Key Keto Concepts — The Fundamentals (part 3 of 6)

The Top 3 Fat Burning Blockers

Adam Farr
Adam Farr
Sep 2, 2018 · 16 min read

Why Avoid The Fat Burning Blockers?

In the last lesson, you learned more about how inflammation, oxidation and toxic invaders are what’s causing you to put on body fat, lose your energy and get sick.

In this lesson, you’ll learn about the three things found in the foods you’re eating that are causing excessive and chronic inflammation and oxidation. Resulting in an immune response that’s making you fat, sick and tired.

These three fat burning blockers are found in every supermarket and grocery store you set foot inside. You might be completely unaware that you’ve been eating them all along. In fact, a dominant fat burning blocker you’re likely consuming is found in many fruits, vegetables, and whole grain foods. Even in the lean meats your buying.

Once you learn how to avoid these particular foods you’ll be able to burn body fat, and build a leaner and healthier body, faster and more efficiently than ever before.

What Are The Fat Burning Blockers?

I’ve called this lesson, the “3 Fat Burning Blockers”, because your body is already equipped with a natural ability to burn fat for fuel, and you just need to avoid the fat burning blockers to initiate the kind of transformation you’re looking for.

The problem we’re facing today, is that much of the food you’re eating is blocking your body’s ability to stay lean.

The underlying structure of our food economy relies on chemical compounds and environmental tinkering to produce the crop yields required to feed the over 7 billion human beings on this planet.

This means that most of the commercially grown and produced “health foods” in the supermarkets are full of volatile compounds; that when consumed will trigger an immune response in your body and lead to chronic inflammation and excessive oxidation, and a fatter version of you.

The three aforementioned “Fat Burning Blockers” are:
1: Bad Fats
2: Bad Sugars,
3. Bad Plants & Proteins

Bad Plants & Proteins

Let’s begin the conversation with bad plants and proteins. Yes, my vegan and vegetarian readers, bad plants! Believe it or not, many whole grains, pseudo grains, and legumes contain a trigger substance few people know of. It acts as molecular mimicker in your body, and for many of us with a damaged GMBM Complex, these molecular mimickers are wreaking havoc and blocking fat burning.

Even the nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables we eat contain many of these harmful proteins, called Lectins.

Before we dive into this, I want to stress that I am not suggesting we avoid all the foods mentioned above. I’m suggesting that you learn to source, preserve and prepare them, using traditional methods, so that you can know how neutralize these potentially harmful substances.

Lectins exist as a defense strategy the plant deploys, against insect threats and hungry animals. Were it not for the paralyzing and poisonous effects of lectins on the insect’s nervous system, they would eat and kill the otherwise defenseless plant, to feed themselves.

In other words, Lectins can help plants survive by acting as a kind of bug spray or insecticide against other creatures. You and I aren’t very different from insects because like insects, we also eat plants, and we also have a nervous system.

Just like insects, the lectins in the food we eat attack our nervous system, and organ systems; and this albeit small, but constant stressor, inevitably provokes a reaction in our gut and the resulting immune response.

Since you’re much bigger than a bug, you’re unlikely to feel the attack happening in the same way an insect does. You won’t become immediately paralyzed, and you won’t die. You’ll just grow fat, sick and tired, prematurely age, and eventually, develop a disease of some kind.

None the less, day after day, month after month and year after year, we’re told to consume lectin-containing foods, which attack our bodies and make our immune systems work overtime. There’s nothing particularly wrong with lectin containing foods, what’s damaging us is our ignorance to how to source, prepare and preserve these foods before we consume them.

Much of the information about the wisdom of culinary traditions is almost extinct. We inevitably consume foods we think are healthy but they tend to be prepared in such a way that hurt us in the long term.

Then over long stretches of time, we begin to store extra body fat around our stomach, to help support our immune system in the never-ending fight against this toxic invader.

This stored body fat around the belly acts as a reserve of energy your immune system can quickly access to help fight the battle in your gut. Remember, all your body cares about, is the immediate threat to your survival and nothing else.

