If you are doing everything right, you will have your positive ketogenic test!
Now, did you know that people also make a greater effort than they should at the beginning of the diet and end up feeling common discomforts during the adaptation period of the carbohydrate restriction.
What you may not know is that headaches, nausea and irritability can be prevented. Such symptoms are a warning that you really need better guidance to follow your diet.
You may be dehydrated, consuming a very acidic diet, full of toxins and inflammatory or all of that together.
Warning signs during the adaptation period
You have certainly heard of common symptoms of adapting to carbohydrate restriction. These complaints are so frequent that there are people who think it is normal. Symptoms can appear early in the diet and last for weeks.
Are they:
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Difficulty concentrating
- Weakness
- Cramps
- Dizziness
- Constipation
- Headache
- Irritability
- Stomach pain
- Muscle pain
- Difficulty sleeping
- Compulsion by sweets
With the popularization of the ketogenic diet and the easy access to information not always qualified on the internet, many people end up starting the diet at their own risk. One reason for this is the difficulty of access to experienced professionals on the subject.
Doctors who do not know about the ketogenic diet at first glance, are afraid of inducing ketosis because it is associated with a serious disease that happens in diabetics, which if left untreated, can be fatal, diabetic ketoacidosis.
Fortunately, studies have shown that physiological (click here to see the study) or nutritional ketosis , which occurs in ketogenic diets , is safe for non-diabetic people.
In nutritional ketosis it is possible to detect maximum levels of 7-8 mmol / L of ketones in the blood . This value no longer increases because the brain efficiently absorbs these ketones.
Quite different ketoacidosis, wherein the concentration of ketone bodies may exceed 20 mmol / L .
Although the diet is considered safe in scientific articles, this does not mean that the diet researched in the articles is the same as the one you intend to or are already doing on your own. Being guided by facebook forums or online weight loss programs.
So I want you to pay attention to this very current article, published in July 2019.
A woman who was breastfeeding started the ketogenic diet to lose weight quickly after giving birth to her child and maintained carbohydrate restriction while breastfeeding for 18 weeks until she was admitted to the hospital with the following symptoms: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, muscle cramps and pain.
This was the first documented case of ketoacidosis induced by a ketogenic diet and the patient’s blood pH was 7.11 (the normal is 7.35 to 7.45 ).
This brings two conclusions: the obvious one that breastfeeding women should not go on a ketogenic diet .
And a less obvious one; note that all the symptoms that the woman felt are the same as described as possible to occur during the adaptation period of the ketogenic diet .