to get rid of excess weight is to control and correctly select the diet, combined with sufficient physical activity. That is, in fact, this mechanism can be described by one phrase – the energy balance, which consists of two parts:
- A certain amount of energy that you get from food. This number is easy to calculate using reference tables or even in a special application installed on your smartphone.
- Your daily energy expenditure. They can also be expressed in a specific figure, which will depend on your age, gender, level of physical activity, and some other parameters.
And then everything is simple: if the influx of energy from food is less than its consumption throughout the day, then your body does not have enough energy. This means that it will select it from the reserves, which are mainly represented in the form of fat deposits.
But what to do if you need to supply yourself with energy, and your body weight suits you?
Those who prefer an active lifestyle and are engaged in amateur (and even professional) sports often find themselves in such situations. In addition, our brain also requires a huge amount of energy. It is generally the most energy-consuming organ in the human body. Accordingly, with active “head work”, energy fuel in our body is consumed almost as intensively as with physical exertion.
Energy fuel? What’s it?
Energy fuels are those substances that we have evolutionarily learned to process to produce energy. They enter the body, as we have already said, with food. Basically, all the compounds we absorb can be divided into six major categories:
- Squirrels
- Fats
- Carbohydrates
- Vitamins
- Trace elements
- Water
Each of these groups of substances has many different “roles” and places of application in the physiological and biochemical reactions of our body. But today we will only be interested in two groups of compounds: carbohydrates and fats. They received the unofficial name of energy fuel.
Why do we need two sources of energy at once?
The fact is that although the result of splitting fats and carbohydrates is the same-getting energy, but these processes occur in different ways.
Carbohydrates, which are used for energy supply, are mainly simple sugars-glucose, fructose, etc. These small molecules break down quite easily and simply in the cells, quickly releasing energy. But the amount of this energy is relatively small.
Fats are more complex and larger molecules. To destroy them, the body needs to spend more time and effort. But the result will be noticeably more impressive – our cells get about 3.5 times more energy from a single fat molecule than from a single glucose molecule.
This “energy dualism” helped our ancestors survive throughout the history of mankind. After all, simple carbohydrates, and these are mainly sweets, became a frequent guest on our table only some one and a half to two centuries ago. A moment compared to the lifetime of Homo Sapiens as a species. Moreover, for this reason, the human body has also developed the ability to make reserves for the future. If we suddenly find ourselves in conditions of an excessive supply of carbohydrates, then everything that is not immediately processed into energy turns into fat and is postponed “for a rainy day”.
Now, by the way, this ability has turned against us. After all, a significant part of humanity at the moment has no problems with obtaining almost unlimited amounts of carbohydrates – sweet soda, fast food, pastries, a variety of confectionery. And the body believes that it has fallen into a kind of “energy paradise” and economically puts away all the excess that its owner eats, on the stomach, thighs, buttocks, etc. And if an adult is still able (and then, not always!) to control the absorption of high-carb foods, children are almost unable to resist this, which leads to a sharp increase in cases of serious obesity.
And how are fats involved in energy consumption?
Adipose tissue reserves are our reserve in case of carbohydrate deficiency. This means that the body will start processing them only after it burns all the freely available sugars. And it is not for nothing that we mentioned above about situations when a person experiences increased physical and mental stress. It is in such cases that most often there is a lack of carbohydrates, followed by a transition to “fat energy supply”.
And is there enough fat to maintain the energy balance?
For most of our fabrics, the answer is yes. The cells that make up them, even if not immediately, but begin to break down fats, extracting the necessary energy. But there are a few nuances. So, for example, it turned out that our brain is still “fastidious”. It works well on glucose, but fat in its pure form does not suit it. Some other parts of the nervous system, a number of endocrine organs that regulate many vital processes, etc., have the same features.
For these organs, specific compounds – ketone bodies-serve as an alternative to glucose. Our liver can produce them, converting all the same fats into them. And the condition in which the liver begins to produce ketone bodies is called ketosis.
At the same time, both fats, as raw materials for the production of ketones, and fats that are absorbed by our tissues directly, the body takes from those “rainy-day stocks”. And if you want to lose weight – this is a good option to lose extra pounds. But if a person does not have a goal to reduce body weight, but an increased flow of energy is still necessary, then it makes sense to feed yourself with ketone bodies coming from outside. Such ketones are called exogenous or simply-exoketons.
What is the benefit of using them?
Ketone bodies are not for nothing considered more “advanced” nutrition for the brain than glucose. After all, they not only supply us with an increased amount of energy. Modern research has convincingly proved that they have a whole range of positive effects on our nervous system:
- accelerate recovery after increased psychological and intellectual stress;
- increase the resistance to psychoemotional stress;
- smooth out the manifestations of depression and improve the emotional state of a person;
- protect brain cells from damage during various intoxications;
- slow down age-related changes in the central nervous system tissues;
- they serve as prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative pathologies.
It has also long been known that a healthy person in a state of ketosis has a significantly higher psychological and physical endurance. That is why the use of exogenous ketones against the background of a low-carb diet is often used by professional athletes. This life hack, which can be considered as a kind of completely physiological “doping”, works especially well in stayer sports – marathon, cycling, triathlon, etc.
In addition, taking exoketones helps you quickly, safely and relatively painlessly switch to this very low-carb diet. And if you already eat according to the LCHF (Low carb, high fat) system, but at the same time intend to maintain and even increase muscle mass, then exogenous ketones are simply necessary for you so that the body does not destroy its own cells in order to get energy raw materials.
Do they produce exoketons in our country?
Yes.The leader in this field is VILAVI INT LTD. Its product line includes an exoketone complex called T8 Ega Echo. Its quality is in no way inferior to foreign analogues, and according to some researchers even exceeds them. This advantage of the T8-Exo complex is based on the fact that it contains ketone bodies not in pure form, but in the form of sodium, calcium and magnesium salts. And earlier in several scientific papers, it was demonstrated that it is as such salts that exoketons reach the tissues that need an influx of energy most quickly and completely. This author’s development of VILAVI specialists received a patent from the State Register of Inventions of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of the Russian Federation in 2020.
Exoketons of the complex T8 Egaexo will serve as an excellent neuroprotector and provide you with additional energy. With them, you can effectively resist prolonged physical and psychological stress, as well as quickly cope with fatigue and stress. Preventive intake of this product will improve your productivity in any intellectual activity and will allow you to maintain vigor and concentration throughout the working day.