If you don’t like what you see in the mirror when you get out of the shower, it won’t change how your immune system responds to the food that you eat. To address that, you’ll have to adopt the Keto-Biome diet, and pronto.

This immune response happens because the lectins we eat from certain “Bad Plants” in combination with having a “Leaky Gut” and overworked immune system, serve to overstress your metabolism; leading to fat gain.

These lectins are found in many plants and seeds, and in the flesh of the animals that eat these foods as well. That’s why you can be eating “healthy lean meat” and still be poisoning yourself with this particular immune trigger… Lectins.

A famous lectin you already know about is gluten. It’s one of many types of lectins that is blocking your body from burning fat. Being gluten sensitive or having celiac disease isn’t the only reason to avoid eating gluten; because all of us are affected when we consume it.

Gluten stimulates the release of a protein called Zonulin, which increases the permeability of the tight junctions in your epithelial layer, hence making an already leaky gut, even more leaky.

When zonulin is present, it makes your gut leakier, and allows other kinds of unwelcome proteins (like lectins) and various toxic invaders to more easily pass through the gut wall and into the bloodstream; further provoking an immune response.

There’s no such thing as a lectin free diet, because they exist in almost all plant foods, and in the flesh of all animals.

This doesn’t mean that you should never eat the foods in question. In fact, quite the contrary is true, and as I’ve mentioned earlier, the “secret sauce” to better health has more to so with the source, preparation, and preservation methods you use.

You must also consider, that if you have body fat to burn you’ll have to heal and seal your GMBM Complex before attempting to expose yourself to even moderate levels of lectins ever again.

Look, I eat lectin containing foods on occasion, and because I have a healed & sealed gut, I can do so without worrying about whether or not these foods will cause an immune response; making me fat, sick and tired.

A healthy body is equipped to handle these natural poisons to a certain degree. When you take the time to learn how to heal your leaky gut and support a healthy mucosal barrier along your gut wall, then the lectins won’t be able to pass through the gut and get into your bloodstream. With a healed a sealed GMBM Complex, lectins don’t cause any problems, and your immune system doesn’t need to respond to any invaders.

In other words, a healthy layer of snot on the inside of the gut can keep the lectins out. There are two things erode away at this thick mucosal layer. The first is any form of chronic stress; while the second is the use of almost all medications, particularly painkillers, which have been strongly linked to the erosion of your guts mucosal barrier.

Once again, at the root of the problem is the inflammatory response itself, which occurs only in the presence of damage. Is it any surprise that stress, drugs, and bad foods create damage in your body?

Bad Sugars

I wish to clarify that, despite me being a staunch supporter of a properly executed Ketogenic diet, I’m also not anti-carb to the degree that many people think is required to become a ketogenic athlete.

To eliminate carbohydrates from the diet would mean neglecting the opportunity to develop Metabolic Flexibility; and becoming “Metabolically Flexible” is the ultimate goal of the Keto-Biome Diet program.

Being Metabolically flexible means having a tonne of energy to get shit done by becoming a fat and sugar burning machine; because it allows your body to quickly switch from fat burning mode to sugar burning mode within minutes.

Being able to create energy from different fuel sources will provide you with enhanced performance under any condition.

All carbohydrates become a sugar of some kind once digested, the same way proteins become amino acids, and fats become fatty acids once digested. I tend to use the term carbohydrates and sugars interchangeably; so bare with me.

I think consuming carbs is excellent, and especially so if you are using my MH5 Training System. Training using MH5 gives you a reason to eat the carbohydrates in amounts that are higher than what your body would typically need at rest.

Like anything in life, too much of a good thing can quickly become a bad thing. In the case of carbohydrates, this means becoming aware of how much carbohydrate your body needs to perform at its best.

Once you become “Metabolically Flexible” and correctly choose where you get your carbs from, and under what circumstances you eat them; you’ll discover that you don’t need to consume the typical amount of carbohydrates found in the standard American diet.

This is because your body will quickly and easily switch over to fat burning mode when you’re not working out at a high intensity that requires increased carbohydrates.

