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A High-Fat Diet Supports Hormone Balance, Synthesis, and Function

Eating a high-fat low carbohydrate diet helps improve and regulate your reproductive hormones. How it balances and regulates reproductive hormones generally falls into three categories: • provides your body with the building blocks of hormones (aka cholesterol) • reduces the intake of foods that mimic reproductive hormones • reduces the effects of metabolic syndrome (aka PCOS) by lowering blood glucose levels

HORMONE SYNTHESIS

If you remember back to your high school or college science classes, you may remember a thing or two about hormone synthesis. Long story short, several of the most important reproductive hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, are all derived from cholesterol. Cholesterol is also essential for our bodies to synthesize vitamin D from sunlight. Vitamin D has been shown to help support fertility health.

HORMONE DISTURBANCES VIA PHYTOMIMICRY OF REPRODUCTIVE HORMONES

While the link between soy and decreased fertility in both men and women has long been firmly established due to its estrogenic activity (it contains estrogen-like chemicals that bind with human estrogen receptors and interfere with normal hormonal signaling), there are over 300 plants with known estrogenic activity. Flaxseed, sesame seeds, berries, oats, wheat, barley, dried beans, lentils, rice, alfalfa, rye, apples, carrots, garlic, and more all contain phytoestrogen. Why exactly do plants make these hormones? Well, it is hypothesized that plans make them for the exact reason of decreasing the fertility and thus local population of the animals that eat them. As mentioned previously, we often forget that plants are living creatures that are designed for survival, and this is one way in which plants lower populations of animals that like to eat them.

HORMONE REGULATION VIA BLOOD SUGAR AND INSULIN LEVELS

PCOS is a hormonal disorder in females that affects 1 in 10 women. It is largely characterized by the presence of high male hormone levels (hyperandrogenism) and infrequent ovulation. Notably, PCOS is the leading diagnosis of infertility. While the exact cause of PCOS is still debated in the medical community, the story is becoming more and more clear. PCOS is highly correlated with carrying excess weight, Type 2 diabetes, previous gestational diabetes, and cholesterol problems – problems that are all linked to high insulin levels.

It turns out that hyperinsulinemia can cause the ovaries to make testosterone and create other hormonal imbalances that reduce ovulation frequency and influence other PCOS symptoms. Because insulin is released after eating a high carbohydrate meal, eating a low-carb diet is one of the most effective ways to reduce insulin levels, and has been shown to have a favorable impact on metabolic syndromes like PCOS. The results are so promising that one recent study showed that every PCOS patient enrolled in a High Fat Low Carbohydrate fertility diet resumed regular menstruation and ovulation and half got pregnant naturally without the need for any medical intervention like ovulation induction, IUI, or IVF.

Eating a high-fat low carbohydrate diet helps improve and regulate your reproductive hormones.

CREAM IS THE NEW ORANGE JUICE.

Adding full-fat heavy cream or butter to your coffee or tea is an easy way to add fat back in to your diet, and it tastes great too! Give up the non-dairy creamers, sugary flavored mix-ins, almond or soy milk. Go with full-fat heavy cream to fight inflammation.

Find the Fat

MAKE BACON, EGGS, BUTTER, BEEF, & ICE CREAM THE MAINSTAYS OF YOUR REGULAR DIET

Anyone who has spoken to me has heard me repeat these five foods like a mantra. They are the basis of Dr. Kiltz’s B.E.B.B.I.S. Diet. They point back to this simple truth: Our bodies require fat for energy. If we can’t eat fat or make fat, we die. Unfortunately, the majority of fat we consume is industrial, man-made fat. What we really need to be eating is nature’s fat—that stuff that surrounds the animal or is intertwined and marbled in every nook and cranny of the meat.

Stay away from lean meats and try to choose grassfed, all-natural meats. You want to consume fatty meats like a rib-eye steak, not lean, fat-free chicken breast. You need to eat the fat. By adding fat, cream, butter, and eggs, you reduce inflammation, you reduce your appetite, you reduce your glucose levels, and your energy is so much better. All of the bowel problems go away, the skin problems and the joint problems are gone.

Minimize the variety and simplify your meals. Eliminate pasta, bread, yogurt, milk, seeds, and nuts. Plant oils which harden when exposed to oxygen likely contain a multitude of plant antigens, which are harmful.

Eating fat in its purest form is the simplest energy source for our bodies. There are a lot of different food plans out there that focus on high fat / med-low protein / low carbs. They are pretty similar, but tend to differentiate themselves by their recommended fat and carb consumption. Paleo is about 20% protein, 70% fat, 10% carbs. The B.E.B.B.I.S. Diet is 80% fat, 20% protein, zero carbs. This is the key to health and wellness.Any combination of bacon, eggs, butter, and beef (or fatty meat) is crucial to reducing inflammation. We call this The Lion King Plan. To eat like the king of the jungle means eliminating all fruits and vegetables that produce sugar and phytochemicals, and focusing only on high quality, high fat foods.