Hi N, in Upminster London, thanks for your question the other day. If I just run through some of the things you mentioned and correct me where I'm slightly off.

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We did run through some stuff when we were chatting, but just to recap.
The first thing to do is remember the story about coconut fat. Here is a link to the Daily Mail This article raises some points that need addressing. First it mentions drugs that may provide the benefits of coconut fat without the triglycerides. Well this article I"m about to cite goes some way to suggest that triglycerides are not necessarily down to the fat one eats but the glucose! This backs up what I said and that is that it"s carbs, sugars and processed foods that are the real problem. Because these three sources of starches that of potato, rice and wheat that do a lot of the damage, which ultimately raise blood pressure, triglycerides, promote diabetes and aid the onset of Alzhimers. The next thing the article mentions is that ketones might be more important than the coconut fat itself. Again I disagree, I"ve produced as many as 4.0 mmols of ketones a day with an average of 2.0 over a period of a week and found that my brain function was not as good as when I was eating the fat from coconut. So although ketones are a really healthy long term option, what needs to happen right now is full fat coconut fat. Next the article mentions MCT oil, which is liquid coconut fat, distilled slightly to produce more medium chain triglycerides (MCT), but in my experience it is a skin irritant, which if it affects the skin on the outside it will definitely affect the skin on the inside as it goes through your intestine. I know that evolution has given us a trap door in the intestine allowing pure MCTs to pass straight into the bloodstream thus accelerating absorption, and avoiding digestion in the stomach, but this is for only a small amount so a teaspoon at a time is enough, and the energy rush does not last long. When they recommend no more than 2 teaspoons I agree no more than two teaspoons a day. The next thing the article mentions is if coconut fat is hydrogenated or not. Well coconut fat does not need to be hydrogenated. It can be bought partially hydrogenated, but this is to extend shelf life only, and we don"t want that. It turns out that any hydrogenated fats, this is ones that have a fat content now containing trans fats is now just one molecule away from plastic! And has a half life of one year! Not good for us. So I"d recommend you choose extra virgin and cold pressed coconut fat, which for sure means no hydrogenation and therefore not trans fats. I hear there is no thing as real organic coconut fat, but if it says it on the container, then I would go for that rather than not. So doing all this will reduce hunger because the hormone for hunger is leptin which is satiated with fat, so all that fat will allow you to not eat. This will simultaneously reduce your carb intake, all good so far.

The next thing I mentioned was to push the advantage afforded to you while sleeping, that of fasting. You already started cutting carbs and eating fat during the day and this advantage of not eating during sleep is to extend the forced fast of sleep. This should not be rushed especially if you are still working or exercising. Help in this area of not rushing this process is called the keto adaption period. When you wake, try and extend your non-eating window by putting off breakfast for as long as possible. This is the most important bit, because it is with extending the forced fast of sleep that real healing of the brain can take place. In the seminal research done by on autophagy he explains that not eating will lead to an auto cleansing of the bodies systems including the brain. It turns out when humans don’t eat for a while a mechanism that evolution has given us kicks in to help us survive. We get smarter! That’s right our brains grow new connections in the brain, and even the rate of new brain stem cell production goes up too. We already knew that our brains produced some 400 neurons a day in the hippocampus under normal circumstances, but for this to increase during a period of fasting is a bonus. It seems that when hungry our brains sharpen and our eyes get better and our senses improve, this of course is so that we may succeed at detecting and catching our next meal. The other way of looking at this is simply to reduce the eating window. So if you decide to only eat from 2 to 8pm then that is an eating window of 6 hours. Not bad. Similarly if you start to eat at 4pm and finish at 7pm that is an eating window of 3 hours. Getting this eating window down to 1 hour is your choice, but a six hour eating window is enough to begin benefitting from all the possitive effects of these dainly intermitent fasts over time. The smaller the eating window the faster the results. And with your fasting day filled with the occassional teaspoon of coconut fat and olive oil, this might end up being perfectly doable.