Tag: Josh Perry

BMX Introduced Me To Keto

BMX led me to Keto.

After multiple brain injuries, brain tumor diagnosis, and childhood trauma, I’ve been led to the ketogenic diet and lifestyle.

In short, a ketogenic diet turns your metabolism over from sugar burning to fat burning. It’s by-products, “ketones”, are able to pass the blood-brain barrier to provide an alternative and superior fuel source for the brain.

Sometimes, trauma to the brain can led the brain to become glucose-impaired, which means the brain can’t successfully utilize glucose (blood sugar) for energy even when carbohydrates are consumed.

For me, my journey with keto wasn’t about weight or body composition. It was and is about the health of my brain. Of course, body composition, sustained energy, recovery, stress management, and other cognitive benefits have occurred from prioritizing the health of my brain because a ketogenic lifestyle is about prioritizing health.

One of the things this journey living with 4 brain tumors has taught me is that health is internal. Not numbers on a scale or outside appearances. I’m a walking example of that.

Had I continued down the path of calculating health solely via numbers and physical appearance, and not fallen and hit my head that day, I wouldn’t be alive today. For that, I’m forever grateful to have such adversities that I see as opportunities. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, &/or support with reducing inflammation?

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👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported

👉🏼 personal fitness plans

👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

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Courage Is A Choice.

It’s a willingness to trust the process and have faith in our efforts manifesting the results we seek.

Nothing in this life is guaranteed. All that’s guaranteed is that time goes on and if you never try, you’ll regret what could have resulted from giving it a shot.

I’ve been crippled by fear of the unknown and see so many people with so much potential fall short of their greatness they have to offer the world by fearing the unknown.

Whether it’s health goals, a career, sports, relationships, etc., it’s a journey that requires constant effort, belief, and and acceptance of patience. 💚✌️

This journey taught me 3 things:

👉🏼 perspective is essential.

👉🏼 health is internal.

👉🏼 our reality is a manifestation of our choices.

-Josh P. 💚✌️

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, &/or support with reducing inflammation?

Go to www.KetoBrains.com to enroll in my 12-week program.

You’ll get:

👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported

👉🏼 personal fitness plans

👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

Adapt Your Life Speech

Honored and privileged to speak at Dr Eric Westman’s Keto Summit last weekend. 🙏🏼

I got to show my recent video for Gladiator Mouthguards thanks to Madicarus Media before I went on the stage. 🙌🏼

I shared my story of ditching school and my job when I was 17 to move to North Carolina for my BMX dream, and how a crash one day saved my life because it revealed a massing tumor taking over my brain. Had I not fallen, I’d be dead after suffering even more than I already had. 🌀

I shared about how Gamma Knife Radio Treatment shrunk 2 re-occurring tumors due to the original tumor wrapping around an artery and my optic nerve.

I shared how this whole brain tumor experience led me to a ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, and adopting it as a new way of life for me after I was diagnosed for a third time in 2017 with 2 additional tumors on the opposite side of my brain.

Today, I live with 4 brain tumors, coach others, speak around the world, and ride BMX at the same level as I did when I made top ten in the UCI x Fise WORLD Tour in 2016 as my last year competing.💪🏽

This journey taught me 3 things:

👉🏼 perspective is essential.

👉🏼 health is internal.

👉🏼 our reality is a manifestation of our choices.

-Josh P. 💚✌️

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, &/or support with reducing inflammation?

Go to www.KetoBrains “dot com” to enroll in my 12-week program.

