Why Babies Need Animal Fat
They are born ketogenic — with good reason.
There’s nothing as cute as a chubby baby. Each fat little finger and toe is adorable. But that fat isn’t there just to make you go weak and gooey. While the rest of us strive to restrict body fat to within certain limits, a baby’s biology is geared towards high fat storage.
It’s all about growing a healthy baby brain, and ultimately a healthy adult brain. Plants need soil, brains need fat.
The right kind of soil and the right kind of fat.
Born ketogenic
“It is entirely normal for healthy infants to be constantly in mild ketosis; it is not due to them being sick, underfed or diabetic.” (Cunnane 2018).
You’ve probably heard of the ketogenic diet. It has a global army of devotees who swear by its effectiveness as a weight loss tool and as a dietary strategy to combat diabetes and heart disease. Others — mostly the establishment of the nutrition world — consider it a dangerous fad diet.
You can call it what you like, but you cannot call it new. We’ve being doing the ketogenic diet since we’ve been humans. You did it in the womb and after you were born.
