5 Keto Diet Myths That You Need To Stop Believing

 MYTH #1 Is keto considered a high fat diet?

there's a reason why keto is so popular

you might have tried it yourself hey

maybe currently you're in ketosis I'm

one of the leading authorities on keto

I've written best-selling books I speak

all across the world in today's video

I'm gonna debunk the five most common

myths surrounding keto number five is

probably going to be the most

controversial so stick around for that

tip the first one is that it's a high

fat diet keto is a high fat diet is that

true let's unpack that real quick when

we think about keto technically it's not

even a diet it's a metabolic process and

while it might be new or Nuance there's

nothing new about this metabolic process

ketosis has been around since humans

have existed the dawn of humankind all

of our ancestors went through this

metabolic process in this day and age we

have essentially a keto deficiency when

the average person goes on Dr Google and

they look for the macronutrient

percentages from their calories in order

to follow a keto diet what they're going

to find is a chart that shows 85 percent

of your total calories should come from

fat about 10 percent protein and five

percent carbohydrates there's a problem

with this chart because yes that is one

way to do keto you can eat a whole bunch

of fat and it could be called a high fat

diet that is not the optimal way in my

opinion because you can get your fat

from that plate of food in front of you

hitting those keto percentages or you

can get your fat from your body fat and

for the majority of people who do keto

they're looking to burn some body fat

and just because you're in ketosis

doesn't mean you're burning body fat so

the way that we teach it to our keto

Camp Academy students is to focus on

protein and have moderate fat with low

carbohydrate this way we're allowing the

body to tap into your fat stores your

visceral fat it works like a charm and

with that being said there are several

Avenues to get into ketosis somebody who

exercises a lot and is very active could

get into ketosis even though their carbs

are not as restricted as somebody else

same goes with somebody who's practicing

intermittent fasting there's not one way

to do keto it's not a cookie cutter

approach and I want to debunk that first

myth that it's a high fat diet and

that's the only way to do it that is

incorrect the second myth is that your

MYTH #2 Does the brain need to have glucose at all times?

brain needs dietary glucose at all times

to function and when you lower your

dietary glucose and maybe bring it to

zero which you can do on keto your brain

is going to starve you're not going to

be able to function well first of all

let's consider this the brain is mostly

fat and babies that are breast fed and

born into this world are actually in a

state of ketosis breast milk contains

saturated fat cholesterol and it helps

the neurological development of that

baby's brain which is very important at

this time of life and yes there is some

glucose and sugar in breast milk but the

baby is so efficient at utilizing the

glucose it goes in and out of the state

of ketosis the truth is this the body

does need glucose at all times to thrive

but what most people don't get is that

we don't have to actually eat that

dietary glucose the body is very

sophisticated and very smart where it

can manufacture glucose very efficiently

from fat and protein when we think about

our ancestors as I mentioned they did

keto all the time because they didn't

have food available to them all the time

and they went through winter months

where carbohydrates were not available

if they didn't have the ability to tap

into body fat and then use ketones have

the liver produce these ketones and use

them then they would have just turned

into blubbering idiots if they didn't

have the capability to create glucose

via gluconeogenesis from the fat on

their body the protein in their body or

from dietary fat and protein they would

have not survived we wouldn't exist

today the body is designed to create

glucose we don't have to technically eat

the dietary glucose when we look at the

medical textbooks we know that there are

essential amino acids so essential

proteins there are essential fats but

there's no such thing as essential

carbohydrates when we study the cells

inside of the human body every cell has

a lipid bilayer around it called the

cell wall in other words called the cell

membrane the cell membrane is the most

important aspect of Health that we want

to study because life begins and life

ends at that cell membrane and when that

membrane is not given the building

blocks that it needs to thrive and do

its job which is connecting to hormones

and nutrients Etc disease and symptoms

will manifest so if the cell membrane is

that important let's ask the question

and go into the medical textbooks and

say what is the cell membrane made of

half fat half protein as a matter of

fact the fats that it's made of is

protein and saturated fat there are

essentially virtually no carbohydrates

in that cell membrane the human body

wants one teaspoon in the entire

bloodstream to be considered an optimal

State and your body is well equipped to

create that glucose if needed from

different physiological processes in the

textbook of medical physiology it

revealed something very interesting even

after five weeks of complete starvation

essentially only having water so a water

fast for five weeks blood glucose levels

in the average adult remained stable the

body knows what to do we got to give it

some credit so when the next time a

bodybuilder or dietitian tells you you

need glucose for the brain ask them if

they know about gluconeogenesis the

MYTH #3 What is the lipid hypothesis in nutrition?

