Keto Diet vs Vegan Diet - Which Is Better?

Keto versus vegan which one is better? which one is healthier? which one helps

you lose weight? which one is the best long-term? it seems like there's

developed two different camps (keto vs vegan debate) that there's keto versus vegan or this versus

that but today we're gonna talk about and clarify a lot of these different

issues so that you can make some good choices and understand where this might

fit in for you coming right up (logo) a lot of people have had success with

vegan diets a lot of people have had success with keto diets whatever their

goals might be and then whatever works for them they tend to become very very

strong proponents and feel like oh yeah this worked for me so therefore it

should be the best thing for you and some people even think of of keto as

anti vegan or a vegan as anti keto but it doesn't have to be like that they're

not mutually exclusive and each one has their point and their value and their

time so over time people have eaten so terrible that we've gotten this idea

that meat is bad and vegetables are good or even bigger picture plants are better

for you than animal products so why might we jump to that conclusion well a

lot of this happened because they started observing heart disease and

atherosclerosis they saw the fat and the arteries and they said oh it has to be

the fat so now fat became the bad guy and and fat came from meat and animal

products and so forth so we made all these different associations but is it

true not necessarily or not at all actually

so if you take someone who eats really really poorly they eat any junk they can

get their hands on donuts and beer and potato chips and hamburgers

that person probably tends to not eat so many vegetables so then we look at them

when we say oh they're not eating any vegetables then we look at another

person who eats more vegetables and that person is healthier so we conclude hey

this vegetables is the reason that that person is healthier but someone who is

more concerned with their health and seeks out a lot of vegetables they

probably also pay more attention to the other things that they eat they're more

discerning so we can't just blame it on one thing or another it is probably more

of the overall attention to food and how well they take care of themselves so it

is not as simple we cannot draw the conclusion that plants are good and

animals are bad it just doesn't work like that then we want to ask well what

is a vegan or a vegetarian well it is simply someone who eats plant-based food

so a vegan is a vegetarian but then there's some groups of vegetarians who

feel that they can allow themselves some eggs and some dairy products and that's

called a lacto-ovo vegetarian and while those people often consider themselves

vegetarian a vegan is someone who is strictly plant-based they wouldn't eat

anything from an animal so a vegan would probably say that a lacto-ovo vegetarian

is not a true vegetarian so there they're allowing themselves a little bit

different things and in my opinion if you're going to do something long-term

I would definitely opt for the lacto-ovo vegetarian and we'll kind of cover that

as we go so the biggest thing that we have to understand about vegan or about

plants versus animal foods is that they serve different purposes and it's not

exclusive it's not like a hard line of any sort but on the whole plants are

more cleansing and detoxifying and animal foods are more nourishing and

rebuilding so the body always has two states it has a general direction it can

be more catabolic me or break down or it can be more anabolic or build up and it

sounds like Oh break down that's a terrible thing and build up seems like a

good thing not necessarily so because the body goes through breakdown and

rebuild all the time you cannot build a healthy cell without first breaking down

some things so things wear out things get toxic things get sort of worn and

then we have to break them down and replace them with new healthy tissue so

both are equally important so first we break down and then we rebuild and

that's how things work so it depends on what stage would be more important for

you at a given time we often hear that plants are very nutritious that if you

don't eat plants you're not getting the nutrition well it's not that simple

plants and animal products have different kinds of nutrition and we need

both so plants have more minerals and more phytonutrients and these are more

cleansing they're not so much rebuilding minerals are catalysts they catalyze

they initiate they make possible different reactions metabolic reactions

in the body so they're they're super important we can get them from different

sources of food but plants have the most minerals animal products have more fat

soluble vitamins and more bioavailable proteins they have a higher biological

value on a lot of the nutrients we can utilize them better so it's not about if

you read it hable and you see that oh well this

vegetable contains this much protein and this many minerals and this much fat and

