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i wanted to share probably one of the

most amazing success stories

that i ever heard okay and this has to

do with

a man by the name of michael who

accidentally was saved

by not eating for four days

okay so what he said last year i was

hospitalized by an ambulance when i

mysteriously started going

blind an undiagnosed diabetic with a

blood sugar of

700 milligrams per deciliter now

normal blood sugars are 80 okay

700 is so far off the chart

um it is so dangerous it’s incredible he

survived

the paramedics struggled to get a vein

and i was going into a coma

150 kilograms 330 pounds

obese alcoholic clinically depressed

sick sore

rattled with meds and suicidal

at new year’s i decided to simply give

up and lay down and die

in not eating for four days i strangely

didn’t start to die

but actually started feeling better

stronger

and happier i tripped across dr berg’s

fasting video then the penny dropped the

standard aussie diet was killing me

i’ve been lied to and food manipulated

my entire

56 years i’ve now lost 50 kilograms

that’s 110 pounds

do not drink have reverse diabetes take

no medications fitter healthier

productive

lively positive have a full-time job

and most importantly i am happy finding

keto and dr berg

really has quite literally saved my life

thank you thank you thank you eric from

the bottom of my now healthy

heart amazing amazing success story

with that let’s do a chat with michael

right now well it’s definitely a

pleasure to meet you too your success

story was mind-blowing i was like

someone showed it to me i was like

what that so i just wanted to you know

casually talk with you chat with you and

uh

just hear it from you what happened um

oh look how long have you got like it’s

a life story like everyone else isn’t it

but

um to keep it concise um

i think everybody ends up being

depressed and diabetic for

a basket of reasons and and that basket

ends up being a case but

um after

a 20 odd year career

of um high stress really high stress

um and i worked as a fifo flying flight

where you guys i think called remote

workers

um i was never really based anywhere i

used to work things like um

a month on and a week off so i was

always in camps and things like that

um and so never really grounded

always on the move never far from my

backpack

and um the thing with those industries

is you have food supplied right

and it works on the typical food

triangle

and in the us i’m sure it’s the same as

ours carbs on top

you know fat on the bottom uh low salt

you know but you the typical thing that

we all know about

now and um that

slowly in hindsight slowly led to a

demise

and with the constant stress pressures

and then the lifestyle that came with

that divorces

property settlements alimony i think you

guys call it

um that basically ended up bankrupting

me and um

that added financial stress to my life

even though i was earning

mid mid triple mid six digits i ended up

with bugger all of that

and so i found myself high stress long

hours high pay

nowhere to live no real money of my own

it was a bit of a crazy thing

that all ended up culminating in

somewhat of what i suppose you could

call a nervous breakdown

in essence and um i um

ended up just going no i can’t do this

anymore and i just

stopped i had some money behind me and i

just stopped working

without really noticing it set in i

ended up

um basically locking myself in a room

for the best part self-isolating before

there was even a word

wow and um

as much as i love to cook i was cooking

the sad stuff and lots of mashed potato

gravy all the yummy gear right

um still along with a lot of veg and

you know decent meat and whatnot but

that combination of

carbs and fat as we all know doesn’t

work right

and so i this incremental weight gains

all right just a little bit a little bit

a little bit year after year

um and it wasn’t until one day i was in

a cbd

and i spotted myself in

the automatic doors of a multi-story

building and thought

wow i’m a keg on legs like when did this

really happen

wow and um i thought i don’t like the

look of that

but i’m not completely i’m not very

egotistical or superficial and i think

my

fireman calendar of the year days are

well and truly past me so

i wasn’t too concerned about it and

um and i was still getting by and um in

my career i went higher and higher in

management so i was doing less physical

activity

outdoors and and what i did do i could

get through okay

because it was limited and um

then the depression set in um

i in hindsight didn’t realize that i’ve

been depressed for a very long time

just bad life basically and

as much as having the porsches and the

beachfront condo

and all the rest of it looks fabulous to

everyone else

um from the inside out it’s not so great

and

in my case and the um and i thought well

i don’t i don’t need any of that

and i um

