Here’s How Caffeine Affects The Ketogenic Diet For Weight Loss

Caffeine, does it help you or hurt you while on a ketogenic diet? Caffeine does some pretty cool things in your body when it comes down to ketosis. It does some even more powerful things well when it comes to weight loss.

So caffeine does some pretty cool things in your body when it comes down to ketosis for weight loss. It does some even more powerful things well.

We have two sides of the coin here that we need to talk about.

Caffeine does indeed mobilize fats, but we also need to play devil’s advocate and talk about the fact that caffeine can cause your body to dump already stored carbohydrates into the bloodstream.

So let’s get down to the nitty-gritty and talk about the two sides of the coin.

First and foremost let’s talk about how caffeine actually does mobilize fat in the body.

The Affects Of Caffeine and Fat Mobilization

It’s so easy and fun to say caffeine mobilizes fat. I mean it gets us all excited because we think that it’s just going to be flowing around throughout the body being utilized being oxidized, but it’s a little bit more complex than that.

You see the way that caffeine actually mobilizes fat is through enzymatic and hormonal functions.Caffeine stops the deactivation of something known as cyclic adenosine monophosphate.

No need to worry about what that really does, but cyclic adenosine monophosphate is what turns on something known as hormone sensitive lipase.

There for turning on lipolysis, therefore turning on fatty acid utilization.

Ultimately what that means is it is that function of the body that turns on the ability to utilize fat as a source of fuel.

So if cyclic adenosine monophosphate does not get deactivated because caffeine is there, it’s like the light switch is always on making the body capable of burning fat all day long.

That’s what’s really powerful, we want that light switch on.

If we didn’t have caffeine in the situation that light switch would turn off every now and then and you wouldn’t be able to burn fat, you wouldn’t turn on those hormones as much.

That’s the simple science of how caffeine actually activates fat burning processes within the body.

Let’s get down to how it works with ketone bodies.

Study

There was a study that was just recently published in 2016 in the Canadian Journal of physiology and pharmacology.

They took a look at what ketones did when caffeine was present.

The interesting thing is the test subjects that they use with this weren’t in a nutritional state of ketosis.

You see your body produces ketones whether you’re in ketosis or not, it just produces a lot of them when you’re actually in a nutritional state of ketosis or when you’re deprived of carbohydrates.

This study took a look at test subjects and they had them fast for 12 hours.

At the end of that 12 hour fast they had them eat a breakfast that consisted of 85 grams of carbohydrates, nine and a half grams of fat and 14 grams of protein.

That’s hardly a ketogenic style breakfast, but the thing is they were still going to measure what their ketone body response was a few hours later.

Now some of these test subjects they gave no caffeine to. Some subjects they gave a cup and a half of straight black coffee and another group of test subjects they gave caffeine pills equivalent to three cups of coffee.

The interesting thing was they found that those that ended up having higher amounts of caffeine exhibited extremely high levels of ketone bodies four hours later even though they weren’t eating a high fat low carb diet.

This proves that caffeine definitely increased the fatty acid activity in the body allowing the liver to produce more beta-hydroxybutyrate.

Even in test subjects that weren’t in ketosis there are no studies that really talked about caffeine in a ketogenic diet yet.

However, we can now prove that caffeine does allow more fats to be converted into beta-hydroxybutyrate, proving that this is exactly what want.

So now if you can imagine you take this situation in a total ketogenic state (this study was non ketogenic), imagine how much more improvement you would have in the amount of ketone bodies that are produced.

This studies show that there was an 88 to 116 percent increase in ketone bodies just by having higher amounts of caffeine. That’s pretty alarming.

Now let’s look at the other side of the equation.

Glycogen

The other side of the equation says: “okay caffeine allows the body to dump glycogen.”

Now let me tell you what that means.

We have carbohydrates that are stored inside of our muscles this is called muscle glycogen.

It’s our body’s way of storing carbohydrates for later utilization.

It’s been shown that when you consume caffeine, the body dumps glycogen out of the muscles and into the bloodstream really fast.

This means that it could elevate your blood sugar which in theory could kick you out of ketosis but here’s the thing, this happens very fast and it happens almost instantaneously.

The second that you consume caffeine your body dumps some glycogen, but it doesn’t dump a ton of it and it’s so instant it’s gone in a very short order.

So we have two different situations here.

We have the instant dumping of carbohydrates into the bloodstream that only lasts for a short amount of time (probably not even enough to kick you out of keto) and then we have the long term effect up to four hours later of increased beta-hydroxybutyrate in ketone bodies.

This isn’t a really a fair assessment.

They’re basically the beta-hydroxybutyrate benefits far superseded the potential negative aspect of your body dumping glycogen.

Now there’s one other thing that we can pay attention to.

When To Have Caffeine?

When do you normally have caffeine? Usually it’s before you work out or it’s before you’re active.

Let’s say you have this caffeine and it does hypothetically dump a bunch of bad sugars and carbohydrates that are storing your muscles into your bloodstream.

The good thing is you’re just about to work out, you’re just about to move, you’re going to incinerate those in like two minutes.

The truth is, you’re going to burn through any carbohydrates that are released.

The point is, if we’re actually looking at it tit for tat, the positive benefits of fatty acid mobilization and beta-hydroxybutyrate production are far superseding the negative implications of a potential glycogen dump.

My vote is caffeine is good, but don’t do super high concentrated amounts. Have smaller amounts throughout the course of the morning so that you can have a more sustained result throughout the rest of the day.

When it comes down to production of ketone bodies, higher amounts of caffeine equals higher amounts of carbohydrates that are getting dumped.

In the end, go lower amounts, spread it out a little bit more.

WHAT’S NEXT?

The ketogenic diet is the hottest diet of 2018 because it helps you quickly lose stubborn fat… it reduces fat storing inflammation… it helps you live longer and avoid today’s most deadly diseases.

But there are several problems that accompany a “traditional” high fat keto diet:

• You like to eat carbs?….You are out of ketosis.
• Want to eat some healthy, ripe fruits that are in season?….You are out of ketosis.
• Too much protein in that delicious steak or baconyou just ate?….You are out of ketosis.
• Want to have a glass (or two) or red wine, a few beers, or cocktails?  You guessed right….You are out of ketosis. 

Bottom line:

Permanent ketosis is not healthy, fun, OR realistic for anybody to follow long term, which is exactly why there’s a new, upgraded version that produces rapid results in only 14 days

It’s called, The “Targeted” Keto Diet and people have used it to drop pounds of unwanted belly flab, WITHOUT avoiding carbs, desserts, or alcohol

It all started by eating the 4 SUPER FATS below at the right time over a very short 14 day period (a few of them are probably in your kitchen right now)…