I started my Ketogenic diet 3 months ago and have lost 28 pounds and no longer need to take my blood pressure meds. Zero sugar, less than 20 grams of carbs (if I do eat any) per day, walk and ride my bike, I'm 62 and feel better than I have in years. Thank you for your education! I'm still not eating sardine though.
You hit the nail on the head Annette. Modern medicine seems to be more involved in treatment, rather than reversing and curing the disease. There’s no money in curing disease, but lots of money in treatment and management. I am happy to see this video, display your desire to reverse disease and find the root cause to eliminate future problems with your patient .
I find it amazing how well you are able to talk to the camera, it really is like you are in the same room, your delivery of the subject is 100% and I cannot get enough of the work you do mainly because of your knowledge and down to earth approach. Amazing, keep up the good work, 100% appreciated.
Outstanding personal & professional insight on sugar addiction! I am a sugar addict, but have been sugar free over 4 years now, including NO fruits - not even a berry. I only eat real foods: meat, butter, bacon, eggs, some dairy, and a few veggies when in season, from the local Farmer's Market. I am liking your YT videos more and more. Your genuineness is like a breath of fresh air. Thanks for all you are doing.
Dr. Boz you are such a beautiful lady! Thank you for being real with all of us. I have improved myself with your information along with other keto information on this RU-vid platform. I am a recent widow and it has been hard but I vowed I would not go backwards just forward in every decision that I make! I didn't find keto and fasting until 2023 while I was scrolling through RU-vid videos. Much love and respect ❤️
I got introduced to keto about 10 years ago after reading both Maker's Diet and Whole 300. I was diagnosed with Crohn's in 2006 and was desperate for anything that would keep me in remission. Started keto in 2016 and was looking and feeling so much better. Of course, an emotional crisis derailed me and since 2018, I have ballooned with the "help" of anxiety meds (which I would love to throw away forever). After several months of watching you and Dr. Berry, my husband and son went fully ketovore a year ago and have dropped a combined 200 lbs. Off all meds, no more psoriasis or T2D, sleeping better, etc. I joined them halfheartedly bc of my horrible sugar addiction. Recommitted myself 4 days ago and am already firmly in ketosis with more energy, happier, ready to kick some butt. Your pragmatic truth and straight talk has been so encouraging!
I hear you. There's an astonishing amount of help an individual can actually do for themselves, but so many want an "easier, softer" way, in the form of prescriptions and comfort food. It's not easy to turn around, but astonishingly effective, when a person can, or will, do it. Thank you for all you do to spread the word, and thank you for sharing this backstory, Doc.
As a 58 year young OMAD carnivore finally dropped the 30 lb I’ve been stuck with even on low carb now I’m down to the weight I was 20 years ago when i did the Ironman triathlon without the 20 hrs a weeks of training!
Don't be too hard on yourself Doc. Think of all the good and positive knowledge you are providing to people who will quite probably never meet you. I count you among the most influential during my four+ year keto journey. I'm still chipping away at my chronic high blood pressure but I feel amazing while doing it.
We've all had to battle against addiction/depression at some point, and food is usually what we turn to for comfort, but it can quickly start adding to the problem. Thanks for sharing and reaching out to help others, you're a good soul ❤❤
Thanks for the inspiration, Dr. Boz. Although I have done a few 14-days extended fasts, I just came off a 21-day extended fast, spending 16-days with a GKI < 1.0 (DBR < 17.0). My main goal is to eliminate my stage-2 hypertension and periodontal pockets. With both goals, I have seen empirical success. Additionally, I have lost considerable amount of visceral-and adipose-fat, on the journey from muffin top to stud muffin--the ladies at my gym having taken notice, they having plenty of questions.
Dr Boz, you saved my life years ago with keto. I’m forever grateful and so excited as you about Dr Casey Means Good Energy. Doesn’t surprise me you have a similar story. You both have been such a beacon for all of us! ❤ thank you from Idaho veterans
Being a survivor of my childhood I had a number of coping mechanisms. They helped me survive but weren’t useful today. It is like wearing an arctic jacket while living in Alaska. It helped you survive but will kill you if you wear it in Florida. What is tough is finding and confronting those coping mechanisms. It is do-able but takes effort and diligence.
@@tarabooartarmy3654 Been working on it. I am convinced that in surviving the abuse my brain turned down the volume controls on incoming inputs. It looks like the volume controls only work one way and don’t auto-correct when the abuse is stopped. I’m also looking for ways to reverse the problem.
