Keto Diet vs Atkins Diet - Which Is Better?

Keto diet vs Atkins diet what are they and what do you need to know to make the

best decisions for yourself and your health coming right up. The Atkins diet

was founded was originated by dr. Robert Atkins he was born in 1930 he went to

medical school graduated was a cardiologist but he didn't do so well in

the beginning and he gained a lot of weight to get depressed and then he

looked into low carb as promoted by Alfred Pennington and he managed to lose

his weight and he got all excited and he started a clinic to help people lose

weight and he wrote a book that was published in 1972 called the Atkins diet

revolution then in 1989 he founded Atkins nutritional so that now he could

expand his business and provide some foods and snacks for people that were

lower in carbohydrates than the standard fare in 2003 he slipped on the ice he

hit his head and he died a few days later from complications after surgery

from a blood clot so after dr. Atkins was gone the company went downhill and

he was bankrupt in 2005 he was later bought out so now Atkins is still around

and doing business but it's not dr. Atkins anymore it is just a company

owned by third party who is doing business and trying to continue some of

the ideas that dr. Atkins started so what did he do right well in a time of

low-fat craze and the height of the low-fat craze in the 70s and 80s he's

took his chin out and he said that the high fat low carb is the way to go so he

was kind of a trendsetter and his book initiated a lot of the ideas that we see

today about low carb dining low carb principles if you go research Atkins

today then you will see that they have different stages different levels and

the stree this level is if you have a disease if

you're diabetic if you have extreme obesity then they put you in the Atkins

20 which means you're eating 20 grams or less of carbohydrate per day if you're

not diabetic but you have significant amount of weight to lose

then they recommend the Atkins 40 with 40 grams or less and if you just want to

maintain your health if you're at a ideal weight for you then you can eat

the Atkins hundred with a hundred grams of carbs so far so good I agree with

just about everything so far so then when you go and you compare on the

Atkins side you can look and they compare keto to Atkins then they give

you the following number so they say that the classic keto which is kind of the

keto that was that was started to help kids with seizures that had extremely

low carbohydrates so they had less than 5% of energy from carbs 5 to 20 percent

from protein and 75 to 90 percent from fat and with the seizure kids they were

more like 90 percent closer to 90 percent fat so today when we do keto we

don't do it quite that strict and we look a little bit more about the whole

picture but this is pretty close I tell people 75 around 75 percent fat 10 15 20

percent protein and 5 to 10 percent maybe of carbohydrates depending on how

stubborn your body is what Atkins promotes is for the strictest level they

have 5 to 10 percent carbohydrates so that's very similar to

what a keto diet would be today but where it differs the most is that they

have 20 to 30 percent they have somewhere around twice as much protein

and why is that a problem because what we're trying to do with the low-carb and

the keto is we're trying to reverse insulin resistance we're trying

to reduce insulin production in the body because that's the central mechanism

that all of this revolves around and while carbohydrates have the highest

insulin response proteins still have a significant sometimes high insulin

response again not as high as carbs but it's very very significant and fat is

the substance that has almost zero insulin response so even though both of

these reduce carbohydrates dramatically keto is about moderate to low protein

when you increase protein too much you're still stimulating too much

insulin for some people in the Atkins 40 they allow 10 to 15% from carbs and the

same protein 20 to 30 and just a little bit less fat so can you lose weight on

this well obviously a lot of people do so it is working in the sense of weight

loss for a lot or most people but if your metabolism is really stubborn then

this is probably too much protein for some of you and that's important to

realize because we always try to look for the Golden Rule we try to look for

the right set of principles for everybody and there is no such thing

some people are probably going to lose a tremendous amount of weight on eating 40

50 60 even 80 grams of carbs if you have a relatively fast metabolism you haven't

had the insulin resistance very long you don't have to change a whole lot but if

you're very very stubborn then you might have to get down to very close to zero

carbs and you might that even might not be enough the other thing that they're

talking about that I don't agree with at all is three to five meals a day and

they say don't skip meals because it's all about reverse

insulin low carb triggers less insulin than high carb but fasting meaning when

you don't eat triggers even less insulin than low carb so every time that you eat

you are stimulating insulin to some degree and when you eat three to five

meals a day then you're triggering insulin three to five times per day so

fasting is when you don't eat at all so you're not triggering insulin at all and

what you find when you cut carbs significantly low you get less hungry

because your body is switching to a fat metabolism and then if you don't get

hungry you don't want to eat that's just the simplest way of putting it don't eat

