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hi guys dr. Berg here in this video

we’re going to talk about the long-term

effects of low carbohydrates in the diet

okay a lot of times when you read the

news or get advice from a dietitian

they’re going to say oh you can do a

ketogenic diet for a short period of

time but don’t do it long-term because

there’s so many side effects okay so

let’s talk about that number one there

is no essential carbohydrate your the

central amino acid that’s protein

essential fatty acids that’s fat but

there is no essential carbohydrates what

you do need carbohydrates you need types

of carbohydrates could not recover

hydrate fake but for the vitamins and

minerals for example you need vegetable

carbohydrates for all the vitamins and

minerals that’s why you need them okay

not because the carbohydrates our bodies

will not suffer from not having or

consuming glucose okay you say well we

need that for energy you know you don’t

your body is much better run on

fat fuel or ketones not glucose or

people say well a kind of a tie-in like

a low carb diet is a low calorie diet

they’re kind of meaning the same but

they’re not a low carb diet is not a low

calorie diet there are two separate

things okay and they’ll say well low

carbs are going to starve your thyroid

of nutrients well no it’s not

the thyroid doesn’t need glucose it

needs nutrition doesn’t need a lot of

sugar so when you go on a low-calorie

diet that can make the thyroid suffer

simply because you’re depriving it of

nutrients okay there’s nothing to with

carbohydrates when I recommend a

ketogenic diet I’m recommending

unlimited vegetables okay by the way so

you want to do a lot of those we’re not

even factoring factoring that ends so we

need the nutrients from vegetables but

we don’t need the nutrients from grains

simply because of the difficulty in

digesting grains and the gluten effect

that it can create on our body it turns

into sugar very very fast and then I was

like this it’s like they say right they

say you shouldn’t do a low carbohydrate

long term because no one can stick to it

and you’re going to cheat

you’re going to crave that’s not true

first of all this is a diet that you can

stick with because your cravings go away

and your hunger goes away okay that’s

the two barriers of any diet if you do a

low calorie diet or high carbohydrate

diet you’re going to be craving and it’s

going to be hard to stick to that or

here’s another one they’ll say that they

say that a low carb diet is a high

protein diet no it’s not low

carbohydrates and high protein are

coming two separate things I recommend a

moderate amount of protein three to six

ounces and that’s totally reasonable and

you need those amino acids for building

body proteins and then they say well

it’s not healthy because you’re omitting

a food group well omitting bread pasta

cereal crackers biscuits waffles

pancakes yeah you’re meeting those

groups because those are not healthy all

right you can get your B vitamins from

other foods you don’t have to get them

from the grains or they’ll say that OA

ketogenic diet a low low carb diet is

going to lead to a disease called

diabetes or create ketoacidosis which is

another lie because ketoacidosis will

only occur if you are a type 1 diabetic

and you’re in a situation where you

completely run out of insulin and you

have this serious disease ok that’s

completely different then a healthy

person doing a nutritional ketosis or

healthy type of ketosis that they’re not

going to get ketoacidosis and that’s

like a severe high acid level of the

body you’re not going to get that it’s

almost actually it’s probably impossible

to get it so you don’t have to worry

about that again it’s someone reckon

it’s like because two words have are

similar they’re saying they’re identical

ketoacidosis and ketosis they’re not

identical they’re similar because they

say ketones but they’re not identical

but they’re similar it doesn’t mean

they’re the same alright so the truth is

that when you do a low carb diet you fix

insulin resistance and when you fix

insulin resistant

you allow the body to absorb nutrients

way more nutrients but not just the

minerals like potassium magnesium

chromium without a man AAA e the B

vitamins vitamin D omega-6 fatty acids

when you have insulin resistance you can

absorb those nutrients so the benefit of

long-term low carbohydrates in the diet

we’re going to reduce insulin you’re

going to heart improvements weight and

weight loss improvements skin

improvements like acne is going to go

away positive ovarian syndrome is going

to go away

let’s liver fat less diabetes less

insulin resistance

better cognitive function better mood

less dementia I mean it’s kind of

no-brainer but I do know that every time

we have a recommendation that’s so

positive you have to have some someone

that objecting to it that it just just

always happens like that so you just

pretty much have to realize that of

course someone’s going to object to it

just ignore that and do a low carb diet

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