Are Low Carbs Better?! 

This videos are getting better and better, this topics are the kind nobody talks about💖💯💖💯

Thumbs up for Mama Norton

I was skeptical at first but after I cut carbs from my diet, my carb intake dropped dramatically! #scienceAF

The people who are zealots about anything in fitness and nutrition are also zealots about broscience. "Hey, it worked for me so that means it'll work for everyone and anyone who disagrees is wrong."

You're like the Grinch of keto, lmao

whether low-carb is the best thing or not, I could never stick to that. I "lost" (I worked hard for losing weight, so I hate that term) 25 kg on a high carb diet and I now maintain on a high carb diet. I love carbs. carbs are friends, not the devil people try to make them out to be.

LMAO IM ACTUALLY TRAVELLING TO NYC FROM TORONTO AND I THINK I GOT FUCKED WITH ROAMING FML IF ONLY I’D WATCHED THIS EARLIER ROFL

Your "Layne Shits on Studies" videos are my favorite. Keep it up.

What would your response to/thoughts on “I feel better on lower carbs” be? More even energy levels, less bloating, less brain fog, etc.

Yeah when I was in my 20’s and working out and eating non keto I had solid gains but later on started to develop bad bloating started to allergies started to get fat and started to become forgetful and my gains started to decline. I went to keto ( it was dirty keto) my fat went down but everything else stayed the same so I went back to non keto symptoms got worse. Did some research started clean keto after a few months all my symptoms went away and iam now doing better in my late 30’s then I was in my 20’s

Broooooo. You’re killing it! Literally. In a good way. I admire your passion, motives, and way of breaking down the studies to come to LOGICAL conclusions (not made up ones like you point out the authors did with this study. smh) Keep it up, Layne. You’re as real as they come.

High fat diet stops hunger. High carb diet keeps you ravenous, and this is what he isn’t telling you. Thank you.

What would be interesting to study would be how insulin resistant people vs non-insulin resistant people respond to low carb/high fat vs low fat/high carb.

I love that we have all had the same type of conversation with our mom's.

Im a low carb proponent but i dont disagree with anything said in this video. I agree that low carb is a tool. Ive found is a very effective tool. It may not have an advantage on energy expenditure. But i do think it has an advantage on sustainability from a satiation perspective. Its easier to eat less calories when your blood sugars are stable all day long.

Gary Taubes was so monumentally discredited and rendered irrelevant a few years back, to my knowledge he never responded to any of those criticisms ...and now they’re finally getting the “results” they originally wanted from NuSci. It’s fascinating they were able to lure investors. The nutrition Kevins on twitter also covered this and had a response published about the methods...

I know low carb isn't really any better biologically, but I think it tends to make things easier for the average person because the average person doesn't count calories well and low carb has them avoid a lot of sugar.

As usual, wrong reasonings are the methods to run the businesses but the truth remains real far away until good people shows up....Layne brother always breaks down these researches to help us know the truth. Thanks bro!

I used to be a real and not "religious" fan of LC diet :) That was because I love fatty food and I used to have some stomach troubles while eating most of grains, wheat etc. But when I found out I was celiac and eliminated gluten and tried to eat more carbs I changed my preferences. Science helped, since I also found out that eating more carbs equals more energy and my performance improved on a higher carbs diet. But I can imagine LC lovers who do not like carbs, certainly it is possible

If you edited this to take out the interruptions and swearing it would a useful tool to show students how critiquing academic studies is done.

Layne just killin it out here, much thanks as always man.

would you ever be willing to do a video on type 2 diabetes? I don't understand why some people get type 2 and others don't? even though some people are heavier but they don't get type 2