was occasionally strangely i was

occasionally testing my blood sugars a

friend of mine was diabetic

type one and so when i visit him i just

play with the machine and have a test

and

my numbers were coming back mid-level

standard sad person right nothing to be

really concerned about

and um that’s all

that’s surprising considering i live on

um

jamaican rum and a very well-known cola

and wasn’t no fate or the odd

drive-through takeaway from you know the

king the clown or the colonel

and um

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then slowly i started um

with with the whole falling down thing

physically um all of a sudden i started

to become

constantly thirsty

and this accelerated really really

quickly where i was

i was drinking oh easy

10 liters a couple of gallons of

fluid and it was just in and out in and

out it was just like a

transfer station for fluid and i thought

this is getting a bit

weird and just constantly thirsty and i

thought

around the same time not not too long

after that

i popped out my front door looking down

the street

and i realized all of a sudden the

things i could read yesterday

i couldn’t read today signs

numbers on letterboxes and whatnot

everything was starting to go a bit

hazy and a bit blurry and i thought your

eyesight

goes down over time but not overnight

so i’ll pop to the local clinic and see

a gp

and um he went oh okay

did a blood test and went um

dude you’ve got numbers of like

you guys working my decimal 740

gosh and um i know

okay is that a bad thing and so you guys

yeah um um

uh dude you’re gonna go into a coma and

i went

okay well i’ll get myself down to

hospital i’m gonna

pop home and you know pack a bag for

hospital and let’s go

and uh so what do i have to look out for

with this

whole coma thing you won’t you won’t

know you’ll just fall into a coma okay

and there’s no going home the ambulance

is on its way

dude i’m like okay

here’s me still a little bit like

oblivious to this so

in hindsight and climbed into the uh

ambulance and our paramedics i imagine

very much like yours amazing people

angels right

and um he’s trying to get blood it’s not

coming

it’s could turn to treacle you can’t get

veins and getting slapped and

tourniqueted and

what’s going and on then um

paramedics have this amazing way of not

showing concern

yeah they’ll just keep chatting to you

about

random stuff football or whatever right

and um while they’re doing their job

um i know he started to get concerned

when

i had a defibrillator strapped to me and

uh when he asked the um the driver

how far away from the hospital and she

said eight minutes and he said can we

make it six

i thought um

okay um we have a thing here called

ramping

um too many ambulances roll up at once

and so they ramp they get stacked like

airplanes

i ended up getting gurneyed straight

past everyone straight into er

and um yeah and that’s when they put me

on bags and all sorts of things and

whatnot

and uh that’s when the seriousness of

the whole thing sort of set in

and um they got my numbers down pretty

quick down to

about half of that about 350 or

something

but then bless their hearts they kick me

out

and um i

at that point was given the standard two

medications

for diabetics and um

a couple other odds and size my blood

pressure was through the roof

if my car had the same pressure oil

pressure i’d be pretty happy with it

but not in a human body and

the um so i was basically just

sent home on my own merry way um

then um i ended up uh inadvertently

breaking my ankle

um survive two helicopter crashes and a

couple of car rollovers i trip over a

garden chair and break my ankle

go figure ended up back in hospital

um same thing in the ambo in in the

ambulance do a blood test

must be a standard thing right and oh

your numbers are like serious man

i thought that’s interesting um

in hospital while i’m waiting around

with my broken ankle

um they’re feeding me toast fruit juice

milk i i saw a um i saw a bit of yours

recently on how

you know hospital food isn’t let’s just

say the best

and i think you’re like

what’s with this people i can’t eat any

of this stuff

right like just bring me a lettuce from

the anorexic department or something you

know

um and uh they really didn’t want to

know about it

when um when i was chatting to the

doctors going okay

ankle it’s a broken bone i’ve had many

it’ll fix itself it’s not a big deal

and but this diabetes thing um

i want to treat that no you’re not here

for that you’re here for an ankle if you

want to treat your diabetes go see your

local gp

okay then they kicked me off what they

have is their

diabetic menu which isn’t awesome anyway

it must been too much trouble or

something i don’t know but

um ended up leaving there and yeah

things still went downhill from there my

depression got worse

um covert in australia happened in a

wave

and i ran away from covert not because i

