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hey guys in this video we’re going to

talk about how to get any ketosis and

the confusions that come along with it

there’s been some questions recently on

how do I know if I’m in ketosis and what

do I need to test etc usually when

people are testing whether they’re in

ketosis or not they use either device

that measures your blood ketones or

urine ketones or even a breath analyzer

okay

blood is the most accurate okay urine

and breath is good when you first start

out it’s not always a hundred percent

because these two tests measure ketones

in the breath and the urine which are

not being metabolized they’re not being

broken down they’re like being wasted so

when you first start out you’re not as

efficient and you’re not burning up all

these ketones so they’re coming out

you’re actually breathing out fat

particles in you’re urinating fat which

is kind of cool if you’re trying to lose

weight because you you’re not actually

exercising off those calories your body

is just eliminating fat through the

lungs and through the kidney so when you

first start doing ketosis I actually

like the urine test strips because

they’re very inexpensive and you can

basically test yourself all day long

with a very low cost these are a little

bit more expensive but this is more

accurate now what is ketosis ketosis is

a condition where your body is creating

ketones for fuel now realize ketones are

the byproduct of fat burning but really

ketones only represent 40% of that fat

the rest 60% is basically fatty acids so

it’s a combination of ketones and fatty

acids with a very small percentage of

glucose so your body really doesn’t need

very much glucose just a very tiny bit

but that tiny bit can be created by your

liver from the fat and the protein

you’re eating you do not need to get

your glucose from dietary carbohydrates

so real quickly I want to bring up the

topic of exogenous ketones okay you’ll

see these in supplements and you can buy

ketones and they’ll claim that’ll help

you get into ketosis etc you have to

realize that ketosis is a state that has

to be created by lowering your

carbohydrate so if you haven’t created

State and what I mean is creating a

machine with enzymes that actually burn

fat and that has to be created over

several days to weeks okay so when you

bypass that system and take straight

ketones

you’re not going to lose weight because

your body’s stored fat is not being

tapped into you’re basically taking

ketones as fuel so your body doesn’t

have to use your own ketones or fat so

there’s a really big confusion that

people have thinking that wow I can just

take you tailings and I don’t have to do

the diet big mistake

the only two conditions where I would

recommend taking exogenous ketones are

number one if you’re a long distance

runner and you’re in some competition

you want some extra energy but even then

even then I don’t always recommend it

you can actually easily get your ketones

from just cutting your carbs down the

other situation is let’s say for example

you have Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s and

you’re very frail and you don’t have a

lot of fat to burn alright so the key

thing that gets you into ketosis is

lowering your carbohydrates

why because carbohydrates elevate your

blood glucose okay there’s this

teeter-totter relationship between

lowering your blood sugar or glucose and

increasing your ketones ketones are an

alternative fuel that your body actually

prefers to run on it’s a much cleaner

fuel so as you lower your blood glucose

you raise the ketones okay now normally

your blood glucose should be 82 now as

you go lower you start creating a

condition where you it’s called

hypoglycemia

okay let’s say you have 70 or 60 or even

less 50 or even 40 now sometimes you

might think that’s dangerous or a real

bad situation but but think about it as

you cut the dietary carbs and you lower

your blood sugar your body’s going to be

running on ketones so the need to keep

sugar up even at 82 is unnecessary so if

your blood sugar goes lower and lower

the question need to ask is this how is

your hunger does your hunger disappeared

is your cravings gone is your energy

good

you have good cognitive function is your

mood good if you have these items this

means that you’re doing it healthily and

your body’s getting the benefit from the

ketones but if you don’t let’s say for

example your blood sugar goes low and

you’re starving and you’re craving for

carbs and you’re fatigued and you’re

irritable and your memory is bad then we

know this is more of an unhealthy

hypoglycemic reaction and you probably

did not develop the machine to make

ketones you probably have not done this

correctly so I put a link down below of

how to get into healthy keto correctly

so you can handle your hunger and

cravings and energy and cognitive

function and mood and really get into

some deep ketosis and just to emphasize

the real key thing for ketones is

getting your blood Sugar’s down and

lowering your carbohydrates that’s the

most important thing that you need to

focus on if your blood sugars are high

you’re not going to be running on

ketones

okay because your body will always take

the glucose before the ketones all right

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