I appreciate you Dr Layne. You’re an encouragement and example of how to put your work where your mouth is. Keep up the great content. I would love to hear if you’ve ever come across any credible studies that have analyzed a possible threshold for carbohydrate spill over? I tend to take a more modified ketogenic approach to my life and will cycle in carb refeed days twice a week usually (sometimes 3 times weekly) in excess of 350g carbs or more on those days with somewhat elevated fat calorie intake (I always keep my protein levels high to around 1g per pound of body weight) and find that I don’t trigger massive carbohydrate binging and keep my strength levels up in the gym for both the days I go low carb(under 100g) and the higher carb days whether I am utilizing balls to the wall bodybuilding workouts or incorporating some steady state cardio as well of 30 minutes or more. Inversely I’ve noticed if I go 3 or more days in a row where I am above 350g carbs then it’s like my body registers some massive storage of fat receptor and I fluff up a bit(get softer around my midsection) and engage in an unhealthy relationship to binging on carbs. I am assuming that by this characteristic I must be very carb sensitive and find that my performance suffers in the gym and I lose ability for endurance in my steady state cardio as well. Any thoughts on this conundrum are very much appreciated. I am a healthy weightlifting gym rat who believes in trying to stay as lean as possible as I keep my calories higher to put on muscle tissue. Currently around 10% bodyfat, 215lbs, at 6ft 1inches, and 41 years of age. Keep up the great work brother. You have no idea the positive impact you have on us daily grinders our here. You are a fantastic resource and much appreciated. Sorry for writing you a long winded book of a question. 🤣🤣Thanks again.

The explanations to Mom over the phone is too relatable.

Layne always putting the best content on RU-vid!

I love fats and carbs way to much to follow any sort of restrictive diet that forbids one of the macronutrients

Why is getting food from the grocery store healthier than getting it from a restaurant? It's the same food no?

The mom convo is funny and good,.I had to repeat that part over and over again

I have done a lot of low carb diets and would get into ketosis when I'd fast. I noticed an increase in clarity when fasting after I switched to a different department at work were my quality of work was constantly under scrutiny. So I finally started a real ketogenic diet for a month or so. I had the blood ketone test kit and was getting into ketosis on the diet and felt the mental clarity I had when fasting. But the week of Thanksgiving I got off the diet and have been off since. I don't feel as though I have lost any of the mental clarity (but maybe I just haven't noticed it.) I haven't jumped back up 5-10 pounds like I usually do when I introduce more carbs, and my digestive issues I used to have with a higher carb diet have only very very mildly increased. So I don't know WTF...

Ok so is all anecdotal but I think many people myself included find it easier to get into a caloric deficit through a low carbohydrate diet. Personally I don’t eat any carbohydrates at all and I am trying to get into a caloric deficit. I find that a high fat high protein diet is more satiating. Also, and my apologies for not having the studies to point, taking breaks from carbohydrate intake does seem to have an impact on insulin sensitivity. I find this Especially beneficial when I come back on a hard training phase and I have adjusted my macros to be heavier and carbohydrates lower in fat for my energy and performance. But I’ll leave you with this opinion I think it really comes down to individual. As well as the goal. Hands down carbohydrates is the main fuel source in athletic performance. I feel it’s a far superior fuel source that fat. And so If you’re training hard to increase your energy expenditure to put yourself in a caloric deficit it would make more sense to me to use carbohydrates which again is a better fuel source for athletic performance. But if you’re more sedentary and you are not greatly increasing your energy output or being athletic I find it much easier for people to lower the caloric intake to get into a caloric deficit by eating high fat low carb. My two cents

Keep doing you, mate. Love your videos and your info. I learn a lot listening to you.

"Low carb is better than all the other diets out there." Not gonna lie, you scared me there for a moment.

Appreciate the intellectual charity of disclaiming that lower carb can play a role from person to person. I think part of the reason for the low carb zealotry stems from individuals who have found that it works very well for them. Not just how well the protocol satiates them and allows them to eat less, but, and I think more attention could be placed on this, the nature of individual food cravings, and how much overeating can consist of highly processed, high sugar foods. While one could make the case that the highly palatable highly processed foods abundant in the developed world are also higher in fat, I wonder in aggregate, if the average american were to cut out ALL highly processed "junk" food, what the carb/fat ratio being eliminated is, and crucially, the quality of the particular macro. IE. corn syrup vs. sweet potatoes, or avocados vs. hydrogenated soybean oil.

I have lost a lot of weight on low carb but I was having an issue adding any muscle mass. I worked with a Nutrition coach and did a Macro of about 190g carbs , which was a lot for me, added 200g of protein and saw immediate gains in strength. Then I went off the deep end (weekend of garbage), hungry all the time, added cookies and Chips and gained 15 pounds. Now I'm struggling to curb the cravings and get back on track. I feel like low carb is my fix but I know I need to get back to the balance. I have a real eating problem and it happens quick if I slip up. I need a better coach to push me back on track.

