In fact, it’s a great time to focus on your health. Why?

As we head into a new year, it’s important to realize that your nutrition, fitness, and overall health affect almost all aspects of your life including mental health and immune health (1). There’s no time to waste! Make 2022 the year you want it to be!

Ultimate High-Metabolism Keto Zone® Reboot 2022

1. Get Started (or Restarted with Keto Zone)

Are you new to Keto Zone? Or, have you started it in the past and just need to get back on track? The absolute best places to start are:

• Purchase the Keto Zone Starter Kit: It includes Dr. Colbert’s Keto Zone Diet Book (Comprehensive Guide), Keto Zone Cookbook, Instant Ketones, MCT Oil  Powder, Ketosis Test Strips and Keto Zone Collagen Powder!
• Join the 21-Day Keto Challenge. It’s free and will help guide you with tips, recipes, and more.
• Read through our Keto Zone Start Guide to prepare.
• Join the Keto Zone Facebook Group for an online community, recipes, tips, and more.

What will you learn?

You will learn the basics of Keto Zone, how to make it a healthy lifestyle and maintain your weight goals, and how to continue it for years to come.

In fact, you’ll start with learning about sugars and carbohydrates, and how too much of them negatively affects health and weight. Then, you’ll learn how to remove them from your diet to get into the Keto Zone, which allows your body to use an extremely healthy, alternative source of fuel, ketones. You’ll find that ketones support health throughout your body while allowing you to lose fat.

You’ve got nothing to lose! You can absolutely make this life-altering change in 2022!

2. Add Metabolism Boosts for a Keto Zone Reboot

Believe it or not, your metabolism isn’t fixed, stuck, or doomed to be slow. Sure, you may not be burning as many calories and fat cells as you want right now, and that is likely due to an overload of carbohydrates in the diet OR cells that aren’t responding to insulin as well as they should.

That’s right, unhealthy cells can wreck your metabolism. But never fear, you can change it in 2022! Here’s how:

• Start by getting into the Keto Zone as described above.
• Add ice-cold showers. Research shows that both ice-cold showers and drinking ice water recruit brown and beige fat cells, increase calories burn, and may even reduce seasonal illnesses (2).
• Drink Keto Coffee. Recent studies have found that coffee stimulates brown fat to make heat, thereby increasing calorie output, improving mitochondria health, and boosting metabolism (3, 4, 5).
• Fast intermittently. Intermittent fasting targets the health of your cells and body to support healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels, healthy aging, healthy weights, normalized blood sugars, and more.(6). To simply fast 15-16 hours per day, finish eating at 7 pm each day, and fast with only non-carbohydrate liquids (like coffee) until 10 am or so.
• Drink Green Tea. Green tea has been found to increase thermogenesis. Since green tea contains both catechins and caffeine that can increase fat oxidation, it may work in different ways than by converting and activating brown fat (7).
• Stop sitting all day. It’s important to stand, walk, and be active as much as possible. If your work requires that you sit, break it up to improve metabolism outcomes. One study found that getting up occasionally from sitting improved self-perceived energy and vigor, mood, levels of fatigue, and food cravings (8).

Want to learn more about metabolism, which exercise is best, how much to sleep and more? Read our full article here.

3. Easy Hacks to Make Keto Zone Easier and More Effective

Hacks are simple habits or tips that make everyday living easier. Keto Zone Reboot hacks make staying in the Keto Zone easier, without too much extra work. Here are 6 of our favorites:

• Track your carbs and stay below 25 grams of net carbs each day (net carbs are total carbs minus fiber). Use a carbohydrate app or food diary. This can make all the difference!
• Try 1-2 new Keto Zone Recipes per week or month. This will improve your kitchen skills, keep you from getting bored with foods, and improve your health. Try recipes from Dr. Colbert’s Quick & Healthy Keto Zone Cookbook, KetoZone.com Recipe Archive, and DrColbert.com Recipe Archive.
• Drink a lot of water and add electrolytes. While entering and eating within the Keto Zone, one of the biggest issues is dehydration and the “keto flu.” Typically, this is due to electrolyte imbalance. There’s good news! It is easily solved by drinking a lot of water and adding Instant Ketones several times per day. 
• Look beyond the scale. Sometimes we lose “weight.” Other times we change our body composition and add muscle. In addition to the scale, consider your body composition. Use a simple flexible tape measure to measure your waist, chest, neck, and hips. Also, consider how clothes fit.
• Bone broth for the win! Bone broth is delicious and can keep you full. It is also great for health (9)!
• Start walking. Just walk a little to start, and then gradually increase your distance.