Once you become metabolically flexible, you can say goodbye to cravings, brain fog and irrational bad moods.

Using carbs to power your body while you’re sitting at your desk or watching TV is like using jet fuel to power your minivan. Carbs are just like jet fuel for your body, and we all know how this kind of fuel can be very messy and polluting to the environment. Best to limit it’s used to the times when it becomes necessary, like in a training environment.

If you use carbohydrates for fuel all the time, you’re going to quickly wear out your engine as you get older, and make the vehicle that is your body break down faster.

However, if you teach your body to switch to clean electricity for fuel when appropriate, then you’ll be able to go a lot further and faster without having to refuel or get maintenance work done on your engine.

Life is like a marathon, and the quality of the fuel you choose will dictate whether or not you make it to the finish line as a smiling winner, or an injured loser.

Follow this advice, and you’ll be turning your body into a hybrid vehicle that burns electricity (or body fat) most of the time and only burns “jet fuel” (or carbs) when you need it most.

I’ve explained a little bit about how Metabolic Flexibility works and why I’m not anti-carb; as some might accuse me to be.

Allow me to explain why too many carbohydrates (or sugars), is not a good thing for the healthy function of your body.

The first reason is that consuming more sugars than your body’s designed to process, leads to a build-up of sticky residue around the cells in your body called AGE’s, which is an acronym for Advanced Glycation End Products.

AGE’s are like sticky sugar molecules mixed in water, and they act like glue wherever they go.

Just like in elementary school art class, “spilling glue” is never a good thing. Only very small amounts in the right place and at the right time are what your body needs to function optimally.

When you eat too much sugar, it’s like spilling a sticky glue all over your cells and hindering their ability to function as they normally would without the mess.

We know that inflammation happens when there’s a mess that needs to be cleaned up. An easy way to remember how sugar negatively affects your body is to remember that the more sticky advanced glycation end products (AGE’s) you produce from sugar metabolism, then faster you’ll age, which means getting increasingly fat, sick and tired as the days and weeks pass you by.

The second reason to consume fewer carbohydrates is the hormonal havoc excessive sugar consumption creates in your body. Remember the three hormones I mentioned earlier are Insulin, Leptin, and Ghrelin. I’ll only talk about Insulin for now, and save more details for version 2.0 of this book.

Insulin is responsible for opening the doors to your cells and letting sugars, amino acids and fatty acids inside the cell to be turned into energy by the mitochondria. The mitochondria are a species of bacteria living inside almost every cell of your body, who’s symbiotic job it is to turn the proteins, carbs, and fats you eat into usable energy for your cells called ATP

Imagine if you’re a mitochondrial cell, and you’re sitting at home watching TV and relaxing. Suddenly the “Insulin postman” rings the doorbell, to deliver a package of sweet sugar. At first, you’re quite delighted, because you needed the energy and couldn’t wait for it to arrive at your door.

Now imagine if that “Insulin Post Man,” kept ringing your doorbell every 2–3 hours every day, for years and years. Eventually, the doorbell would not ring as loudly as it once did, and one day it would simply break. Making it increasingly difficult to hear the “Insulin Post Man” when he’s at your door ready to provide you with a sugar delivery.

Your cell won’t open it’s doors to insulin because the doorbell is broken and you can’t “hear the bell.” Assuming that the package never arrived, you decide to go back to FatAmazons.com and order more and more sugar to satisfy your growing cravings.

Sugar is delivered to your door over and over again. The “Insulin Post Man” rings the bell, and you don’t hear it or get the sugar you wanted to be delivered. So you end up becoming even more hungry and angry; and craving, even more sugar than you did before.

The entire process that’s underway is called Insulin Resistance, and its also known as becoming pre-diabetic or diabetic. You can be pre-diabetic or insulin resistant even if your skinny and lean; and a good reason to suspect that you are, is the symptom of being “hangry” if you dont eat your carbohydrate containing meal every 3 hours or so.

When you’re insulin resistant, the sugar package is rarely delivered directly to the Mitochondria, despite the postman being right outside the cell wall, as he’s ringing the broken doorbell over and over again.

