Keto Dangerous? (Studies vs Real Life)

Keto diet and longevity. So most people

realize that keto is great for burning

fat and losing weight but then they hear

on the other side a lot of opponents

claiming that the body needs

carbohydrate and if you cut it out too

extremely you won't live as long and

it's unhealthy and side-effects and so

forth so let's take a really close look

at the mechanisms and what's really

going on here. So there's a lot of

studies out but one review study I found

which was interesting was ketone bodies

mimic the lifespan extending properties

of caloric restriction so back in 1935

they found out that rats lived longer if

you fed them less so they reduced their

diet they reduced their caloric intake

basically starved them by feeding them

30 to 50 percent less than a normal rat

would eat and they found when they did

that continuously then the average

lifespan of the rat went from 500 days

to 820 days so about a 60% increase in

longevity and ever since then there has

been this association between calorie

restriction and longevity and they've

been able to duplicate this in a number

of different species so it's not just

like rats they've done it with tiny tiny

things like yeast or nematodes or fruit

flies but they also done it with mice

and primates so what is it about calorie

restriction that makes you live longer

that's what they try to figure out and

they had different theories maybe it's

that the cells turn over slower there's

less wear and tear maybe it's that the

body fat is reduced when you starve the

rats

maybe the fat is so bad that it it's to

sit on your body that it it does bad

things and makes you live shorter maybe

it's the inflammation because we all

know inflammation is is bad and starving

reduces overall inflammation may be body

temperature because once you restrict

once you starve it the body thinks I

don't have as much to burn so I better

conserve it and turn down the furnace I

can last a little longer or insulin

they've noticed that a lot of these

things seem to do with insulin so let's

look at insulin just a little bit closer

and realize that insulin is what they

call a mitogenic hormone what that means

is it increases mitosis and mitosis is

cell division or cell replication so

anytime a cell makes a copy of itself

then it divides one time and they found

that you only have so many copies

available it's called a hayflick limit

and it's tied in to longevity and

telomeres and so forth which is a

genetic marker of how long you can live

based on these cell divisions and we

found that insulin increases the

turnover rate it increases the rate at

which cells make copies so that can be

good in terms of of growth or repair but

it can be really really bad because it

also increases cancer because it makes

the cancer cells turnover and replicate

faster too and it's been associated with

atherosclerosis because it makes the

first of all it increases inflammation

and a lot of the plaquing is in response

to that but it's also been shown to

increase the formation of the a

thoroughness of the atherosclerosis

which leads to heart disease and of

course it's been linked to aging because

insulin if it tends makes the cells

turnover faster then it increases the

rate of aging so when we look back

because they could never quite figure

out which one of these is it but once we

look at this we realize that insulin has

to do with virtually every single one of

them because insulin increases the

turnover insulin is a fat storing

hormone insulin is inflammatory

increases in

Meishan body temperature I don't know if

that would be directly linked

specifically to insulin and of course

the insulin is linked to insulin so most

of the reasons for the mechanism is tied

to insulin so what happens when we storm

the rats well there's two things that

always go together first is that we

reduce insulin because insulin is there

to process carbohydrates and when you

eat less

you're gonna eat less carbohydrates

there's less need for insulin you're

also going to increase ketones

so these always go together insulin and

less insulin and more ketones they

always go together

and it is always healthy it's always

favorable except in one case and that is

in type 1 diabetes when the insulin goes

to 0 and then the ketones go sky-high

which is a pathologic disease condition

as long as you have the ability to make

some insulin then it is healthy to

increase the ketones and there's

different ways to increase the ketones

so we know it happens in starvation or

in fasting which is prolonged periods of

not eating whether it's voluntary or

involuntary fasting is generally

considered voluntary and starvation's

considered involuntary exercise will

increase ketones and low carb diets with

increased ketones so the question then

becomes which one is it that produces

the beneficial results is it less

insulin or is it more ketones and we

don't have a clear answer on this but we

don't really have to worry about it

because one always follows the other so

if we get one we always get the other

they both seem to have tremendous

benefits to themselves if we reduce

insulin we reduced 95% of all

degenerative disease when we increase

ketone

we tend to get certain observable

benefits as well we can treat various

different conditions with it we know

obesity and diabetes improve with

ketosis but they've also found a lot of

other neurological conditions that have

pretty much been resistant or they

didn't get any results at all until they

tried ketones and things like

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and ALS

really severe neurological diseases tend

to get better with more ketones one more

thing that ketones do is they're

metabolized differently inside the cell

inside your cell you have mitochondria

which produce most of the energy for you

the vast majority of all energy used is

in the mitochondria and they have

different pathways and it turns out the

ketones go through a more efficient

pathway they can bypass a step or two

and therefore they can produce more ATP

or more of your energy currency per unit

of oxygen so it's more efficient and it

produces less damage less oxidative

damage by burning ketones and burning

other sources of fuel and one thing we

have to realize which this is my opinion

based on a bigger perspective and a way

of observing things naturally is you

don't improve all these different

conditions you can't improve such a wide

variety of condition by making someone

less healthy so the biggest detractor

for the the opponents the biggest

argument is that sure it helps for for

obesity and diabetes but we don't know

the long-term effects we it's it's bad

for this or you have to have carbs or

fat is is bad and they're pulling these

statements but they can't really put the

picture together but the one picture I

want to keep in mind is if it brings

together if you'd improve such a wide

variety of conditions then

it's not a bad thing so ever since 1935

when they first figured this out the

calorie restriction has been a huge

topic it's been something that people

say oh yeah if only I could do that

if only I could restrict my calories for

the rest of my life then I would live a

whole lot longer but the problem is when

you starve yourself then unless you want

to be a rat and they put you in a cage

and just feed you half of what you want

to eat you're not going to be able to

keep it up because hunger doesn't feel

good the vast majority of people are not

going to be able to keep it up so we

know that calorie restriction improves

insulin and ketosis reduces insulin

increases ketones but you get hungry

so wouldn't it be nice if there was a

way that you could reduce insulin and

increase ketones

without going hungry and I know I've

heard about something I think there's

there's something I heard that could do

that but no wait wait here it's coming

to me

oh yeah the ketogenic diet that's what

it is because when people do that they

reduce insulin they increased ketones

but they don't go hungry and this is not

so easy to understand for people who

haven't tried it but once you try then

you notice that your body wants fewer

meals because fat is very satisfying

then you can go longer between meals so

in the end you end up eating a little

bit less maybe not less calories

probably a little bit but maybe not but

the main thing you get is reduced

insulin and increased ketones so you get

these anti-aging benefits you get all

these health benefits because it is

primarily about

the insulin and possibly some about the

ketones but it's certainly not about the

calories the reducing of the calories

only results in changed insulin and

ketones it's not the calories per se so

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