Low carbohydrate keto diets will optimise your brain health.

Low carbohydrate ketogenic diets are known for several health benefits. It is a well known trend among health enthusiasts who have a goal of weight loss and help in managing diabetes. Moreover, recently some of the scientific studies suggest that it also can benefit brain disorders and optimise brain health.

So now go through the below mentioned facts and information to know how it will help in optimising brain health.

• Low carbohydrate ketogenic diet and brain.

Basically the fact behind optimisation of brain functioning is that low carbohydrate diets provide your brain with energy through a process called ketogenesis. Not only ketogenesis, sometimes gluconeogenesis is also responsible for brain working optimization.

1. How ketogenesis optimise brain functioning?

During normal days, glucose is usually the main fuel for brain functioning. Human brain, unlike muscles cannot use fat as a fuel source for working. But the brain can use ketones. During the phase when glucose and insulin levels are quite low, human liver produces ketones from fatty acids.

Basically, these ketones are produced in small amounts. Whenever you go for many hours without eating. But the liver increases its production of ketones even more during fasting or low carbohydrate diet. It’s an estimation that when carbohydrate intake is less than 50 grams per day, liver will surely produce ketones.

During ketogenic diets, when carbohydrates are eliminated or minimised, ketones provide up to 75% of brain’s fuel.

2. Now know, how glucogenesis work in favour of brain.

Although during ketogenic diets brain uses most of the ketones for functioning. But still there are portions that require glucose to function properly. During low carbohydrate or keto diets, some of this blue post can be supplied by small amounts of carbohydrate consumed.

But the rest amount of glucose, arrives from process in your body which is called glucogenesis. In this process, liver basically creates glucose, especially for brain to use. This production of glucose takes place using amino acids.

• Benefits of ketogenic diet for brain.

Although this topic till now has not been studied much. But the fact is low carbohydrate end ketogenic diets may have several brain health benefits.

In most of the cases, older adults are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. But they have shown improvement in memory after following a low carbohydrate diet for almost 12 weeks.

During a study on rats, it was found that feeding rats on ketogenic diets for two months subsequently lead to improving brain functioning.

Health experts and researchers report that low carbohydrate or ketogenic diets may provide relief to people with migraine.

During one random control trial in which experts compared ketogenic diet with low fat high carbohydrate diet found that people who adopted ketogenic diets so a much greater improvement in pain and other non motors symptoms related to Parkinson's disease.