Why is drinking ketones better?
Why is drinking ketones better?
A few years ago the ketogenic diet became wildly popular throughout the United States. The high fat, low carbohydrate lifestyle became common across American households and throughout people’s social media feeds. It was the first time I had ever personally heard the word “keto”, however, a ketogenic lifestyle has been around for centuries.
Later it became a fat loss craze when people found that sticking to this strict diet helped them burn fat. Up until roughly 7 years ago the only way to achieve a state of ketosis was through this strict diet and even that wasn’t always enough. Pruvit’s pure therapeutic ketones are the only naturally fermented, multi-patented ketone supplement on the market. One single serving of KETO//OS NAT results in achieving a state of ketosis and the energy, focus, fat loss, mental clarity, improved sleep, clearer skin, and other benefits that come along with using ketones as a fuel source.
Dr. Ryan Lowry, President of Applied Science and Performance Institute and one of the country’s best thought leaders on exogenous ketones says, “As we get older, our brain isn’t able to utilize glucose and carbohydrates as well and after the age of 30, the older we get and the worse our diet is, the more resistant our brain is to those types of fuel. It’s almost as if our brain is starving for energy. We just need to provide it the right source of fuel. And the fuel that our brain can still utilize is ketones. Studies show that as we get older our brain is still able to utilize ketones when it’s not able to utilize glucose and carbohydrates as well. Ketones are the superior fuel source.”
When we started drinking ketones it to prove to my mother-in-law that they couldn’t be as good as she was claiming. It took about one week to admit that we were proven wrong in the very best way possible. The word “keto” had become synonymous for fat loss and neither of us had weight to lose, but what we didn’t realize is that we could benefit (and have benefitted) from just about every other benefit from being in the state of ketosis. Lowry says, “We all live in a state now where we have food available to us all the time. We have friends and family members, even ourselves who are hungry all the time; and you want to snack and eat. That drives obesity and complications we’d love to live in a world where we aren’t as hungry all the time – where we are in control of our appetite. Ketones give us that control. Studies show that ketones suppress our appetite, they decrease hunger, they decrease cravings – particularly sugar cravings because of the way they are acting in our brain they’re blunting our hunger so people tend to eat less, which is going to improve our overall health.”
We’ve never been people to take supplements other than occasional vitamin C or vitamin D. We never joined the protein powder or pre-workout craze. Even our caffeine consumption has always trailed the average American. I always assumed ketones would be something we tried once and then never thought about again, but now we know that KETO//OS NAT is actually classified as a technology, rather than a supplement. And I use technology in every way available to me, so why not do the same for my health?
Lowry says, “One of the reasons we think of ketones as a technology as opposed to a supplement is because of the signaling capabilities of ketones. Imagine a light switch that you turn on and off. Well as we get older, the genes inside of our body – the DNA, the light switch starts to get turned off over time. Ketones are not just a fuel source. They are signaling molecules that help keep the light switch on. And study after study shows that ketones are acting as signaling molecules that can not only help with longevity and lifespan, but also have other signaling cascades far beyond what most people recognize.”
We wondered to ourselves why we couldn’t just go get a generic keto supplement and achieve the same things at a lower price, what made Pruvit ketones so special? Aside from holding 9 patents on the technology, Lowry dives further in to the formula, “One thing to note is that our body, when we’re on a ketogenic diet, makes the D form of ketones (the D form of Beta-hydroxybutyrate). It is the form that our body naturally makes when it’s in a ketogenic state. Other companies out there are giving a mixture. They’re giving both the D form and what we call the L form – it’s called a mixed isomer. But our bodies naturally produce only the D form. If you hold up your hands in front of you they are mirror images of one another, but if you try to put one over the other it’s not identical. The same thing happens with ketones. Pruvit is the ONLY company who is using 100% of not only the D form, but a naturally fermented process of the D form.”