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so the question is will zero carb

alcohol stop ketosis let’s talk about it

so you have beer wine mixed drinks

coolers all of these have a good amount

of carbs but whisky vodka brandy tequila

dry martini

has no carbs and alcohol does not turn

the sugar so does that mean the alcohol

is keto friendly well let’s take a look

at a couple other things first of all

alcohol has seven calories per gram and

a carbohydrate has less than that it is

four calories per gram so these calories

have to go somewhere so despite the fact

that it doesn’t turn in the sugar and it

doesn’t raise your insulin the alcohol

calories will turn into fat your body

doesn’t even need to break it down

within one minute it’s already into your

bloodstream

up to your brain so really what happens

is this alcohol goes to the liver

your liver considers it a toxin so it

gives it priority beyond the

carbohydrate the protein in the fat so

in the liver you have this enzyme okay

which breaks the alcohol down into this

highly toxic chemical even in small

concentrations and this chemical has the

ability to create scar tissue or

fibrosis eventually cirrhosis

inflammation a fatty liver oxidative

stress and it will definitely stop that

burning because there’s calories

available to be used as energy and be

converted to fat and for your body to

process the alcohol it needs certain

nutrients so the more alcohol you

consume the more you deplete b1 b12

folate zinc vitamin D vitamin A and

there’s a whole series of other

nutrients that I don’t even talk about

so in summary realize what your body has

to do to get rid of this alcohol and if

you’re going to drink try to drink in

very small amounts and make sure your

diet is super healthy full of

phytonutrients to counter the

complications and the side effects and

the nutritional deficiencies that

alcohol can create and definitely check

out my next video on what to do if you

have a fatty liver