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There are three factors I've been hearing a lot about, particularly in Thomas's videos, and I would love to hear a holistic approach encompassing all three: 1) chronic levels of cortisol/stress and its effect on gluconeogenesis, insulin, and the resultant fat storage; 2) using keto to ease anxiety symptoms; 3) diet and supplement recommendations for managing chronically high levels of cortisol. I get the sense that we're spending so much time micromanaging our glucose/insulin/ketone levels, while chronic stress cortisol hijacks all our efforts due to mitochondrial dysfunction. It feels like we're missing the biggest component, with "manage your stress" being an afterthought most of the time.
Fasting will normalize your cortisol over time. Cortisol is also fine when insulin is low (fasting) but it's a major problem when insulin is high. Cortisol is an energy producing hormone, and when not in ketosis it will burn lean tissue to make it! Some of the many benefits of doing occasional extended fasting: Blood clotting is reduced and blood clots and arterial plaque are reabsorbed into the body. High blood pressure is lowered to normal levels very quickly while fasting. Fibrosis/scarring is reversed over time. Fasting increases nitric oxide release. Vitamin D plasma levels are increased as fasting improves metabolic health, and vitamin D in turn increases autophagy. Stomach acid is reduced over time while fasting and can allow for the healing of treatment resistant ulcers, but some patients may need continued acid reducation medication while fasting. Telomeres are lengthened and fasting also increases anti-aging Yamanaka factors. Fasting stimulates phagocytosis, the ingestion of bacteria, plaques and viruses by the immune system. It will also remove any 'foreign material' that is not supposed to be there. Reflexes and short term memory are increased. Fasts from 36-96 h actually INCREASE metabolic rate due to norepinephrine release! After 72 hours or more fasted, your body recycles as much as 1/3 of all immune bodies and creates new ones, rejuvenating your entire immune system. Fasting can help with MS, Depression, BPD, Autism and seizures. Thymus is regenerated, which suppresses aging and renews the immune system. The thymus also plays a vital role in fighting cancer. Weight loss from daily caloric restriction has 1/4 to 1/3 of the weight lost as lean tissue while many studies show fat loss from 36 h fasts without losing any lean tissue! The hunger hormone ghrelin also lowers with extended fasting and rises from dieting. Blood sugar and insulin are lowered, allowing white blood cells to move more freely throughout the body and do their job. Some viruses activate glycolosis (the release of sugar in the body) and clinically it has been shown that decreasing glucose metabolism in the body weakens the influenza virus. When you move out of MTOR your body shuts down the building blocks of the cell which are used to produce organelles and proteins. This means the mechanisms needed by viruses to replicate are by and large unavailable when you are in a deeply fasted state. What breaks a fast? Anything with protein or carbohydrates in it will break a fast, though if the amount is tiny you will go back into ketosis very quickly. Most teas and herbs are OK. Most supplements and meds will either break ketosis directly or contain a filler that will. Many meds are dangerous to take while fasting. Does fasting lower testosterone? No, it raises it when the fast is broken by increasing lutenizing hormone. Fasting also increases insulin sensitivity, which helps with muscle building. Fasts of 36-96 will not affect short term female fertility or affect menstrual cycle. They also may increase long term fertility, especially in women with PCOS. The hormone Leptin is an immunomodulator that keeps the body from attacking itself and obesity causes leptin resistance. Fasting very quickly reduces leptin resistance and leptin levels and one day of fasting can cut your leptin levels in half and gets your immune system working properly again! Does the body preferentially prefer glucose as a fuel? No, except for brief periods of very intense exercise, your body mainly burns fats in the form of free fatty acids. Fasting stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will cause cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses and kill cancerous and senescent cells. AMPK does many helpful things in the body including activating the body's antioxidant defenses. Deep ketosis virtually eliminates chronic inflammation in the body. When not in ketosis, the brain can only burn carbohydrate, which produces a great deal of damaging