I Ate Bacon, Eggs & Butter and Here Is What Happened To My Blood

Hello Health Champions today I'm going to talk  about what happened to my weight my body and my  

blood work when I ate bacon butter and eggs for  30 days and why would I do something like that  

because I needed to undo the damage from a 10-day  experiment some of you may have seen the video  

where I ate junk food namely the standard American  diet for 10 days and in doing that I went from 193  

pounds or if you're more familiar with kilos it's  87.6 at the beginning of the 10 days now that was  

already a bit higher than my usual ideal weight  because this was soon after the holidays and I  

had made some exceptions and I hadn't quite gotten  back on track but after a mere 10 days I was up to  

203 pounds and that's 92.2 kilograms so I needed  to lose some weight so I decided for 30 days I  

was going to do a ketogenic diet ketones are  byproducts of fat they are Reserve fuel for the  

brain that the body develops when you go very low  carbohydrates so a ketogenic diet is about cutting  

down the carbohydrates in my case 30 grams works  pretty well some people might be able to do more  

or less but it's net carbs that I'm referring to  which means you take the total carbs you subtract  

the fiber because fiber does not contribute to  blood glucose or does not trigger insulin then you  

also eat a moderate amount of protein you don't  want to overload on protein because that creates  

a lot of nitrogen waste and then the rest of it  will come from fat so relative to most diets and  

the mainstream view of things this is going to be  a very high fat diet but it doesn't mean more fat  

is better and we'll talk about that it also means  that if you eat bacon butter and eggs which it's  

not the only thing you can eat but it's probably  going to mean you eat a lot of saturated fat which  

a lot of people are concerned about and we'll talk  about that too and because my blood work showed a  

lot of inflammation after the 10 days I didn't  just want to lose the weight I also wanted to  

reduce inflammation and make sure I didn't eat  anything that I had food sensitivities to and  

the two most common food sensitivities are going  to be Dairy and grain especially wheat or modern  

wheat now I did eat butter obviously because I  ate bacon butter and eggs mostly but the dairy  

the big problem with dairy is the Protein that's  what people are sensitive to and butter only has  

Trace Amounts of protein so the vast majority  of people do fine on butter even if they are  

sensitive to Dairy and when you do a low carb  diet you're going to get even better results if  

you combine it with intermittent fasting so I ate  omad and two mad for the 30 days which is one meal  

a day or two meals a day and probably 80 percent  of the days I ate one meal a day so over this 30  

days I got anywhere from 16 to 24 hours of fasting  which means for that time period I didn't eat any  

food and when you don't eat food that allows your  insulin to drop and allows your body to burn fat  

because you're not putting anything new in but  even more important than just losing weight we  

want to understand what's happening in the body  metabolically inflammation wise disease-wise  

are we moving toward degenerative disease because  weight is not really that clear a marker but with  

blood work we can figure this out so I measure  insulin a lot and the optimal range is between  

two and five and before I was at 4.8 after I was  5.7 and this I might add was the first time I've  

ever been outside of that optimal range and then  in a little bit we're going to take a look at what  

happened how does that compare to after 30 days  of eating mostly bacon butter and eggs another  

important marker for metabolic resistance is  triglycerides that's how much fat is floating  

around in your body because if your cells are  resisting then the blood fats stay in the blood  

if your cells are open and metabolically flexible  the triglycerides can make it into the cell so a  

good range is between 50 and 90. and I started out  at 45 even after the holidays but after 10 days of  

junk I was up to a hundred and one another marker  is vldl which is very similar in in function to  

triglycerides because vldl they are lipoproteins  very low density lipoproteins and they carry  

triglycerides so this curve is going to look very  very similar I started out at eight and I finished  

at 17 after 10 days and again the first time I've  ever been outside of the optimal range when you  

want to measure insulin resistance Homa IR is an  excellent marker so what it measures it's a ratio  

and it measures not just your glucose your blood  sugar levels but how hard is the body working at  

controlling it so if your glucose Rises and your  insulin Rises to control it then your glucose may  

be normal but if your insulin is really high then  that's reflected in this ratio so a good number is  

between 0.5 and 1.5 they constructed it so a good  number is around one and I went from 1.0 to 1.3  

now this doesn't change all that quickly so to  see a change in just 10 days is still pretty  

dramatic the next marker is about the liver the  liver is super super important it's the metabolic  

