Keto Long Term? Is The Keto Diet Dangerous?

Keto long term. Is it safe? Is it possible? Is it healthy? A lot of people have

concerns and questions so I'm gonna answer some of the most common ones

coming right up so keto is getting very very popular because people are getting

results but then there's also a lot of skeptics and when the skeptics raise

their voices then people get concerned they get worried and they wonder can i

really trust this. Can I really do keto long term because they're scaring people

that if you keep this up it's gonna hurt you. So at first they said, the skeptic

said, "oh it's ridiculous of course you can't lose fat by eating fat" and then

they said, " oops I guess you can" because there was just so many people doing that

but then they said oh well you can lose some fat but it's not sustainable and if

it's sustainable then at least it's not healthy and that's kind of where

everyone is today we have the keto camp and the the skeptic camp and everyone

agrees that yes you will lose weight but the skeptics say that yeah yeah yeah

it's possible but keto is not sustainable you can't keep it up it's dangerous and

so on and so on but is that is there any foundation is that a good argument

what are they basing that on so basically it's based on a fat phobia and

where did we get that where did that come from why are we so afraid of fat

because fats been around for as long as human has been around and for the most

part we have probably eaten more saturated fat than we've eaten anything

else so we have demonized saturated fat and cholesterol it's the first thing

that shows up on food labels calories total fat and saturated fat as if those

are the things that we need to avoid so this fat phobia is based on a couple

of really bad studies in the 1950s where they just watch people they've made

certain assumptions and they decided that saturated fat and cholesterol is

bad recent studies have shown that it is the

processed fat it's the man-made fats so the reason people started noticing fat

was when people got sick from eating margarine and shortening and processed

fats along with lots and lots of sugar and this really started in the early

1900s and then accelerated all the way through the 1900s and nobody looked at

the quality or type of fats and that's where we got this fat phobia that is so

ingrained now that nobody dares question it everyone says oh if you propose

eating bacon you must surely be crazy and it's like we're not really

questioning why would it be that bad okay and it turns out it isn't because

most modern studies show that saturated fat is actually better it's a really

really good fuel source it's the polyunsaturated fats that

create problems and saturated fats improve the ratio of cholesterol because

it's not the total number that matters it's the balance between the two total

cholesterol to HDL of about three to one then you're doing perfectly fine and the

lower that ratio the better you're doing and saturated fats improve that ratio

but even though those old studies were from the 1950s and we've had decades to

get better information and we had better information old ideas die hard because

once we get a feeling about something then it's very very hard to and that's

what I hear from a lot of people is I I've read this and I read this and I

tried it and I feel better but I've read I heard it for so long that fat is bad

so I'm just scared to eat it and it's the fear it's a phobia it's founded on

the wrong information because as long as the fat is natural is perfectly okay

and then people say that carbs are the main source of energy that

if you don't eat carbs you're starving yourself and again this is just not true

it is it is has been the main source of energy for the last few hundred years

when we have increased our agriculture we've increased the the processing of

grain we've included bread in in everything but again agriculture has

only been around for ten thousand years which is a incredibly short time

compared to the time that you have been around as a human so agriculture started

ten thousand years ago but also at that time the grains were completely

different they had more protein less carbohydrates and people ate them whole

so even if we say that we've had grains for a while we just haven't had them in

the form that we're eating them today and carbs are not the main source of

energy because humans have two sources of energy two primary sources it's three

and four you include protein but the two main sources are carbohydrates and fat

and the body will burn which ever one it has the most available so if you feed it

carbs it'll burn carbs if you feed it fat it'll burn fat it's as simple as

that so it depends on where humans have lived it depends on what their lifestyle

was it depends on the time of the season what was available at the time

then they mentioned that the keto diet has no calorie restriction and surely

that must be a bad thing because we all know calories are bad and again we've

decided that fat is bad cholesterol is bad calories are bad oh don't eat

avocado it has too many calories don't eat salmon it's too fatty it has

too many calories don't eat nuts it has too many calories

eat that little rice cake eat this little fluffy processed sugary thing it

only has a hundred calories per serving haven't we heard that over and over and

over for the last 40 years we've turned calories into the enemy and it's not

it's what keeps us alive for as long as life has existed on the planet

every species have started the day looking for calories okay it's the thing

that keeps us alive the reason that it messes with us today is that we have

processed them we have changed them we have introduced processed foods and

sugars and processed carbs that are unnatural to our bodies that's why we

lose our ability to regulate hunger so we shouldn't have a calorie restriction

when your body is healthy when your body gets the type of food and the nutrients

that it's designed for your body knows how much to eat the only reason it eats

too much is you eat processed foods and your insulin resistance then they say

that it forces the body to burn fat again as if that was a bad thing there

is no force about it because when carbs go really really low the body burns fat

so you can turn that argument around and say when carbs are really high it forces

