wellness warriors i am always asking you to double check yourself to verify the information that i
give or anyone else gives because i want you to be healthy and in today's video our topic is ketones
but there's two incidents that made me make this video the first one was a video that we recently
put out where pat and i are talking about night shades and in that video before we published it i
realized that i made a mistake i called celeriac a nightshade and i had to make a correction
in the video for you guys because i want to give you good information the second incident
that happened which is the reason i'm making today's video patrick got blood work done
and we were going through the blood work making a video about it and his ketone numbers were showing
1.5 we were super excited because he's doing low carb and yet he was showing 1.5 ketone numbers so
he mentioned that in his research it said 1.5 to 3 was optimal numbers but my recollection was that
you were really aiming at 0.2 to 1. this prompted me to do more research and we ended up not putting
the video out because we found some significant errors for those of you who are meeting me for
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i make new videos every week well when i started to do the research i found a brilliant video by dr
ali and i've watched many of his videos before this video is only 10 months old and it explained
some very interesting things about ketones that we're going to go through today
and by the end of the video you're going to understand why having a ketone blood reading
of 1.5 is actually not the be-all end-all of your ketogenic lifestyle so seeing pat's numbers at 1.5
really is what prompted me to do more research to figure out if my 0.2 to 1 number was
right and what does it mean that you're at 1.5 but not losing because pat's quite stable right
now in my research there was some key information i learned from dr ali that completely transformed
the way that i was thinking about being in ketosis the body the same way that it strictly regulates
the sugar in your blood so how much sugar is there that five grams actually strictly regulates
your ketone levels as well remember there's this condition called ketoacidosis which is
deadly this which is having too much ketone in the blood so the same way that excessive sugar
in the blood deadly excessive ketones in the blood deadly and the reason that we don't get
into these situations is because the body strictly regulates this honestly by this point i shouldn't
be surprised that the body strictly regulates ketones because the body strictly regulates
everything that we eat it's going to be used for what it's supposed to be used for
and it's going to be contained if it needs to be contained so store it away as fat where it's not
going to harm us if that's what's the best use for it so ultimately this is now a conversation
about energy usage in the body and what dr ali explained is that our entire body can use
carbohydrates ketones and fatty acids as energy however our brain can only use carbohydrates
and ketones that's the first really important piece of information that we need to hold on to
the second really important piece of information is our brain is two percent of our total body mass
and yet it uses 20 percent of our total body's energy the third important piece of information is
our brain never compromises on the amount of energy that it will receive meaning if your body
is depleted in energy your brain still gets the total amount of energy that it needs which means
other parts of your body will get less energy the fourth really important thing that i learned is
that ketones are produced by breaking down fatty acids in the body which i knew but what was new
was that in that process of breaking down fatty acids to make ketones there's a feedback loop
that causes fatty acids to stop being broken down when there's a certain amount of ketones present
in the body which means that you can't overdo your ketones like naturally from eating food
your body will stop the production so fatty acids will stop being broken down so that there's no we
don't go into ketoacidosis so when we look at the energy sources if i eat a standard american diet
my brain will be fully fueled by carbohydrates if i allow myself to do three days of fasting
then all of a sudden my brain will have 30 percent of its energy coming from ketones the rest of that
energy will come from carbohydrates if i do five days or more of fasting sixty percent
of my brain's energy consumption will come from ketones and 30 percent will come from
carbohydrates and there's another 10 percent of energy which they couldn't measure what's really
important for us to understand when we're talking about the brain is that no matter what's happening
if there are ketones available in the blood the brain will take 15 so again we're looking at
the total consumption of energy that the brain does depending on if you're not fasted at all
three days fasted or five days fasted you will get that 100 percent carb because our body is
in carb mode and it's not in ketosis or after three days you will get thirty percent ketones
that the brain is taking but that 30 percent of its total energy that is getting from ketones
it's actually taking 15 of whatever the blood has to offer to get that thirty percent and then
of course when we're five or more days fasted the brain is pulling 15 of the available energy
so the available ketones from the blood and that ends up making up 60 percent of the energy
