Best Electrolytes and Minerals for Keto. . . and LIFE
The Importance of Trace Minerals with Keto
On a ketogenic diet it is extremely important to supplement with trace minerals. This is because, during ketosis, the body utilizes much greater levels of micronutrients as it burns fat stores. The foods we buy are being grown in soils that are depleted of micronutrients and trace minerals. Since the foods we eat do not contain the trace minerals necessary to support healthy ketosis. We have to replenish trace minerals via supplements!
Macro and Micro nutrients – the lay of the land
All foods contain Macronutrients and Micronutrients. These nutrients provide the body with the all the tools needed to function optimally.
Let’s Start With Macronutrients
Nutrients that are needed in large amounts are called macronutrients and include carbohydrates,
Importance of Micro nutrients
Micronutrients are elements needed in trace amounts by the human body for normal growth and development. They include vitamins, trace minerals, trace elements, amino acids, phytochemicals, antioxidants and fatty acids. Micronutrients don’t provide energy like macronutrients, they have a myriad of other functions that slow down the aging process, protect your body from disease and ensure that every system in your body is functioning properly.
While all foods contain Macronutrients (proteins, fats and carbs) not all foods contain healthy supplies of Micronutrients. Since Micronutrients can’t be measure by their direct effect (like calories) they are harder to measure and most of them are not listed on nutritional labels.
Studies have shown that consuming a complete micronutrient profile, which is a diet including all of the essential vitamins, trace minerals and elements will improve your body’s cognitive function, improve bone density, decrease the risk of infection and disease and more.
Micronutrients and the Ketogenic Diet
People following a ketogenic diet need to be particularly mindful to consume a variety of micronutrient dense whole foods and limit their intake of low-nutrient processed foods. As the body goes into ketosis it begins to utilize much greater levels of micronutrients to burn fat stores. Information about the need for supplementation of sodium, calcium and magnesium is readily available, but what you need to understand is that supplementation at the trace-mineral level provided in Keto-BEAM electrolyte minerals makes the minerals much more bio-available to the body.