Lemons and Ketosis – Dr. Berg

Find out why you should start consuming more lemon juice on keto!

hey guys welcome back in this video we’re going to talk about lemon juice and your pH okay so now there’s some confusion about lemon juice since it’s citric acid it’s why is that good for uric acid would an acid help an acid well in the body lemon juice turns into an alkaline substance so it alkalizes okay and uric acid is the byproduct of certain protein called purine and earings are high in liver organ Meats like liver and kidney Game Meats turkey sardines Seafood like Herring and scallops beer um and caffeine and other things as well but those are the main ones and all that turns into uric acid now it’s not just a matter of you eating those Foods resulting in uh uric acid crystals which turns into gout there’s really another reason these are aggravating factors and it has to do with your way that your kidneys are processing this uric acid so there’s two other big factors that I find that if you can correct these you can still get away with eating these foods and not end up with high levels of uric acid which turns into the gout which is pain in the big toe and other joints insulin when the insulin is too high you have high levels of uric acid that’s why if you have insulin resistance you’re a diabetic a lot of times that comes with uh high uric acid and gout okay and then ketosis the thing that I’m recommending everyone actually do it can actually give you too much uric acid as well so um simply because the ketones compete with the uric acid and they tend to go back and forth and the chemistry that ends up with higher levels of uric acid so you don’t need to know that all you need to know is that you need to start consuming more lemon juice in your diet to keep your uric acid low because Uric um the citric acid in lemon juice neutralizes the uric acid crystals okay so it actually improves gout so yes you can uh make sure you eliminate eliminate these from the diet but make sure you just add the lemon it’s really really simple it’ll actually um help you keep the uric acid very very low so thanks for watching