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hey guys dr. Berg here I wanted to answer a  question that keeps coming up will vegetable  

carbohydrates stop ketosis okay so it is true that  vegetables are carbohydrates but the question is  

do they turn into sugar fast or slow there’s a  thing called the glycemic index and that is the  

rate or which speed at which something actually  affects your blood sugars I guarantee a salad or  

maybe like a spinach salad with celery when you  eat that it is not going to spike your insulin  

okay so some people that start including more  vegetables let’s say they’re doing the Atkins  

diet it’s really high protein and fat and  yes the absence of carbohydrates do induce  

fat burning but if you have no vegetable types  of carbohydrates what’s going to happen you’re  

going to get a lot of waste in your body and  it’s stuff called ketoacidosis or your body’s  

pH starts going higher and higher and higher  there’s nothing to flesh that out so I want to  

read to you guidance physiology what it says  in page 927 okay the effect of insulin lack  

on causing a fatty liver calling causing the the  lack of insulin right when you keep insulin very  

low since it costs a great increase in the amount  of store triglyceride in the liver leading to a  

very fatty liver so in other words you got to  be careful doing ketosis because all this fat  

that’s being mobilized from your fat stores from  your stomach it has to go through the liver and  

go through your bloodstream if you don’t consume  the vegetable you’re going to end up with a fatty  

liver okay and that’s defeats our whole purpose  and sometimes when people do this they all check  

their blood in their cholesterol goes really  really high because they’re not eating the  

vegetables to counteract that now some people are  eating the wrong type of vegetables they’re doing  

corn okay corn is not a vegetable in my viewpoint  or they’re doing a lot of cruciferous but they’re  

sensitive to it they’re not digesting that so  they bloat the bloating will stop the weight  

loss okay so just switch up your vegetables  do something like a fowl or something like  

that but the vegetable cleans encounter acts a  lot of the fat burning that takes place and it  

prevents the fat from accumulating in your liver  the other thing is that if you don’t want to do  

the vegetables then where are you getting your  potassium from from the meat from the fat there’s  

there’s no potassium in there hardly any at all  so you need I mean a tremendous amount so were  

you getting your magnesium where are you getting  all your vitamins and minerals that’s where you  

get them from the vegetable family okay so don’t  worry about vegetables when you’re doing ketosis  

I think it’s essential and I’m actually I put a  twist on this it’s like my version of ketosis you  

go ahead and do that and you’ll actually end up  with a healthy body alright thanks for watching