Real Doctor Reacts To Crazy Jillian Michaels' Comment On Keto Diet & Truth About Ketogenic Diet

Hey today I'm gonna comment on a video called Jillian Michaels rant and rave on

keto diet. So I didn't make that title up that was

actually the official title where she was being interviewed and I think

everyone is entitled to their opinion but I think it can be dangerous when

someone's opinion just because they're a celebrity gets taken as truth in a

different context so she is an expert at fitness but she is not an expert at

health and physiology so let's go through some of these statements the

first thing she said was that keto was a fad or a trend but just because keto has

gained a lot of popularity recently doesn't mean it's a new thing. Keto the

production of ketosis is a mechanism in the body that has been around for as

long as we have been around and why is that well your body has two sources of

fuel primarily fat and carbohydrate when plant food is plentiful we burn a

mixture of carbohydrate and fat but when there's not so many plants around then

we are short on carbohydrate and we have to rely more on fat and in an extreme

shortage of carbohydrate the body has to rely entirely on fat and now a side

product by product to that is called ketones so your DNA has been around in

its current form around 250,000 years and your ancestors had that same DNA so

when they had plenty of food they burned a mix but when food was short they went

into ketosis and it wouldn't be too bold to assume that they were in ketosis

hundreds of times maybe thousands of times in their lifetime they were

probably in ketosis most of the winter months

just like the Inuit or the Eskimos today are in ketosis most of their lifetime

because there's very very few plants where they live so humans have

the ability to use multiple fuels and ketosis is just a result of us having

less carbs and more fat for fuel then she went on to call keto an emergency

and that's kind of interesting because in a sense it is that when we had

starvation when we didn't have a whole lot of food the body has to rely on

ketosis that doesn't make it a bad thing because it's so common that when our

ancestors didn't have a whole lot of food like we said they went into

starvation that was their way of surviving however it's a very natural

form of emergency and your body sort of like certain emergencies every culture

on the planet has promoted the benefits of fasting when you go into ketosis

right one emergency that's not much talked about is the emergency of high or

low blood sugar however high blood sugar in diabetes leads to coma low blood

sugar and diabetes leads to coma so when you eat a carbohydrate and your blood

sugar spikes that is an emergency and that's an emergency that your body has

no defense against except insulin and if you do it repeatedly then you develop

insulin resistance which is responsible for the majority of all degenerative

disease so if you want to talk about an emergency then talk about the emergency

of blood sugar fluctuations as a result of carbohydrate consumption that's the

real emergency your ancestors never saw that because

there was never enough carbohydrate around to develop insulin resistance and

unstable blood sugar they experienced a lot of ketosis

which is a much more common much more natural emergency

so emergencies are not necessarily bad exercises a form of emergency all stress

is a little bit of an emergency but the carbohydrate emergency is one that

your genome your DNA has never seen because your ancestors never encountered

it then she said that your cells your macromolecules this the stuff your cells

are made up of is protein fat carbs and nucleic acid and when you don't eat

those on a regular basis like all the time then you are starving yourselves

and your body and this is just incorrect because proteins make up your muscles

fats make up your brain nucleic acids make up your your DNA the blueprint of

how to build new cells but carbohydrates are not a structural component there is

no essential carbohydrate there is nothing in your body that's built of

carbohydrate your cells are not made of carbohydrate so that is not at all a

good reason to promote that you have to have a mix of all the basic

macronutrients then she admits that keto does indeed help you burn fat and lose

weight it helps reverse diabetes it helps

reverse PCOS polycystic ovarian syndrome and it even helps increase fertility and

she sort of brushes that off as if those are just minor things compared to the

major drawbacks which we'll go over in a second but think about the fertility for

a second your body is not stupid it knows when

it's appropriate to do things and when it's not and if it decides that it's a

good time for you to have a baby if it increases your ability to have a baby it

is not because you're getting sicker the only way that you would increase your

fertility is if you are getting healthier so indirectly she does admit

that keto is actually making you healthier but then she talks about the

dangers and she rattles off all these different reasons and there's some big

words here and don't worry about that I'll make some sense of it

but basically every one of these is back words so she says that keto is a zero

calorie restriction diet she talks about that as if it's a problem that Oh in

this diet you don't have to restrict calories and because of that she assumes

that you're eating more because if you eat more it leads to more oxidative

stress massive oxidative stress so what what is oxidative stress where does

oxidation come from oxidation is when you oxidize when you burn food for

energy when you convert food to energy you're oxidizing it so what she's saying

here is that because there is no restriction of calories then you're

creating more oxidation so she's saying that you're eating more because there is

no restriction what she fails to understand and if she talked to someone

who did keto she probably would would understand that a little better is that

you actually end up eating less because it is satisfying because you don't have

the constant blood sugar fluctuations now you end up eating fewer meals and

less food overall so if anything your oxidative stress would go down then she

says that there is no timing and because of there there's no timing to the food

intake probably meaning regular meals three times a day plus snacks then

autophagy is out of whack so I'm not sure what she means by that but autophagy is