that the brain will use now when we talk about the body
the body actually functions differently when it comes to its ability to take ketones
out of the blood so as i just mentioned the brain will take 15 percent no matter what's happening
versus the body has a inverse relationship with the amount of ketones it can take out of the blood
meaning the more ketones that are available the less our body has the ability to pull
ketones out of the blood the less ketones are available the more our body can pull ketones
from the blood and what he was able to show is that when there's a lot of ketones available
our body can actually take about two to five percent of what's flowing in the blood out
versus when there's just a little bit of ketones our body is able to take
50 percent of what's flowing in the blood out however our body will never take more than seven
percent of its total energy from ketones it will use fatty acids and it will use carbohydrates
not not ketones as its main energy source i want to give you a really practical idea of what this
looks like so i'm going to give you the numbers so we can actually start making sense of this
and what ends up happening is that let's talk about the brain first since my brain can take
15 of whatever ketones are available to it if i'm 0.2 on my level of ketones so blood reading 0.2
my brain will be able to pull out zero point zero three ketones out of my blood however if
my reading on the in my blood was actually saying 1.5 then my brain would be able to pull out 0.225
ketones out of my blood versus the rest of my body which has an inverse relationship so
when there's a lot of ketones available it takes less so if and when there's a little bit like 0.2
it takes more so at 0.2 my body would be able to take half of the ketones flowing through the blood
out for energy which means it would take
0.1 but then when i have a lot of ketones flowing in my body so let's say i had a 1.5
that would mean that my body would only be able to take two to five percent so zero point zero three
up to a max of 0.075 it's less than the 0.1 it gets when i have less so actually
the brain picks up so much more energy when you're high but the body picks up so much less now here's
the part that we need to focus on remember i said there's a feedback loop part one the brain getting
all this energy means that the brain will always have energy because there's going to be ketones
and it's going to get always the same amount of energy that it's supposed to get no matter what's
happening but that feedback loop that's happening that's causing the body to take so much less
energy also is causing us to break down less fat because breaking down fat is what creates ketones
and if we produce too many ketones we could slip into ketoacidosis now my body is too smart to
allow me to do that so what's gonna happen is that around five or six days which kind of explains
why i never make it past five days actually now that i'm thinking about it i always get pushed
to eat around five days and around that time why because my ketone levels are now extremely high
i'm not eating any carbohydrates to feed the rest of my body my body cannot keep
breaking down fatty acids because that's going to cause me to get higher levels of
ketones which could push me towards ketoacidosis i get forced to eat by my body but what's the other
reason that could push my body to be at 1.5 if i haven't fasted for five six days
exogenous ketones so i want you to think about this this is super important for everyone
who's taking exogenous ketones believing that you're helping your body to break down fat faster
in fact what's happening is that those exogenous ketones floating around in your body
are causing fatty acids to not be broken down because breaking down more fatty so because my
levels of ketones are high if i break down more fatty acids it pushes me to a keto bad thing
i don't want to be in ketoacidosis so my body is just not going to break down any more fat
so in our effort to have high keto numbers on a on a blood measure we're actually stopping our
body from breaking down the fatty acids which is what's going to help us to lose the weight
i hope this helps you to understand why you might not be actually losing weight despite having
good keto numbers on your blood readings our body is super complicated and when we try to shortcut
things our body is not going to let us shortcut things that are important so many people i know
do super long fast thinking that oh if i just don't eat i'm going to lose the weight faster
but this research that dr ali is bringing to the front is showing us that actually doing
super long fast repeatedly over and over well too often actually slowing down
could i can't say for sure it is but it could be slowing down your weight loss and help explain why
you're still struggling because as soon as those numbers get too high your body's gonna shut down
all of this fat breakdown because it wants to keep you healthy this is especially the case if you're
starting your ketogenic lifestyle because you already have some kind of insulin resistance or
metabolic issue i again it's so important don't take my word for it i'm going to link dr ali's
video in the description below but i also want you guys to talk to your keto friendly doctors
i want you to do your research i want you to watch more videos and get more information and do things
appropriately and give your body the time it needs to heal
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