What Is A Keto Diet? The keto diet is a low carb, high-fat diet, which has many health benefits. Many studies show that it is very effective in losing weight. Ketogenic diets may even have benefits against diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, and Alzheimer’s disease. Keto diet involves a dramatically decreasing carbohydrate diet and replacing it with fat. Which drives your body to ketosis metabolism. When this happens our body burns excess fat for energy. It also turns fat into ketone which is fuel to our brain. What Are Types Of Keto Diet These are some of the types of a keto diet. Standard ketogenic diet (SKD): This is a very low-carb, moderate-protein, and high-fat diet. It typically contains 75% fat, 20% protein and only 5% carbs Cyclical ketogenic diet (CKD): This diet involves periods of higher-carb refeeds, such as 5 ketogenic days followed by 2 high-carb days. Targeted ketogenic diet (TKD): This diet allows you to add carbs around workouts. High-protein ketogenic...
Normal Sleep Sleep is a universal behavior that has been demonstrated in every animal species studied, from insects to mammals. It is one of the most significant of human behaviors, occupying roughly one-third of human life. Although the exact functions of sleep are still unknown, it is clearly necessary for survival because prolonged sleep deprivation leads to severe physical and cognitive impairment and, finally, death. Sleep is particularly relevant to psychiatry because sleep disturbances occur in virtually all psychiatric illnesses and are frequently part of the diagnostic criteria for specific disorders. The ancient Greeks ascribed the need for sleep to the god Hypnos (sleep) and his son Morpheus, also a creature of the night, who brought dreams in human forms. Dreams have played an important role in psychoanalysis. Freud believed dreams to be the “royal road to the unconscious.” Electrophysiology Of Sleep Sleep is made up of two physiological states: ◦non-rapid eye movement...