Hub in your body if you will and this AST it's  an enzyme enzymes do their work inside cells  

the only time they end up in the bloodstream  is when cells break a little bit of breakage  

is normal because we have cell turnover they age  they wear out they get replaced so a little bit  

is normal that's the green zone from 12 to 25 but  any time that we see numbers higher than that it  

means that there's more cell breakage that the  liver is experiencing stress that causes more  

cells to break and in 10 days I went from 23 to  31. again I managed to get into that Danger Zone  

in just 10 days and the second enzyme alt is even  more specific to the liver because the AST occurs  

in many different organs but alt is mostly liver  and here I went from 20 to 25 in 10 days and the  

third enzyme I want to share is called LDH lactic  acid dehydrogenase now this is not specific to the  

liver it's in every tissue in the body because  this is how the body makes its emergency fuel  

when you don't have enough oxygen when you have  poor oxygen supply or you're in a crisis your body  

is going to start breaking down glucose called  glycolysis and in the process it makes lactic acid  

and then this enzyme lactic acid dehydrogenase  breaks down that lactic acid so two things can  

cause a high level of LDH either excess cell  breakage or that you have an excess of glucose  

and or a lack of oxygen so a lot of times this is  due to tissue damage like lung tissue if you can't  

take up oxygen and a normal level is from 140 to  180 and here was the Shocker because not only did  

I get into the danger zone but I got way way way  out of the normal range even the lab range so you  

the lab range is up to 225 and I got all the way  up to 335 and I've done a few videos before you  

may have seen where I ate 100 eggs and I ate a  hundred tablespoons of butter neither of those  

videos I was very concerned because I understand  what the body can do and I understand the proper  

fuels and foods for the body but with a 10-day  junk diet I was a little alarmed because that was  

the first time that I felt I put myself out there  and took a little bit of a risk and as you can see  

that fear that concern was Justified so now the  question is how much can you do to reverse that in  

30 days and is a ketogenic diet the right way to  do that so very often people associate a ketogenic  

diet with bacon butter and eggs and those are good  foods and I did eat a lot of that but that's not  

all I ate and it shouldn't be for you either now  if you go from a junk food diet with lots of sugar  

and processed starches and Seed oils and garbage  Foods then switching to bacon butter and eggs and  

eating nothing else would be a vast Improvement  but the question is we don't want to just do  

better we want to do optimal so when I talk about  keto I'm talking about healthy clean keto versus  

dirty keto and clean keto involves eating a lot  of variety and a good amount of vegetables so  

some people say that well vegetables or carbs two  you can't eat them and there's a small percentage  

of people who do better on Carnivore because  they're sensitive to virtually every plant food  

there is but that's a very small percentage so  if that's not you you're going to be better off  

eating some vegetables and the fibrous vegetables  do not contribute to insulin they do not stimulate  

insulin so in addition to bacon butter and  eggs you can eat similar foods with protein  

and fat like steak fish ground beef chicken Etc  but you also want to eat a lot of leafy greens  

you can eat as much leafy greens as you like you  cannot eat enough leafy greens to get an insulin  

problem you can almost eat as much non-starchy  vegetables as you want and I say almost because  

if you eat three pounds of broccoli or cauliflower  or something like that it's still going to provide  

a substantial amount of sugar and here are some  examples of what I would eat so I ate a lot of  

salads I would put a meat on the salad which would  be steak or ground beef or fish or chicken and the  

only dressing I had would be extra virgin olive  oil and vinegar I also put salt and pepper to  

taste and I also sprinkle some more bacon bits I  put some seeds on I like pumpkin seeds it adds a  

little crunch to the salad and oftentimes I do eat  goat cheese but not during these 30 days because I  

cut out all forms of dairy but that adds a really  nice touch with some goat cheese I had a good bit  

of omelettes and on those I would put sausage and  bacon I would serve it on the side with avocado  

I put onions and tomato Into The Omelette and  any other non-starchy vegetable that you like  

I would also have a lot of steak and with that I  would do steamed or baked broccoli or cauliflower  