Since you’re still hungry for energy, you keep on ordering more sugar packages to be sent over, and you never get satisfied with an actual “sugar delivery.”This is one of the reasons you get constant hunger cravings or have trouble feeling full with moderate amounts of food.

You never get the opportunity to turn the carbs into energy, and eventually the Post Man leaves, and now you have a bunch of unused sugar floating around in your bloodstream.

High blood sugar can really mess up the delicate balance in your body, and so the sugar gets moved into storage as quickly as possible. That means, it goes straight to the fat cell.

Your muscle cells tend to become much more insulin resistant, and at a much faster rate, than your fat cells, as you get older. This is just one reason we lose muscle mass and put on fat as we age, and not the reverse.

As you know, the storage area for unclaimed sugar packages is the fat cell, which we want to empty; not fill up. This “insulin resistance” is just one reason you might be having difficulty going without sugar for more than a few hours; all the more reason to become Metabolically Flexible by allowing your body become fat adapted.

Becoming fat adapted resolves this problem, because when the insulin postman delivers fat to your door, he doesn’t need to ring the doorbell. The fat metabolism process is slightly different and more efficient, than sugar metabolism. So he doesn’t need a doorbell to hand over the short chain fatty acids that’ll feed your mitochondria and allow you to produce cellular energy in the form of ATP.

The postman can simply knock on the door to signal the arrival of this vital macro-nutrient.

The moral of the story, is that fat metabolism produces more energy and less waste over time, which serves to keep you looking and feeling young, for as long as possible.

Bad Fats

The third and final fat burning blockers are “bad fats.” When we talk about fat consumption, you’ll want to avoid unnatural or synthetic forms of fat. In this day and age, that means staying away from Poly-Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFA’s).

These are highly reactive fats that when ingested, become easily oxidized and create the subsequent pro-inflammatory cascade, that is typical of most “bad foods”, and results in you getting fat.

It’s much better to consume the kinds of dietary fats, which are suited to help you burn body fat and build muscle.

Do you remember the analogy I used in previous lessons, where I described your body’s ecosystem as a lush rainforest? I mentioned that chronic inflammation is like dry tinder on the forest floor that bursts into flames and becomes a raging inferno; when sparks from your campfire make contact with the dry tinder.

These sparks come from energy production in the mitochondria of every cell, and they’re are a natural consequence of our imperfect human biology, hard at work producing the energy required to keep us alive.

Back in the old days, most homes exposed to winter weather had fireplaces inside where a fire could be safely lit without burning the house down.

Can you imagine lighting a fire in your bedroom rather than the fireplace to stay warm this winter?

You’d end up burning your house down, wouldn’t you?

Well, the same is true with your cell walls when you consume PUFA’s. It’s akin to hanging extremely flammable curtains right over your fireplace and expecting that your home (or your cell walls) won’t be burnt to the ground when you light your fire of energy metabolism.

In the case of bad fats, the PUFA’s found in vegetable oils are the worst offenders because they’re the most flammable substances you can introduce to your diet.

The PUFA’s you consume will be used to make new cells, and consequently, every cell in your body will become highly flammable and reactive to the “sparks of your metabolic fire.”

This is especially true for the cells that make up your brain. Imagine what it would feel like if your brain caught on fire! Chronic brain inflammation is quite common. While your brain doesn’t have any pain receptors, you can assume that if you suffer from chronic headaches, brain fog or you’ve had trouble concentrating, remembering new information or finding the right words to express yourself; then the chances are high that your brain is inflamed. Which usually means you’re body isn’t Metabolically Flexible; and you’re suffering the consequences.

You can also think of Metabolic Flexibility when you suffer from achy joints, bloating, and muscle pain. These symptoms have their roots in an exaggerated and chronic inflammatory response. If you want to transform yourself, we have to appreciate the fact, that the food you eat, will be used to make the new cells of your body.

“You are what you eat! No correction! You are what you absorb!” — Adam Farr

If you don’t provide the best building materials to create new cells, the structures in your body will likely fail in some way or another. Your body uses fat molecules from the foods you consume to build and repair the broken cell walls in your brain as well as in other parts of your body.

