Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. It's time for another show dedicated to the world of keto.

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Hi, listeners. Let's talk about how to make it to that magic six-week mark with your first foray into nutritional ketosis.

So you've done the hard work, you've done the 21-day metabolism reset, you've done the fine-tuning, proving that you're metabolically efficient and you can last till midday without eating your first source of calories, feeling good, and now

we're ready to tackle it. So let's talk about how to do it right on the diet front as well as

throwing in those all-important comprehensive lifestyle aspects. My first idea out of the

gate is I want you to strongly consider to complete at least one complete keto reset journey

as detailed in the book so that you can obtain that highest level of metabolic fitness and leverage that really

for the rest of your life. So that entails a 21-day metabolism reset where you're ditching the

grains and sugars and the bad oils and all whiff of carbohydrate dependency. You're getting the

lifestyle matters handled as well. Then you're going to do that fine

tuning period where you test out with morning fasting if you can function well up until midday. That's a

good indication that you're ready for your first attempt at nutritional ketosis. And we strongly

encourage that that lasts a minimum duration of six weeks.

You are going to feel so great after six weeks, and it's going to be so easy that you'll be able to continue on indefinitely, if you want.

I relate the story that when I was working on the book, I went into my nutritional ketosis experiment, and it lasted 140 days. That's like over four months,

almost five. And then I deliberately exited my keto macronutrient eating pattern just for the experimental

reasons of bringing carbs back in, seeing how I reacted and getting a complete picture so that we could work on the book in an informed manner.

And at the time the six-week mark hit, I know that was the minimum standard that's so

advocated by Dr. D'Agostino, and I didn't even notice because it was so easy and so smooth.

So really, you want to get to that six-week mark.

There may be some struggling involved, especially if your approach is not dialed in.

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