Chris Bair is a technology and computer geek. He became involved in the nutritionally complete "future foods" movement in January 2014, originally with a conventional recipe and later switching to a high fat, low carb "ketogenic" variant on October 2014. In January 2015 he created the recipe for Keto Chow and released it without restriction for anyone to use, at the same time he began mixing the recipe up for people that wanted a finished product and has seen steady growth in the business every month since.
What about trying a week of KetoChow only with no added calories? Just powder and water. Would it be like an extended fast or would the minimal calories just cause a metabolic slowdown?
You would do better to simply fast for a week. The protein would cause an insulin response and mess with what you were trying to accomplish, like you said: it would probably result in your body slowing down since instead of being in a fasting state you would be in a starvation state with not enough calories from food but a little insulin preventing access to all the stored energy.
What about trying a week of KetoChow only with no added calories? Just powder and water. Would it be like an extended fast or would the minimal calories just cause a metabolic slowdown?
You would do better to simply fast for a week. The protein would cause an insulin response and mess with what you were trying to accomplish, like you said: it would probably result in your body slowing down since instead of being in a fasting state you would be in a starvation state with not enough calories from food but a little insulin preventing access to all the stored energy.
Thanks for making the distinction between starvation and fasting. Hoping to get the green light soon so I can start fasting. 🚦