Consuming a lot of PUFA’s from vegetable oils and other food products on the market will lead to a damaged and inflamed mind. Leaving you with bad moods and reduced motivation, which won’t serve you, and help you to do what you have to do, which is to burn fat and build muscle.

How To Turn “Bad Foods” into “Good Foods”

Bad Plants and Proteins

Now that you understand what the three fat burning blockers are, let me tell you how to avoid them in the most practical and sustainable ways possible, starting with bad plants and proteins.

When it comes to bad plants, you want to avoid the Lectins in them, at least initially up until the point where you’re certain that you’ve healed and sealed your leaky gut. There are three ways of doing this.

  • 1: Avoid consuming animal products tainted with lectins and avoid plants and seeds with high lectin content. The best way to avoid lectins is to eat locally produced and in season plant products, and to make sure you consume grass fed organic animals.
  • 2: Remove the lectin-containing parts of the plant before you eat them. With regards to fruits and vegetables, this means removing the seeds, the core, and the skin before you eat it, and sprouting your legumes and soaking your nuts and seeds.
  • 3: You can destroy lectin proteins by cooking them in a pressure cooker, however I wouldn’t use this method to prepare animal flesh because pressure cooking meat will create other subtle problems I won’t discuss here.

Pretty Simple right?

Bad Sugars

One of the reasons we have so much trouble avoid sugars, is because they’re so addictive. Sugars from grains contain exorphins, which are morphine-like compounds that stimulate the pleasure centers of your brain. Trust me, there are other, safer ways to stimulate these centers; and they don’t require eating toxins.

You’ll tend to crave sugars when your immune system is activated from stressors in the environment; that cause inflammation and oxidation; and when you’re exposed to toxic invaders.

Also, if there are certain bad bugs living in your gut, they’ll send sugar craving signals to your brain. So if you want to get rid of sugar cravings once and for all, then you’ll have to kill the bad bugs by starving them of sugar, and feeding the good bugs instead, with many of the elements found in the Keto-Biome Diet.

If you want to stop your cravings quickly, you can start by following these steps:

Step 1: Consume resistant starches to feed your good bacteria

Step 2: Take a high-quality (enteric coated) Probiotic Supplement

Step 3: Avoid SAD CRAP

Bad Fats

Finally, to prevent vegetable oils from making you fat and ruining your gains, you’ll have to replace these oils with other healthier fats. To start, get most your dietary fat from:

1: Whole, pasture raised eggs

2: Wild-caught fish

3: Cook with ghee butter and Coconut Oil

These are the safest and best ways to start your Keto-Biome Diet. There are other healthy sources of fat that I haven’t mentioned, but if you struggle to lose weight, these, in particular, will not affect you negatively in anyway (unless you have allergies or sensitivities to Eggs or Fish, which is a whole other ball game, outside the scope of this book).

Doing this will heal and seal your leaky gut and kick-start your Ketogenic fat burning and muscle building process.

One Bio-Hack I like to use every morning is my Magic Mushroom Coffee Recipe. I consider this coffee recipe to be the most life-changing thing I’ve done for myself and my clients to help burn fat and get more energy throughout the day. It’s one of the main reasons I’m able to stay lean year round without having to worry about measuring my food on a scale.

It’s also a way to get healthy saturated fats into your body that aren’t from animal sources as they are more likely to be tainted with toxic LPS molecules.

If you don’t like to drink coffee, I also have a “FAT BOMB TEA” recipe as well.

What If I Suffer From A Condition?

When it comes to making changes in your diet, there are a lot of special situations and circumstances to take into consideration.

One of them is food allergies and intolerance's, maybe you’re on medications, or maybe you have a chronic condition or a disease of some kind.

I can assure you, there’s always a solution, and the best way for me to help you is to ask your questions directly, so don’t hesitate to email me at info@morphfit.com

Adam Farr

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Adam Farr

Adam Farr is a published health and fitness writer, competitive powerlifter and nutrition expert with 15 years of experience transforming the lives of others.

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