ROS the brain has to deal with. It increases mitochondrial function and repairs mitichondrial DNA, leading to improved ATP production and oxygen efficiency and thereby making cells better able to fight off infection. Increased mitochondrial function also has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism and cancer prevention! When you fast, this stimulates apoptosis in senescent or genetically damaged cells, which destroys them. Senescent cells are responsible for many of the effects of aging and are a root cause of the development of cancer. Fasting also releases BDNF and NGF in the blood which stimulates new nerve and brain cell growth. This can help a great deal with diseases like MS, peripheral neuropathy and Alzheimers. In fact, the biochemical regulator of BDNF production is beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the same ketone the body produces to nourish the brain while fasting. Fasting also increases telomere length, negating some of the effects of aging at a cellular level. A fasting mimicking diet for 3-5 days in a row also provides many of the same benefits as water fasting. FMD usually has 200-800 calories, under 18 g of protein and extremely low carbs. Exogenous ketones can aid with fasting, making it easier in healthy people and allowing some people with specific issues to fast in spite of them without worrying as much about hypoglycemia. Children, pregnant or nursing women should not fast for periods longer than 16 hours. People with pancreatic tumors or certain forms of hypoglycemia generally cannot fast at all. Type 1 diabetics can also fast but it is more complicated and should be approached with caution as it could lead to ketoacidosis. Those with Addison's disease may also be unable to fast without liberal use of exogenous ketones, depending on severity. If you experience extreme symptoms of some kind, especially dizziness then simply break the fast and seek advice. 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It’s all pretty simple for me when it comes to fasting, keto, counting calories, ETC.. WHEN I’m not bothered/stressed by everyday people/situations I just simply care a little less than most people I guess…
Agree, the emotional dimension should be the primary focus. I guess these influencers are dieticians so they focus on food, but it doesnt need to be a limited consideration, it should always be holistic. In a holistic evaluation it should be acknowledged that there is a hierarchy of influential factors. The psychological / emotional, mental, mind and state of consciousness should be of primary concern and these factors are most times linked to the food choices we make, using food as emotional support. Addressing any unresolved childhood trauma, taking a look at breathing habits, ruminating thinking, anxiety, depression, having a distorted self-image. Meditation and diaphragmatic breathing taken seriously as tools for emotional rebalancing. Then food / diet and exercise should enter the picture.
I bought a CGM to see what my body is doing and I found that smaller portions with a balanced meal (protein, fiber, fat,carbs) that my blood sugar rises about 20-30 points and then goes down to baseline within the two hour mark. Now if I eat takeout food like cheap chain pizza I spike and plateau there for a couple of hours and then it finally goes down. Now this happens when I don’t move after eating with no problems, blood sugar spikes and then is back down to 85 after two hours. If I were to go for a walk immediately after eating it would go down in about in hour. I had gestational diabetes and they follow the same protocol, know your baseline, check after two hours and see where you are at. But wearing a CGM was life changing for me.
It's not just the food we eat, but we really are meant to fast occasionally. That is the biggest change in human lifestyle of the last few centuries. Before then almost every winter was a very lean time.
@Beastbombshell not true. Roman diet was based on bread and porridge but of course, back then half of your salary was just for bread and you would use every calorie. Now we sit at a computer for 8h eating pizza that would feed a legionnaire for days
@@zebra7462 yes you do, but your body can make carbs it needs from protein. The difference with eating actual carbs is that you are less likely to overeat if you eat protein instead of carbs. In one scenario, your body gets the sugars it must process and utilize, and if there is surplus, it turns into body fat. If you eat protein, it's more versatile and can be used for muscle synthesis and repair and also for production of sugar and if you don't overdo protein, the body will produce only as much sugar it needs.