third myth is that eating more dietary

fat more cholesterol more saturated fat

is going to put you at risk for heart

disease you probably have a friend who

has told you that oh you're doing keto

that's going to cause a heart attack

that's not good dietary fat and

cholesterol is not good for you when we

look back at the history of how this

Dogma evolved it really started in the

1950s when one of these leaders and I'm

going to put that in quotation marks

Ansel keys he fudged some data back in

the 1950s to create a hypothesis that

cholesterol causes heart disease and we

had two hypotheses back then that sugar

was the main culprit or dietary fat and

cholesterol was the main culprit and

because of Ansel Key's research we went

down the path of dietary cholesterol and

fat being the culprit that led us to the

low-fat era low-fat fat free whenever

you see these terms I want you to think

of the following chemical storm

because they removed the naturally

occurring fats in these products and

replace them with whole bunch of

chemicals Franken foods and human beings

are the only species smart enough to

create their own food and dumb enough to

actually eat

cholesterol is actually very important

vital for your sex hormones and for your

brain blaming cholesterol for heart

disease is like blaming firefighters for

a fire because every time you see a

building on fire you notice there are

firefighters around that building and

you say oh that is my hypothesis those

firefighters cause that fire but they

were there to put out the damage

cholesterol acts like a Band-Aid put out

the damage it's really other factors

which I'll share in a second that

contribute to heart disease cholesterol

and saturated fat as I mentioned is part

of your cell membrane your brain loves

fat these are going to build your

hormones reduce inflammation and help

you feel good cholesterol is also

important for creating vitamin D which

we know is a steroid hormone and for the

production of bile bile is needed to

break down fat and when you do keto you

want to be really efficient at breaking

down fat this may surprise you but a

2009 study from the University of

California Los Angeles revealed that

approximate at least 75 percent of

patients hospitalized with a heart

attack had cholesterol levels that were

actually on the low end meaning more

people actually die from heart disease

with low cholesterol than high

cholesterol there are a lot of moving

Parts when we talk about lipids and

cholesterol and I have a lot of videos

on my YouTube channel here discussing it

so you could understand more but I want

to leave you with this here before we

move on to the next myth I recently

interviewed a world-renowned heart

surgeon who performs heart procedures on

individuals who have heart disease and

he said something really interesting

first of all he eats a keto carnivore

diet which should speak volumes but

secondly he says there is only one cause

to heart disease damage to the blood

vessels and there are a few things main

things that contribute to damage to your

blood vessels and I'm going to outline

those right now the first is insulin

resistance and we know keto is such a

great way to prevent and reverse insulin

resistance smoking obviously puts you at

risk because that is going to cause

damage to the blood vessels high blood

pressure which is really a cause of high

insulin and keto puts a big dent in that

as well other toxins can also cause this

problem like environmental toxins

Mercury lead glyphosate Etc and

vegetable oils which we know are

mitochondria poison they're also called

seed oil so those are really what causes

heart disease and you could also throw

into the mix obviously high sugar

processed carbohydrates and these high

glucose responses throughout the day for

years will lead to damaging the blood

vessels if you want to watch my

interview with Dr Philip ovadia the

heart surgeon I just mentioned click the

video on the screen here and watch it

after you finish this video before I

move on to myth number four and myth

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MYTH #4 Does keto work as well for women as men?

the fourth myth is that women should

practice keto the same way as men I'm

here to tell you that will not work out

well men could be a little bit more

aggressive men will get faster results

I'm sure you've seen this that's because

men have a 24-hour hormone recycling

pattern compare that to the sun there's

a 24-hour pattern to the Sun that means

men could be a little bit more

aggressive now men and women have the

same hormones we just have different

amounts and fluctuations of those

hormones and women also need to be

categorized into different areas that

they're in in their life for example a

menstrating women a woman who has a

monthly cycle should do keto and fasting

by the way differently than a

post-menopausal women menstruating women

needs to actually build a hormone called

progesterone the week before their

period and we teach these students to

actually bump up their carbohydrate

intake to make these hormone no

conversions for men we would not

recommend that because obviously they

don't have a menstrual cycle and for

post-menopausal women the name of the

game here is to support the adrenal

glands because that's what picks up the

slack for the ovary so there's some

different rules and different protocols

for the post-menopausal women so it

needs to be done differently and I talk

a lot about this on this channel and

also on in my book keto Flex all right

MYTH #5 Can you stay on the keto diet permanently?

the fifth myth this is going to be the

most controversial one I love keto keto

is an incredible metabolic process it's

an ancient healing strategy it will get

you incredible results when you do it

right however here's the myth you should

do keto forever I don't believe that to

be the case now obviously there are some

exceptions here cancer individuals who

have mental illnesses individuals who

have epileptic seizures they need to be

in a more ketogenic state but if you

don't fall into that category I do not

recommend long-term ketosis I think it's

actually counterproductive we want to

practice keto flexing which means

achieving metabolic Freedom with ketosis

and being really strict and getting

yourself into ketosis for a few months

and then we reach a point where we can

Flex out that doesn't mean we go back to

a standard American diet or even a high

carb diet it just means a little bump up

with your carbs which is still

considered low carb but not low enough

to remain in ketosis maybe once or twice

per week it'll depend on the the person

and there's a lot of reasons why I don't

recommend long-term ketosis for example

the thyroid the brain sends a signal to

the thyroid to produce T4 which is the

inactive version of thyroid that needs

to be converted to T3 what helps to make

that conversion is actually some healthy

insulin spikes and with chronically low

insulin levels like ketosis long term

you might not get that conversion so

thyroid issues I've also seen some

issues with testosterone there are some

studies suggesting there's a buildup in

a nasty free radical called for hne with

long-term ketosis so this should be

actually good news to you because it

makes it more sustainable we want to

look at this as a lifestyle change not a

fad diet I'm here to tell you the real

fad diet is the standard American diet

which I will call a stupid American diet

like my friend Dr Ken Berry calls it

those are the five myths if you want to

learn more about how I teach keto I have

a 10 part keto playlist that you could

watch by clicking the video on the

screen right now go check that out and

I'll see you in the next video

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