Hey this video is a comment on Dr. Mike on diets where he did a diet review on

ketogenic diets. It was a great video I really enjoyed it very clear very well

organized I just felt that perspective was a little bit limited and a lot of

the comments indicated that people don't really understand this still so I just

wanted to broaden the perspective a little bit. Coming right up.

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Ketogenic diets is one of the hottest topics around a lot of people have an

opinion but to this day a lot of people still don't understand a whole lot about

it. What it is or how it fits into human physiology or what's the historical

perspective is it a natural thing etc. So we want to understand that the ketogenic

diet it's just part it's it's on a spectrum

if we look at carbohydrate consumption as going from extreme as in the standard

American diet down to low carbs to ketogenic and to intermittent fasting

and fasting. This is really just extreme ridiculous amounts of carbohydrate

versus more normal versus restricted levels to reverse conditions so standard

American diet people eat about 3 400 grams of carbs per day a low-carb would

be about 60 to 80 grams and if you cut that back enough so that the body

doesn't have enough carbohydrates to always burn them first then the body

will learn to develop an alternate fuel it will learn to access fat and as it

breaks down fat some of those byproducts are called ketone bodies and when we cut

the carbs way way back the brain can use as much as 50 to 75 percent of its

energy from ketone bodies so a lot of people say that Oh well the brain

to have glucose it runs only on glucose that's not true the brain is designed to

run on glucose or ketone bodies and it just depends on what phase of

carbohydrate consumption were in historically this has been a important

survival tool because if there is no food around for a week then we go into

starvation we go into fasting no carbohydrates we need something else so

humans have done this for since we long as we've been around basically so Dr.

Mike did a great review of what it is and and so forth, but then I wanted to

kind of elaborate just a little bit on a few points because his he said that it

was proven for weight loss and diabetes type 2 and epilepsy and he said that's

great so for those things go ahead and then he said that there wasn't really

much evidence for it working with anything else well that's kind of a

medical perspective that's looking at diseases as individual entities but once

we understand that insulin resistance is linked to every degenerative condition

there is there is virtually no disease and I'm sure you can find one exception

somewhere but the vast majority way way over 90 percent of diseases that we die

from and suffer from and spend money on in our healthcare system which is a

disease and symptom management system depend on insulin resistance and this is

just a scale and based on physiology we understand that if this is creating the

problem then reducing this is going to resolve a lot of the problems and

clinically this is what we see so we'll come back to the to the research part

one more benefit and if you want to talk research then of course it's this fairly

new but there was a Nobel price in 2016 awarded to a person who proved the

mechanics of autophagy and autophagy is a clean up

and recycling process that's been proven to be beneficial in all sorts of

different conditions so in addition to insulin resistance if we combine the

fact that we're reducing insulin resistance with the fact that we can

produce some autophagy down in the states of ketogenic diet and even more

so in the intermittent fasting now we understand that even though the research

isn't there yet this may be the simple single most powerful tool and concept

that we have to reverse all kinds of diseases one of the drawbacks Dr. Mike

mentioned was that the potential harm of giving up large food groups so this is a

little bit a little bit too narrow-minded this means you don't

really understand nutrition especially historically the only food group that

you're giving up is grains and starchy carbohydrates that's the only food group

that you're giving up and humans have not had that food long enough to become

dependent on it for most of human history we haven't even had that food

group so that argument doesn't really have any bearing whatsoever he did say

though that some people develop side effects and they get what's called a

keto flu and we want to understand that there's more to this than just eating a

ton of fat and cutting out carbohydrates because it still needs to be quality

food and the other reason that people develop side effects is that the more

toxic and the more degenerated and the more sugar dependent you are the more

withdrawal symptoms sugar is a drug so first when you give up a drug you will

have a reaction there's just no way about it heroin has reactions of

withdrawal and so does sugar and the peeps um people have tried this can

attest to how difficult can be because sugar is a drug and the

other part is toxicity everything that the body gets used to become sort of a

status quo and anytime that you change it you will have a reaction anyone in

clinical practice that works with changing diets and changing lifestyle is

going to observe this so that's that's not news it doesn't mean that there's

something bad it means that there's a healing crisis there's something that

you have to get through before the body is used to the new lifestyle he said

that he would not recommend it for the majority of patients because it was too

hard it was too restrictive you would have to drastically change your food

habits and that's one point of view but again if we look at how well are we

doing as a nation we spend three point two trillion dollars on health care we

have the sickest people on the planet and our diabetes and our obesity is

through the roof it's exponential it's not even under any sort of control so we

have to ask how well are we doing with what we're currently doing and then we

want to ask if we want to change it then maybe it's going to be a little bit hard

