Keto diet vs Atkins diet what are they and what do you need to know to make the
best decisions for yourself and your health coming right up. The Atkins diet
was founded was originated by dr. Robert Atkins he was born in 1930 he went to
medical school graduated was a cardiologist but he didn't do so well in
the beginning and he gained a lot of weight to get depressed and then he
looked into low carb as promoted by Alfred Pennington and he managed to lose
his weight and he got all excited and he started a clinic to help people lose
weight and he wrote a book that was published in 1972 called the Atkins diet
revolution then in 1989 he founded Atkins nutritional so that now he could
expand his business and provide some foods and snacks for people that were
lower in carbohydrates than the standard fare in 2003 he slipped on the ice he
hit his head and he died a few days later from complications after surgery
from a blood clot so after dr. Atkins was gone the company went downhill and
he was bankrupt in 2005 he was later bought out so now Atkins is still around
and doing business but it's not dr. Atkins anymore it is just a company
owned by third party who is doing business and trying to continue some of
the ideas that dr. Atkins started so what did he do right well in a time of
low-fat craze and the height of the low-fat craze in the 70s and 80s he's
took his chin out and he said that the high fat low carb is the way to go so he
was kind of a trendsetter and his book initiated a lot of the ideas that we see
today about low carb dining low carb principles if you go research Atkins
today then you will see that they have different stages different levels and
the stree this level is if you have a disease if
you're diabetic if you have extreme obesity then they put you in the Atkins
20 which means you're eating 20 grams or less of carbohydrate per day if you're
not diabetic but you have significant amount of weight to lose
then they recommend the Atkins 40 with 40 grams or less and if you just want to
maintain your health if you're at a ideal weight for you then you can eat
the Atkins hundred with a hundred grams of carbs so far so good I agree with
just about everything so far so then when you go and you compare on the
Atkins side you can look and they compare keto to Atkins then they give
you the following number so they say that the classic keto which is kind of the
keto that was that was started to help kids with seizures that had extremely
low carbohydrates so they had less than 5% of energy from carbs 5 to 20 percent
from protein and 75 to 90 percent from fat and with the seizure kids they were
more like 90 percent closer to 90 percent fat so today when we do keto we
don't do it quite that strict and we look a little bit more about the whole
picture but this is pretty close I tell people 75 around 75 percent fat 10 15 20
percent protein and 5 to 10 percent maybe of carbohydrates depending on how
stubborn your body is what Atkins promotes is for the strictest level they
have 5 to 10 percent carbohydrates so that's very similar to
what a keto diet would be today but where it differs the most is that they
have 20 to 30 percent they have somewhere around twice as much protein
and why is that a problem because what we're trying to do with the low-carb and
the keto is we're trying to reverse insulin resistance we're trying
to reduce insulin production in the body because that's the central mechanism
that all of this revolves around and while carbohydrates have the highest
insulin response proteins still have a significant sometimes high insulin
response again not as high as carbs but it's very very significant and fat is
the substance that has almost zero insulin response so even though both of
these reduce carbohydrates dramatically keto is about moderate to low protein
when you increase protein too much you're still stimulating too much
insulin for some people in the Atkins 40 they allow 10 to 15% from carbs and the
same protein 20 to 30 and just a little bit less fat so can you lose weight on
this well obviously a lot of people do so it is working in the sense of weight
loss for a lot or most people but if your metabolism is really stubborn then
this is probably too much protein for some of you and that's important to
realize because we always try to look for the Golden Rule we try to look for
the right set of principles for everybody and there is no such thing
some people are probably going to lose a tremendous amount of weight on eating 40
50 60 even 80 grams of carbs if you have a relatively fast metabolism you haven't
had the insulin resistance very long you don't have to change a whole lot but if
you're very very stubborn then you might have to get down to very close to zero
carbs and you might that even might not be enough the other thing that they're
talking about that I don't agree with at all is three to five meals a day and
they say don't skip meals because it's all about reverse
insulin low carb triggers less insulin than high carb but fasting meaning when
you don't eat triggers even less insulin than low carb so every time that you eat
you are stimulating insulin to some degree and when you eat three to five
meals a day then you're triggering insulin three to five times per day so
fasting is when you don't eat at all so you're not triggering insulin at all and
what you find when you cut carbs significantly low you get less hungry
because your body is switching to a fat metabolism and then if you don't get
hungry you don't want to eat that's just the simplest way of putting it don't eat