Love these videos!! Great info as always!!

Hey Layne! Thanks for the new video! I was wondering, you acknowledge that insulin is a factor in weight changes. Do you have any videos regarding insulin and weight loss/gain? I'd love to hear your perspective in comparison to those who seem to think it's an end all/be all. Thanks again!

the only thing better than the knowledge......rolling camera with mom. need more outtakes! haha

idk keto for 4 months now, down 93lbs and ive never felt better, dont need coffee to wake up and work, no more heartburn non stop every day, i dont even use my inhaler anymore for my asthma. i eat 2 meals a day plus vitamins (salad and chicken + broccoli). blood test results from doc office have blown his mind hes like what are you doing and let me get some of that lol. not saying keto is better at losing weight but its more enjoyable way to lose it than low fat higher carb.

Too funny!!! That mom convo was priceless😂😂

I agree with you. There's nothing special with low carb diets in fat loss, build muscle. I'm on keto andintermittent fasting because of my laziness. This diet is very simple for me and easy to mantain. I' have to only cook oncee (sometimes twice) a day fat meat with some vegetables. I don't need to prepare many meals. My insulin resistance is not a problem for me on keto. Sorry for my English, i'm not an english native speaker.

Thank you for this great video 😊

@biolayne. What about your viewers who are insulin resistant? Should they not keep their carbs in check to help control insulin?

I did low carb (Atkins) several years ago, and lost 50ish pounds in 4-5 months...gained it all back in about that same time 😬. I started flexible dieting 3 years ago, lost 50 pounds in 4-5 months...k..same exact results in the same exact time...the difference? I’ve kept the weight off for 3 years! Keto is not magic...all diets work if you find what works for YOU!

the problem i see is this: what works for one person dosent work the same or at all for everyone. how many people are on this planet? can you study the way a diet effects every single one of them and know every single way it effects them with no doubt? so of course no is the answer. then that means what are we doing? using data from various sources(many unproven ) to make a educated guess?

Wonder what the ranges of the TEE were for the three cases. Individualism is a key player for these studies. Great video layne.

The logo at the end is wrong. It should say PHD (Biolayne, Coach, Bodybuilder).

Dr. Norton I appreciate your candidness and for letting the scientific evidence speak for itself. I concur with your conclusion of the data 100%. For when done objectively...The scientific method confirms the REAL TRUTH. (for all things natural).

MOM!!! The meatloaf!!! FUCK!!! LOOOL Keep them coming, the videos are awesome!

love the part talking with the mom xD also very good content!

Thanks for your work, Dr. Norton-especially your outreach. I'm a physicist, diabetic and quite obese. I've been trying to go through both popular and scientific literature, but even with scientific training, I'm slow to wade through literature outside of my expertise. I started with Dr. Fong's books and through low carb and alternate day fasting have managed to lose a lot of weight and get my serum glucose into low normal range without medication. I currently approximate keto, and I'm starting to move toward one meal per day/restricted feeding window. I'm quite disillusioned with Dr. Fong's theories, even though they were the basis for my early progress. Do you think low carb diets make more sense for Type II diabetics as a weight loss strategy? If I try to reintroduce a modest amount of carb, will I find that I'm still unable to cope with the blood sugar spikes? I don't expect you to know that for me individually, but I was wondering if you've seen research for people in my situation. P.S. your mom sounds sweet :)

I've never watched a video on this channel before but I've had a look around RU-vid and this has now come up as recommended. Great video but the bit with you on the phone was a bit of fluff I don't think adds value to people like myself who don't follow you a lot. I read about the the advantages to keto to mirror every fad diet I've been exposed to in my life. Thanks for clearing up some of the claims and I respect you for saying if keto works for you then do it. However, Pizza and Fries for life.