was scared of it is because it

it screwed with jobs and accommodation

and all sorts of things

and i ended up finding this um where i

am now this

gorgeous place on the seaside on the

southern coast of australia

and um i’d got rid of a lot of the

stresses in my life and everything else

and i had no reason to be unhappy

i was still terribly depressed and

depression isn’t a state of mind it’s

almost like a

disease an illness a sickness something

um and

i don’t know a lot of things culminated

and i ended up just going like

i screw it like um

i really just gave up and

laid on my bed basically for like four

days

and i’m a smoker and an addicted one

it’s the only vice i have left but um

normally i couldn’t go a few hours

without a cigarette i’ll start

just getting the craves you know as an

addict and

um yeah i was that depressed i couldn’t

even be

bothered going to get cigarettes and

um for as much as i was craving them

and what i thought was a bit weird

was um after about three days

i started to feel better right when

the exact opposite life’s like this the

exact opposite of what i was trying to

achieve which was to basically just

i don’t know somehow just stay on my bed

till i don’t wake

up anymore right right and um

all of a sudden i thought

a bit hungry but i’m not actually hungry

i think i’m hungry

but i’m not how weird is this four days

normally i couldn’t go four hours

without eating something right

that’s what i used to do was drummed

into us you know eat every you know eat

three square meals a day and then

have something every two hours in

between that and all the rest of it

and um i was pretty used to that sort of

thing and

snacking a lot as we did you know and um

so i thought what’s what’s with this

um that’s when i trip

that’s when i had started having a bit

of a look at the whole

um fasting thing and it then it dawned

on me i saw something

20 years ago on indian yogis i think

they are um and they

were sitting on a beach for like a week

and all they ate was butter and yogurt

and they lost weight right and they’re

pretty healthy looking dudes and i

thought

what’s with that right so i started

looking into it i tripped across one of

your

videos on um on

fasting and then what really got me

interested was

the um fatty liver

and um inflammation

and a friend of mine is quite a healthy

person and um

she um she used to bang on me about

inflammation but i didn’t get it i

i related inflammation to things like

rheumatoid arthritis inflamed joints and

things of that nature not having an

inflamed body or organs

so once that penny dropped and the

fasting thing

and a lot of other research

and luckily keto’s

been studied a lot like scientifically

the results you know kellogg’s hated but

the um but it makes sense there’s a lot

of fact there that you can’t deny

right and it’s not a mystery it’s

um and uh i just thought oh

this is a bit strange okay well i’ll um

i’ll lay off of this and that and i

actually like

whole foods so let’s just give this a go

for a little while and

all of a sudden um in a very very short

period within

couple of weeks um

i had this epiphany i think drunks call

it a moment of clarity

and um lots of pennies dropped like

i feel better because i’m not doing this

i’m not doing that and

i found keto for me it’s extremely easy

it’s one of the easiest things i’ve ever

done in my life

um because it’s more about instead of

doing things

it’s about not doing things

right so um i found being lazy by nature

um keto suited me perfectly because it

was more about don’t stick things in

your mouth

um and the um and the things you do

be aware of what they do and

quite quickly my numbers plummeted down

to

um i was averaging

low fives which for you guys is i know

about what 90 or 100

or something in that area yeah and

that’s when i really saw the difference

and then i started feeling better then

all of a sudden

i noticed that i was happier

wow

things that i used to be quite angry at

the world

like not um not outwardly but

internally i would look at things and

just get

angry about it you know and spend most

of my life trying to fix

fix the world and some of the people in

it

and um and i thought no no no all you

can do is your own little bit and start

with yourself

like the old head if you can’t help

anyone if you can’t help yourself and

um but the biggest thing for me with

keto

was um the um

the mental side of it the mental health

side of keto

and then the weight loss was just

a complete byproduct of that i found

that completely amusing

to be honest and i never focused on i

just tried to keep my blood sugars

down in a decent region and um

and my ketones somewhere at least have

some

and um and just get about with my daily

life and from there everything is just

snowballed in a fantastic way that i was

losing

what the medical profession would call

unhealthy amounts of weight