Lyle McDonald nailed it in the 90s...with his CYCLICAL ketogenic diet. Not always one thing..not always keto..the body adapts. Change things up. Bodybuilders know this with carb cycling. Low days, high days. Based around training. It works. It always has.
i've done lyle's rapid fat loss which is basically a psmf w just enough protein to sustain lean mass and veg w fish oil. no carbs. allowed 1 free meal w carbs per week. i lasted about 10 weeks. i was younger and don't think i want to do that extreme again, soi what is his protocol for carb cycling? what;s the schedule and how many carbs ob carb days? thanks
@@jeffreyeliot carb cycling is usually every 3-4 days, you have a carbs meal, before metabolism slows into starvation mode, and keeps metabolism changing.
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POV: Exercise after you eat. Fasting and exercise are always and forever will be most effective. If you can’t workout, fast. If you can’t fast, workout. PERIOD. Goodbye❤.
I've personally noticed that by not snacking, I feel more "full" into my fasts and less hungry/wanting to eat food while fasting. Having filling (but still healthy in terms of macros/micros) meals, not snacking, and exercising (or at least engaging in moderate physical activity like walking) is definitely the way if you want to lose weight (at least that's what I've found works well for me).
Thomas, you are perfectly YOU! Thank you for sharing and being vulnerable. I so identify with lots of your story. You have made a great difference in my life and I am sure millions of others. You are loved by millions!!!!!
I had a feeling about this.. wearing a glucose monitor I actually gained weight keeping it flat all the time, I decided to ditch the monitor, start tracking calories but allow for 1 or 2 meals without snacking and workout right after eating and I lost 24 lbs… I for sure had a spike 1 or 2 times a day but that’s supposed to happen and is natural and all this fear of spikes in healthy ppl is causing more harm then good, I made a video about my experience with this a couple months ago regarding glucose montors backfiring
I've been wearing a CGM off and on for several years now - every time my hA1C starts creeping up. I am not diabetic nor pre but have family history of it. Anyhow what I wanted to say was I was concerned about how high my levels go sometimes after eating certain foods. It generally comes right back down so my doctor says I am good, but then I listen to a lot of health podcasts and their are folks/doctors out there saying it should never go above 125. Mine does sometimes. I liked that you said it is normal to shoot up but notice how long it stays there! Thanks so much!
I’ve learned a lot watching your videos. The thing I respect is that they are based in science. You don’t rant and rave and get crazy, you simply refer to the studies or trials. I’ve heard you talk about the benefits of exercise in a fasted state. But I’ve also heard you talk about the importance of exercise after you eat in order to stabilize glucose levels. This may not have a clear answer, but which is better for you metabolically - exercise before or after you eat. Thanks for the videos, keep ‘‘em coming!
I do not know of anyone who is not stressed in the world and who obsesses on sugars, carbs, etc. And who has cortisol---the reason I am finding it hard to loose FAT in lieu of anything (including money) else.
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Might be good to find out how long it takes you to come down from a spike and eat only after it's back towards your fasting level. For me if I eat my normal breakfast (2 eggs omelet w/mushrooms, onions, and peppers, 2 pieces of turkey bacon, piece of pepper jack cheese, on a keto friendly tortilla my glucose is about 10-20 points higher than fasting after 3 hours. And I'm a diabetic. So at 3 hours I could eat again which I like since I eat in 3 hour intervals. Keep losing weight everyone. It's the key to health. Calories matter.
You are awesome! You’re the first person I discovered on RU-vid started keto diet to live a healthy lifestyle went from 260 to 185 and 47 years old and I still kept it off. I usually do not exceed 100 g of carbs Daily you’re the best
If your sugar is at healthy baseline levels and you eat just meat, you will not spike insulin. There are studies that prove this. Glucagon does get spiked and sugar goes up about 20 points or so. But insulin doesn’t. It’s the one time sugar will go one but insulin won’t. If meat is eaten at a higher level of glucose above a healthy baseline or with carbs, it will absolutely spike both sugar and insulin. The glycemic baseline makes or breaks this. That’s why eating a hamburger brings out a different response than just eating the same amount of calories in just the hamburger patties.
