Knocked Out of Ketosis vs. Breaking the Fast - Dr. Berg

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okay so I have this confusion that keeps coming up over and over and over again so I’m just gonna create this one video and I’ll probably just send it out to people that ask this question what specific food will knock them out of ketosis so I just wanted to do a video on the background so then you can answer this question yourself there’s really three scenarios that I want to kind of cover just to kind of clear up things because sometimes this question is mixed in with breaking a fast because you’re doing the ketogenic diet plus the fast at the same time so you want to know will this specific food break a fast okay well anything other than water is going to break a fast anything okay now will vitamins break a fast well maybe just a tiny little bit but it’s only for a millisecond okay so I wouldn’t worry about vitamins I wouldn’t worry about sea salt but it true fast is just not eating and you’re just drinking water okay that’s it so let’s see will a small amount of food break a fast yes if it’s a very small amount of salad it might break a fast for a little tiny bit but you can get right back on it so the point is that you just want to think with a true fast being nothing but water okay but anything will break the fast but I do recommend people consume vitamins and minerals electrolytes for sure when they’re doing a fast and definitely sea salt the second scenario is will a specific food knock me out of ketosis well what controls whether you’re in ketosis or Adi ketosis is the carbohydrates okay you want to typically keep your carbs 20 to 50 grams the worse the metabolism the lower the carbs so some people need to go 10 some people need to go zero carbs okay a very good testing kit would be the keto mojo I like this because it measures ketones and blood sugars okay but you can get both to get a whole picture on what’s going on because when you increase your blood sugars your ketones go down if you decrease your blood sugars your ketones will go up so you can just kind of get a bird’s-eye view of what’s happening especially we are after foods eating certain foods okay so if you consume too much protein that can knock you out of ketosis so but mainly it’s the carbs okay number three this scenario will this specific food knock me out of fat-burning now realize that when you do a ketogenic plan only 40 percent of your fuel is ketones the majority of fuel the rest of fuel - a very small amount of glucose is fatty acids so you’re burning fatty acids in addition to ketones but there’s really no test that will determine that okay and there is a test but it’s very expensive but there’s not going to be any tests like this you’re gonna measure fatty acids so if you’re doing ketosis for a long period of time and your system is very efficient at burning ketones you may do a urine test and find that there’s very few ketones going on doesn’t mean that you’re not in ketosis it just means that you’re not wasting into the urine you want to use these tests with kind of judgment but what we really want to know is will this specific food stop me from burning my own fat okay because the goal is to burn your own fat because if you’re in ketosis okay you see the ketones coming out those ketones could be coming from your dietary fat not necessarily your own body fat and so you want to keep your carbs low not continuous protein and also not can consume too much fat so this would really play out when you have a very slow metabolism or you’re plateaued let’s say you’re going through menopause and you just you just kind of hit this stall point well then you can start reducing your fat and force your body to burn its own fat another mistake that people make is they they think in their mind I could take exogenous ketones these ketones you can buy as a supplement and that’s going to help me get get into ketosis but then they don’t lose anyway well because you’re using this as a substitute for burning your own fat the more you take this the less your body will have to burn its own fat so it’s not just all about ketones it’s about you actually burning your own fat it’s about burning fatty acids and really under all these little pieces to this complex puzzle anyway put your comments down below and and tell me if this clears up the confusion or if now you’re even more confused than you were before I explain this so I want to know about what you think about this video so please comment below and tell me what you think