like really fast

and the um

um now i’ve um

i found my bloods uh in the i average

about

4.8 about 80 or something for you guys

um my weight loss is um still going down

it’s a bit negative logarithmic

it’s not as fast as it used to be um but

my ketones vary between 0.5 and 3

depending on what i’m doing

i find when my blood sugars go up and

down a little bit or my ketones go up

and down a little bit

i physically can’t actually notice that

it doesn’t seem to make any difference

in my day-to-day life but now i just

have

so much energy and the whole depression

thing

went away the negativity went away so

now i’m a big

proponent in um

when healthy body healthy mind

not that i’m a health’s not by any

stretch of the imagination

right but i noticed just getting

dealing with the fatty liver which then

in turn deals with everything else just

all by itself um

and and the inflammation side of things

i think what a lot of people don’t

appreciate is um your brain is an organ

just like your liver

when you get a fatty brain things get

foggy and

funny thing i hear when people say you

know the keto fog

my life was like that like um

i found it before keto i found it very

difficult to

or increasingly more difficult to

compartmentalize

problems in life it all just sort of got

thrown into one big casserole dish

and that became overwhelming

um whereas with keto um all of a sudden

and i only noticed this after the after

the

event um things that

before where i just couldn’t be bothered

like i’d left something in my car

and my car’s only 50 feet away can’t be

bothered

getting that seriously all right now so

i don’t even think about it i just grab

my keys go get it come back

right um load the dishwasher or unload

the dishwasher

later you know now i see it i just do it

a minute

i mean oh my god it just sounds like you

know um

there is this uh kind of disconnect

initially with the depression not really

connected to your body and then you find

this

huge realization oh my gosh my

depression has been

my physical body has been so far out of

balance that put me in a certain lower

emotional state which then makes your

whole universe completely um

dismal you know all these

thoughts and then you you pull yourself

out of this thing

you with with the most important thing

you could do

you happen to do it you start switching

over the fuel source to ketones

it starts feeding your brain starts and

then that just brings your emotions

right up to where you are

normally where you should be normally

and now all of a sudden you’re you’re

back to yourself it’s like

yeah and um and i haven’t

hindsight’s a wonderful thing isn’t it

um i realize i’ve been

like sad um

not both diet and emotionally um

for a very very long time like i’m 56

now and it’s probably been

since i was in my early 20s

you know um i did get to a point because

of my depression i got put on

antidepressants

the name of those products couldn’t be

more oxymoronic

um honestly the longer you’re on them

the worse it gets

right and they’re super addictive

getting off them

was difficult really difficult and they

make you physically sick when you come

off them

swooshing sounds in your head and all

sorts of madness

um not good i don’t recommend those to

people

there’s better ways not to be depressed

but yeah i’ve um i’ve found the whole

mental health aspect

of um just yeah lifting the cloud um

and now i found it really easy just to

avoid things that

are avoidable the things that are

avoidable in life

avoid them and um the things that are

good grab onto those gravitate towards

those

and it’s very much easier now to see the

differences in all of those things

because

life isn’t really black and white it’s

all shades of grey and

you’ve got to choose the template you

want and um

the biggest benefit of founder of keto

is the mental health

side of it well i want to thank you for

taking the time and doing this i think

the people on my channel are going to

love love to hear this story and uh and

it’s going to be motivating for other

people so i

i yeah sorry sorry you had to go through

this hell to kind of get your body back

but uh

you know it was good

yeah i did and i’m quite happy about it

so um yeah and so yeah

thank you um thank you for sharing the

knowledge and the keto community for

um inspiring me with just some positive

comments and um and so thank you

everyone it’s um

it’s been a trip and we’ll continue down

on this bus because it’s a good one

absolutely awesome well thank you and uh

i don’t even know it’s probably midnight

or later right now

it’s no it’s just going some sunrise

nine in the morning

okay yeah we’re really good awesome i’m

gonna get this day later on

awesome well thank you so much michael i

appreciate that and i’ll send you uh

this video

when we put it live in a couple days yes

sweet

okay lovely chatting have a good day

thanks cheers bye cheers