When we are always eating & snacking our bodies are always in a state of digestion which prevents our bodies from functioning properly / normally. It also prevents repair and regeneration as well as preventing the release of our bodies HGH. That's never a good thing. 🙏
Hello, so I'm a t1d person and started a carnivore diet in December and iv only just last week lost 7 lbs. My bs no. are so much better 78-140 nothing 200s anymore but I think ki was getting to much fat so iam now going to start keto/ carnivore to see if my body will kick in the weight loss. No extra fat so wish me luck. I'll be looking for your videos more. Thank you 😊
Yeah I started low carb and only eating lunch and dinner with 19 hours of fasting and have lost over 70 lbs. And my wife eats at the same times as I do but she eats more carbs. She has also lost weight. So I agree this is key. One of the issues also is the quality of food. Junk is junk.
Looking back at the info lately on excercise, diet, weight, insulin resitance and sleep, it seems that cycling all of this is what we are built to do. Some periods of fasting longer and then shorter, some periods of less or no meat, some periods or more and then less carbs, more cardio periods, then less with more weights. But in all, avoid processed foods, fresh is best, sit a LOT less and alcohol most likely is more harmful than helpful (ugh- I still like my occasional glass of wine :/).
Glucose spikes are important to those that want to avoid damage to the walls of arteries, arterioles, and capillaries. Temporary rise in glucose is fine, high spikes are not.
I was wearing a CGM for a while and found the information very interesting and great information about which food i could eat and which one kept my glucose levitated to a long time
To the extent you can generalize, carbs (which become glucose / blood sugar) on a scale of 10 spike insulin to around 9 on average; protein spikes insulin to around 4.5; fat spikes insulin to around 1. High-carb loads and carb loads frequently throughout the day keep insulin, the fat-storage / blocks-fat-burning hormone secreted by the pancreas, sustained high. Sustained high insulin causes SUSTAINED energy storage / fat creation and there is no need for or mechanism to burn existing body fat when you are in SUSTAINED fat creation / storage mode. This is why people restrict or eliminate carbs, and may moderate protein, to achieve ketosis / fat-burning for energy (instead of glucose).
This was right on time Tom.. Thanks so much for all that you do.. Been following you for over 2 years and it seems that every video you do you are speaking directly to me because your always on time with things that i tend to forget along the way as ive been on my Keto/ intermittent fasting journey. Trying to transition between totally keto at the moment. Thanks again Thomas you're Awesome!
The fault with this thinking is, if you have chronic insulin spikes that don’t go back down, the gap between meals won’t be enough, and it will still be elevated by the next meal, and absolutely no fat loss will happen between those meals. If insulin levels are chronic and not going down, then you need to ask why it’s happening. Thyroid dysfunction, uric acid , what foods you’re eating etc etc.
@@isabellegiorgis2975 I do some poultry & some seafood if I'm out to eat. But I limit it bc I love animals & don't want to contribute to their demises as much as possible =)
Growing up in Cuba I feel Blessed, in Cuba there is not such a thing like "Snacks" you eat your regular meal and that's it !! So moving to North America no snacking was not a big deal, and absolutely I never see the point of that and my Fasting is so much easier !! Today I have 48 Hours of Fasting already and going for 72 !
I gain weight when I eat carb in the evening. I lose some weight if I eat protein at night. My spouse, after a heart attack, decided to lose weight. He ate, at that time, a piece of fish at noon and a piece of salmon at night fry in olive oil. He lost 30 lbs in 30 days. Later, whenever he drank white wine with salmon, he even lost more weight than eating salmon alone.
