How Much Protein On Keto? – Dr. Berg

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hi guys I want to talk about protein amounts on a ketogenic diet and when you’re doing in a minute fasting okay so a couple things you need to know the body does recycle its own tissue at a rate of a hundred to 300 grams of protein every single day so you’re not losing all this protein your body is conserving it we don’t actually store a lot of protein there is a pool of amino acids but we don’t store protein like we do fat and like we do sugar we store about 1,700 calories of glucose in the muscle and your liver but not the brain or the red blood cell but we just we need protein from the diet so the body can make 14 out of the 22 amino acids so we need eight from the diet okay those are called essential amino acids but there’s over 50,000 different types of protein in your body made from different combinations of amino acids which are the building blocks of these proteins but we just need what gets lost but here’s a couple things you need to know number one if there’s adrenal stress if you have high levels of cortisol adrenal fatigue that cortisol will start breaking down proteins a lot faster it’s called a catabolic response versus an anabolic build up response so if the adrenals are involved and maybe you’re going through menopause what’ll happen is you’ll get more breakdown of muscle tissue and that’s where you get the loss of collagen weakness in the muscle then you have a situation we have pre-diabetes or insulin resistance which basically blocks the absorption of amino acids so that’s why I diabetic has weak muscles they have flabby tissue and they just don’t have a lot of collagen but I really believe that a large population has insulin resistance and they don’t know it and they’re just a matter of time before they become a diabetic so when you dookied oh you’re gonna drop your carbs okay so that’s going to start healing insulin resistance but the intermittent fasting is probably even more important because you can stimulate growth hormone by thirteen hundred percent women and two thousand percent and men and what that will do it actually preserves and protects the protein loss okay so right there that will decrease the need for a lot of protein and not to mention that in termina fasting is one of the most powerful things to stimulate something called a tapa G which is the recycling of damaged parts in the cell and those are all proteins so you’re getting even more recycling of the body tissue so the need for protein goes less especially as you start decreasing your meals because let’s say you’re doing six ounces of protein per meal three meals a day right and then you go to two and you go to one so you’re not going to necessarily do this where you’re doing three meals a day you can do 18 ounces of protein for that day and then two meals of the day you’re going to still have that 18 ounces of protein and one meal a day 18 ounces of protein that would be a huge amount of protein that’s not the way it works because as you reduce the frequency of eating the need for protein will go down even more because of these two things right here so if you have two meals a day maybe you would have an eight ounce portion of protein for each meal now if you’re at one meal maybe you’re at nine or 10 ounces for that one meal but you’re not going to do 18 ounces of protein simply because there’s a maximum amount of protein that your body can absorb but the point is that as you do the move fasting the requirement for protein is less so thanks for watching hey guys I want to personally invite you to a new Facebook group that I just started called dr. Berg’s keto and in a minute fasting lab ok so I created this so we can share our successful actions what worked what didn’t work your results so I put a link down below so go ahead and sign up and I’ll see you inside