You’ll get:

👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported

👉🏼 personal fitness plans

👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

Exercise=Health

Exercise isn’t all about strength, bulk, or what gym or equipment you use.💯

🌀It’s about overall health and well-being, as well as a great tool to ramp up the fat & keto-adaptation process while following a ketogenic diet and lifestyle. It’s also great for the mind as it’s proven to relieve stress and facilitate new mitochondrial growth (mitochondrialbiogenisis) that supports energy production and reduced risk of disease. 🤓

😎You don’t need to do Olympic lifts to become a fat-burning machine or to get healthy, lean, and fit. I enjoy this style of training and it compliments my BMX riding. Don’t get intimidated by this video thinking you need to workout how I work out to get results.💪🏽

Basic functional body movements with some sort of regular resistance (weights or just body weight) training is just fine to burn up stored carbohydrates (glucogen) as well as lingering glucose/insulin levels to facilitate ketones production (in the liver) and fat-burning mode on top of a proper formulated nutrional intake.🔥

If you want to burn fat, you gotta lower insulin levels, burn up lingering glucose (blood sugar), & eat more fat to initiate the adaptation process to become fat & keto-adapted.

Following a ketogenic lifestyle is the best way to burn fat efficiently, enjoyably, & it also supports your brain. Then comes basic, full-body, functional movements.💚✌️

-Josh P.

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, &/or support with reducing inflammation?

Go to www.KetoBrains.com to enroll in my 12-week program.

You’ll get:

👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported

👉🏼 personal fitness plans

👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

Eat Fat & Burn Fat

🔥If you want to burn body fat, you gotta eat fat. 😋

We’ve been brain washed to believe fat makes us fat and we NEED carbohydrates to stay alive and fuel our brains and bodies.🙈

🤓The science is in…carbs are not essential for life and fat doesn’t make us fat, in the presence of low insulin levels. High levels of insulin makes us fat, which is a result from eating too many carbohydrates.🤓

In short, insulin is secreted when carbohydrates are consumed. Insulin buffers glucose (blood sugar from breaking down carbs) to cells for energy (or storage as fat) as well as amino acids (protein) for muscle synthesis.💪🏽

When we have chronic high levels of insulin, we are what’s referred to as “sugar burners” and fat-burning comes to a halt.😢

💪🏽Carbs can be a tool if consumed appropriately for our goals. They’re not the enemy. There just needs to be an understanding for the biology behind carbohydrate consumption and clarity around our goals and what it takes to manifest those goals.

🔥If you want to burn fat, you gotta lower insulin levels, eat more fat, and initiate the adaptation process to become fat & keto-adapted.

Following a ketogenic lifestyle is the best way to burn fat efficiently, enjoyably, and it also supports your brain.💚✌️

-Josh P.

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, and/or support with reducing inflammation?

Go to www.KetoBrains.com to enroll in my 12-week program.

You’ll get:
👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.
👉🏼 personalized meal plans
👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported
👉🏼 personal fitness plans
👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

Fueled by Gratitude & Love

“Now every day I wake up and breathe

I don’t have it all but that’s alright with me.” Mac Miller 🙏🏼

To me, this is a phrase backed by gratitude and love.

Gratitude to be alive and be filled with abundance right in front of me. Love for what I believe in, my purpose to serve and support others, and love for the process and journey of it all.

When we live in lack, spite, stress, doubt, worry, or fear, it only lasts so long as fuel to keep us going.

I was full of spite and anger towards an abusive drunken step father and those who doubted my dreams to become a pro BMX athlete like I am today.

Reflecting on my beginnings, I can see all that anger and spite combined with a negative lifestyle and diet probably caused the brain tumors to show up.

Now that I’ve audited my life and shifted my priorities to love, gratitude, and serving others, along with @elekta_ Gamma Knife & a ketogenic diet, the tumors have shown no progression, I’m progressing all areas of my life, I’ve overcome obstacles I never fathomed, and I’m happier and healthier than ever.

My 3 core beliefs as who I am today:

🌀 Life starts with perspective & progresses with gratitude.

🌀 Health is internal, not numbers on a piece of paper or scale.

🌀 Life is a manifestation of our choices, there’s no excuses.

Fear is just a thought, thoughts can be changed. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Correlation or Causation?

Correlation does NOT mean causation.

There’s a lot of hype around a ketogenic diet (high fat, moderate protein, very low carb) and eating a lot of animal foods.