History of My Problems About January of 2023 I passed out while waiting for a taxi at the Plaza del Sol Mall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Just prior to losing consciousness I had walked about ½ block in the hot Sun which made me feel very weak. I think I was out for just a few seconds. When I came to there was a crowd around me trying to help me. I felt 100% weak but no pain. I had a tremendous urge to sh*t my pants which I did not have before but happily I was able to restrain myself. This urge passed after maybe 10 minutes. The people helped me to get up and sit in a chair. I could not stand or walk. (Thank you, my nice PR neighbors!) They called an ambulance which took me to the VA Hospital in San Juan at my request. I am classified as a 100% disabled Vietnam veteran due to PTSD, hearing loss and agent orange exposure. (actually shell shock, I was knocked out by explosion 3 or 4 times.) The VA hospital was air conditioned and I became terribly cold. Really terribly cold. I told the VA staff about this and requested extra blankets but they did not furnish any or even explain why they wouldn't. After about an hour of suffering from the cold a doctor talked to me and he likewise ignored my request for more blankets. I asked him if he would discharge me. I told him I wanted to go home and warm up. He said OK and I was deposited at the hospital entrance where I lingered in the nice hot Sun for about 15 minutes to regain my strength then I called a cab and went home. THE SECOND TIME I PASSED OUT. I was at the San Patricio Mall in San Juan getting a haircut and I was feeling OK. Afterwards the barber gave me a piece of hard candy that was basically pure sugar and I ate it. Big Mistake. Very soon I felt myself getting very weak just like the previous pass out time and I had the urge again to sh*t. I asked the barber shop people if I could use their bathroom. I entered the bathroom and tried to sh*t but produced nothing. I felt myself getting much weaker so I laid down on the floor so that if I passed out at least I would not fall and crack my skull. After about 10 minutes the barber shop people asked through the closed door if I were OK. I asked them to call an ambulance and they did. I did not actually pass out this time but only because I had the sense to lay down. The ambulance took me to the VA hospital and it was basically a replay of the previous trip to the VA hospital. I was very cold and asked for extra blankets but they neither furnished any nor did they say why they wouldn't. A doctor asked me some questions and also ignored my request for extra blankets. I asked to be discharged and she said OK. After warming up in the Sun outside I called a cab and went home. The next time I almost passed out was about a month later when I called a cab to go to the mall for shopping. I was feeling OK and I took a big drag of marijuana. That was a big mistake. When it was time to meet the cab outside I started walking to the front of the building to meet it. I felt weakness overcome me very rapidly and I laid down because I knew I would pass out for sure. The cab pulled up and I told the driver I was having a medical emergency and told him to cancel the ride. He took off and I laid there for about five minutes in the warm Sun and I was slowly feeling better. My landlady appeared and she summoned a neighbor who understands English which she does not. I told them not to call an ambulance because I was terrified of going to the air conditioned VA hospital. I told them to help me back to my room which they did and after a few hours I was more or less OK again. Currently, I feel very weak all the time. I don’t get dizzy but if I walk very much or try to carry groceries for example I start to get weak and feel like passing out which I prevent by lying down. If I stand up real quick I feel terrible lose my balance so I stand up very slowly. This condition also affected me after I returned from Vietnam but abated when I stopped eating junk food and started exercising and stopped drinking like a fish. My appetite is very low. My right arm hurts as does the right side of my neck and lower right back. I don’t smoke tobacco but I do smoke pot which seems to be harmless but drains my walking batteries so to speak so I don't smoke it unless I’m home and never before I go shopping. I did not drink a single drop of alcohol during all this time. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME? I’m 76 years old. I’m about 20 lbs overweight. I don't exercise except for walking when shopping. I almost pass out when carrying groceries. Sugar, smoking pot and physical exertion all induce weakness. Sugar is easy to avoid and I've cut back on marijuana but I must go to the store for food. I can only walk about 100 yards before I must sit down and rest. I am terrified of going to the VA because the cold air makes things worse. If anyone has advice please tell me what you think.
Maybe POTS or thiamine deficiency? Something to do with vagus nerve or disregulation of autonomic nervous system. What was your blood pressure reading at the hospital? Blood sugar readings?
Maybe POTS or thiamine deficiency? Something to do with vagus nerve or disregulation of autonomic nervous system. What was your blood pressure reading at the hospital? Blood sugar readings?