Want more? Find more real life tips here.

4. Dream Up New Goals for 2022

Lastly, decide what 2022 will be for you. What do you want to do? Do you have any dreams that you want to “go for” this year?

Of course, life can get in the way of dreams. You may not accomplish them all. But, if you start the year knowing what you want, you are much more likely to accomplish them.

What does this have to do with a Keto Zone Reboot? Healthy habits are important for almost any goal or dream. It is so much easier to stay motivated for healthy habits when you realize you can accomplish your dreams when you adhere to them. Then, they don’t feel like obligations or restrictions. They feel like opportunities that power your dreams!

Bottom Line

The Ultimate High Metabolism Keto Zone Reboot is just what you need! Use our strategies above to get into the Keto Zone, boost your metabolism, stay in the Keto Zone, and dream big. Your healthy New Year awaits!

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Many of us are coming off a year in which life-stress was in overdrive. Food and cooking habits when downhill for many. The Holidays were a source of over-eating, over-drinking, and high-sugar comfort foods.

If this sounds like your 2020, it’s time to shake off the stress and look forward. It’s a New Year. You can get a new metabolism. Here are 12 ways to burn more fat 24 hours per day in 2021 AND how you can use your Keto Zone story to win Dr. Colbert’s new book (end of the article).

How Can You Get a New Metabolism and Burn More Fat?

While you may have been told your whole life that you cannot change your metabolism. That it’s calories in and calories out. If you want to lose weight you simply eat less and exercise more. If you’ve been told this, you have not been told the whole story.

There’s more to it. Sure calories, and maybe more importantly calories from carbs, matter some. But, what matters more is the health of your cells, the type of fat in your body, and your body’s fuel source. The secret of changing your metabolism lies in these 3 factors.

Metabolism vs. BMR

Here’s the thing. For years we were told that metabolism is simply a calculation of how many calories your body burns at rest. This is not “metabolism,” this is Basil Metabolic Rate (BMR) or Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR).

When most people talk about metabolism, this is the number to which they are referring. And, they’re right. Realistically, there are no metabolism-boosting habits for BMR.

However, the whole of your metabolism is much more than BMR. Your metabolism has to do with the consumption, breakdown, storage, and/or use of food as energy.  There are many factors that contribute to one’s metabolism.

Beyond your BMR, there are hormones and enzymes that influence the storage and breakdown of the nutrients, the cycle of hunger and feeling full, and the efficiency of metabolic processes. Your cells’ health is definitely influenced by nutrients, foods, and daily habits.

How to Improve Your Metabolism

There are 3 ways to improve your metabolism. You can:

1. Get more brown fat. There are 2 types of fat in your body. There is white adipose tissue (WAT, white fat), and brown adipose tissue (BAT, brown fat). While they are both adipose tissue, they serve different purposes. White fat is likely the fat you think about most on your body. It’s the fat most people are trying to lose. It stores energy that has accumulated in fat droplet cells. Brown fat, on the other hand, actually burns calories.  While it does store smaller amounts of energy, it’s packed with mitochondria. Mitochondria are the components in cells that produce energy. These fat cells have a calorie output called thermogenesis (1).
2. Improve the health of your cells. Healthy cells are insulin-sensitive. This means that when there is glucose in your blood, and your body sends out insulin to deal with it, your cells respond and allow the glucose to enter them in a healthy way. Unhealthy cells don’t respond right, require more and more insulin, and store more and more fat.  What’s more, hormones like ghrelin and leptin function poorly, making it hard for unhealthy cells to send fullness signals. These hormone dysfunctions lead to fat accumulation.
3. Change your body’s fuel source. If you are familiar with the keto diet, you know that it’s a complete transformation of fuel source for the body. Instead of using carbs for fuel, your body makes and uses ketones in the absence of carbs. This can drastically change the way your body loses fat and operates.