1) the ketogenic diet is not a high-protein diet.

2) the nonsense coming from these people saying eating animal foods, especially whole eggs, is toxic to the human body comes from correlation studies, if backed by anything.

This simply means the studies looked at a random group of people and correlated who ate animal foods to who died at whatever age or got sick.

This doesn’t exclude whether or not the person was an alcoholic, ate processed foods every day, was addicted to sugar, smoked, was sedentary, what source and quality the animal foods were, how much protein they ate a day, and so on.

On the contrary, there’s an abundance of studies using control studies showing eating a proper ketogenic diet or quality animal foods in optimal amounts does not cause harm to the body and in fact it can help people with a plethora of issues.

I personally follow a ketogenic diet with a focus on plenty of organic, non-starchy veggies followed by plenty of healthy fat, quality sources of moderate amounts of protein, and making sure to get enough sodium (salt) in my diet.

I have been learning more and more to question studies leading people to saying irrational things like keto or animal foods make you die sooner. P.S., you can follow a vegan ketogenic diet, it’s just very difficult and costly.

Stay open minded, love yourself, do your research, and reach out for support. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Interested in learning more and how to make changes TODAY?

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Biden Cancer Summit

Amazing opportunity to meet and share my story with Dr Jill Biden today along side Jackie 🙌🏼

I got to chat about keto with Dr Biden and how it’s helped me and can help others!

I also have the honor of her giving me a shoutout to begin her speech on the main stage at the Biden Cancer Summit here today in D.C.

Such an honor and privilege to be acknowledged for my efforts to help others via my story and BMX along with partnerships with Gamma Knife, The Athlete Recovery Fund, and the Ketogenic community.

I’m still here today for a reason and it’s to spread courage, education, and inspiration to others around the world from all walks of life. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Pork Chops

Simplicity for the hurricane. 🙃

Local NC pork chops, local zucchini and mushrooms sautéed in @kerrygoldusa with @redmondrealsalt on top 😋

Not pictured, an avocado on the side for more fats 🔥

-Josh P.

Want to learn more about making changes TODAY to improve your brain’s health, remove excess body fat, gain more energy, improve sleep & recovery, clear up inflammation & digestive issues, and put cravings at bay all while worrying less about food?

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Don’t Chase Keto Numbers

Don’t go chasing numbers while on KETO.

Why?

Although it’s a great tool in the beginning, it doesn’t always contain all the needed context required to assess progress with the goal of solely being in KETOSIS.

I track numbers (Ketones, Glucose & Macros) from time to time now that I’ve been on this path for some time. I use @ketomojo to check my levels and @cronometer_official for my macros when I do track. It’s a great tool but not the only tool to measure success.

Ketosis can be achieved with fasting, exogenous ketones, which I use (@perfectketones code: “JoshPerry”), MCT oil (I use @wildfoodsco code: WildJosh12), or depleting glycoen stores from high-intensity workouts.

The goal is keto-adaptation & metabolic flexibility, meaning you take the time to lower the insulin & glucose levels/stores in your body over time and you adapt to producing and utilizing ketones efficiently.

Again, there are various ways to get into ketosis but it takes time to adapt the brain and body to this alternative and superior fuel source.

Once keto-adapted and metabolically flexible, you can enjoy the benefits that keto brings with it like body composition improvements, mental clarity and energy, reduction in inflammation and oxidative stress (free radicals), liberation from hunger and cravings, improved sports performance and recovery, and reduced risk of diseases or disease/symptom management.

You can also consume sensible “smart-carbs” and amounts, once keto-adapted and gained some metabolic flexibility, at specific times of the day and it’ll help your performance, fat burning, and sometimes put you deeper into ketosis.

Again, once KETO-ADAPTED.

Don’t worry if you have lower numbers because that may mean you’re body is becoming more efficient at utilizing ketones as you build more MCT transporters to shuttle the ketones into the cells. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Want to learn more about making changes TODAY?

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