an animal products contain this much of different things there's a difference

between what the food contains the contents how much nutrients can we

extract in a laboratory test versus how much of that food can you absorb and

utilize just because a food contains something doesn't mean they will

actually end up in your body we don't absorb most of the nutrient a

lot of the stuff just goes straight through you so the question is how much

of it can you absorb and utilize so animal products and vegetable plant

products they both have their value there is a better time for each one so

what it depends on is what is your weak spot what is the spot what's the portion

of your physiology of your body that needs the most support if you have a

weak spot if you have a system that is falling behind and not able to keep up

anymore and that's causing your symptoms and your problems and your disease and

your condition then that's the right thing to address for you so just as an

example if your adrenal system your adrenals they respond to stress and

that's a catabolic system when you're under stress your body is concerned with

survival in this moment it's concerned about generating blood sugar to get you

through this crisis and it will break tissue down it will break down protein

it will break down glycogen stores so it's a catabolic state and if that's

dominant for you then you're basically falling apart your greatest need is to

rebuild and so for that person then they would not benefit so much from a lot of

vegetables they would benefit more from more animal products that are

rebuilding whereas someone who has a liver problem if the liver is failing if

the liver isn't keeping up with the detox if it is jam-packed with sugar and

fat from an insulin dominance from insulin resistance or if the liver is

not keeping up with its detoxification then the liver would be the main thing

and now you would want to help that liver cleanse you do not want so much

protein and so much rebuilding so much anabolic stuff because that's not the

main problem the main problem is toxicity and the vegetables will not

only help cleanse and detoxify the liver but they're also easily digestible so

they help the body deliver get rid of stuff and they're not such a burden on

the liver either whereas the healthy liver wouldn't have any problem with

that burden that it would be benefiting to be anabolic so if we apply that to

the top three disease conditions that people die from cancer diabetes and

cardiovascular disease they all have different weak spots cancer is primarily

a toxicity problem and diabetes is primarily a liver problem cardiovascular

disease is a inflammation problem that has more to do with insulin and sugar

than it has to do with toxicity so out of these the cancer would definitely

benefit from a cleanse that's the primary problem that's why things like

the Gerson diet and vegan diets and massive amounts of vegetables and

juicing even though they're catabolic that it helps the body cleanse and

detoxify that's the primary thing that's the most important thing that's the

thing that's going to help the body turn it around for that cancer because the

cancer is a toxicity condition of course you don't want to

load up the body with too much sugar because the cancer thrives on sugar it's

primarily a carbohydrate metabolism it loves that sugar so even if you go

vegetarian or vegan you want to focus on not fluctuating your blood sugar don't

don't put in a bunch of sugar and diabetes is a storage problem we have

tried to store too much we had eaten too much food that trigger insulin and now

you can eat a combination of plant food and animal food as long as it doesn't

trigger a lot of blood sugar and a lot of animal products are going to have be

more satisfying they're going to have protein and fat but they're gonna make

you satiated you're gonna feel full longer so that's gonna give the body an

opportunity to cut back on the number of meals and stabilize blood sugar and give

the body a longer period of fasting so you can do some intermittent fasting and

that is probably easier to reverse the diabetes on a more animal-based diet

than a plant-based diet because the animal foods are more satisfying so you

end up eating fewer meals and cardiovascular disease would be more

like the diabetes because they're both associated with what's called metabolic

syndrome or syndrome X which is driven by insulin resistance another

misconception that we want to cover is that plants are easier to digest

well that's true for some people but I have seen people in my clinic and some

people say oh I can't digest red meat fish and chicken is better and typically

what that means is they're not making enough hydrochloric acid to break down

the protein but I've also had people who react to vegetables some people say oh I

can eat all the meat I want never have a reaction but I

and eat vegetables or I can only eat cooked vegetables and some people say oh

you should eat a raw diet and they try a raw diet and it works exceptionally well

