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i want to talk about ketosis and

pregnancy

is it safe sometimes you hear this idea

that going on a ketogenic diet is

not healthy for someone who’s pregnant

or breastfeeding let’s take a look at

the data the conventional school of

thought is that we all need to be on

at least 175 grams to 300 plus grams of

carbs every single day and that includes

women who are pregnant they

someday i’m going to find out who they

is

recommend 45 to 65 of all your calories

should be carbohydrates also they say

that ketones could affect the fetal

brain development so i kind of pulled a

string on this to find out where this

came from and it really was based on one

study in 1969

that measured

the urine ketones

not the blood ketones at one time not

multiple times during labor okay it

wasn’t tested throughout the entire

pregnancy it was just tested during the

labor and this is correlated somehow

through the child’s iq of course there

was no follow-up studies to confirm the

outcome but here’s the thing my wife uh

gave birth to three kids she went

through an average labor lasting i don’t

know some somewhere between 15 to 20

hours each okay but i want to tell you

when a woman goes through labor uh she’s

not usually hungry in fact she usually

does not have an appetite she’s usually

either in some serious pain or feeling

nauseous but she’s usually not eating

when she’s going through labor now when

you’re not eating guess what you’re

generating ketones okay so that’s really

where that’s coming from

in fact as a side note

all of you women watching right now make

a note down in the comments section and

tell me what you ate while you were

going through labor if anything so

that’s what this whole concept is based

on this one

study it’s actually very natural for a

pregnant woman to make ketones even more

ketones than when she’s not pregnant

even if the carbs are a bit higher what

you have to realize is that ketosis

especially nutritional ketosis it’s not

diabetic

ketoacidosis which is a completely

different thing where you don’t take

your insulin and you have massively high

levels of blood sugar

and very high ketones and your urine is

very acid and your blood starts becoming

very acidic that is completely different

than what happens when you’re pregnant

the problem with pregnancy and doing a

high carb diet is that you increase the

risk of gestational diabetes and you

greatly affect the health of that child

down the road it is vitally important to

eat extremely healthy and not to overdo

it with those carbs when you’re pregnant

anyway if you haven’t seen my video on

what to eat if you’re pregnant

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