@@billbucktube I experienced something similar. Ended up morbidly obese with a host of health issues. I’ve lost 100 pounds and counting but it took years of trying to reverse the food addiction. It’s still a struggle at times. I wish you all the best!
It is a "hard" pill to swallow when those working amongst this system wake up to how many they have contributed to worse health and even worse...thank you for your honestly. We need a patient and provider re-volution. But health begins with honestly
Hi Dr. Boz, I watch GPS and Physcian specialists.. Just Give out Meds, and retired Medical Doctors continue to put “their heads in the sand”by Living soo Badly and Not look after themselves! 😮 Tnx For Trying to Help us! 💐🥰
You are so appreciated! Thanks for all you do ❤Being on the leading edge isn’t easy so I commend you on your honesty progressive thinking and tenacity 🎉🇨🇦
Your story is incredibly interesting but very heartbreaking 💔 as well but totally relatable too so many , life is very hard and full of sadness and pain and so many reach out for foods and sweets and liquor and other things to find comfort 😢 it's a vicious cycle and all of us that have addictions caused by past drama need to realize it & address it to enable us to have a chance to even get better from this hidden inner problem, this was a eye opening video God bless you for sharing your true life situation and story about your Mom very heart wrenching stuff Annette. 🥀 we loveu for your unwavering ways of helping people and for being so Real !! Your truly Amazing!! 🫡🤗💜🫶🙌🙏👩🔬
I'm so grateful for you Dr. Boz! I have learned so much from you! Thank you for the priceless information you have instilled in me, I'm forever grateful! ❤
Love. This. Sharing that story couldn’t be easy but it shows your “why”. It took me 3 months to summon courage to start 36 hour fasts and by the 4th fast I started doing alternate day fasting. But the key was that weight loss wasn’t a big enough reason for me. It was tracking and defeating insulin resistance, it was getting my blood pressure under control and I decided that if I ever needed to fast in response to something like cancer, I didn’t want to climb both hills at the same time. It’s great to see MDs finally take a stand against a system that’s rigged against everyone but insurance/pharma/hospital. This is the movement that matters.
My shelter from a violent, abusive father was peanut butter & jelly with Frito's. He died of obesity at age 33, Thanked God for taking him out of my life at age 12. I still, at age 66 feel the same. My father died, but my addiction to Peanut Butter had a satanic grip on me that turned out to be my Cherry Nut ice cream. It took me the last three years to break that chain of addiction. Once I began drawing strength from my Carnivore support group, I lost 65 lbs in 8 months. Giving up jelly was easy. My Carnivore support group: Baker, Bella, Berry, Boz, Chafee, Lilly Kane, Hogan, Rina & Spath.....to date. Maintaining a caloric deficit daily is not hard work if it's what you WANT TO DO.
Good for you! You changed your life. It isn't easy to do, but you're right. If you want to you can. I am going to take this to heart and do it! ❤ Thank you for sharing your experience.
@@andreatf1 Dr Berry, steak and butter gal, and Kelly hogan all have groups you can join. My favorite is nutrition with Judy. If you're having serious health issues you can't seem to resolve or addiction issues that would be my first choice. Good luck and don't give up. It can get so much better!
Love hearing this story. I have learned so much from you on this channel, the most important being that I needed to change my body's chemistry (I barely passed chemistry in high school! LOL). I had gotten down to 145lbs several years ago, but even having a liver abscess (from a dropped gall stone) I still didn't get below 145 even though all I could eat was salad and salmon. When I was in the hospital for the abscess (took them a week to fix that issue) the doctor overseeing my case told me over several days that my ketones were very high, but never gave me a number. Still, stayed at 145. Then early last year I found your channel, and learned all about how to get into ketosis. I had gained much more than I wanted over the covid pandemic and was up to about 170! So I bought the Keto Mojo meter you talk about and started testing myself, while following your advice. I got sardines into the cupboard, and they sat there for a month before I finally tried them. Now I know, they are THE superfood! I finally got into real ketosis and dropped down to 130lbs, the weight I was when I got married at age 26! Now I manage my weight easily and as you talk about, find something to do when I feel that I want to eat. Fasting isn't easy, and I don't have anyone helping, but just getting up and doing something, even going for a walk, keeps me from eating. It helped that I'm retired now. While I was working as an IT manager I would eat a bag of Peanut M&Ms everyday after lunch (not instead!). Twelve years ago that included a can of soda, but I ditched soda as an addiction 12 years ago and am so glad! But stress was my enemy, I'd seen one of my SILs drop a ton of weight after she was let go from a high stress job (with Avon) and she told me it was all stress related. I now see that clearly. But I could not have reached my current body state without your education and information, no way. The Keto Mojo meter is a game changer, as well as sardines and restricting the times I eat. Thank you so much!
