Keto Diet Explained For Beginners Simply

keto ketogenic ketosis what does that all mean is it just a fad or is it

something good and natural that we can do long term stay tuned and I'll explain

the basics hey I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg with wellness for life and by subscribing to

our channel you will learn everything that you need to know to master true

health. keto ketogenic ketosis there's nothing strange about it your body has a

few basic resources for fuel and one is carbohydrate which results in blood

sugar and another is fat that it can burn for fuel proteins can be used for

fuel but they're primarily building blocks so fat or carbohydrate that's

what we have to burn for fuel so the problem today is the people eat

way way way way way too much carbohydrate which creates insulin

responses and insulin resistance and diabetes and inflammation and obesity so

to counteract that we have energy from fats and now we can use different

amounts of fat versus carbohydrate if we use very very low amount of

carbohydrates the body gets more dependent on fat it gets better at

burning the fat now the brain uses primarily glucose which comes from

carbohydrate also known as blood sugar but if the blood sugar and starts

running a little bit low then the brain learns to depend on what's called ketone

bodies and ketone bodies are a byproduct of fat metabolism so if you eat a lot of

carbohydrates then your body doesn't have to rely on fat so much so it kind

of forgets how to use the fat and the reason that the carbs the blood sugar

gets burned first is that blood sugar needs to be maintained within a very

very narrow band a little bit too much is toxic a little bit too low

is also detrimental so the brain the body has all these defense mechanisms to

keep it within a very or narrow range that's why carbs get burned first but if

we start cutting back on the carbs now the brain has to start depending on fat

and it up regulates it changes the receptors it changes the metabolic

pathways it changes the enzymes so it can utilize the fat more efficiently and

this can be very very effective if you are having trouble with insulin

resistance or stubborn weight this idea has been around for a very long time

because before they had all these drugs for everything and people saw natural

solutions one of the main problems that they started addressing with diet was

kids with epilepsy and they found that they had about a 95 percent recovery

were remission or dramatic improvement if they put these kids on an extremely

high fat diet so why are you cutting down the carbohydrates way way way down

to less than 5 percent of of calories and having almost all the rest of it

from fat these kids brains did remarkably better so sugar is very toxic

for the brain so it's not just about the weight and and weight loss and so forth

it's about your overall health ketosis is a natural response from the body

during starvation and historically presumably during thousands or millions

of years there has been periods of starvation and during that time there's

very very little blood sugar available and for probably months at a time the

body has relied on fat and it has produced ketones and during those times

the brain relies primarily on ketone bodies for energy so ketosis is a very

natural thing and during starvation something else happens also that

it's very beneficial there's something called a toff adji which means that the

body gets better at cleaning up it gets better because it start kind of

cannibalizing itself to get resources for energy it starts breaking down fat

which most people would think is good and it starts breaking down protein

which most people think is not so good but at the same time it improves not

just the breakdown but it improves the cleanup it improves the ability to

recycle and clean out waste products so it's an excellent detoxification method

and also what starvation does is it increases dramatically your amount of

human growth hormone which is a rejuvenating rebuilding hormone so the

body has these different mechanisms it gets better at cleaning up when it has

to break things down but it also produces more growth hormone so it can

rebuild cells better and get more economical with the body's resources so

there's some debate whether this is a good thing for long-term or if it's

damaging overall what some people are afraid of is what medical doctors talk

about called diabetic ketoacidosis that's a pathological state in diabetes

when you have absolutely no ability to use your blood sugar your blood sugar

goes really high but there's no way to get it out of the blood and into the

cells now you are at the most extreme level of starvation because there's

nothing coming into the cells and in these situations the acidity from the

ketosis goes up dramatically but we're talking about something that can't

happen in a healthy person if you have any insulin and any ability to use that

blood sugar at all then your ketones are never going to get to that level so

diabetic that has gotten to that point it has he has hundreds or thousands of

times the ketones that a normal healthy person could ever get to no matter how

hard they tried and if we look at populations like maybe

the Eskimos they are relying for very long periods of time throughout the year

on primarily protein and fat and those people those populations will probably

run six months at a time on ketone metabolism and they have no ill effects

so what's more important is to understand we're gonna cover more in a

series on nutrition it's the quality of the food it's not just that you want to

look at how much fat and how much carbs we want to look at do the fats have are

they are they whole food are they come from a healthy animal because then they

have plenty of nutrition for your body to support it and some people think oh

well I have to go low carbs so they start putting in a bunch of artificial

sweeteners like aspartame and acesulfame and all that

now you're poisoning your body there's nothing good about that at all so we

have to keep understanding that even though we're making these changes it's

still about eating whole natural healthy food that comes from nature in a as

unspoiled as unprocessed state as possible so is this for everybody

I think everyone can benefit from doing it from time to time does everyone need

to do it probably not I certainly advocate low

carbs for most people because as a population 99% of us eat way way way too

many carbs but it doesn't mean that everyone has to go into ketosis it's not

gonna hurt you but I don't think you need to so the people who really really

could benefit from this are people who have trouble losing weight who know that

their insulin resistance who are diabetic or borderline diabetic these

people need to dramatically transform their metabolism they need to get a

little bit more extreme to get those those desired results if you have any

experience with this if you have any questions if you have any challenges let

me know and I'll be more than happy to try to address those

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