Here are 12 ways to burn more fat in 24 hours, and change your metabolism.

12 Ways to Burn More Fat in 24 Hours. New Year, New Metabolism

1. Ice Cold Shower

It’s well accepted that exposing your body to cold temperatures can increase the conversion of beige to brown fat, and increase the activity of brown fat. However, the amount of cold-exposure time needed, and how long the effects last, is still not conclusive.

There is research to support both ice-cold showers and drinking ice water as mechanisms to recruit beige fat and increase calorie burn.

2. Keto Coffee

While it’s been hypothesized that diet affects brown fat, the nutrients and pathways had not previously been conclusive. Now we have some answers.

A recent study aimed to find if coffee stimulates brown fat to make heat.

The conclusion? Coffee and its caffeine caused cells to increase the uncoupling protein in the mitochondria. Caffeine also caused an increase in activation of brown and beige gene markers (beige fat cells transition from white ones).

3. Intermittent Fast

Intermittent fasting can affect weight and metabolism in several ways.

First, it reduces calorie consumption by limiting the time you eat. For most, this does not result in more daytime eating, but an overall reduction.

Then, it targets the health of your cells and body. It supports healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels, healthy aging, healthy weights, normalized blood sugars, and more.

In fact, study after study has shown that intermittent fasting benefits body systems often affected by aging, including brain health, heart health, and blood sugars (3).

To fast 15-16 out of the 24 hours per day, finish eating at 7 pm each day, and fast with only non-carbohydrate liquids (like coffee) until 10 am or so. Then, utilize Keto Zone eating for 8 hours per day.

4. Add Green Tea Through the Day

Green tea has been found to increase thermogenesis. Since green tea contains both catechins and caffeine that can increase fat oxidation, it may work in different ways than by converting and activating brown fat. In fact, while many hypothesize that it can increase brown fat activity, studies do not substantiate it and more research is needed (4).

5. Spice Up Your Lunch

The main compound in chili peppers, capsaicin, can also boost your metabolism.

Capsaicin can help you lose weight in 3 ways. First, they promote fullness which can cause a reduction in calorie intake, especially when added to a Keto Zone diet. Then, they actually induce increased energy (calorie) expenditure after they are consumed. This means that they directly boost metabolism (5).

Third, it is one of a few foods that likely increases the conversion of white adipose tissue (low energy expenditure) to brown adipose tissue. Brown adipose tissue increases the cells’ calorie burn and energy expenditure, which is great for fat loss and lean mass (6).

What’s more, they also positively affect blood sugars and insulin (supporting cellular health) for more indirect metabolism help, promoting fat loss.

6. Get Up & Stop Sitting for Prolonged Hours

One way we assess metabolism is by how the body deals with foods after we eat. Do blood glucose, lipids, and insulin spike?

By breaking up prolonged sitting, you may be able to improve these metabolism outcomes. In fact, one recent study of 22 postmenopausal women (all of who had elevated blood sugars), found that breaking up sitting had a positive impact.

Both blood sugars and insulin were significantly improved when prolonged sitting (7.5+ hours) was broken up with either standing or walking. In fact, these benefits lasted into the next day.

What’s more, another study with 30 participants found metabolic improvements. Self-perceived energy and vigor, mood, levels of fatigue, and food cravings all improved when the prolonged sitting was broken up during the day (7).

So, set a time and stretch, walk, or head up some stairs every 2 hours.

7. Keep it Keto All Day Long

Keto Zone is your one-stop-diet-shop for improving your metabolism and burning more fat.

First, ketogenic diets have been shown to

Then, as you cut carbs, you can support insulin sensitivity and the health of cells. This helps them function better, oxidize more fat, and accumulate less.

