Ketogenic diet without rice, accidentally stepping on a health landmine? Be careful of kidney qi rushing up, causing dizziness, fatigue, and headaches

Master Zi Lin Zhai, who once cured people's atopic dermatitis and asthma, as well as gastroesophageal reflux, long-term knee pain and winter itch with a bowl of "Tai Chi Rice Porridge", will this time teach you how to use the "Five-Shape Zodiac Formula" to figure out which type of person you are and to understand your own Zodiac Constitution so that you won't step on health landmines by mistake! In addition, in response to common extreme diet methods in the market, including fasting, ketogenic diet, and sugar-free diet, it is also pointed out that people with certain constitutions should pay special attention. Especially when ketone bodies are in the initial stage of production, common external symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, cold sweats, nausea, and headaches will occur, but these are symptoms that damage the stomach qi and cause the yang qi to be deficient.

The continuous production of ketone bodies is one of the manifestations of the so-called "kidney qi rushing up"

The owner of Zilinzhai is named Lin Xiangrong. He was diagnosed with gallstones 13 years ago. The severe pain from the gallstones caused him to burst from time to time. He tried various folk remedies to remove the gallstones and even wanted to have surgery to remove his gallbladder. Later, by chance, he turned to seek the help of traditional Chinese medicine, and discovered the health-preserving methods in the lost Guilin version of "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" for a thousand years, and successfully healed himself. In his new book, "25 Health Preservation Strategies for People with Different Physical Constitutions That Chinese Medicine Practitioners Also Want to Learn," he divides physical constitutions into 25 types based on the changes in yin and yang and the five elements, and calculates one's own natal constitution through the Five-Type Natal Formula. At the same time, we remind you that eating according to your body constitution is the way to health. However, in recent years, there have been many extreme diets that lack the rigorous operational premise of "dialectical treatment" and "prescription based on symptoms", which deviates from the expectations and needs of health preservation.

Let’s first look at the ketogenic diet, which has been very popular in recent years. This diet emphasizes not eating staple foods. The most important physiological indicator in the operation process is the change of "ketone bodies" in the body: if ketone bodies are continuously produced, it means that the control is effective. As long as ketone bodies can be continuously produced, various monitored foods such as starch, sugar, staple foods, etc. must continue to be restricted. But in other words, the continuous production of ketone bodies is one of the manifestations of the so-called "kidney qi rushing upward."

Ketone bodies begin to form and you will experience dizziness, fatigue, headache and other discomforts

Ketone bodies are generally considered to be a compound produced by human liver cells when the body is starving or in certain pathological conditions. If ketone bodies are overproduced, it can cause a condition called "ketoacidosis" in the human body, which can easily be fatal in severe cases. Not eating staple foods or fasting can both induce the production of ketone bodies, so intuitively, there is not much difference between not eating staple foods and fasting.

If the ketogenic diet is continued for a long time, ketone bodies will continue to be produced, which is one of the manifestations of the so-called "kidney qi rushing upward".

For people with earth-type physique, not eating staple foods and overeating fruits and vegetables will cause a large amount of muscle atrophy and loss. The proportion of muscle is higher than that of fat, so the weight loss effect is particularly significant, and it has a kind of "fatal attraction"; as long as you work hard and endure it, you can achieve the goal of losing weight.

Deliberately stimulating the production of ketone bodies just proves the occurrence of the so-called "kidney qi rushing upward", which is a pathogenic operation that destroys the acquired stomach qi and over-exhausts the innate kidney qi. During the initial stage of ketone body production, some people regard the common external symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, cold sweats, nausea, and headaches that occur at this time as inevitable "normal" reactions, and claim that practitioners must be patient and hold on for a few days, and the discomfort will disappear. These phenomena are exactly what the "Gui Ben" identified as symptoms of deficiency of stomach qi and yang qi in the body, such as "coldness in the heart and stomach, discomfort in the chest and diaphragm, heart pain and fullness, headache, sadness, occasional dizziness, loss of appetite...", which are very similar.

From this we can see that this type of operation is not helpful to human health, and is rarely beneficial for treating diseases. As long as you don't eat, or even, to be more precise, don't eat staple foods such as rice and pasta, once you start stimulating the production of ketone bodies, it will harm your body and be tantamount to chronic suicide. Reminder: there is absolutely no need for humans to deliberately create one disease to save another, and there is no need to deliberately perform pathological operations.

