Top 10 Ways The Keto Diet Will Change Your Life Beyond Weight Loss

hello health champions whether you've done a Keto or low-carb diet for a good

while or whether you're just beginning you probably know that it can help with

weight loss and things like that but I want to get into and talk about some of

the other things of how profoundly the keto diet can change your life coming

right on hey I'm Dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic

decathlete and if you want to truly master health by understanding how the

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so you don't miss anything keto is a form of a low carb diet and

ketosis is when we cut the carbs so low that the body has no choice but to start

burning fat as the predominant fuel and that's a good thing and keto has become

a catchphrase for a movement that's about so much more than just weight loss

but when critics look at it and they're asking does it work all they're really

asking is can you lose weight just like they look at any diet out there because

that's all people seem to care about is can you lose weight we've heard oh you

have this problem because you're overweight and they always have it

backwards but asking if it works like that is such a shallow point of view it

doesn't look into health aspects or how the body is supposed to work

human diets have changed more in the last 50 years than they have in the

previous 50 thousand and as a result we have distorted we have destroyed our a

lot of our metabolic functions and kido is about restoring that fundamental

function in the body throughout our existence humans have relied primarily

on fat for fuel but we've lost it and now we have to relearn that it's about

restoring metabolic flexibility that we can get energy from fat protein and

carbohydrate and if your body is metabolically

flexible it doesn't matter which one we do in the short-term the body functions

well on either one I want to go over ten ways that keto and low-carb will change

your life that a lot of people don't think about but make sure you stay with

me because right after that we'll talk about what you have to give up in order

to reap this benefits but they're not going to be what you think the first way

it can change your life is freedom from hunger you will be able to get 12 16 18

24 hours between meals and food won't control you anymore

instead of having hunger be a major factor of your life it'll be out of your

life number two instead of designing your life around your weight how about

freedom from fighting body weight always eating until you're full never worrying

about calories eating without guilt and how about exercising for the joy of it

how about just going out for a walk and enjoy nature instead of worrying about

how many calories you're burning number three is freedom from food running your

schedule most people get up in the morning and they have to have breakfast

but they're in a hurry so they get something quick instead of something

nutritious and satisfying they say I have to get some lunch before I crash

I've worked a couple of hours but I won't be able to go unless I have some

lunch I've been running errands for two three

hours now where can I get some food or I know I'll be busy for a few hours

I'd better eat first so I don't crash so many people schedule their life around

food number four is stable energy that just

keeps going and going and going so you could go for a two-hour walk and not

worry about bringing snacks or anything to eat very often I'll get up in the

morning on a nice day and I won't have breakfast and go out work

in the yard and I get so caught up that I don't think about food and I realized

that six hours later I haven't had anything but it's not a problem because

my body has stable energy from fat number five how about only eating things

that taste good no more of oh I know it's dry and boring I know it tastes

like sawdust but I've heard it too good for you alright give that up you can eat

only rich and satisfying food you can douse it in olive oil and butter you can

learn to make rich sauces like hollandaise and Bearnaise and garlic

butter with virtually every meal whether it's vegetables or meat just douse it in

rich satisfying sauces benefit number six is better sleep because when you are

fat burning your blood sugar stabilizes and unstable blood sugar is the number

one cause for sleep disturbances you will also stabilize all your other

hormones because insulin is the number one disrupter of all other hormones and

on a ketogenic diet your insulin and your blood sugar is stable the seventh

way it will change your life is through better cognition better focus and

clarity because insulin resistance unstable blood sugar it starves the

brain the brain can't get the fuel properly and ketones from fat burning is

a better fuel for the brain not only is it a better brain fuel but it's stable

it doesn't run out the way glucose does and also with ketones you have less

shrinkage because high blood sugar shrinks the brain faster number eight is

better immune function because you get a better gut flora you get a healthier

bacterial flora where a lot of your immune system is because sugar fee

the pathogens and upsets that balance so by relying more heavily on fat then

you're not getting the blood sugar swings and you're not feeding the

pathogens all that sugar and starch authophagy is a very powerful immune booster and