a self-cleaning it's a healthy process in the body it cleans up old junk it

cleans up cell debris it's even been implicated in fighting cancer because

part of what it cleans up is cancer cells and that only kicks in the autophagy

autophagy only kicks in when you're starving because then the body gets better at

recycling precious materials so autophagy increases during long-term ketosis during

long-term fasting so if anything again at autophagy is improved by ketosis it

doesn't get out of whack she says it's high in saturated fats and

therefore it's bad for the telomeres because of oxidative stress and

inflammation and telomeres are a marker of longevity so they are important but

saturated fat do not increase oxidative stress or inflammation they're a very

clean food because saturated fat when it's saturated it's stable and it

doesn't get oxidized until it's in the body that's a good thing it doesn't get

oxidized by the oxygen outside it only gets oxidized in your body with enzymes

it's a very clean very stable fuel and it does not increase oxidative stress or

inflammation what increases inflammation is sugar and inflammatory grains

especially the allergenic foods like modern wheat is highly inflammatory

insulin itself even if you ate sugar that was an inflammatory the insulin

itself is inflammatory so again completely backwards to the

argument she's presenting and then she says the nutrient sensing pathways

related to the health of your metabolism are overrun by constant food so she says

you can't regulate your hunger anymore because you're not eating on a regular

basis and again the exact opposite is true because you don't get so hungry

because your body gets what it needs so you learn to regulate your hunger it

improves your ability to sense when you're full its the carbohydrates that

have drug-like effects that puts this nutrient sensing

pathways out of commission and messes with your metabolism

and then she says that your body is overrun by constant food and I take that

to mean that you would eat a lot frequently but again if you talk to

anyone who does keto then you know that you eat less and less frequently so

there would be less of an overrun on your system it would have more of an

opportunity to recover the best point she had the closest to correct is that

she said exercise is the number one method of reversing insulin resistance

and that's almost true it is the second best the number one best method is to be

in ketosis because that's how the insulin goes really really really low

when you have really low carbohydrate but exercise is the second most powerful

way to reverse insulin resistance and that's not the only benefit so we have

to remember that exercise is a part of any healthy regime and you're not doing

keto to lose weight you're doing it to get healthy when you get healthy the

weight comes off it's not the other way around and as part of getting healthy

exercise is essential it reverses insulin resistance it stimulates your

brain it keeps your brain alive and it improves circulation which is crucial

for detoxification don't forget exercise then finally she

had actually in another interview but it's the same stuff she said two plus

two is equal to four meaning that calories in calories out you can't cheat

that equation it's a simple energy equation it's simple science that's just

the way it works if you're going to lose weight you have to restrict calories

that was her point but then she admits that on keto it burns fat so you lose

weight so somehow you're burning more calories but then she also says down in

here that the keto diet is dangerous because it has no calorie restriction

meaning you eat more because the only way you can increase your oxidative

stress is if you eat more your if your oxidation increases then it's because

you're burning you're using more oxygen to convert food into energy so that must

mean that you eat more so somehow she says you eat more and yet you manage to

burn extra calories off your body and two plus two is four so these statements

cannot all be correct okay they're they're very contradictive so these are

just loosely assembled statements and opinion that have no foundation in

Physiology or clinical science so again I have nothing against anyone who voices

their opinions but I think it's very very unfortunate when someone gets a lot

of coverage because there is celebrity and because they have some skills and

some expertise in one area people assume that it sort of extends into another

area and this can hurt people and a lot of people are learning how to reduce

insulin resistance and how to get healthy and we want to help people

understand how it really works so that once you understand it then you can

watch a video like Jillian's and you and you know okay that's incorrect that's

incorrect that's not how it works etc that's the only way that you're gonna be

able to stand up against all the actual fads and trends that are buzzing around

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