In fact, study and study have concluded that cutting carbs dramatically reduces blood sugars and insulin levels (8, 9).

8. Exercise for Muscle & High Heart Rates

Sometime during the day, any time, find time to get your heart rate up with high-intensity interval training (HIIT). For an added boost, add resistance training (weights).

Exercise provides many benefits to the body. Some of its benefits include the potential to increase brown fat activity and activation and increase thermogenesis.

Humans and animals have the potential to produce a hormone called irisin. This hormone is being studied for it’s potential in converting beige fat to brown fat (10). Irisin is found in higher amounts in more active humans than those who are sedentary. Irisin is best produced with high-intensity interval training is used for exercise. High-intensity interval training can be utilized with gym classes, online classes, or by simply doing aerobic exercise like swimming, jump-roping, or jogging at a comfortable speed, then more intense speed, and repeating.

What’s more, when you exercise and build muscle, your body continues to burn extra calories after you’re done, for up to 24 hours! That’s a big-time metabolism boost!

9. All Day: Load on the Healthy Fats

Keto is all about high fat consumption and low carbs. But, these cannot be just any fat.

They need to be healthy fat to fully support cellular health and metabolism. Should you use soybean oil? Canola oil? Vegetable oil? No way.

Instead, use healthy metabolism-supporting fats like avocados, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT). MCT oil has been shown to specifically increases energy expenditure (metabolism boost) and support healthy weights (11).

10. Take Your Metabolism-Boosting Supplements

A few individual nutrients become even more important for metabolism as we age. They can increase metabolism by improving the health of cells and hormone balance.

• Vitamin D levels are associated with healthy weight and improved cellular health. In fact, most people who are obese are also low in Vitamin D.
• Fish Oil and Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA): Although fish oil is often associated with reduced fat stores, it’s also involved with brown fat thermogenesis. Furthermore, some research has found that EPA is linked with increased brown fat formation in mice and human cell lab cultures. While more research needs to be done to confirm its effect on human brown fat tissue, it is well-established that EPA from fish oil supports human health (12, 13).
• Diindolylmethane (DIM) has a direct effect on estrogen balance and the production of healthful estrogen vs. detrimental estrogen. This is especially important to the metabolism of women in middle age (14).

11. Destress with Prayer and Meditation

Reducing cortisol is a huge component of healthy cells and metabolism. Chronically elevated cortisol is associated with reduced insulin sensitivity and fat accumulation.

In addition to healthy eating and exercise, prayer can significantly help you de-stress and reduce cortisol.

In fact, prayer has been shown to increase the secretion of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, that decrease cortisol, promote relaxation, focus, and motivation.

Wind down with gratitude and prayer before hitting the hay.

12. 7 Or More Hours of Sleep Per Night

Good quality sleep has many health, metabolism, and healthy aging benefits. These include reduced daily cortisol, optimal melatonin levels, boosted moods, healthy body weight, and heart health support.

And, there’s a Sleep Metabolism Boost!

Scientists have discovered that sleeping in a room between 60° and 67°F  can boost your metabolism. It increases your calories burn by 7% during sleep hours. It’s that brown fat at work again, keeping you warm (15).

What About You? Tell Us Your Keto Zone Metabolism & Health Story to Enter to Win!

How has the Keto Zone helped you burn more fat and change your metabolism (or weight and health) in the past weeks, months, or years?

We want to know! Send us your own testimonial regarding Keto Zone, Dr. Colbert’s Keto Zone books, and/or Keto Zone recipes. Simply text your unbiased testimonial with pictures or video to (407)512-9807 or email it to testimony@ketozone.com.

Entry Rules:

Each testimonial that includes a picture or video will be entered in a drawing to win Dr. Colbert’s new book, Dr. Colbert’s Healthy Gut Zone.

To make sure you are entered, send in your testimonial as directed above. Then, add a comment below and let us know you sent it in! Make sure to indicate if you sent a picture or video. A winner will be randomly chosen at the end of January 2021.

