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Eating keto

What if I told you there’s a way to address the underlying causes of illness simply by understanding what ingredients to eat, how to prepare them and when to eat? It’s an equation that adds up to food most definitely being medicine. By understanding where our food comes from, what ingredients, preparation and cooking techniques are best and even consciously selecting the times you choose (or choose not) to eat, you have a recipe for living in optimal health.

Most common chronic diseases — such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and cancer — have similar root causes. They are triggered and accelerated by insulin and leptin resistance, resulting in mitochondrial dysfunction. The mitochondria are the small subunits within cells that essentially generate your body’s energy. Optimising their function is one of the most important things you can do for your health because, when mitochondria aren’t working correctly, it leads to inflammation and

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