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receptors with cholesterol due to the high fat content of the diet. This blocking
would reduce sugar/glucose uptake by the cells and prevent the energy surge that
initiates kindling of seizures. Since the ketogenic diet is so low on carbohydrates
the usual blood sugar spiking that initiates excessive levels of insulin and leptin and
associated down-regulation of receptors is avoided.
By eliminating the majority of cooked/high-glycemic/starchy carbohydrates
from one’s diet the fog of bliss can be lifted. Avoid sugars, honey, artificial
sweeteners, grains, fruit and anything starchy or sweet except perhaps sativa. Green
vegetables, tomatoes and avocados can be eaten but avoid “starchy” plants like rice,
potatoes, corn, and “sweet” ones like carrots and beets. You will find that after less
than three days of eliminating sweet and starchy foods the bliss-fog significantly
clears. I experienced less magnetic activity around my head, probably due to
reduced “kindling” or firing of the nerves in the brain. Body pain did not increase,
although there was a little tiredness from the rapid cutoff of carbohydrates.
By reducing carbohydrates in our diet kundalini still remains but greatly
subdued. Even during peak estrogen day of the month, if not given its glycogen
fuel kundalini did not rise significantly. That is, even if all the other triggers are
available (thyroxin, sex hormones, DHEA, adrenaline etc...) if there is not a
surplus of glucose available in the blood, then kundalini does not increase its fire.
Knowing this is a radical boon for people going through kundalini awakenings,
and for seizure, epilepsy, psychosis and probably bipolar depression etc.. You
might find that during and after a kundalini awakening you may want or need to
adopt a low carbohydrate diet indefinitely. One of the contributing factors to my
spontaneous kundalini awakening of 1989 was that I had eaten 3 pieces of very
rich Xmas cake packed with coconut sugar and dried fruit. After eating this I could
feel the blood curse through my veins like speed. This combined with being in a
car, playing bongo drums and singing, a biblical New Zealand Christmas evening
under the stars, catalyzed my first 10,000 org spontaneous rush up the spine...after
which I felt like Jesus Christ.
One possibility why the ketogenic diet controls epilepsy is that the diet alters
brain handling of glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter and a probable
factor in evoking and perpetuating a convulsion. Researchers found that brain
metabolism of ketone bodies can furnish as much as 30% of glutamate and
glutamine carbon. Ketone body metabolism also provides acetyl-CoA to the citrate
synthetase reaction, in the process consuming oxaloacetate and thereby diminishing
the transamination of glutamate to aspartate. Relatively more glutamate then is
available to the glutamate decarboxylase reaction, which increases brain GABA.
Ketosis also increases brain GABA by increasing brain metabolism of acetate,
which glial cells convert to glutamine. GABA-ergic neurons readily take up the
acetate and use it as a precursor to GABA.
Ketosis also maybe associated with altered amino acid transport at the blood-
brain barrier. Specifically, ketosis may favor the release of glutamine from the brain,
through transporters at the blood-brain barrier exchanging it for blood leucine. Since
brain glutamine is formed in astrocytes (glial) from glutamate, the overall effect