In this day and age addiction to something probably affects almost everyone and food , especially sugar, is probably the most common. I see it in our oldest son, who’s 21. He’s quite thin so it’s easier for someone to “get away” with this, but I know I have to keep on him about it, just like my mom tried to do with me. I realize how bad sugar is because of that “harping” from my mother and I rarely eat it.
I spent 2 years visiting a family member almost daily in a memory care wing. Interacting with the Alzheimer’s/dementia residents was heartbreaking. I was eating way too much ice cream and other bad foods. I started noticing my own cognitive decline which sent me searching for answers. Dr Dale Bredesen’s books and podcasts helped me reverse the majority of my cognitive decline via a diet overhaul. It likely helped that my family member passed away so I was no longer bound to the memory care ward.
Great video. Just a heads up, I have been a long time subscriber with notifications turned on and YT have been shadow banning your new videos. I saw your "5 min body" interview and went to check.
We’ve all been in many of the situations you described, just with variations. Sugar is a devil most people allow in their lives for the sake of feeling better, momentarily.
Many many years ago when I grew up since candy was special and we were not very well off, the cheap candy that my Mom bought was sugar cubes. I grew up eating sugar cubes as my candy. And I ate a lot of them 😱
Thank you Dr. Boz. I completely resonate with your story. Food has Been my drug for close to 50 years. I have lost over a 100 lbs. I still have to fight not medicating feelings and negative emotions.
Hi men. The Doc is saying get a friend to do the Keto with you. I understand, she is a woman. But men are wired differently. I'm not saying better, I'm saying different. So, IF YOU are a SOLO male. (There are a lot of us out there!) we can do it by ourselves. Focus on the place you want to be. We do it with everything else, Keto is no different. (Thanks for the video Doc! Ex Sugar Junkie!)
I finished radiation yesterday! It is such relief. For 3 months, because I was already metabolically sick, I’ve had a tough recovery. But I am doing what I can to get healthy with Ketovore and recently focus on high fat, moderate protein rather than high protein. My ketosis numbers are usually decent to very good. But my energy is in the basement. Fasts used to be easy but recently they just make me feel worse so I stopped them. I wonder if your 21 day challenge would help me.
Thanks Dr. Bosworth for the presentation. Diets (as well as revolutions!) need a buddy system or at least a special relation to nature or God to keep up. Very few people can make it alone.
5 years into keto with your help - it has changed my life. I’m a natural loner and 81 and have been able to stay with it because I have been blessed with the capacity to notice those coping mechanisms arising one after the other and the grace to understand more and more that they don’t solve the underlying issues which have to be faced directly. And coping mechanisms are certainly not limited to food! Your virtual presence and books had been enough help to guide me through and give me the support I needed. Your instinct for truth has been the touchstone that opens the connection in me that leads to true change.
The Dr's who've dealt with the issues or have walked it with a family member are the only ones I'd go to. Fasting gives me a great feeling, the occasional hunger pangs are soothed by warm water or decaf coffee. Now I've realized my histamine levels are an issue I didn't know I had, rash in body folds that initially I thought was heat rash till it got to be year round, drippy nose when I eat, that I thought was sinuses loosened up by chewing even though it didn't happen every time I ate, etc.
I know Dr Boz’ time and knowledge are worth every single penny and much more, and my own health is worth as much, but how many of the people who really need her 21 day kick start can afford it? 😢
Thank you, Dr. Boz, for very beautifully articulating the addictive personality that drives the dietary behaviors that cause obesity. I think if more people started to view obesity through the lens of addiction, obese people would not be stigmatized as much as they are. Instead of society seeing obesity simply as the result of a lack of discipline, society would see the person with obesity as suffering from an underlying emotional distress in which they obese person uses food - mainly foods with high amounts of sugar, starch and fat - as a means of catharsis. The donuts, cakes, cookies, pies, candy bars, soda, etc become their means of escapism.