I noticed that there are many fallacies in the design of the study. If they wanted to prove the endocrine model of obesity they should have selected: 1. Individuals with higher BMI. I believe that they mentioned that the BMI was +- 28. I wish I had a BMI of 28 2. I don’t see them screening for hyperinsulenimia. These individuals should be perfect to prove this point. In fact I believe that they excluded people with type two diabetes which normally fall in this population. 3. The caloric goals should have been one based on % but they describe using actual 2300-2400 calories. This was not correlated to individual needs. 4. They should had also done a follow up where they reverse the order - 4 weeks Keto to 4 weeks low fat. The order could have changes. 5. I heard but could not found that they fudge the data. Not sure how will this affect the validity of this research. Based on this, I believe that the proof that endocrine model is false is lacking. We still not sure if the endocrine models is real or not so the jury is still out. What is the energy expenditure for creating ketones and gluconeogenesis? I don’t think that this is accounted for in the standard calories in and calories out. Also, what are the side effects of taking insulin or medication that raises insulin? The answer is weight gain. So naturally speaking if someone eats a low carb meal and prevents glucose from rising (pre diabetic, type 2 and hyperinsulenemia), they will have lower numbers which means they could eventually lower the diabetes medication. Which means they will gain less weight and maybe loose more weight.

Layne is looking jacked as fuck

Great video Layne. And for people who are making silly comments about the conversation that he had with his mom… just remember… His mom had to teach new concepts to him as well… Such as using a spoon and a toilet. 🤣

Fantastic video Layne!

An interesting video topic would be the impact of food “quality” on weight loss, health and sports performance.

Its ironic how the RU-vid algorithm always throws a Delauer keto promo before your keto destroying video

Straight up dying laughing 😂!!!!! I needed that. Hi mama Norton 👋🏼

That’s the best shirt I’ve ever seen

Thanks for the video

Why don't YOU do a study? What IS the proper way of eating? How do you know? Oh, yeah, you dont.

Great as always Layne❤ thank you

Can u fo more vid about how to design our own program for power lifting ?

Where's my pen drop, Doc? Thanks for sharing :)

Layne, you said "you need to be in Airplane mode and use Wifi to not get charged" Well Airplane mode turns OFF WiFI! I think what you meant was you need to turn off Cell Data and only use WiFi

The mom phone call 😂

This video proves that all mom questions are the same! 😂😂😂

🤣 *she did bring you into this world* omg lol that’s how I am with my mom patience-wise

in a fasting situation someone with a good acess to the fat metabolism will be less catabolic. with a high carb diet your carb metabolism will always be the primary metabolism, so you will be less metabolic flexible.

20% carbs is not Keto, though

For a second I thought you started exploiting RU-vid algorithm for views. You might as well be the last voice of reason.

In your videos about reverse dieting you tell about keeping exercise and cardio routine same after show and increasing calories slowly. I have little question there Like before show calorie intake was 1800 with 1 hour cardio. Soo from cardio suppose 300 calories were burnt. Soo after show can we consume 1550 calories and eliminate all of cardio ? If we look at it we are still increasing calories by 50 ?

This video was a hot mess. I loved it. I like study breakdowns. Do more of them.

And that is why I love this channel 😄

1:17 - bro, don't repress your frustration. That's worse for your health than eating 5000cals of HFCS and HPO in on sitting.

Lol, loved the mom! Loved the video.

Love you, Layne 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🤓🤓😢

While I think studies like this provide useful data, weight maintenance is much more complicated than an equation. Physical and emotional satiety are the true drivers of energy intake self-selection and body fat setpoint in my opinion. What has been proven over and over is that regardless of the acute effects of a given diet or a given meal, increasing fiber and protein intake (relative to SAD) tend to decrease ghrelin secretion and total ad libitum energy intake. Now, even this is not enough on its own. No macronutrient ratio holds more power than the human mind. Even in the study authors' dream world where you manage to increase your TEE by 50 kcal/day AND your body does not metabolically adapt to that TEE (which I seriously doubt) to maintain your body fat setpoint, all of your efforts are undone with the weekly ingestion of a single donut. This is why I love the fact that Layne, Paul Revelia, etc, preach adherence and sustainability above all else, because as Layne has said in multiple videos, willpower is a finite resource. Many people that I know in the eating disorder community with binge-purge type bulimia nervosa actually started participating in B-P behaviors due to orthorexic, not anorexic behaviors - in layman's terms, it means they restricted the types of foods they ate, rather than total energy intake. While I believe physical satiety is very important, it is not enough on its own. There is a mental/emotional aspect to eating that has to be respected. As a cyclist I have always found a high carbohydrate diet has worked well for me. Despite deriving ~45% of my daily energy from carbohydrates, I maintain a healthy body fat level (15.4% by DXA tested recently) and my hemoglobin A1c when last tested was 4.6. I have never found any compelling evidence that my participation in a high carbohydrate diet is in any way detrimental to my health. To the contrary I find that any time I try to deviate from this diet, while my body can adapt, it simply doesn't result in optimal performance or recovery time for me in particular. I'm also not so narcissistic as to think that because my diet works for me, that it would be better for others as well. Absolutely not. In fact I know plenty of people in my life for whom my diet would likely be unhealthy.

