Your Healthiest Season Ever with Beyond Keto
Last reviewed and updated: October 17, 2026
This could be your healthiest season yet.
If you’re ready to ditch the processed, chemical-laden, unhealthy foods and move into a lifestyle that promotes energy, a healthy weight, healthy digestion, and a youthful brain, here it is. It’s time to take the best attributes of Keto Zone® and combine them with the best of the Mediterranean Diet. It’s time to experience Dr. Colbert’s Beyond Keto and live your healthiest season ever.
Build Upon the Success of The Keto Zone®
Many people have had incredible success with the Keto Zone. As reflected in studies on ketogenic diet results, Keto Zone users have experienced efficient and long-lasting weight loss, healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels, optimal blood sugars, and more (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).
The Keto Zone has always gone beyond typical ketogenic diets to promote the healthiest low-carbohydrate and high-fat foods. While other ketogenic diets may allow processed foods or a diet too high in saturated fatty meats, Keto Zone encourages the healthiest fats such as extra virgin olive oil and avocado oil, healthy protein from fish, eggs, poultry, and more, and a plethora of fresh, vibrant vegetables, green powders, and fruit powders.
Now, Dr. Colbert has put these optimized Keto Zone recommendations into a book. To make this your healthiest season, look no further than Beyond Keto. As promised, you will find an eating lifestyle that marries healthy Keto Zone eating with the Mediterranean Diet.
The result?
A lifestyle that promotes a healthy weight, high energy, youthful brain function, healthy digestion, and more!
An Optimal Approach: Beyond Keto
Beyond Keto is the next logical step after Keto Zone. If you’ve had great success with Keto Zone, this book and lifestyle will help you move further in your health journey.
If you’re new to Keto Zone and Beyond Keto, it will bring you up to speed for both aspects. It’s simply the best of the Keto Diet combined with the best of the Mediterranean Diet.
Beyond Keto: Combining Two Diets for the Best Outcome
How can Keto Zone and the Mediterranean diet work together?
First, Keto Zone offers initial, efficient benefits with weight loss and improved blood sugars. This phase will produce great results for weight loss, optimal blood sugars, less hunger, and a “reset” for eating (10). For anyone who’s struggled with eating the same unhealthy foods for years, a dramatic change is often the “shake-up” they need to see results. This is part one.
While in the keto phase, dieters will experience all the amazing benefits of ketosis. They will produce ketones that will reduce hunger, provide amazing natural energy, support mental focus, and encourage healthy weight loss and maintenance (11).
Then, the Mediterranean diet allows for continual healthy-eating success, whole body health, better digestion, and a lifestyle of great health outcomes and enables one to live a long, healthy life.
How?
It’s highly anti-inflammatory. Inflammation is at the heart of many negative health issues, and any healthy diet should aim to reduce it while achieving long term health goals (12).
What’s more, the Mediterranean Diet has been studied for decades and is consistently linked to full body health. It’s especially beneficial for heart health, optimal blood sugars, gut microbiota, and metabolism (13) because it is based on healthy fats such as extra virgin olive oil and seafood. In addition, it’s full of colorful plant foods like vegetables, beans, peas, lentils, salads and healthy, low-sugar fruits.
Typically the Mediterranean Diet also allows for some whole grains. However, Beyond Keto emphasizes the amazing foods in the Mediterranean Diet while limiting any refined carbohydrates and sugars.
Watch: Beyond Keto, Part 1
In Part 1 of our Beyond Keto series on the Divine Health Podcast, Mary and I talk about the book and how a commitment to healthy living can help you avoid heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and more.
It’s All About Results
Scientific study, experience, and decades of research all point to key approaches for a healthy lifestyle: achieve a healthy weight, maintain a healthy weight, and fight inflammation. This is right in line with Beyond Keto. It promotes:
- A Healthy Weight: Many of today’s chronic health conditions are linked to, or made worse by, obesity (14). By utilizing healthy ketogenic diet principles, Beyond Keto promotes healthy changes and outcomes as soon as the first two weeks (15)! In addition, the Mediterranean diet component continues to support healthy weight and healthy body composition. Its focus on lean proteins, seafoods, healthy oils, beans, legumes, nuts, seeds, and vegetables provide a wonderful well-balanced, satisfying dietary lifestyle to maintain a healthy weight (16).
- Energy, Vitality, and Mental Focus: One of the greatest benefits of the ketogenic diet is the production of ketones. Ketones are natural energizing compounds that support healthy mental focus and vitality. The Mediterranean diet also encourages great energy and vitality with the abundant variety of healthy foods. Rather than experiencing the ups and downs of a high-sugar diet, you will enjoy steady, youthful energy from delicious, colorful whole foods.