Video suggestion. Can you please film the foods you are eating throughout the day for a period of 7 days. Curious how balanced, the variety and the amount you eat as I am struggling with these. Would you eat the same amounts as a carb included diet and as frequently?
That's why you don't mix carbs with fats. Cells shouldn't even think about fat oxidation if you consume carbs. Otherwise, your blood sugar wouldn't drop that fast to relieve you from this glucose stress on your whole body.
Hey Thomas, can you please elaborate the differences with insulin spikes from protein compared to carbs? How does protein induce glucagon as well when consumed but not carbs 🤔
Protein powder may induce insulin spike because it's digested fast and amino acids are insulinogenic, but regular meat especially if it has some fat in it isn't likely to do so. Unless you eat something sweet along with it, it may raise your blood sugar more and cause an insulin spike, too.
@@inquisitivenessandcontempl9918 I imagine it would depend on the powder, tbh. Whey protein powder wouldn’t surprise me at all but a straight casein powder or a blend using casein digests much more slowly.
Uhm, I don't have a spike 30 min after meal, it comes around 1hour15 to the full high. This is the recommendation you should have a check. Around 2 to 2 hours 30 my glucose is down to the level before meal or slightly lower depends on the food I take. After Carbs, like rice pudding (love this stuff) it drops more than Steak with veg and potato.
I won't ever get into that stuff. Just follow some keto principles, lift weights at the gym a few x's a week, ACV, vitamin/min supplements & so far I feel good & I'm not overweight & starving all day long
You’re essentially talking about respiratory quotient floating up to reflect carbohydrate utilization as the primary energy source limiting fat utilization. Makes sense in theory, however with some of the best dietary studies ever executed with metabolic ward studies the high fat low carb versus low fat high carb diets paired against each other with calories and protein matched between groups shows us there’s no difference between each group in total weight, body mass, fat mass, or lean mass.
Thanks for recommending Kevin’s foods; the meals are all delicious. They’re so good it makes us feel like we’re cheating. We really like how the meals have so much protein too. We tried the cauliflower pasta for our higher carb day yesterday, OMG yum! Your vids are awesome and they have really helped me and my husband, thank you.
It’s almost painful to watch when you’re trying to slow down your speech. We love your natural true excited normal speed, please don’t slow yourself down!
In the last 12 months I could probably count on one hand how many times I have had snacks between meals. It’s the one thing in my diet I try to stay ultra strict on.
I think you dont want to be hyperglycaemic or hypoglycaemic. You want to keep yourself in a range. If you are metabolically healthy and you dont let your blood sugar get too high, it wont get too low.
Please can you talk about how high glucose can impact joint health. And also other dietary factors influencing osteoarthritis pain. Osteoarthritis is one of the leading causes of disability. And the prevalence is increasing in the western world. Often hip replacements and pain killers are the only factors talked about by healthcare professionals. No one advises patients on scientific dietary changes to promote healthy joints, reduce inflammation and reduce muscle stiffness and wasting
About snacks: I've never understood the need for having snacks on a daily meal plan. When you plan your day and meals better, you don't need snacks. Of course, there can be that off day when you need a snack. Why do I think this way? Snacks are often packaged in 250 or 500 kcal units. That means you have to skip a regular meal, otherwise you're above your goal by 200 - 300 kcal. It's too risky.
If you want to gain weight, then why not? For me it's very hard to eat too much in my meals, not mentioning how much stomach discomfort I get if I overeat. Snacking fatty nuts and seeds for me is the best option right now
@@Dostav Cool, thanks for your perspective! I didn't think about the people who have these discomforts when their meal is higher in volume, so they need smaller meals and snack to keep up.
quick question that I have not seen just yet .... everyone always says that "ketosis a process that happens when your body doesnt have enough carbohydrates to burn for energy" also known as the "reserve" fuel. What if the geniuses were wrong about this much like everything else? Follow me here .... yes our body will spike blood sugar with carbs especially if we have been on keto ... yes in fact why is this not "normal" "insulin" is a just he mechanism to stave off death when we run out of proper human food "meat" ... I mean hell for thousands of years this is how we evolved and the vegan experts have it bassackwards as usual?... this is how bears get fat for hibernation right ? loads up on carbs and gets plenty of fat so they can be sustained during the winter for a slow consistent burn of fuel... makes perfect sense to me!
