You must eat lots of vegetables to prevent a fatty liver when you’re doing a ketogenic diet.
Why? Because you’re going to be literally melting your fat stores and dumping huge amounts of fat through the liver. The reason keto and IF work where Atkins fails, in fact, is by encouraging vegetable carbohydrate that prevents nutrient deficiencies. You stay in ketosis as long as you eat chiefly non-starchy vegetables—so no beets, corn, and watch the potatoes for maximum ketosis. I recommend dark, leafy greens because they are very healing for the liver and contain minerals that improve the detox pathways of the liver.
Plus, they’re rich in potassium which is essential for avoiding keto flu.
Bitter greens like kale, beet tops, and Swiss Chard literally melt fat off the liver.
The more bitter the better.
This is easily accomplished by adding a kale shake at the first meal or having a big salad with lots of dark, leafy greens, hard-boiled eggs and bacon, dark meat chicken or grass-fed beef, cruciferous vegetables, and low carb dressings like Newman’s blue cheese or ranch dressing.
3. ADD POTASSIUM CITRATE AND NUTRITIONAL YEAST TO PREVENT SIDE EFFECTS You want to prevent side effects such as low energy, dizziness, or keto flu when you’re making that switch from burning glucose fuel to fat fuel. And I want to stress how important this is because often, just one bout of keto flu will send people heading for a carb binge to feel better.
But don’t do it!
These feelings of fatigue and weakness will pass and they’ll pass even faster if you supplement with potassium citrate and nutritional yeast. When you first begin intermittent fasting and keto, you start dumping a lot of fat and water weight off of the body, which can lead to feelings of dizziness, fatigue and sapped energy. Potassium citrate will help with this a good electrolyte powder can contain as much as 1,000 mg of potassium. Supplementing with electrolytes is smart because all the water weight you’ll lose will can dehydrate the body. Nutritional yeast is one of the best natural sources of virtually all the B vitamins around, helping you power through that keto adjustment period without feeling weak and tired.
Make sure it’s organic and non-GMO.
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