on a low-carb lifestyle you will spend much more time in autophagy for two

reasons first because when your blood sugar is lower to start with you'll get

into autophagy much much quicker but also because you're relying more on fat

and satiating foods you will eat fewer meals so you spend much longer time in

Autophagy maybe you can even say bye-bye to colds I've been more or less low

carbs for over ten years but since I got more strict and more consistent with a

low carb lifestyle I haven't even had a sniffle in three to four years

number nine is longevity you're going to live longer your mitochondria will up

regulate your cells will burn fuel cleaner you'll have slower cell division

your cells can only live through a fixed number of divisions and sugar and

insulin insulin is a mitogenic hormone it increases the speed of cell division

so by reducing insulin you're also slowing down cell division benefit

number 10 that besides weight loss you're also gonna reduce 95% of all

chronic disease things like diabetes and heart disease and cancer and Stroke the

risk of getting any of those are going to be much much lower so those are ten

of the life-changing transforming benefits that you can get from getting

your body back to the way it's supposed to work but obviously you have to give

something up you have to change something and there's three things in

particular and they may not be what you think the number one thing you have to

give up is you have to give up your old notion of food you have to forget what

people have told you what society has can

in you to beliebe food is there's about 50,000 items in the average stores they

shelf about 50,000 items and in my opinion there may be hundred there are

actual food that means there's basically nothing in

this picture that is food you go into a store and almost everything that you see

it's not food if the earth made it and if it's a single ingredient then chances

are its food but virtually everything in this picture is gonna contain sugar

white flour and war vegetable oils and scary that 60 to 70 percent of all the

calories consumed in the United States and most countries are following close

behind are from these three absolutely useless non foods on top of that they

also contain chemicals and preservatives and artificial flavors and colorings and

so forth and that's the number one thing we have to give up just because our

culture says it's food just because most people think of it as food does not mean

it's food get rid of it the second thing we have to give up is our fear of fats

because there's nothing wrong with fats even though we've been told for 50 60

years that fat causes disease and fat is evil and has too many calories there's

nothing wrong with it except man-made fats if we process them if they're

artificial if they're not the way nature made them then that makes them bad fat

so the bad fats are vegetable oils because there's no such thing there is

no oil made from a vegetable they're made from seeds and beans and grains and

so forth trans fats are the worst abomination of fats and they occur in

margarine so these have gone very much out of style fortunately but don't be

fooled if something says partially hydrogenated the bottle the pack

can say zero grams of trans fats and still have trans fats in it they're just

talking about less than one gram per serving and rancid fats are where we get

a lot in processed foods because these foods sit around for a long time when we

get the fat through fresh food then if the food is fresh then the fat is fresh

but if it sits on a shelf forever then a lot of those fats oxidize and go rancid

and now they're quite toxic and the third thing we want to give up is the

way we think about good or bad food we want someone to decide for us well what

about this item which camp do we put it in is it good or bad it's more about the

quality if it comes from nature then the quality is generally good so there are

good fats and there are bad fats they're a good meat and there is bad meat so if

the animals grew up like this then it's gonna be healthy meat but if the animal

grew up in a CAFO eating grain and antibiotics then that's a bad fat that's

a bad meat it's not about fish it's about good fish or bad fish did the fish

live wild and it eat things innate for its species or did it live in a farm

where it was fed all kinds of chemicals there are good veggies and there's bad

veggies there's things that are good for you and they're things that we're the

same thing would be really bad for someone else

one man's food is another man's poison so first we have to look at the quality

and then we have to start figuring out what mix of these and what specific

things are good for us versus the things that we specifically might want to avoid

the keto and low carb movement have gotten a very strong and devoted

following but it's not a religion it's a physiological principle it's about

restoring metabolic flexibility and the good news

that once you have done this once you have undone the bad adaptation and

you've spent a couple of years being metabolically flexible then it's very

very stable you can't undo it overnight it takes years it takes decades to mess

it up again so once you got there now you could eat 50 grams of carbs one

day or maybe a hundred occasionally and you will feel the same your body knows

what to do with that fuel it takes the carbs and it turns it into glycogen and

into fat but you're not gonna have blood sugar that's all over the place you're

not gonna have mood swings your body knows what to do with that so many

people in keto they focus all on the macros they say that well you have to

have less than 5% carbs and so much protein and the rest from fat but

frequency in my opinion is even more important than the macros but once you

do those macros initially then you become fat adapted and then it's easy to

reduce the frequency so they kind of go hand in hand but it's really more about

the frequency to allow that metabolic flexibility and then all the benefits

that we talked about these life-changing things they are possible but they're not

guaranteed a lot of people will notice all of them and some people will notice

a few or maybe none it doesn't mean that this doesn't work it just means there's

more to the picture that metabolic flexibility and fat-burning and low

insulin is necessary but it may not be sufficient there may be other things

that are causing your particular problems and that's why we have so many

videos on this channel that you can keep learning and exploring and understanding

how the body really works and get to your health goals eventually if you

enjoyed this video and you'd like to learn more you'll probably love that one

thank you so much for watching I'll see you in the next video