if you're not hungry your body is trying to tell you hey I'm
doing all right here so when it comes to insulin resistance that's three things
that you have influence over it diet wise it's the amount of carbs it's the
amount of protein and it's how often you eat so you want to reduce carbs reduce
protein and reduce the number of meals the Atkins diet only fulfills the first
part there of less carbs they don't focus on less protein and they don't
focus on unless meals so even though some people where a lot of people can
lose weight the people that have the biggest challenges are the ones that
really need to pay attention they're the ones that really need this diet and then
the Atkins probably not going to work for them because they too much protein
and too many meals the other problem I have with this diet is that it does not
focus on health not in the least are some people going to get healthier
absolutely because for some people their main problem is insulin resistance and
if they cut the carbs they're going to reduce some insulin resistance but
health is bigger than that and skinny people have diseases too thin people get
cancer and high cholesterol and I diabetes and so forth so it's not about
the weight it's about the health and the so called Atkins approved food products
whether they are produced by Atkins or whether they're approved some other way
are full of chemicals preservatives artificial sweeteners and GMO products
so they're in that sense they're really no better than any other processed
packaged food they're lower in carbs so they help you with the insulin but other
than that it still just processed food or I might even say junk food in many
cases so overall it's better than the standard American diet but it's still
processed it still has too much protein and they're eating too many meals so I
looked at some of the products that they had and the principles are pretty much
the same regardless of which product you look at but here's for example a energy
shake that has 9 grams of total fat it has 15 grams of protein and that's too
much protein in relation to that fat it's almost twice as much protein as fat
furthermore one shake is a hundred and seventy calories that's why they have to
eat all these frequent meals whereas if you do keto and you eat OMAD you do
intermittent fasting you know that you need substantial meals you want to get
several hundred calories maybe a thousand or more calories per meal so a
hundred and seventy calories in a meal that's that's barely a snack which you
don't want to do in the first place then you look at some of the ingredients and
we see soy protein isolate we see corn fiber both of which are GMOs ordered
natural and artificial flavors dipotassium phosphate we see sucralose
and then we see a lot of artificial synthetic vitamins included in that as
well so it's better than regular processed food in the
that it has less carbohydrate less sugar but it is no better in the sense that it
has just as much junk food in it just as much processed food as anything else and
then they say of course you don't have to stay away from pizza as long as you
get the Atkins pizza which I think I'm not exaggerating when I say it has over
50 ingredients the up at the top we have wheat gluten and cornstarch so these are
things corn starch again is GMO soy protein isolates GMO harshly processed
but wheat gluten is the protein from gluten that people with celiacs are
sensitive to so even if you don't have celiacs that's a very very harsh food to
digest and it's processed then they have sucralose artificial sweeteners in the
pizza you have corn starch corn oil natural and artificial flavors and then
there's another 30 ingredients before we get down to sodium nitrite and BHA BHT
and preservatives and so forth so realize that this is just more processed
food it's just junk food in another wrapper so has it done some people some
good absolutely it helped start the low-carb revolution if you will it took
it from from obscurity onto the front lines and what you're looking for though
is not a diet you're looking for principles you want
to start use it as a starting point but then start learning all the principles
that we talk about understand what health really is that it's not about
weight loss that the weight gain obesity is an imbalance if you correct the
imbalance and provide your body what it needs the body will shed the weight so
ketosis is a physiological principle it's not a person that came up with
ketosis or said dictated this is the way that keto is it is whatever it takes
for you to get into ketosis for some people it's 20 grams of carbs for some
people it's 50 or 60 for some people it's enough to cut out soda and and
processed grains for other people they need to do extensive intermittent
fasting or exercise or low carb or keto or all of the above in different
combinations so it's trial and error you start with a set of principles but what
keto is it's a way of measuring so ketones are produced when you are
burning fat for fuel but ketones in itself is not even a guarantee of weight
loss because if you're extremely insulin resistant you can still hold on to the
fat on the body and you get hungry enough that you provide enough fat in
the diet to stay fat adapted and make ketones but not burn anything off your
own body weight so in those cases you need to not just do keto but you need to
add in some fasting and some exercise to kind of jumpstart to give the body more
incentive to get to get to that fat if you new to this channel and you enjoy
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