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Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy

Ketogenic metabolic therapy is a way of working with nutrition that is aimed at restoring balance to your metabolism. By lowering the amount of carbohydrates, your body learns to use fats as its main fuel instead of sugars. This can affect your energy, hormones and overall health.

The common medical view

Within conventional medicine, a ketogenic diet is mainly used for specific conditions, such as epilepsy. In addition, the therapy is increasingly being used successfully for obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, but also for psychological complaints.

A broader, systems-oriented approach

In my practice I look at ketogenic nutrition as a way to calm the body metabolically and make it function more efficiently. An important part of this is the role of insulin.

Insulin is a hormone that not only regulates your blood sugar, but is also involved in fat storage, inflammatory processes and hormonal balance. When your body has to produce insulin throughout the day - for example due to a high intake of fast carbohydrates - this can lead to fluctuations in energy and ultimately to insulin resistance.

From a broader perspective, we see this in complaints such as fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, a bloated feeling, difficulty losing weight or a feeling of constant restlessness in the body. These are signals that the body has difficulty using energy flexibly.

This is what you can expect in my practice Heel Beter

In my practice I use ketogenic metabolic therapy as part of an integrated approach. Together we look at your energy, eating pattern, digestion, sleep and stress level.

Where necessary, we use a low-carb or ketogenic nutritional strategy to stabilize your blood sugar and insulin. This helps the body to switch to fat burning and supports processes such as:

• more stable energy during the day

• fewer fluctuations in blood sugar

• support mitochondrial energy production

• reduction of low-grade inflammation

I combine this approach with insights from orthomolecular therapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). While ketogenic nutrition helps regulate metabolism, nutrients and lifestyle choices support the body on a cellular level, and TCM helps to understand patterns and imbalances in context.

Personal and tailored

Not everyone benefits from a strict ketogenic diet. That is why we always look at what suits your body, your situation and your goals. Sometimes a mild carbohydrate restriction is sufficient, sometimes a deeper ketogenic approach is helpful.

In short

Ketogenic metabolic therapy is a way to support your metabolism through nutrition and create more balance in energy, hormones and recovery. It is not a standalone solution, but a powerful component within a broader, personal and systemic approach to health.

Insulin and blood sugar are often used in the same sentence. Yet insulin has many more tasks in our body than regulating blood sugar levels. With insulin it is just like with a euro, you can only spend it 1 times. So make sure you don't abuse insulin every time for your blood sugar level, this will prevent many problems.