At least 6,000 years ago, humans began to cook and steam rice as their staple food. I have also mentioned this many times in "Tai Chi Rice Porridge" and "Physical Diet": Historical facts prove that China was able to mass-produce refined white rice at least two thousand years ago in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, and also knew how to use refined white japonica rice as the staple food. "Gui Ben" even mentions that refined white japonica rice can be used as medicine to treat diseases. It can be seen that human beings began to build a high level of civilization based on a food culture with rice and noodles as the staple foods, and living standards took off accordingly. This is progressive development and a universal fact.

Meat food is relatively easier to be absorbed by internal organs and converted into blood-forming nutrients. It plays an important role in stabilizing the functions of the liver and kidney systems. In terms of the proportion of daily diet, we also recommend that meat should be the second highest proportion of food after staple food. The benefits of meat and fat to the body will be lost if there is a lack of support from staple foods. Because the spleen and stomach cannot be nourished by the staple foods, their digestive ability will gradually become abnormal and decrease over time, and the body will eventually have to rely on drug intervention.

During the initial stage of ketone body production, some people regard common external symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, cold sweats, nausea, and headaches as inevitable "normal" reactions.

The impact of a ketogenic diet on wood-shaped people: it is easy to cause stomach qi deficiency, which in turn leads to kidney qi rushing up

●Wood type zodiac sign: biased towards the liver system. The body's organs or tissues correspond to the liver, gallbladder, heart, ligaments, blood vessels, lymphatic channels, nails, eyeballs, etc., as well as part of the reproductive function.

People with wood body constitution who do not eat staple foods but overeat vegetables and fruits, and who already have a tendency for the liver wood to punish the spleen earth, have a general appetite. The resulting deficiency of stomach qi can easily lead to the upward rush of kidney qi and transform into Shaoyang fire. This will exacerbate the original physical tendency, and you may even feel that your condition has improved. However, the problems of coldness and lack of blood will cause blood deficiency and wind to cause headaches, the joints may have problems functioning properly, and the abdomen is often susceptible to cold.

Especially for female friends, if they do not take good care of themselves after giving birth, they will miss the great opportunity to replenish their body and kidney function problems may appear early after giving birth. From the slightest decline in physical strength and continued increase in waist circumference to osteoporosis and even prolapse of internal organs, it is particularly unfavorable for maintaining health in old age.

The effects of a ketogenic diet on a fire-type person: it is more difficult to produce blood, and the skin tends to appear dull and rough

●People with fire-shaped constitution have a physical constitution biased towards the heart system. The body's organs or tissues correspond to the heart, intestines, tongue, pupils, blood, etc.

For people with fire type constitution, not eating staple foods and overeating vegetables and fruits will make it more difficult to produce blood. In addition, they have a tendency to have little blood and dry blood, so there is not enough blood to nourish the body surface. Therefore, the whole person may look more likely to appear dull and have rough skin. Eating so-called "irritating foods" may cause severe skin and respiratory allergies. In particular, the upper part of the body lacks heart blood, and there may be occasional pain in the front and back of the chest and between the shoulder blades, and even inability to raise the arms.

For people with fire type constitution, not eating staple foods and overeating vegetables and fruits will make it more difficult to produce blood. In addition, they have a tendency to have little blood and dry blood, so there is not enough blood to nourish the body surface. Therefore, the whole person may look more likely to appear dull and have rough skin.

Effects of a ketogenic diet on earth-type people: Overeating fruits and vegetables or fats will reduce the source of spleen and stomach fluids

●People with earth-shaped constitution have a constitution biased towards the spleen system. The organs or tissues of the body correspond to the spleen, pancreas, stomach, all the muscles in the body, the lips and mouth, and the tip of the nose.

For people with earth-type constitution, not eating staple foods but overeating fruits and vegetables usually makes them feel uncomfortable because they don't feel full easily. Generally speaking, their acceptance level should be relatively low. This kind of extreme diet operation directly destroys their natal constitution, making the originally strong functional conditions worse and causing large fluctuations, so they are very easy to feel uncomfortable. However, due to the atrophy and loss of muscles, and the fact that muscles weigh more than fat, the weight loss effect is particularly significant, and it has a "fatal attraction"; as long as you work hard and endure, you can achieve the goal of losing weight.

But for earth-type people, they particularly need grains to nourish the spleen and stomach and harmonize their destiny. Overeating of fruits and vegetables or oils will reduce the source of spleen and stomach fluids. Cold and dampness will begin to invade the spleen system, gradually reducing appetite, causing poor appetite, frequent bowel sounds, several bowel movements a day, and even diarrhea after eating.