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
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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