- Optimal Blood Sugars and Metabolism: An amazing aspect of both the ketogenic diet and the Mediterranean diet is their ability to help normalize blood sugars. By using both eating styles in Beyond Keto, you’ll remove harmful refined starches while focusing on healthy fats, high fiber beans, peas, lentils, vegetables, lean protein and low glycemic fruits such as berries. Part of the improvement comes from weight loss. The other part comes from a diet that supports healthy metabolism and hormones (17).
- Healthy Cholesterol, Triglyceride, and Blood Pressure Levels. Both the Keto Zone and Mediterranean diet aspects of Beyond Keto support heart health. First, Beyond Keto promotes a healthy weight, which can help optimize heart health. Next, by choosing the incredibly heart-healthy foods in the Mediterranean diet, you can continue to encourage great heart health. In fact, the foods in the Mediterranean diet and Beyond Keto work to support heart health, healthy cholesterol, and achieve whole-body health (18).
- Natural Unprocessed Foods Full of Antioxidants and Anti-Inflammatory Compounds. One of the worst dietary habits plaguing humans worldwide is the consumption of ultra-processed foods. In fact, researchers have found that ultra-processed foods are linked to many modern health conditions and even a higher overall risk of death (19)! Thankfully, with Beyond Keto you’ll eat healthy, high-antioxidant, anti-inflammatory foods rather than ultra-processed ones (20).
- Healthy Gut Microbiota. Amazingly, Beyond Keto combines Keto Zone and Mediterranean foods to support gut health! This is great news for the millions of people who suffer from less-than-optimal gut function. In fact, studies have found the Mediterranean diet specifically improves gut microbiota and its associated metabolism functions. The diet’s prebiotics from healthy fibers along with healthy fats and polyphenols support gut health, hormone balance, and metabolism (21).
Bottom Line: Experience Your Healthiest Season
It’s not just a diet. You can learn to live a healthy lifestyle that promotes healthy weight, energy, mental focus, reduced inflammation, and vitality! Don’t wait. Get started today with Dr. Colbert’s Beyond Keto and make this next season your best one yet!
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Beyond Keto?
Beyond Keto is my book and eating lifestyle that combines the best of the Keto Zone diet with the best of the Mediterranean diet. You begin with a ketogenic phase to lose weight and steady your blood sugar, then shift to Mediterranean-style eating built on extra virgin olive oil, fish, vegetables, beans, lentils, nuts, and low-sugar fruits, while still limiting refined carbohydrates and sugar.
How is Beyond Keto different from the Keto Zone diet?
The Keto Zone keeps carbohydrates very low so your body stays in ketosis and burns fat for fuel. Beyond Keto is the long-term maintenance lifestyle. It keeps the healthy fats and the focus on whole foods, but it allows more fiber-rich carbohydrates such as beans, peas, lentils, and berries that feed your gut bacteria.
Can you combine keto and the Mediterranean diet?
Yes. Both emphasize healthy fats such as extra virgin olive oil, plenty of vegetables, and fish, and both limit sugar and refined starches. Combining them gives you the quick results of ketosis and the long-term heart, brain, and gut benefits the Mediterranean diet is known for.
Is the Mediterranean diet good for weight loss?
It can be. A systematic review of long-term trials found that the Mediterranean diet produced more weight loss than a low-fat diet and similar results to other popular approaches such as low-carb diets, with the added benefit of being easy to stay on for years.
Is Beyond Keto safe if I have diabetes or take blood pressure medication?
Many people with type 2 diabetes do very well with this approach, but lowering carbohydrates can drop blood sugar and blood pressure quickly. If you take insulin, diabetes pills, or blood pressure medication, work with your doctor before you start so your doses can be adjusted safely.
References
- Bueno NB, et al. Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet v. low-fat diet for long-term weight loss: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Br J Nutr. 2013.
- Gershuni VM, et al. Nutritional Ketosis for Weight Management and Reversal of Metabolic Syndrome. Curr Nutr Rep. 2018.
- Mancini JG, et al. Systematic Review of the Mediterranean Diet for Long-Term Weight Loss. Am J Med. 2016.
- Tosti V, et al. Health Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet: Metabolic and Molecular Mechanisms. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2018.
- De Filippis F, et al. High-level adherence to a Mediterranean diet beneficially impacts the gut microbiota and associated metabolome. Gut. 2016.
- Schnabel L, et al. Association Between Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Risk of Mortality Among Middle-aged Adults in France. JAMA Intern Med. 2019.
- Foster GD, et al. A Randomized Trial of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet for Obesity. N Engl J Med. 2003.
This article is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Talk with your own doctor before changing your diet, starting a supplement, or changing any medication. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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