I do brussels sprouts asparagus and with that I  would serve a really nice sauce so Biore sauce is  

a really tasty sauce with steak you make it from  egg yolks and butter with a few spices look it up  

and try it it's absolutely fabulous and tabouleh  is also a great side dish traditionally it is  

parsley onion lemon and wheat but if you take out  the wheat and you chop up some pecan nuts instead  

then it makes it a Keto version I also ate a lot  of chicken wings and guacamole so the chicken  

wings I would bake in the oven with lots of spices  or I would do them in an air fryer and toss them  

in a sauce of wing sauce and butter afterwards  guacamole is avocado mixed with some onion and  

lemon and cilantro and spices and I would eat a  lot of guacamole I would serve sometimes I make  

guacamole sometimes I just cut an avocado and put  it on the plate and with the wings you can also  

do celery or bell pepper and dip in the guacamole  so let me clear up a few things because a lot of  

times people are confused on this that keto it is  not about eating more fat it is about eating less  

carbs about eating very very low carbs so that  your body is basically forced into developing  

another source of fuel which is fat and then like  I said you eat moderate protein and then then you  

eat fat to satiety more is not better you just eat  as much fat as you need to feel satisfied so you  

don't have cravings so you can maintain this for  a period of time so when you're getting ketosis  

and your body makes ketones it does mean that  your body is burning fat primarily for fuel and  

the body doesn't care where that fat comes from  it could be fat from your plate that you eat it  

off your plate or if you're fasting then it could  be that you're eating the fat from your body and  

obviously that would be the goal so if you put too  much fat on your plate there's no incentive for  

your body to burn it off the body and here's how I  got into ketosis and how it oftentimes works that  

between 0 and 0.5 everyone has a tiny smidgen of  ketones normally people are probably going to have  

0.1 when they make up in the morning and a lot of  the rest of the day if you eat like most people  

eat you're not going to have any detectable level  and they typically say that nutritional ketosis is  

considered to start where you have a significant  level where it matters at all starting at 0.5 so  

on day one I had 0.1 I was just getting started  and this was coming off a junk food diet high  

carbs High seed oils high sugar everything bad  so it would take the body a little while to get  

into that to adapt to fat burning again on day  two I was at 0.4 so not technically really in  

ketosis but on day three I was up to 0.7 and if  you're coming from a low carb diet then that's  

probably going to happen a lot lot faster so for  the vast majority of people they're going to be  

between 0.5 and 3.0 when they do a ketogenic diet  or intermittent fasting but it doesn't mean that  

it's dangerous to go higher because if you do  low carb and you do an extended fast if you go  

two three four five days now you'll probably a  lot of people not everyone but a lot of people  

will get into this orange Zone and that's not  a bad thing but you want to start understanding  

your markers of ketones glucose and Insulin  so that you know not to get into the Red Zone  

and it's not like 7.9 is good and 8.1 is bad but  what you have to understand is there's something  

called ketoacidosis that happens primarily to  type 1 diabetics undiagnosed type 1 diabetics  

so if your ketones go really high and you have  virtually no insulin but your glucose is high then  

that's a really bad thing that's where you can get  extremely acidic and it could be life-threatening  

but if you're like most people then you're not  going to have this situation with high glucose  

you're going to have it with very low glucose so  then on day four my body got into the groove and  

I hit a stronger level of Ketone so I was at 2.2  Then I Dropped a little bit and then I was up to  

2.4 and so on and for the rest of the 30 days I  pretty much stayed between two and three I peaked  

at 3.3 I went down to 1.5 again but for the most  part I I was in that range now let's talk about  

saturated fat because this may be the biggest  hurdle that keeps people from trying a low carb  

or ketogenic diet and even if they do get on such  a diet then there's this nagging voice in the back  

of their head that you're doing something bad to  yourself and a lot of this comes from studies and  

either the study is just a questionnaire where  they're asking people how much red meat do you  

eat and then a lot of these people are going  to have insulin resistance or diabetes because  

those are a lot of people that they do studies  on and then what you're going to find is that's  

not a great combination but it's not the red meat  it's the fact that you're going to have a problem  

processing and metabolizing anything that you  eat when your insulin is high and then if they  

do a study where they control the food then they  cut the carbs maybe from 60 to 40 percent and they  

call that a low carb diet well the ketogenic diet  is less than five percent so you can't cut carbs  

a little bit and expect a change you have to cut  them dramatically and when you do that and Insulin  

starts dropping then the red meat's not a problem  anymore or the saturated fat so same thing bacon  

and Insulin could be bad if you are insulin  resistant eggs with insulin resistance could  

be a bad thing processed plant oils or seed oils  combined with other food that drive up insulin  

