
Explore an accredited, beginner-friendly overview of ketogenic diet concepts, delivered in jargon-free language by a voiceover instructor, with certification issued by the Virtual Academy International and Autonomous Institute.
Explore the six essential nutrients—lipids, proteins, water, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals—and the role of micronutrients in energy production and bodily functions, including calories per gram.
Learn how a low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet induces ketosis, turning fat into energy via liver ketones and supporting brain energy, with intermittent fasting to accelerate the process.
Explore the health advantages of ketosis beyond weight loss, including epilepsy management, heart risk reduction, and potential effects on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and ALS, plus keto flu symptoms.
Explore how the ketogenic diet supports weight loss, preserves muscle mass, and improves disease markers, while avoiding calorie counting by monitoring daily carb intake.
Discover how the ketogenic diet can help you gain muscle mass and improve strength, performance, and fat loss, with a temporary dip as the body adapts to ketones.
The ketogenic diet lowers insulin to promote ketosis by limiting carbohydrates and protein, encouraging ketone energy while recognizing insulin's role in energy metabolism and the potential insulin spike from protein.
Differentiate ketosis from ketoacidosis, noting ketosis involves ketones without acidosis, while ketoacidosis (DKA) is a diabetes-linked, life-threatening condition caused by high blood sugar and insufficient insulin requiring urgent care.
Learn how keto adaptation shifts energy use from carbs to fat, reaches ketosis through a low-carb, high-fat diet, and develops fat adaptation over weeks, with faster adaptation for endurance athletes.
Understand the keto flu, its causes, and common symptoms, and learn hydration, electrolytes, and dietary strategies to ease ketosis adaptation.
Learn the keto diet breakdown: a 75% fat, 20% protein, 5% carbohydrate plan, with foods like fatty meats, avocados, leafy greens, and keto-friendly shakes to stay fueled.
Learn the ketogenic macro ratio of 70 percent fats, 5 percent carbohydrates, and 25 percent protein, with some favoring 75/5/20, plus cyclical keto with periodic carb reintroduction.
Explore how the ketogenic diet affects athletic performance, endurance, energy levels, and fat burning, and consider potential drawbacks for high-intensity work and muscle growth.
Protein supports weight loss and preserves lean mass; keto targets 20–30% of calories from protein, about 30 g per meal, from meats, seafood, dairy, eggs, and plants to support ketosis.
Minerals power every cell; ketosis increases micronutrient needs, so keto dieters should eat mineral-dense whole foods. Take a full spectrum mineral supplement to support cellular processes.
Caffeine's effect on ketosis is inconclusive, so moderation is advised. Coffee intake varies by person; caffeine may boost metabolism and ketone levels, with 12-hour clearance; monitor a blood ketone meter.
You can drink alcohol on keto, but it slows ketosis due to carb content and liver metabolism. Wine is keto-friendly; choose low-carb beverages and watch hangovers and temptations.
Intermittent fasting alternates fasting and eating times, defines when you should eat, and is an eating pattern rather than a diet with deep historical roots.
skip breakfast to start intermittent fasting, time morning workouts, and drink unsweetened coffee. plan a six-to-eight-hour eating window with real foods to support weight loss and glycemic control.
Learn how the ketometer measures BHB ketone bodies to indicate blood fuel, without showing metabolic ketone use. Consider forty-dollar meters and five-dollar strips, roughly one hundred fifty dollars monthly.
Explore how the keto breathalyzer enables non-invasive, affordable acetone testing to monitor ketosis, while noting breath readings may differ from blood ketones due to factors like alcohol and hydration.
Urine ketone detection strips are easy and inexpensive, but they detect acetoacetate excreted in urine and are best for early ketosis checks and monitoring carbohydrate levels.
Test ketones and glucose at the same daily time to track progress. Time fasted tests, consider dawn effect, and test before and after meals to assess ketosis and food responses.
Master the standard ketogenic diet (skd): 75% fat, 15–20% protein, 5–10% carbs; emphasize fat-rich meals and about 150 g fat daily, under 50 g carbs, 90 g protein daily.
Targeted keto diet adjusts macronutrients to 65–70% fat, 20% protein, and 10–15% carbohydrates for athletes needing extra carbs around workouts, totaling about 70–80 g daily and stored as fat.
Explore cyclical ketogenic diet (ckd), cycling five keto days, off days, and master macros: keto days 75% fat, 15–20% protein, 5–10% carbs; off days 25% fat, 25% protein, 50% carbs.
Discover the high protein ketogenic diet (HPKD), balancing 60–65% fat, 30% protein, and under 10% carbohydrates, with about 120 g protein per four-ounce serving and 130 g fat daily.
Develop client-specific ketogenic meal plans that are gluten-free, grain-free, low glycemic, and under 30 net carbs per day, emphasizing complex carbs, healthy fats, electrolytes, and minerals for ketosis.
This IAOTH accredited nutrition certification will teach you almost everything about Keto Diet (Ketosis or Ketogenic diet). In this crash course to keto, we have also covered cooking, fasting, and dieting for health coaching purpose.
This concise programme is designed, keeping in mind that you may not have any prior knowledge about Keto Diet, and you want to learn despite your busy schedule. So we have tried to avoid jargon as much as possible and simplified concepts and terminology for you.
This course covers areas like fat loss/ weight loss, weight gain, intermittent fasting etc. We have considered all kind of eating habits in this course e.g. non-vegetarian, vegetarian, and vegan so that you can become a better health coach.
This programme is accredited, and this Udemy course is recognized for certification by Virtued Academy International, an autonomous institute, under the Virtued Society, incorporated under the act 21, 1860 of the Government of U.P., India. Validity & Utility of the training is conditionally in conformity with the Constitution of India, and the laws of the land under Article 19 1 G. Virtued Academy International provides continuing education for individuals interested in self-development and students should contact the IAOTH, UK for registration/ accreditation and relevant local authorities for the scope of practice.