if you're not hungry your body is trying to tell you hey I'm

doing all right here so when it comes to insulin resistance that's three things

that you have influence over it diet wise it's the amount of carbs it's the

amount of protein and it's how often you eat so you want to reduce carbs reduce

protein and reduce the number of meals the Atkins diet only fulfills the first

part there of less carbs they don't focus on less protein and they don't

focus on unless meals so even though some people where a lot of people can

lose weight the people that have the biggest challenges are the ones that

really need to pay attention they're the ones that really need this diet and then

the Atkins probably not going to work for them because they too much protein

and too many meals the other problem I have with this diet is that it does not

focus on health not in the least are some people going to get healthier

absolutely because for some people their main problem is insulin resistance and

if they cut the carbs they're going to reduce some insulin resistance but

health is bigger than that and skinny people have diseases too thin people get

cancer and high cholesterol and I diabetes and so forth so it's not about

the weight it's about the health and the so called Atkins approved food products

whether they are produced by Atkins or whether they're approved some other way

are full of chemicals preservatives artificial sweeteners and GMO products

so they're in that sense they're really no better than any other processed

packaged food they're lower in carbs so they help you with the insulin but other

than that it still just processed food or I might even say junk food in many

cases so overall it's better than the standard American diet but it's still

processed it still has too much protein and they're eating too many meals so I

looked at some of the products that they had and the principles are pretty much

the same regardless of which product you look at but here's for example a energy

shake that has 9 grams of total fat it has 15 grams of protein and that's too

much protein in relation to that fat it's almost twice as much protein as fat

furthermore one shake is a hundred and seventy calories that's why they have to

eat all these frequent meals whereas if you do keto and you eat OMAD you do

intermittent fasting you know that you need substantial meals you want to get

several hundred calories maybe a thousand or more calories per meal so a

hundred and seventy calories in a meal that's that's barely a snack which you

don't want to do in the first place then you look at some of the ingredients and

we see soy protein isolate we see corn fiber both of which are GMOs ordered

natural and artificial flavors dipotassium phosphate we see sucralose

and then we see a lot of artificial synthetic vitamins included in that as

well so it's better than regular processed food in the

that it has less carbohydrate less sugar but it is no better in the sense that it

has just as much junk food in it just as much processed food as anything else and

then they say of course you don't have to stay away from pizza as long as you

get the Atkins pizza which I think I'm not exaggerating when I say it has over

50 ingredients the up at the top we have wheat gluten and cornstarch so these are

things corn starch again is GMO soy protein isolates GMO harshly processed

but wheat gluten is the protein from gluten that people with celiacs are

sensitive to so even if you don't have celiacs that's a very very harsh food to

digest and it's processed then they have sucralose artificial sweeteners in the

pizza you have corn starch corn oil natural and artificial flavors and then

there's another 30 ingredients before we get down to sodium nitrite and BHA BHT

and preservatives and so forth so realize that this is just more processed

food it's just junk food in another wrapper so has it done some people some

good absolutely it helped start the low-carb revolution if you will it took

it from from obscurity onto the front lines and what you're looking for though

is not a diet you're looking for principles you want

to start use it as a starting point but then start learning all the principles

that we talk about understand what health really is that it's not about

weight loss that the weight gain obesity is an imbalance if you correct the

imbalance and provide your body what it needs the body will shed the weight so

ketosis is a physiological principle it's not a person that came up with

ketosis or said dictated this is the way that keto is it is whatever it takes

for you to get into ketosis for some people it's 20 grams of carbs for some

people it's 50 or 60 for some people it's enough to cut out soda and and

processed grains for other people they need to do extensive intermittent

fasting or exercise or low carb or keto or all of the above in different

combinations so it's trial and error you start with a set of principles but what

keto is it's a way of measuring so ketones are produced when you are

burning fat for fuel but ketones in itself is not even a guarantee of weight

loss because if you're extremely insulin resistant you can still hold on to the

fat on the body and you get hungry enough that you provide enough fat in

the diet to stay fat adapted and make ketones but not burn anything off your

own body weight so in those cases you need to not just do keto but you need to

add in some fasting and some exercise to kind of jumpstart to give the body more

incentive to get to get to that fat if you new to this channel and you enjoy

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