or already have insulin resistance that's double  bad same thing with sugar in addition to a diet  

or people who are already insulin resistant it's  double bad but if you eat that saturated fat and  

that red meat with a diet that reduces insulin a  low carb ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting  

that is dramatically going to lower your insulin  levels now your body can metabolize whatever it  

is that you're putting in same thing with bacon  if you are on that low carb diet then your body  

can process it and same thing with the eggs it's  not the saturated fat that's the problem it is  

how is the body processing it and if you have  High insulin levels your body cannot process  

through it but if you are lowering your insulin  dramatically not a little bit but dramatically now  

that food is perfectly fine and it helps you on  that diet because it's very satiating so the thing  

to understand though is that this is going to  apply to the majority the vast majority probably  

95 percent of people are going to have fairly  straightforward Journey that these physiological  

mechanisms these principles are going to work just  fine but then there is always the exception the  

other five percent and here is where you need to  understand the markers or some basic markers well  

enough that you can tell what's going on if you  are the exception and then start playing a little  

detective so for the people who want to dive  a little deeper I created a blood work course  

and I'll put some information down below if you  want to check check that out now let's look at  

the results of 30 days on mostly bacon butter  and eggs so on the junk diet I went from 193  

to 203 and after 30 days of high fat I was back  down to 189 I still have a few pounds to go and  

I would like to get a little more fit because I  haven't had time to exercise a whole bunch but  

you can see that there's a dramatic difference and  the reason I put these colors is this is where I  

feel the best this is not weights that you need  to to fit it's not about BMI this is just where  

I've been for the most part in my life and between  185 and 90 is where I feel the best when I'm over  

200 I feel absolutely terrible I want to mention  cholesterol we're quick but I'm not going to get  

into a lot of detail because I've done so many  videos on the details but normal range in the  

medical field they feel lower is bad better and  anything over 200 is too much I believe based on  

everything I've learned that the optimal range  for most people not kids kids can often be a  

little bit lower there's a difference between men  and women but for the most part 180 to 280 is the  

optimal range and then on either side of that  we have ranges that can still be okay that if  

it gets too low you want to start being concerned  but it could be okay for your situation for your  

genetic makeup and age and so forth and you could  be a lot higher than 280 and still be okay if you  

understand the other markers and you control for  insulin and triglycerides Etc but then there is  

the red range where again you could be over 350  and still be okay but you really got to do some  

additional tests and understand what's going  on but what most people don't realize is that  

on the lower end it is much more dangerous the  all-cause mortality is several times higher down  

at the bottom of this range than it is at the top  and yet there are people on medications that used  

to be 205 and now they've got them down to 120  and the doctors are just super happy and saying  

lower is better you have to stay on this and these  people may have no actual risk for heart disease  

so in my case according to the medical criteria  I would be a little bit too high according to  

my criteria I'm right in the middle and as you can  see I went from 225 to 222 to 220. so during these  

experim moments nothing really changed in that  regard and that has a lot to do with my genetic  

makeup the fact that I'm metabolically flexible  and my body is fairly stable but now let's come  

back to the ones I mentioned before so my insulin  had gone from 4.8 to 5.7 first time out of the  

optimal range 30 days of high fat and I was back  where I need to be in the three to four range my  

blood fats the triglycerides had gone from 45  to 101 after 30 days back down to 60. my vldl  

went from 8 to 17 30 days of fat puts it back  down to 10 and this is very counter-intuitive  

for most people they're wondering how can your  blood fats your triglycerides and your vldl  

which carry the triglycerides how can they go  down when you eat more fat because we're told  

that it's the saturated fat that clogs up  your arteries and contribute to blood fat  

and all that it's just that people don't realize  that most of the fat is created by insulin in  

response to glucose the carbohydrates turn to fat  when they become too much and my home IR went from  

1 to 1.3 after 30 days they were back to 0.8 which  is kind of typical for me the AST had risen into  

the orange Zone after 30 days it was back in the  green and the alt which is the most specific liver  

enzyme went outside of range and then right down  to 16 in the middle of optimal range and the LDH  

was was the scariest I'd never seen numbers like  that after 30 days we were right back into the  

green zone again so what I hope you take away from  this is how adaptive your body is that you can do  

serious damage in 10 days but your body is very  resilient it will bounce back if you do the right  

things so it took me probably a little bit longer  than 10 days to undo the damage of 10 days but  

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