the body to burn carbs because the carbs high blood sugar will put a diabetic

into a coma carbs are toxic high blood sugar is one of the most dangerous

things that you can have so if you eat a lot of carbs you force the body to burn

carbs okay it's it's a ridiculous argument it's again it's about balance

and what has the body been doing for most of the time and for most of the

time we have never ever had a lifestyle that allows us to develop insulin

resistance we've never had that many carbohydrates and sugars and processed

carbs around never been around so we we know plenty

about missing a few meals because we've done that for as long as we've been

around we never we had no defense against the the abundance of

carbohydrates it forces the body to burn fat and as a result you can there is no

deprivation or exercise it's like you have to have calorie restriction you you

have to have suffer you have to have pain because otherwise you don't deserve

to be to be slender it's like this crazy mentality that we have forgotten what

it's supposed to work like we're supposed to feel happy we're supposed to

feel good we're supposed to eat till we're full we're supposed to know when

we're full okay but carbohydrates and insulin drive a fat storing mechanism

that prevents us from using the fat and therefore we don't know when we're full

because our bodies tell us eat more eat more eat more because I put all of my my

blood sugar in fat storage through insulin and I can't get to it because

the insulin is still high so you got to eat something more and that's the

mechanism that turns off your ability to decide how much to eat humans are not

supposed to be deprived and of course exercise

you shouldn't have to exercise to maintain your weight but that doesn't

mean you don't want to exercise because like I talked about in many many

different videos exercise is absolutely necessary to optimize your health so you

want to do that five six days a week regardless but it has really very little

to do with losing weight it is good for reversing insulin resistance but you

shouldn't have to force your body through exercise to lose weight and then

one of the most common arguments is that it's too extreme and and again it's an

opinion it's like surely fat is bad surely it's extreme to eat that few

carbs but when we call it a dream we want to ask extreme compared to

what okay if we go into a food store today it has about fifty thousand items

on the shelves how many of those items existed ten thousand years ago or even

five hundred years ago okay hardly any that's extreme we have

replaced our entire food supply with fake foods we don't have access to real

food from most regular food stores that's extreme okay when people say that

it's too extreme to eat 30 grams of carbs compared to what 400 grams of

carbs is extreme because your ancestors never ever saw that kind of carbs never

even if they found a beehive and they ate the whole thing in one bite they

probably couldn't get that much so most of the objections are based on emotional

reactions to what we believe is true and it doesn't have any solid foundation

doesn't have any good explanation in physiology and the best way to judge

this is try it and see how it works what you want to understand though is along

the way it's about quality of foods is it sustainable absolutely is it safe

absolutely can it be done healthy absolutely does everyone have to do it

is it the best possible diet for everybody not necessarily if you like it

then do it if you reverse your insulin resistance all the way then I think most

people can probably not have to be in ketosis I think you should still be at

low carb because four hundred grams of carbs a day is going to ruin your health

guaranteed but even if you start eating a little

bit of potato here and there or some some

brown rice or something if you have completely reversed your insulin

resistance then that might be okay so we don't want to turn keto into a religion

either okay the reason it is so popular and the reason it works so well and the

reason it's a fantastic idea for most people is that most people are insulin

resistance from decades of eating processed foods and too many carbs so

what you want to do you want to listen to people who have clinical experience

who have actually worked with a lot of people over a long period of time and

who have some sort of education and some foundation in physiology to understand

insulin everyone else is pretty much just a self-proclaimed expert in in one

field or another and what they're throwing around our opinions and most of

these opinions are based on emotions and what we've been told and surely it can't

be like that okay so this channel is all about

learning as much as possible about how the body really works so that when you

see that next article or you hear that next comment then you have enough

knowledge that you can make up your own mind and you can say yeah that makes

sense that fits about a hundred other pieces

of good information I've heard or you can say you know that doesn't make sense

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