Let's be fair here. A zealot who goes low carb, feels better and loses weight has every right to be excited. I was this way on a Zone Diet back in the 1990's. I didn't need a stinking study to interpret what happened to me. And, if it happened to me, **maybe** it could happen for.someone else, so why not recommend it and speak highly of it? I do agree that extrapolating out to the entire population of Earth is a bridge way too far. But, guess what? The only way to know if a diet works for **you** is to test it out to n good faith. No study will prove something works for any given person outside the study! I never went keto because 40-30-30ish has always worked well for me, and I can easily maintain it. The lesson here is that we have to use discernment and try diets that sound reasonable to see what impact it has on us. I do summarily recommend that people avoid foods fortified with microscopic rusty iron filings, though. Look up "Iron Behaving Badly Douglas B. Kell" for more information.

Been waiting for this video 💪🙌🤘

I freaking love the ending!

LMFAO!!! I love that beginning

Great video as always❤️

The meatloaf comment got me #weddingcrashers

Thanks for the video! Say hello to your mother for me! :P

I low carb to lower inflammation because of coronary risk I have. Only real reason.

Loving those editing skills !! 😝 Thanks for the info !!! Very interesting !! 💪🏼 #roadto8percentbodyfat

Personally i can say that the more carbs i eat the better i could sustain my weight and loose aswell, where as higher fat makes me gain rather quick, and for whatever reason my nipples gets puffy whenever i eat high fat. If i just eat a pizza i will have puffy nips for a few days. And if i were to go back to eating higher fat everyday id gain 2-4 lbs in a week plus constant puffy nipples.

My experience. I was laid off from work Jan 1 2018. I was at 257lb. Had labs done, doc said I had high hdl and LDL and a fatty liver. Subscribed to dr. Bergs channel and started intermittent fasting for two weeks on maintenance calories(down to 252lb)then I added his keto diet plan with 16/8 fast daily for two months(down to 222lb). At that point I was eating around 3200 calories on lifting days. In march I started working full time as a chef and still lifting after work (keto+16/8 fast) so I increased my daily calorie to 4,200 with Thomas Delaware keto workout advice. Fasted lifts -First set- 4 reps 80%/ 2nd&3rd sets 20 reps 70% effort. I started seeing lean gain(stayed at 220lb) until thanksgiving. Today I'm at 236lb. Legs, chest and back grow a lot and seeing alot of soft fat around upper torso.

Layne the type of guy to take the $10 charge so he can sync with MyFitnessPal

I agree that there are keto and low-carb zealots out there who rave so much about eating that way you would expect the diet to clean the kitchen floor and pay the bills for you; well, almost. And WTF is double labeled water? I assume it is not the same thing as heavy water, but all I can imagine is one label glued over another one on those annoying plastic water bottles that people leave everywhere.

Love it Can’t agree with you more!

Have you tested your estradiol levels lately Dr. Norton?

Ohh,Love you Layne💕

I'm Lada diabetes. Low carb is the only choice I have.

Not watched video yet but will do later. I keep hearing low carb is better for my type 2 diabetes. But if I do fasted cardio in the morning steady paced 45-60 mins I've noticed I can go McDonalds and have a sweet chilli chicken wrap and apple pie and not spike my blood sugars so much at all where as before they'd shoot way above 10. Last night i had a bic mac large meal and an apple pie and some Galaxy chocolate and bloods went to 10.2 (Uk) woke up 1kg lighter today lol.

STOP MAKING SENSE! Everything was so much easier when I just believed that one food group was evil. I didn't lose weight though. But I guess that was because of those pesky fluorides.

Thanks you man

Mediterranean Keto diet is the way to go.

It's kinda bothersome to see that people can manipulate studies in such a way to produce a desirable outcome... Think about other areas of sciences where this is happening and negatively impactng the masses.