while others can't digest anything raw so it all depends on what you can digest

because if you cannot digest it it doesn't matter what worked for the last

person it doesn't work matter what worked for your neighbor or your best

friend if you can't digest it it is not gonna do anything beneficial

for you and then of course we get back to research and a lot of people they say

oh well research shows this or that research shows that vegans have lower

cholesterol research shows that vegans have less

heart disease research shows this or that well here's the problem with

research even if it's well conducted even if it's meticulously done even if

it is completely valid in that research they even if they say that 80% benefited

80% got better 80% lower their cholesterol 80% lowered their insulin

resistance what about the other 20% okay what if you are in the 20% versus the 80

you can't run your life on probabilities you have to figure out what works for

you so when we look at research the research like I said can be totally

valid in their conclusions and applied to a group population they can

absolutely say that if you eat this way then you will get these results but it's

not going to predict your outcome it is not gonna tell you if you need

more catabolic or more anabolic it is not going to tell you how well you can

absorb and utilize it is not gonna tell you what you can digest

and so on and so forth that's why research is great I love when they do

research and they love love when they do good research that we can learn from it

but in the end we have to figure out what works for us and we have to

understand enough about the variables so that we can make some good choices we

would all love for some smart guy or some team of smart guys to figure it all

out for us to once and for all decide here is the best diet and 100% of the

people on the planet should follow this and 100% of them should get this result

and we have finally once and for all concluded that this is the way it is and

you don't have to question it just do this and here are the items and you're

never gonna get that answer they will never ever come up with that list

because it doesn't exist there's too much variability in the

human population in the genome and a lifestyle and experience in history and

so forth so you cannot wait for that you cannot try to find one person or one

label to define for you what's going to be the best thing so forget about labels

forget about the label of a carnivore or vegetarian or keto or Atkins or - or

whatever the latest label and idea is try a lot of different things try to

understand what makes each one a good one and then understand that there are

different states that you can be in catabolic or anabolic that you need both

figure out what you can digest figure out what works for you so learn as much

as you can try different things observe the results and once you have enough of

the big picture now you can narrow down your trial and error

you can avoid the absolutely stupid mistakes the things that are absolutely

not going to work and those include everything with man-made food and

processed food and sugar and chemicals and food additives because they will

never add anything that your body needs so focus on Whole Foods and then learn

try absorb and figure out what works for you so it turns out it's not really keto

verses vegan either because you can do both at the same time keto is when you

reduce the carbohydrates enough that your body gets better at burning fat and

a byproduct of the fat burning is ketones that you can measure you can

verify that you're in ketosis and that you're burning fat and a lot of people

say that oh well then that just means we cut out all plant food and we just eat

bacon and eggs and steak and butter and you can do it that way but it wouldn't

be very healthy for very long for most people but you could still eat mostly

plant-based or even all plant-based and be in ketosis you just have to stop all

the starchy stuff so if you wanted to do both then you just have to learn how to

avoid potatoes and rice and bread and french fries and waffles and all that

stuff and you have to eat a lot of leafy green vegetables and you have to up your

vegetable fats so now you eat nuts and seeds things like flax seed and chia

seed are gonna work great there they're very very low carbs if you eat the nuts

then you have to look for the ones that are the lowest in carbs such as pecans

and macadamia nuts you also have to find another fat source so a lot of people

eat butter on keto so you have to find something else like coconut coconut oil

or extra virgin olive oil etc so if you'd want to try

vegan or vegetarian then do so and see how it works for you but don't do what a

lot of people do especially young people that do it because they feel that it's

wrong to eat animals so they just want to eat anything but that but they don't

have a clue on what to eat so now they start eating macaroni and waffles and

bread and french fries and all white starchy processed foods and they never

touch a vegetable and they think that they're vegetarian which they are in the

sense that they're not eating animal products but they're not getting any

healthy foods they're eating tons of processed foods and of course all that

processed food is not going to do them any good so now they're getting the

worst of both worlds if you're gonna do vegan do it on whole food and try it and

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