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
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
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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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
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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