hey this is dr. berry in this video
let's discuss the ketogenic diet now you
may have heard about this diet chances
are you have word about the ketogenic
way of eating is spreading like wildfire
and for good reason actually for
multiple good reasons and I wanted to
make a video to talk to just the very
basic beginner somebody who's just heard
about the ketogenic diet you may have
heard some good things about it you may
have heard some great things about it or
you may have even heard some bad or
dangerous or scary things about it and I
wanted to make a video just for you so
that I could talk about the basic
concepts behind this diet and help you
understand this better because it's so
important so let's talk about the
ketogenic diet now if you know someone
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is because they need to know so let's
get into it the ketogenic way of eating
what is it what's it about what's it do
why is everyone so on fire for this way
of eating so first and foremost the
ketogenic way of eating is low carb
that's very important for the ketogenic
diet to work
there are essential fatty acids that you
have to have if you don't get them for a
long enough period of time you will get
sick you will suffer and you will die
there are essential amino acids found in
proteins that if you don't get them for
a long enough period of time you will
get sick you'll suffer and you'll die
eventually because you have to have
certain fats you have to have certain
proteins for your human body to function
properly now what you may not know is is
that there is no such thing as an
essential carbohydrate there are no such
thing as essential sugars no such thing
as essential starches they don't exist
there is no such thing you could take a
human being and lock them up and feed
them only fat and protein for the rest
of their life and they would do great
they would thrive they would be vibrant
and vigorous and happy because there's
no such thing is an essential
carbohydrate so the ketogenic way of
eating takes advantage of this because
we know that carbohydrates can have
negative effects in your body if you eat
too many of them and so the ketogenic
diet is a very low carbohydrate diet so
it's also a very high healthy fat diet
and so in the ketogenic way of eating
you'll get to enjoy lots of healthy high
fat foods and that's because the fat
does multiple things for you okay now
there are bad fats that you should avoid
at all costs fats such as canola oil
corn oil
soybean oil those are bad okay safflower
oil any hydrogen hydrogenated oil you
need to avoid because they're very bad
for you you need to avoid margarine I
can't believe it's not butter Country
Crock any fake oil substitute Crisco or
any of the hydrogenated shortenings
they're not good for you they're bad for
you you need to stop eating them
immediately and you're gonna replace
them with good healthy fats like butter
like avocado oil like lard like olive
oil all of these fats are actually good
for you and you can enjoy them as much
as you want on a ketogenic way of eating
these fats do multiple good things in
your body the next thing that you need
to know about the ketogenic diet is that
it's about whole real foods the
ketogenic diet is not about prepackaged
weight watcher or Lean Cuisine frozen
dinners that that you might call them
pseudo dinners because there's really no
actual nutrition in them the ketogenic
way of eating is not about any product
there's no product for you to buy that
you need to do keto right you don't have
to buy keto shakes or PAP powders or
bars you don't have to buy Atkins
anything you don't have to buy a low
carb high fat anything there are no
products that someone who's truly
teaching you about the real ketogenic
way of eating is ever going to recommend
to you okay so if anybody's trying to
sell you exogenous ketones that's not
real keto if they're trying to sell you
bars shakes pills powders that's not
real keto the ketogenic way of eating is
about eating real Whole Foods if you can
Oh or if you can afford organic and
grass-fed that's great buy those if you
can't afford those yet that's okay you
can still keto okay you can still do
keto on a budget there are many videos
on my youtube channel here and on other
people's YouTube channels that explain
to you how to do keto on a budget you
can do keto for cheap if you need to
right now we always want you to buy the
best quality Whole Foods organic foods
that you can afford but if you can't
afford those yet you can still keto the
ketogenic diet is also the most
ancestrally appropriate DNA appropriate
diet that a human being can eat and I
tell people this example if you could
travel time travel back in time 50,000
years okay and you're in the northern US
you're in the Canada you're in Northern
Europe you're in anywhere in the
northern or various southern latitudes
what do you think that you and your
ancestors would eat every day you would
eat meat veg you would eat mostly meat
in many months out of the year you would
eat meat and vegetables of the year and
maybe for one or two months out of the
year you'd have some fruit or some
berries to eat but on the whole the
human DNA and and the human ancestry
just knows what to do with the ketogenic
diet because it's very ancestrally
appropriate human beings have been
eating a ketogenic diet for millions of
years this is not a fad diet this is not
some new weird