maybe we have to wake up and understand that if you go through a grocery store

and there is 20,000 shelf items then all but 200 are modern all but 200 are grain

and sugar and processed foods and chemicals and artificial flavors and

artificial sweeteners and artificial colors and the list goes on and on and

on so sure it's gonna be a bit of a change but are we worth it as a species

or are we just gonna say oh it's too hard and possible side effects we kind

of talked about that they're not really side effects they're just transitions

and then he says that there's a lack of research and I'm all in favor of

research I think we should research things I think we should understand as

much as we possibly can about research about every phenomena that we're studying so

research is great but we can't wait for the research we have to look at clinical

results and we look-- have to look at what humans have done historically and

we have to look at physiological principles and then if the research can

fill in the gaps afterwards that's great but if they can't it doesn't mean that

we don't do the things that make sense and what makes sense again if you go

through a grocery store and you think that food is whatever is on the Shelf

then maybe a ketogenic diet isn't going to make sense maybe it's going to seem

too extreme but if you understand that there's nothing in that grocery store

that existed ten thousand years ago then it's not so extreme the ketogenic diet

is not the extreme part the extreme part is what have we done to our lifestyle

what have we done to our food supply our food chain our environment in the last

50 to 100 years that's the extreme part and it's it's unfortunate but somewhere

we have to kind of wake up and do something the other thing about research

is we have to ask who's going to pay for the research so the vast majority of

research is paid for most of the medical organizations most of the government

agencies their major contributors are pharmaceutical companies and processed

food industries and neither of those entities have anything to gain from you

eating natural food and getting healthy there's about and another part of the

research thing is not only who pays for it but how much is going to get

published so there is a rule I call the 90/10 rule that says basically 90% of

research is going to be published if it's favorable

to whoever paid for the study and 10% is gonna be published if it's not favorable

so there's a huge discrepancy in what research not only gets done but what

gets published so we don't really know what's going on and long term what are

the long-term effects well if we really honestly look back and if we study human

populations that have been around for tens of thousands of years we have

plenty of cultures there's been tribes in Africa who eat nothing but meat and

and blood and milk we have that's a very very low carb that's basically a

ketogenic diet we've had Eskimos the Inuit that have lived for as long as

they have existed on basically a ketogenic diet year-round they have no

long-term health issues they have no cardiovascular disease they have no

major health issues so I just wanted to add my my perspective on things I have

been on either a low-carb or a ketogenic diet for the last five years I'm not

overweight I don't do it for those reasons I do it because carbohydrates

create disease and today we have a population depending on how you define

insulin resistance by the strict medical definition we have maybe 50 60 % of the

population being insulin resistant but if you start looking at how many people

are not at optimum levels of insulin and insulin sensitivity if your A1c starts

to creep up in the 5.4 5.5 range we have basically 80-90 % of the population here

is insulin resistant and that is what's driving all the generative disease

everything that they talk about with cardiovascular disease and stroke and

diabetes and metabolic syndrome and syndrome X and all these different

things they're all based on insulin resistance and it's not a rare

thing it's almost all of us so in that context I wanted you to take take

another look at the ketogenic diet. Is it for everybody? No, I don't think so I

think that if you're not insulin resistant or if you just moderately

insulin resistant then I think you do fine on a low-carb diet just reducing

your carbohydrates until you get back to a species-appropriate level I think

you'll do great but I think for anyone whose insulin

resistance I think that would be the best thing that you can do for yourself

and if you have a more severe condition of some sort like autoimmunity or leaky

gut or diabetes etc etc then I would suggest that you take a serious look at

this and that you also include some intermittent fasting so that you can

start taking benefits of this incredible mechanism called

autophagy. Thanks so much for watching. If you enjoy this sort of content make sure

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