The "I Need More Fat to Lose Weight" Myth Explained By Dr. Berg | DrEricBergDC

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so today I want to talk about this myth

that I hear a lot that you need to add

more fat to lose more weight okay

that’s illogical it’s not going to help

you lose more weight because what makes

keto keto is lowering your carbohydrate

not increasing your fat if you increase

your fat while your carbs are high you

will not get any ketosis okay to give

you ketosis you must lower the

carbohydrate the purpose of adding more

fat is to replace the loss of

carbohydrates and make it easier to do

this so you can go longer between meals

and do in a minute fasting but I

definitely recommend adding more fats

when you start a healthy keto plan

because it makes it more comfortable

fats are very satisfying however once

you adapt to fat burning okay you can

actually lower your dietary fats but

what I’m talking about is not adding

fats to your diet just consuming the

fats that are normally in your diet with

the protein so I wouldn’t necessarily

want to add more MCT oil or add more

additional fat than you need because

what happens is then your body will

start using the dietary fat as your

ketones okay in the presence of low

carbs and it won’t have to go after your

fat reserve but if your goal is to lose

weight we want to eventually kind of

adjust the dietary fat to the point

where your body starts tapping into your

own fat using this as calories and not

these as calories and realize it’s not

just about having a bunch of ketones in

your urine

it’s whether those ketones are made from

your fat or made from the dietary fat

some people can keep high levels of fat

if their metabolism is high but for the

average person that has slow metabolism

they’re going to have to eventually

lower the amount of fats that they

consume to really get your body to

actually live off the fat calories and

the same thing goes with taking ketones

exogenous ketones taken as a supplement

can provide ketones okay and you’ll have

ketones in your urine but it won’t

actually improve or increase your

body’s ability to make its own ketones

defeating the whole purpose so the truth

is that adding more fat doesn’t increase

weight loss however it makes it easy to

do the program it does provide the raw

material you don’t want to go low-fat

but you want to have enough fats just to

make a healthy body thanks for watching

hey before you go I’m gonna create some

new videos on food evaluation okay so if

you’d like to participate I can’t

promise that you’ll be the person i’ll

choose so here’s what you’re gonna do

you’re gonna take a picture of what

you’re eating a close-up okay one day

how frequent you’re eating like as an

intermittent fasting is it one meal two

meals and anything else that you’re

drinking or supplements and go ahead and

add your height weight in age and any

major body problems that you’re having

and what I’m going to do is I’m going to

analyze that to see what you’re doing

correct and what you need to improve

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again I can’t promise that I’m gonna

pick you but I’m gonna pick several

people and I’ll do the evaluations and

I’ll post these as YouTube videos all

right talk to you later