In the UK the Government healthy plate recommendation is just pure poison. High in carbs and sugar. Just a little protein and low in fat. For 2o yrs I've avoided fat thinking it was the enemy. Then about 3 months ago I went keto. I've lost 26 pounds and feel "clean". My only battle now is the bottle of red wine every week. You are an inspiration. Thank you.
I changed my diet after my divorce several years ago. I am pescatarian but eat only vegetarian two of three days. I also cut out sugar, even cutting out alcohol a couple of years ago. That cost me. I had just replaced all my jeans and almost immediately lost another 2" and had to do it again. I don't know if my diet is keto. I have oats in the morning with lots of butter and the two days a week I have no animal protein I eat red lentil or chickpea pasta. I eat two meals a day and one or two "snacks". These are either nuts, cheese or olives. I also don't eat any highly processed foods. None. I drink only water, brewed coffee and tea without anything added. The results have been fantastic. I lost about 25% of my peak weight (about 50 pounds). I am back down to where I was in my 20s. I will be 70 soon. My blood pressure is back to normal. I was being given blood pressure pills, but I found they made me feel somewhat bad, in a low-level way, so I just stopped. By the way, while being treated for the high blood pressure my doctor did an EKG and said it was one of the best he had seen. So, he was puzzled. That was even before the divorce. I was having a little joint pain. All gone. My stools and urine are great. I do not feel hunger outside of meals or snacks. I just feel satisfied. No cravings. I will eat "normal" food outside of the home, but I don't eat out much. Frankly, I am a bit wary of doctors. My own situation with them was not good. My father had a disastrous situation with them. My father-in-law was a doctor of internal medicine (now retired), his wife a nurse, his sisters a psychiatrist and a nurse. Oh, and his father was a doctor. Interestingly, his children are engineers, and all the grandchildren are engineers or computer scientists (take after their parents). So, I have some exposure to the profession. We had some interesting conversations. As Dr. Boz says, a lot of this comes down to how the profession is now. When I was in my late teens, I was a vegetarian (my best friends were Indian). One time I was staying at my parent's house for a couple of weeks. My mother had me feed her the same diet I was on (rice and vegetables). She immediately lost weight. She grew up slim but put on lots of weight after having children and never was able to take it off. Her doctor (he was of the old. old school) was talking to me about her situation. He said, whatever you are doing keep it up. Sadly, my mother did not. We have a problem with the whole medical profession. Things are not looking good.
A good friend whom I met in college has gone on to a successful career as a physician. I've learned a lot from him about the medical profession that one never sees as a patient. In my opinion, it took serious courage for Dr.Boz to make this video... even if she's promoting her helpful course. Congrats.
Keto got me out of pre diabetes but now I have total cholesterol at 280 and LDL over 120. Yes I am off the BMI chart. Not heavy enough to meet the minimum. Before keto I have high glucose but total cholesterol below 200. One year in after Keto my doc is concerned of such sky rocketed cholesterol.
Thanks for another great video!! I'm 72 and was disabled at 50. I went keto then after a few weeks went on to carnivore! I have had so much relief from fibromyalgia pain and chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety and depression!! This May my blood work showed my LDL had dropped from 128 last year to 90!! Pain is minimal, anxiety and depression are gone, type 2 diabetes is gone, fatty liver is gone, I have postponed my 6th spinal fusion, a knee replacement, and a shoulder replacement!! I'm now enjoying life again!! I thank ALL the doctors on RU-vid for reaching out to actually help people like me!! God bless you for sharing your story and sharing HOW to get healthy!! I'm now off 8 of my 11 long term prescriptions and reducing the remaining ones!! I would encourage anyone with pain or any health issues to just give clean keto or carnivore a try!! ❤🤗🤗🙏🙏🙏
As soon as i switched to eating once a day and cutting out a lot of sugar, my health improved drastically! If everyone switched to a similar way of life, "Healthcare" would be in serious trouble!
I'm 75 years old and just had the first blood test of my life. This was my first physical since my Army physical in 1969. I've never had any medical issues or prescriptions but it appears to be just what you said. Diagnosis and adios.
Doctor Boz, you have great info and plus your own experience are blessing people who are experiencing same or similar problems, but, here's the but.. without Jesus there is no real healing, just extending the inevitable.
Hi Dr is it true that if you freeze bread first before you eat it it does not raise your blood sugar? Or if you put rice in the fridge overnight same thing?
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