Did Ketosis Stop Working? Here’s Why! – Dr. Berg

Well, hello. What we’re going to talk about today is what happens if the keto plan that you’re on,it stops working. Now, I created quite a few other videos on this topic under plateauing orstubborn metabolism. So I wanted to create a video that goes a little beyond what I’ve alreadytalked about. And in the other videos, I talked about making sure you have the correct program,really learn about it before you jump into it because you might be doing it incorrectly.

always do keto within a minute fasting. That’s another really important tip.Make sure you’re sleeping. Make sure your stress is low. Make sure that if you have another healthproblem, whether it’s thyroid or you’re constipated, you have inflammatory condition,handle that. If you’re on medication, find some alternative with the help of your doctor.And then the other thing is just when you’re not losing weight, for example, it could be you’re

gaining muscle. So that could be throwing you off. And even size could be not changing becauseas muscle gets a little bigger, especially if you’re exercising, you may not see a shrinkageright off the bat consistently every week. So the first thing I want to talk about ishaving the estimation or the correct idea of what it’s going to take for an individual, becausesome people have a real tough time, other people don’t. Like your spouse could probably lose weight

really fast. A family member does the exact same diet you’re doing, they lose, you don’t. Okay,so it’s very frustrating. So what I want to tell you is that unfortunately, it’s difficult todetermine what’s going on inside of a body, especially testing insulin resistance and othertypes of cellular dysfunctions because it’s very expensive to test that and you’d have to do awhole series of tests and even then a lot of times it won’t show up. So the point is that if you had

chronic insulin resistance your entire life, it’s going to be tough. So for example, if you have achronic insulin resistance problem your entire life or 10 or 15 or 30 years, you’re up againsta huge, severe problem that is going to take a lot of effort to get through that. It’s not goingto be easy. So if you’re doing all the usual things and you’re not seeing it come off easily,just realize you may be up against a bigger problem that is inside your body. So you’re

going to have to raise the level of effort to match the problem. That being said, let’s gointo a couple things that you can look at just to take it to the next level. Number one, your carbs.So I’ve been recommending 20 to 50 grams of carbohydrates each day, okay? Not per meal,each day. So of course, the slower the metabolism, the lower the carb. So what I’m going to recommend,maybe you need to go down to 10 grams or less of carbs. And then the other thing that I’m going

to talk about is vegetables. So I’ve been recommending a lot of vegetables between 7to 10 cups and not to factor those carbs into your total carbs between 20 and 50 grams.So some people may need to factor those in. But check this out. If you’re doing romaine lettuce,it only has like 1.5 gram of carb per cup. So if we deduct the fiber, which is a gram per cup,that gives us 0.5 grams, a half of a gram per cup, which is so small. So we’re talking,

if you consume 10 cups, it’s only five grams of carbs, but it is something, okay?Let’s take spinach, for example. It’s 1.1 gram of carb per cup with a fiber of 0.7. That gives us anet four grams of carb for 10 cups of spinach. Okay. So again, very insignificant, but it’ssomething. But check this out. Blueberries, 21 grams of carbs minus the fiber, which is 3.6grams gives us a net carb of 17.4 grams. Again, that’s a lot higher for one cup than vegetables.

So if we go to blackberries, for example, 14 grams of carbs minus the fiber, which is eight grams,gives us only six grams of carbs. Okay, that’s for one cup. So if we compare six grams of carbsThe 17.4 grams, you need to do blackberries. Now let’s take mixed nuts, 29 grams of carbs,we minus nine grams for the fiber. That gives us still 19 grams of carbs for one cup of mixed nuts.So you may need to be the person, unfortunately, that needs to count in the vegetables into your

total carbs and really shift the types of foods that you’re consuming, maybe to blackberries,and not blueberries to really keep those carbs way down there. Next thing we’re going to talkabout is intermittent fasting. Some of the liquids that you consume when you’re in the fastingperiod, if you’re doing tea or coffee, lots of coffee, which I don’t recommend, or tea and you’readding half and half or cream, that could be the thing that keeps you out of full fat burning mode.

recently I had someone just cut out the cream and the half and half and the blood sugars cameright down from like 160 to 120. And you may also need to cut out the bulletproof coffee,the MCT oil or the fat or the coconut oil that’s put into and blended into the coffee.Okay. That’s another factor. The next thing we’ll talk about is actual, the amount of fat that youconsume. I mean, the goal is to have your body run on your own fat, right? Not as much the dietary

fat. So if you consume fat, you will burn the dietary fat and it will come out as ketones.So you’ll be positive for ketones, but those ketones are coming from the diet, not your ownfat in some cases. So you may need to cut down the amount of fats to the point where your body nowburns your own fat. Again, another point to look at, and I’m going to cover everything.Okay, so then the next point is if you’re cutting down the fats and you’re cutting down the carbs,

we don’t want you to go into a situation where we have nutritional deficiencies.So you definitely need to enhance the diet with electrolytes, like more potassium,the B vitamins as a nutritional yeast, and definitely the trace minerals as sea kelp,and the fat-soluble vitamins. Cobb liver oil, that will give you a good amount of vitamin Aand vitamin D, and even a small amount of organ meats like liverwurst, because that way you’ll

get pretty much all of the fat-soluble vitamins in a very small amount. Just make sure it’s grass-fed.Now, the next thing we’re talking about is the type of carbs, because if you’re doing even 10or 20 grams of carbs per day, and the quality of carb is juice or bread, not vegetable or someother thing, then that could be a big problem because even though your carbs are a certainamount, that refineness of that food or the refined carbohydrate will greatly spike the

blood sugars because you’re dealing with not just the carbs, you’re dealing with what the carbs doto your blood sugars. So you have celery or vegetables versus juice or an apple,definitely a big difference. So that’s another point. Next thing I want to talk about is alcohol.Some people will say, well, I’m doing zero carb alcohol. My alcohol has no carbohydrates.So here’s the thing, what it does for destruction of the liver cells, raising the liver enzymes,

knocking you out of ketosis despite not being a carb. It’s a solvent. It’s a chemical,and it can definitely create some serious problems with your liver and set you back.So recently I found this little article online of this guy that wasn’t getting into ketosis thatwell, and he was reaching out to see if someone can tell him or advise him on why it’s not working.So I saw what he ate. It wasn’t too bad. Then on the bottom, he had this one line,

and he stated, you know, he’s been alcohol-free for five days, but before that, like 10 daysof drinking solid before that, and then five days of not drinking. And he’s wonderingwhy it’s not working, okay? Not connecting the dots too well. And even on the days he was drinking,it was up to 12 plus glasses of alcohol every single day. Now, think about what your body hasto do to make a ketone. The fat has to be burned and it’s burned and it’s converted to a ketone

through your liver. If you’re damaging the liver for 10 days in a ro