What to Drink When Fasting: Dr. Berg Guide

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let’s discuss what to drink when you’re doing fasting okay in general does it really matter are there things that will bump you out of kosis let’s first start with water please comment down below of what type of water that you drink is it tap water plastic bottles do you use glass bottles do you use a water filter I’m really curious obviously you probably already know that tap water is pretty toxic so a lot of people are shifting to more bottle water the problem with bottle water is that you’re constantly consuming microplastics and once it gets in your body it’s really hard to get out of your body and these are endocrine disruptors so in other words they mimic estrogen and they kind of mess up your hormones but there’s certain types of plastics that are lower than others like perier um pelino lacroy things like that and then of course when you get into glass bottles those are better but they’re very expensive and then you also have the canned water right that that is expensive but it also has another toxin called BPA unless you live on a farm like I do and get your water from you know the a well or a spring you’re going to be better off getting a water filter when I lived in the city it was a really good water filter I got from a company called Crystal Quest I’ll put a link down below I’m not affiliated with this company I’m not getting an affiliate check or anything like that but it’s a good company uh for different water filters but they have really good pictures that I want to talk about like these uh containers of water you can keep in your fridge so you just get it from the tap it filters it through four stages it pulls out the heavy metals the chemicals the medications bacteria all this other stuff and you have some really good clean water and I’m not sure if they have shower filters that pull out fluoride and if you get rid of this fluoride you’re going to find like your skin uh does a lot better and if you do do plastic water or these canned water type things I probably just wouldn’t do a lot of them you know you know just don’t make it your line share of of liquids when I drink water I just don’t feel that my thirst gets quench there’s something about it but when I drink carbonat water it’s a whole different story I actually feel more hydrated I can drink that it goes down fine and I do want to mention a theory I have on why that is I think better for me is because first of all there’s carbon dioxide when you introduce carbon dioxide to your body you you create some real interesting effects especially with oxygen you actually increase more oxygen into your tissues with the carbon dioxide you also um acidify the water a little bit more and that could potentially be uh better on your digestion but yes we do need oxygen but we also need CO2 equally as important in fact um there’s something called the bore effect the CO2 helps take that oxygen that gets absorbed in your blood and helps push it deeper into your cells let me just give you an example of what happens when you get too much oxygen when you’re hyperventilating and you can feel more anxiety and more dizzy things like that so what’s the remedy to breathe in a paper bag what are you doing when you’re breathing in a paper bag you’re getting more CO2 which then helps the oxygen go into the tissues and it can pull you out of a state of anxiety very very quickly so again we need this balance CO2 and oxygen this is why anytime you’re stressed you should slow down your breathing breathe through your nose slowly in and out and in your sinuses you actually condition the air to allow better oxygen that penetrates deeper into the cells with the CO2 and so the CO2 in the water does help increase something called the parasympathetic nervous system which actually is more calming and it’s more for relaxation and then we have what can you put in your water let’s first start with um apple cider vinegar okay one tablespoon in a glass of water what does that do it can give you energy directly it can help with insulin resistance it can actually help make insulin more sensitive it can help the mitochondria work better it’s also been shown in animal studies to help counter the negative uh effect of aging on your mitochondria that’s pretty cool and it can even help uh you if you have a fatty liver if you add some lemon to that you get some additional benefits of vitamin C if it’s from raw lemons I also add my electrolyte powder to the water sometimes not with every single glass of water but maybe one time in the morning uh some sea salt to the water okay this is something that I think is just really underrated but very important that a lot of people forget about when they do the keto enic diet if you don’t have enough salt okay you’re going to feel weak you you’re going to find that your sleep isn’t going to be as great in fact just do an experiment add a little bit of salt to some water right after dinner and drink that down and see if that doesn’t improve your sleep salt or sodium is very important for reducing this stressed State okay it’s called the sympathetic nervous system sodium helps reduce that if you’re low on which a lot of people doing the ketogenic diet are especially if you’re doing like one meal a day they might end up finding that they feel a little bit weak uh their muscles tighten up they get more cramps all because they needed more sea salt I do have an electrolyte powder specifically for sports if you’re sweating that has more sodium so that can be something that you can use but the whole reason why I designed my regular um electrolyte powder which has a lower amount of salt is mainly for uh pottassium and magnesium because so many people just don’t get enough of that and when someone starts getting enough of that boy that can really uh change a lot of things with their energy their uh muscle and their nervous system okay so that’s water what about all these drinks that have um Stevia the natural sweetener you have to be careful because a lot of times they’ll add maltodextrin to this natural Sweeten Stevia so you have to make sure they don’t put that in there but a lot of people have like different sodas using Stevia different drinks with stevia totally fine and you can also uh do the um sugar alcohols But realize that a lot of times they’ll add different things in the ingredients so you have to read the label and find something maybe with a rral monk fruit or Stevia all right what about coffee um the thing about coffee it’s totally fine personally I just do one in the morning uh some people do more um just realize that could affect your sleep because the caffeine I would recommend doing organic coffee because out of all the things out there that are so heavily um sprayed with insecticides and herbicides and fungicides coffee is at the top of the list and even better than even half and half like just 100% cream sometimes people use bulletproof uh which is they’re adding uh butter and MCT oil uh that’s good for certain people but if you’re trying to lose weight okay and you add that that could slow you down a little bit because your body is going to burn those fat calories and not your own fat now the next topic is tea you have black tea green tea just realize that if you do a lot of tea and coffee it can deplete you of vitamin B1 so if that starts happening replace it with B1 because if you are low in B1 you’re going to feel irritable kind of stressed and you might think it’s coming from stress but in reality it’s just coming from a B1 deficiency what about coconut water well some people can get away with that most people cannot because there’s sugar in coconut water um there’s electrolytes in there I would recommend not doing the coconut water all right what about alcohol is that a good source of hydration no um they recently have found out that there is no benefits uh to alcoh