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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