David Harper - BioDiet: The Scientifically Proven, Ketogenic Way to Lose Weight and Improve Your Health

Advance Praise for BioDiet

BioDiet is a masterful combination of both the background science and how-to of the ketogenic diet. It is a perfect entre for someone starting on their low-carb journey.

Nina Teicholz
Author of The Big Fat Surprise and adjunct professor, New York University

BioDiet is at once a science-based, yet easily understandable and empowering guide to learn how you can take control of your health destiny. Dr. David G. Harper and Dale Drewery have the rare gift of being able to write on a level that both engages and informs the public and healthcare professionals alike.

Jim Abrahams
Founder, Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies

In BioDiet, Dr. Harper does a great job explaining how to reverse disease and lose weight, using food as medicine. He also shows how to make this a lifestyle with a practical plan that is easy to follow.

Maria Emmerich
International bestselling author of Keto

Dr. David G. Harper has combined what hes learned from his personal journey to improved health through dieting with his training in human physiology to produce a book that informs and guides anyone who wants to benefit from a similar experience. He explains, in simple terms, the complex biological mechanisms that are involved when we succumb to chronic disease, and how diet change can have a profound healing effect. Over the past decade, there has been an explosive growth in scientific research on the benefits of a ketogenic diet. BioDiet is the culmination of that knowledge in a format that is accessible and user-friendly, and will be of significant benefit to anyone who follows the diet plan.

Jay Wortman, MD

I m so glad you picked up this book. The fact that you spent some of your hard-earned cash to buy it and are about to invest valuable time reading it tells me that youre ready to make a change. Maybe youre frustrated: youve been eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly, and yet the scale refuses to move or, worse, moves in the wrong direction. Maybe youre feeling a bit offtired and sluggish and lacking energy. Maybe youre worried, having been told by your physician that your blood pressure, cholesterol, or blood sugar is starting to creep up. Or maybe youre downright scared about the prospects of a life spent counting pills to control your various ailments.

As concerning as all of this might be, I encourage you to be grateful for those feelings of worry and fear. They are warning signs, and because you paid attention, they led you here. And here is where everything changesfor the better.

The BioDiet will improve your life in so many ways. It will not only help you lose weight but also reduce pain and inflammation, increase your stamina, improve your mood, and, perhaps most importantly, reduce your risk of chronic disease by as much as 70 percent. Its not an exaggeration to say that the BioDiet will lead to a whole new you.

You might be thinking, How can a diet do all of that?

Im going to stop you there, because the BioDiet isnt a dietat least not in the common sense of the word. Its not a quick fix to drop 10 pounds before your high school reunion or to look good at the beach. Those low-fat, calorie-restricted diets that most of us turn to when were desperate to lose weight and inches may help our egos in the short term, but they arent sustainable and ultimately do more harm than good. The BioDiet is a scientifically proven method to help you lose weight and keep it off while optimizing health for your entire life.

The diet in BioDiet refers to the true meaning of the word: what we eat. Specifically, the BioDiet is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat, well-formulated ketogenic nutritional regimenoptimized for our human biologythat maximizes nutrient density and incorporates targeted supplementation and super-hydration, all while taking into account individual variations and circadian rhythms.

Not exactly an elevator pitch, is it? So, lets break it down. The BioDiet is about knowing what to eat in order to give your body the fuel it needs to function as efficiently as possible. Its also about knowing why those food choices make sense. The more you know about how your body works, the more empowered youll be to make it healthy and keep it that way. After all, you cant repair an engine if you have no idea what makes it run.

The BioDiet is a scientifically proven method to help you lose weight and keep it off while optimizing health for your entire life.

Im sure youve heard about ketogenic diets; maybe youve even tried one yourself. The rates of obesity in the United States and elsewhere are skyrocketing, and people are looking for help. Lots of people, including famous athletes and actors, have tried ketogenic diets and benefited from them, so its no surprise that the publishing industry has jumped on the keto bandwagon by producing scores of books, most of them of the recipe or how-to variety. But the truth is that few people know how a ketogenic diet actually works. Thats where BioDiet comes in: it will educate and empower you by explaining in a simple and straightforward way why ketogenic diets work and how to go about safely and successfully adopting one. I provide step-by-step advice from my own journey adopting and maintaining a ketogenic diet and my professional experience counseling others through the process. I also include additional nutritional advice that goes well beyond your typical diet. Theres a wealth of science behind the BioDiet, but Im fully aware that not everyone is as interested in the minutiae of cellular biology as I am. If you are, check out BioDiet.orgyoull find all the scientific details there.

By the time youre finished reading this book, youre going to know a lot about what makes your bodys engine run and how best to support it. Youre going to know what to eat and what to avoid. Youre going to be able to think critically about the conflicting nutritional information out there and be empowered to make informed decisions that will affect your long-term health and well-being. And if you choose to adopt the BioDiet, youll also be a lot leaner than youve likely been for a long time.

You picked up this book because you wanted a change, right? Lets get started.

Dr. David G. Harper

I can tell you exactly where I was when I realized that everything I thought I knew about healthy eating was wrong. For three years, I was the co-host of a weekly radio show called Think for Yourself, a program about critical thinking and reasoned skepticism. My co-hosts and I did our best to sort through the muck and the hype to find the truth underlying the issues of the day.

Several years in, we decided to do an episode on weight lossspecifically, whether it was better to diet or exercise in order to lose weight and keep it off. Our expert that day was Dr. Richard Mathias, a professor of public health from the University of British Columbia, my alma mater. Wed decided in advance that he was going to argue for nutritional intervention, while I would focus on increasing energy output through exercise. (In case youre curious, the latest research indicates that weight lossand weight gain, for that matteris about 80 percent diet and only about 20 percent exercise.)

In the course of our on-air discussion, I mentioned that I was familiar with the many current theories about the causes of obesity and was aware that it was a complex, multifactorial condition that resulted from interactions between physiological, psychological, social, and genetic factors. I went on for some time spouting this party line, which still exists in most textbooks and government health sources. Dr. Mathias listened, patiently and politely. When I finally stopped talking, he spoke up. Dave, its not complex at all, he said. Obesity is simply a physiological response to excess carbohydrate in the diet.