unheard-of thing humans have been eating
this way since the beginning of time and
even before so in that respect a lot of
people like to call keto the latest fad
diet and that's kind of silly and
short-sighted sophomoric even the
ketogenic diet has been around forever
and will be around forever what's
actually the fad diet is the diet that
we've been told to eat for the last 50
years which is lots of whole grains lots
of carbs eat low saturated fat and eat
lots of pre processed products that's
the fad diet not keto the ketogenic diet
is also very metabolically powerful now
what do I mean by that the reason that
we eat the low-carb of keto is so that
we can control our blood sugar in our
insulin it looks like the more research
is done that high insulin levels
pathologically chronically high insulin
levels lead to almost all the chronic
diseases that modern man suffers from
it's from high blood sugar it's from
high insulin that's what causes so many
of these chronic diseases that you and
your friends suffer from today so that's
part of what keto does is it Hex your
blood sugar and it hacks your insulin
level and puts them back where they need
to be and and I think that's the reason
for that is is because it's the diet
humans are supposed to eat the ketogenic
way of eating also optimizes your leptin
and your ghrelin hormones and these keep
you from being hungry okay the other
thing the ketogenic diet does that's
very therapeutic is that it helps you
have ketones to burn your brain can burn
ketones just as easily as it can burn
glucose but if you're eating a high carb
low fat diet you don't ever give your
body the good fats that it needs to be
in ketosis if you're eating lots of
vegetable oils which actually don't have
any vegetables in them then you're
you're building your neurons and your
brain and yours your cell membranes out
of faulty fats then those sales are
bound to fail eventually so the
ketogenic diet is very metabolically
powerful the next thing is I want you to
know is that the ketogenic diet helps
your body remember that it can burn fat
as fuel so all the fat that you may have
stored on your belly on your booty on
your thighs other places what is that
fat why is it there your body has stored
that fat because you've eaten too many
carbs for the last few years your body
stores that okay and that stored energy
that's all fat is there's nothing
magical about it but if you're eating
carbs continuously your body doesn't
have any reason to burn that fat only
when you bring the carbs down very hello
and keep the fat hi do you remind your
body oh yeah I can burn fat for fuel as
just as easily as I can burn carbs your
body will kick back into ketosis and
it'll start to burn the stored energy
that's on your booty and on your belly
now the worst and most dangerous fad of
all almost no other diet can get to
you've probably seen people who go on
calorie restricted diets like Weight
Watchers
flexitarian Hornish Jenny Craig and
they'll lose weight but they still have
that belly that's the most dangerous fad
of all and the ketogenic diet is the
diet that is the best at getting rid of
the fat inside your belly inside your
liver inside your pancreas that's why I
love the ketogenic diet so much is
because it gets rid of the dangerous fat
first not last another thing you need to
know about the ketogenic diet is like
I've said before it's very therapeutic
so many people with chronic inflammation
with chronic immune diseases notice when
they start the ketogenic way of eating
their inflammation gets noticeably
better their arthritis their their
reflux or GERD their heartburn they're
Crohn's they're irritable bowel all of
these inflammatory conditions just get
better and go away many people notice
that migraines get better and go away
they notice that their ATD their PTSD
their anxiety their depression all of
these things it looks like are coming at
least in part from inflammation the
chemical imbalance theory that you may
have been taught by your doctor as a
reason that you should take this pill
once a day for your anxiety or
depression turns out there's not a shred
of research that proves that there's any
chemical imbalance at all more than
likely what's going on is that your
brain is chronically inflamed from the
crap food that you've been eating and
once you start feeding your human body
the human diet that it loves the best
which is the keto diet all that
inflammation will go away many immune
diseases although there is a genetic
component to these are kicked off and
put into high gear because of the
inflammatory nature of our modern
Western diet and once you get that diet
out of your and replace it with an
ancestral appropriate diet like the
ketogenic diet those immune systems are
those immune diseases that you thought
you were stuck with for life your your
Crohn's your MS your all of these others
they just calm down and they quiet down
and all of a sudden you're not having
flares anymore all of a sudden when you
do have a flare it's a very minor flare
of psoriasis or gout or some of these
other conditions that are inflammatory
and immune in nature another thing that
the ketogenic diet that I personally
love about it is that it's delicious you
get to eat thousands upon thousands of
delicious foods that that have grown on
the earth or that have run around on the
earth it's a completely natural diet now
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