Intermittent Fasting & Ketosis : 15 Common Questions & Answers (FAQ) – Dr. Berg

Do you have questions about intermittent fasting and ketosis? Let me answer them.

Hey guys in this video we’re going to talk about intermittent fasting and ketosis Q and A there’s a lot of little questions I want to create one video to explain everything so the first question people keep asking is can I chew gum on a ketogenic diet that’s not going to be significant at all it’s so small and I also recommend you do the xylitol gum not the aspartate aspartame type gum that everyone else does so yes you can do some gum lemon water is that okay totally fine lemon juice is not a big factor at all so tart but there’s not a lot of sugar wheatgrass juice powder I do wheatgrass juice powder during the fast not a problem it’s my multi vitamin mineral everything okay protein powders only with a meal because it’s protein so that will spike insulin especially if it’s low fat protein or whey protein you want to add some fat to it and then also have it after the meal or during the meal but not as a snack a cheat day well I already have a video on that but no there’s no such thing as a cheat day on my program but because here’s the thing when you would do a cheat day you pretty much are bumped out of this ketosis for a period of time because it takes a while to get into ketosis it’s going to take a while to get back to ketosis so on some people it’s going to take three days to get back on others it could even take a week I’m not kidding so that could be a long time so that could explain why you may not be losing weight because you might be doing a cheat day twice a week nullifying everything it really depends how much you cheat calories and two meals like how do you fit in all your calories into two meals or even one meal well there’s a kind of a balance you don’t want to stuff yourself to then this huge meal where you’re stuffed all day you want to eat a really good healthy meal make sure the food is really nutrient dense the kale shakes I always recommend because that has more nutrition than other types of greens and make sure it’s like salmon that’s a higher quality than chicken and then you may have to enhance with certain types of nutrients but we’re not necessarily trying to stuff ourselves we’re trying to have two big meals and just till you’re satisfied and or not the body will adapt to that many calories there’s a confusion that people think that if they have less meals than they’re starving and it’s going to slow the metabolism that is not true because you’re doing nutrient-dense meals if you do a small meal and you’re still hungry and it’s like empty calories or like five small meals of n2k empty calories with sugar you’re definitely going to create kind of a situation where you’re going to be hungry and craving all the time and your metabolism will slow down simply because you’re cutting the calories that you’re covering the nutrients so the real key is the nutrients so those meals that you consume have to be robust large very very complete there’s I’ve created other videos just on that one topic okay keto rash now typically it’s either two situations either the liver is dumping something and usually the reason for that is that you’re losing a lot of fat a lot of the toxins in your body is stored in the fat so a lot of times those toxins can come out of the fat circulate to the blood to the lymphatic system and come out as a rash so one thing the combat that is to consume a large quantity of vegetables make sure that’s very high to kind of offset some of the other fat burning that’s occurring but also bentonite clay you can consume them on an empty stomach bentonite clay is interesting because it’s like a little piece of clay that does adsorption which is kind of like it absorbs on the outside of the particle 20 no it’s 2,000 times its weight so it’s like a very powerful magnet for toxins or a sponge that will pull these toxins so they don’t leach out into the tissues okay bentonite clay okay apple cider vinegar and lemon drink not a problem on this on times of fasting go ahead and consume that is not going to be an issue will my cholesterol go up on some people yes simply because the fat cell is composed of cholesterol and triglycerides so your body can only burn the triglycerides it doesn’t burn cholesterol so what happens some people especially losing a lot of weight like 50 or 60 pounds and they have a lot of weight to lose they could have a higher level of cholesterol but I put a link down below for you to get the complete scoop on LDL HDL and total cholesterol because you don’t really have to worry about it if you’re doing this correctly and you’re doing a lot of vegetables that’s just the excess cholesterol coming out of the fat cell that has to come out has to go to the liver and be dismantled to the gallbladder now the keto flu or keto fatigue is basically a situation where you’re missing you’re depleting potassium and B vitamins so if you were to put those back in either an electrolyte powder or you can do nutritional yeast that should handle it like that other things that can happen too which I don’t want to get into that detailed like you could have an issue with more chance for a kidney stone for example right well potassium citrate will totally handle that and that’s that’s only if you’re not consuming enough potassium from the vegetables which I know is not the case because you you know your vegetables do I recommend either one of these during breastfeeding not really because you don’t want to do a diet or you don’t want to try to lose weight when you’re breastfeeding you want to make sure max maximize the the food there and not worry about doing too much fasting especially since you have a lot of stuff coming out from the fat cell same thing with pregnancy don’t recommend it just eat really healthy during pregnancy and don’t worry about trying to lose weight or maintain your weight the key thing with pregnancy and this is the side note is make sure you get take cod liver oil or some grass-fed liver and I’m going to tell you why because if you consume the right amount of vitamin A not from a pill but from food you can prevent a lot of issues with dental arch problems overbite under bite so you want your child to come out so he or she does not get braces but has good bone structure that’s all the fat soluble vitamins in the trace minerals so make sure you can trace minerals and fat fiber vitamins I like cod liver oil and sea kelp is a good one or a plant-based trace minerals okay for kids can kids do this well if a child is really overweight I probably would put them on this but if they’re not I would put them on a version of this and I actually recommend maybe some fruit not this the extra sweet stuff but I wouldn’t be worried about berries maybe bananas would be fine but yeah that’s maybe eat sweet potatoes yams would be okay but other than that if their their metabolism is so fast they’re going to need some type of starch we’re also going to get really really skinny okay bulletproof coffee question keeps coming out but sure that can I do that well some people just have it in the morning to sustain them and that’s not a problem but it is kind of like a meal if you’re adding fat or coconut oil it is considered a meal and it could potentially spike instant a little bit so my whole point with this is try it out and see if you’re happy with your results with weight loss try it out for a week and then don’t try it for a week and see how it effects your weight some people do really good some people do not and I’ll just make one change maybe I’ll cut down the butter they put in there the coconut and bam they just start really losing weight so experiment on that but make sure you don’t do a lot of coffee simply because it stimulates the adrenal so 1:00 in the morning would be perfect now start as milk if you want to put some organic milk just a little bit it’s n