Importance of Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid) on Keto & Intermittent Fasting – Dr. Berg

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hey how are you so today we’re going to talk about the importance of vitamin b5 on a ketogenic and an intermittent fasting plan okay the name of that vitamin is pantothenic acid and it’s a cofactor for energy metabolism but specifically for enzymes that help you break down fat okay so when you’re converting from sugar burning to ketosis by burning fat you need b5 big-time now the Greek word for this vitamin is panto theme okay which means from all quarters indicating that it’s very easy to get from pretty much all your foods okay and so you when you read on this vitamin you’re gonna find that oh it’s almost impossible to be deficient because it’s everywhere but actually a lot of people are deficient in this and I’m gonna tell you why in a second but first let me tell you what it also will help you do but it’s a key nutrient to help you make melatonin for sleeping and I see the colon which is a neurotransmitter that helps you stay awake during the day and helps you get into REM sleep also in nerve function and muscle function okay it also is needed to make cortisol this is a real key nutrient for adrenal function so if you have adrenal fatigue for example you need to take more b5 so if you’re deficient invited me five you can get all sorts of issues like Keita fatigue stress nerve pain inflammation and insomnia so these are very common symptoms when you do a ketogenic diet because your body is requiring more of this vitamin when it actually has to burn more fat so really what I want to talk about is two things one is you’re not getting it from the diet which is rare or there’s something going on in your digestive system that’s not right in other words the flora the friendly bacteria in your gut help you make b5 and other B vitamins and that’s probably the more likely cause of issues with a b5 deficient because sometimes even other B vitamin C’s like biotin for example which will prevent hair loss a lot of people have hair loss and then they take large amounts of biotin and the hair loss goes away well your body should be able to make it also you’re getting it from the diet but I really think it’s the gut for a lot of people so if you don’t have the friendly flora it’s going to be hard to make those B vitamins so so of course you know if you had antibiotics that’s going to destroy your gut a lot of sugar it will do it and even when you do certain types of cleanses we’re doing colonics you flush everything out and maybe you didn’t put things back in okay so fermented vegetables probiotics are very very important and by the way these microbes consume fiber so that’s where the vegetables come in right you want it’s like food for these microbes there’s one more thing though the microbes need vitamin D to survive so if you’re low in vitamin D that alone could starve off the microbes which could then could keep you be vitamin deficient especially it would be five so let’s say in the winter months or like come summer when you get all the Sun and you feel so good and your digestive system works and your mood starts going up will guess why boom right here so these cofactors these B vitamins are intimately involved in so many things neurotransmitters hormones metabolism those type of things but make sure you have enough vitamin D get enough Sun if it’s winter then take a good vitamin d3 to actually then feed the microbes so that can make the B vitamins so you actually can get through this very smoothly all right talk you later hey guys a lot of you already have my book some of you don’t but this new edition called the new body type guide is an upgrade from my last edition called the seven principles of fat burning it has 156 images 378 pages full glossary I talked about keto in a minute fasting the body types in detail I have a new stressed chapter I’m going to show you exactly what to eat any comprehensive FAQ I put a link down below check it out