Bottom Line

It’s a New Year, and yes, you can have a new metabolism. Use our tips to burn more fat, 24 hours per day!

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If you’re experiencing hormone imbalance, may have symptoms including:

• Fatigue
• Increased sensitivity to cold or heat
• Constipation or more frequent bowel movements
• Dry skin
• Puffy and rounded face
• Unexplained weight loss (sometimes sudden) or gain
• Increased or decreased heart rate
• Muscle weakness
• Frequent urination
• Increased thirst and hunger
• Muscle aches, tenderness, and stiffness
• Pain, stiffness, or swelling in your joints
• Thinning hair or fine, brittle hair
• Depression
• Decreased sex drive
• Nervousness, anxiety, or irritability
• Blurred vision
• Sweating
• Infertility
• Purple or pink stretch marks

Of course, these can be attributed to other conditions as well. But, if you think you could use hormone support, consider Diindolylmethane (DIM).

How DIM Supports Hormone Imbalances and Improves Overall Health

Hormone Balance and Estrogen Metabolism

First of all, DIM improves estrogen imbalance.

DIM alters the metabolism of estrogen to help our bodies balance hormones.  Estrogen levels and function can change in both women and men as we age.

Some experience estrogen dominance (elevated estrogen relative to other hormones) and others may experience loss of testosterone and progesterone.

DIM helps by blocking an enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen. Which is a great first step towards hormone balance.

Bad Estrogens vs. Good Estrogens

Next, DIM converts “bad estrogens,” into good estrogen metabolites. Bad estrogens cause most pre-menstrual and menopause symptoms, including fat gain, cramping, acne, low energy, and more. They’re also found in higher levels in those with breast cancer.

Good estrogens promote leaner bodies with more muscle, high-quality collagen in connective tissues, healthy bone density, and good cholesterol levels.

DIM encourages estrogens to metabolize to beneficial forms, while deterring negative forms.

Anti-Cancer Properties

In research studies, DIM has induced the death of cancer cells, reduces cancer cell growth, and potentially reduced the overall risk of cancer. DIM is specifically thought to be important against breast, endometrial, and prostate cancer (1, 2).

Supports Fat Loss

In addition, loss of muscle and gaining fat is another unwanted side effect of aging for many people.

Luckily, DIM can help.

In lab tests, DIM has shown a reduction in fat cell generation and increase in fat cell breakdown and burn (3).

In addition, balanced hormones promote healthy weights and the ability to lose unwanted fat.

May Fight Human Papillomavirus Infection 

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) causes multiple medical disorders, including cervical lesions, cervical cancer, and lung cancer.

Fortunately, DIM can help reduce the symptoms of HPV, the action of HPV and possibly reduce its growth (4).

DIM Has Strong Anti-Inflammatory Attributes 

DIM helps activate an enzyme called activated protein kinase (AMPK).

Amazingly, AMPK is a strong anti-inflammatory enzyme and has implications in reduced cancer risk, overall bodily inflammation, and heart health (5, 6).

Improves Skin Health and Reduces Acne

With hormonal changes, many women experience changes in skin health and appearance. This can include acne.

Typically, excessive estrogen can lead to hormonal imbalances and increased acne. By changing the metabolism of estrogen and reducing the amount of testosterone that’s converted to estrogen, DIM can reduce imbalances.

DIM Supplements for Hormone Imbalance

There are many DIM supplements available and it’s important to get one that supports whole-body health and overall balanced hormones.

Full thyroid support hormones, such as Hormone Zone and Thyroid Zone, are a great choice.

DIM Supplement Warnings

Overall, DIM supplementation is safe, effective and non-toxic.

However, if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have cancer, kidney disease, or other chronic diseases, it may be contraindicated for you. Always talk to your doctor before beginning a new supplement.

Bottom Line

DIM is an impressive compound supporting hormones and aiding the symptoms of hormone imbalance for women. If you’re suffering from any symptoms that indicate an imbalance, consider adding a natural, hormone-balancing supplement which includes DIM, such as Hormone Zone.

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