Different Benefits Between The Ketogenic Diet vs Intermittent Fasting – Dr.Berg

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so today I’m going to talk about what’s different between the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting as far as their benefits okay they’re not actually the same let’s start with keto so when you drop your carbs you produce ketones from fat when you’re do in a minute fasting well guess what you’re dropping your carbs so you’re also going to produce ketones but you’re also doing something else you’re not stimulating a hormone in your small intestine called the GIP hormone which will increase ketones even more because when you eat you do trigger this GIP hormone and that increases insulin so when you do intermittent fasting you’re going to produce more ketones than you would if you’re just doing the ketogenic diet and this is because the combination of not doing carbs and not stimulating that extra insulin alright let’s talk about cancer cancer lives on glucose and glutamine that’s an amino acid so when you do keto you actually starve the cancer cell of glucose and the tumor cells cannot live on ketones so that’s good right but here’s the problem cancer can also live on glutamine but doing in a minute fasting or periodic prolonged fasting can less than the amount of glutamine that that cancer can live on so you basically starving the cancer cell alright next difference is when you keto hopefully you’re doing the healthy version of keto you’re not doing the dirty keto okay you’re providing nutrients essential trace minerals vitamins minerals building blocks like amino acids essential fatty acids to build the body within a minute fasting you’re not eating so basically you’re not providing nutrients now it is true when you do them in fasting you’re recycling these nutrients more in the need for them goes way down but in a minute fasting itself does not provide any nutrients it does by the way increase more antioxidants which is another benefit alright next one is something called the tofu Jie a toughie Jie is a condition where your body is recycling old damaged proteins okay it’s cleaning up all this old stuff and it’s bringing into a new state so it’s really important in repair you’re getting way more tough OG when you do in a minute fasting then when you’re eating okay so for all practical purposes you’re really not getting any major etapa G winger even when you’re doing low carbs okay but when you’re doing it a bit fasting you are so that’s one huge benefit especially when you get into anti-aging now in addition to that you have something really cool that happens there’s actually longevity genes that get expressed or activated when you do fasting so actually you live longer when you do in a minute fasting all right the next one is you drop inflammation significantly now with lowering your carb you’re also going to drop inflammation but imminent fasting you’re going to drop inflammation even more and inflammation in general is really a key thing in so many chronic illnesses autoimmune diseases all the arthritis diabetes neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and even in atherosclerosis which is people think about the heart disease is just plaquing but that plaquing starts after you get inflammation and you get a lot of extra damage when there’s inflammation in the body and there’s also a lot of inflammation in cancer as well so dropping this inflammation is really a key factor next benefit with intermittent fasting is you get a massive spike in growth hormone now you also get a spike of growth hormone when you do a little carb but not near as much as when you do in a minute fasting it could be between 1300 up to 2,000 percent more and the last point which I already mentioned your body actually starts building up more of your antioxidant reserve the antioxidants can come from your diet but your body can also make them so when you do in a minute fasting you actually are strengthening that system which is really important in preventing damage to your genes to the DNA to the mitochondria okay I’ll show you one more thing okay let’s talk about the brain for a second your brain prefers ketones if you have a damaged brain let’s say you have dementia Parkinson’s Alzheimer’s are you starting to forget things and by the way Alzheimer’s takes like 15 to 20 years to develop so it starts off small and then they gradually gets worse if you have any type of damage in your brain you need to be aware of this fuel source key chance because your your brain loves ketones and ketones can bypass the damaged nerve cells which by the way the damaged nerves are not getting the glucose and that’s what’s starving them so you can bypass that whole thing and feed the neurons ketones and they can be very very happy so there’s two things you need to know about this number one it’s the level of ketones in the blood that determine if the what the brain is going to use is fuel if you have a lot of ketones in the blood despite having even a lot of glucose in the blood the brain will eat up these ketones in preference to the glucose so that’s good news right and then we also have the level of glucose in the blood so let’s say for example you go on the ketogenic diet and you cut down the glucose then your body will start making ketones raise ketones then your brain will be happy but what happens when you consume too much glucose because you’re in a high carb diet well you’re gonna run your brain on glucose the problem is you’re gonna have insulin resistance eventually and the cells are not going to get the fuel and then they’re going to die so you’re gonna starve off the brain cells when you do a high carb diet and there’s one last really important thing I want to tell you if you have brain damage okay and you start keto an intermittent fasting and it’s taking a while to adapt to ketosis and you may not have the level of ketones that you really want in this situation I would highly recommend taking MCT oil okay that will provide a lot more ketones to jumpstart the engine I would also recommend you take exogenous ketones now I normally don’t recommend those but if you have Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s I would definitely recommend that because that would give you just more ketones to work with and satisfy the fuel part of the brain anyway thanks for watching I will see you in the next video hey if you’re liking this content please subscribe now and I will actually keep you updated on future videos