As a 30 year diabetic, exercise does help to move the spike down. But let me add one more thing that does it too. Sauna right after I eat has a remarkable effect on my spikes. In fact it seems at times stronger.
One thing. In 6:13 Thomas says that insulin resistance is about that body produces not enough insulin in response to glucose. It’s kind of misconception. Insulin resistance is when body produces too much insulin, and that’s because the insulin receptors in cells are not responding to insulin. To cure insulin resistance we need to cut off carbs, which causes weight loss and then we develop again insulin sensitivity.
I don't think so. Yes, insulin resistance is when cells don't respond to insulin very well, but it's cells problem, not of high insulin in your blood. It's insulin deficiency problem. And I didn't mention that keto causes insulin resistance too. Cells are very unlikely to take glucose from your blood, even though you have insulin. Tha leads to even more insulin secretion. You have misplaced an egg with a chicken.
@@Dostav We can test insulin level by blood test, and it occurs that insulin is very high along with high glucose and low glucose. When one’s insulin resistant, body defends itself from too much insulin. The form of keto which I know- eating natural food, for example meat and eggs cannot cause insulin resistance because it actually cures that.
@@jote3400 you don't understand, do you? We need insulin, it helps us to lower blood sugar. The more insulin in our blood - the faster it will go away, if you have no insulin resistance. If you don't believe me in insulin deficiency, then listen to Dr. Berg in his video "The Surprising facts about Insulin"
@@jote3400 also, if you eat fats with carbs, then those fats cause acute insulin resistance, because they compete with glucose in cells for giving energy. That causes blood sugar to stay high for longer, what causes more insulin to secrete to remove the sugar. That's why vegan diets with low-fat also work to lose weight and reduce insulin resistance. All this while keto in the long term causes insulin resistance, because cells forget how to burn glucose for energy and they lose their ability to take sugar from the blood that well because there is less GLUT4 on their outside membranes. You can't cheat on keto with high GI foods, you will get prolong hyperglycemia and your pancreas will produce so much insulin as if you were diabetic, but it's just glucose intolerance from doing keto for long time.
How about this new bombshell big research from Harvard Louisiana and New Orleans among 400K Americans that showed that low fat/high carb diet is 21-34% better for your life expectancy than a normal diet. A Keto high fat/low carb diet is 28-38% worse. RU-vid does not allow links posts here but you can find it under Harvard Louisiana and New Orleans study on carb and fat. Hope you can look into it.
This year I have experimented, with carnivore, keto, low carb, low fat, low calorie. I am going back to counting calories. By the way I cannot eat no more than 600 calories a day, and if I eat too much meat/protein I don't lose weight. I actually lost more weight in the past eating Boca Burgers, which are non GMO soy protein.. Also stay away from all nuts cheese and chocolate.
False!!!!! It can be reversed but take time. Very important is the diet and lifestyle to be changed too. It took me a year to reverse my stubborn 20 years prediabetes with a complete lifestyle change. The damages take time to heal
@@jesseshaver2262 ‘remission’? Insulin resistance is not an ‘illness’…it is a symptom of what is happening in your body. It can def be reversed, and stay consistently lower. I have done it, by the way I eat, fast, and exercise. 💕
@@LeeB5 some say insulin resistance causes permanent cellular changes. That upstream from the insulin resistance, there is other stuff going on. That is why I asked
Insulin resistance isn't a disease for sure, it's just a state that you should utilise for your own good. If you have that resistance then you should burn fat, if you have burned a lot of it already, then you either stay keto or return to carbs, I would choose it by season.
