What is Ketosis? - Dr. Berg

Ketosis is the easiest way to burn fat and stay healthy. Learn more!

okay guys we want to talk about what is ketosis  a little bit more on this topic ketosis is this when you avoid consuming glucose or sugar for  10 to 12 hours your body will then start to make ketones okay ketones are basically the byproduct  of fat burning and you can even test yourself on ketones there’s these strips you can get at the  drugstore called ketone strips and you check your urine it’ll be like in a different shade of purple  so if it’s really dark purple it’s like major ketosis if it’s light purple it’s minor ketosis  so you can check to see if you’re burning fat or not the thing that you need to know is when  we convert our body from sugar to fat it takes between three days to two weeks up to six weeks  depending how long you’ve been around your body and sugar in other words your body has to create  new machinery in the cells so it’s very similar to let’s say you’re running your house on coal to  heat it right and then we’re going to have to run it on electric fuel electric heating I’m sorry not  fuel you’re going to have to install new machinery hook up wires to be able to run your body the  same thing with running you’re buying a fat fuel this is like diesel fuel or coal it’s very dirty  this is like solar or electric cars very clean no waste quiet so to do this it could take anywhere  from one week to six weeks okay so in the process I’m going to be showing you what to do because  if you don’t do this correctly you could end up with a lot of issues okay so we’re going to  show you how to do it healthily but but here’s the thing when we run our body on a ketones it’s  much more stable with your blood sugars you won’t have the highs and lows anymore so you’re going  to be very level-headed your brain is going to love it your your memories going to be sharper  you lot you you’ll just be right there all the time better focus more efficient fuel less dirty  less complications ketones are the original fuel source it’s the original fuel of the brain our  bodies long ago ran an ketones why because we could necessarily eat all the sugar that we had we  didn’t eat three meals a day or six meals a day we didn’t eat the junk food so our bodies originally  were designed to run on ketones not sugar it’s only till very recently that we’ve been eating  sugar so we’re going to go back to what your body is designed to to run on and it’s it’s much  better I will never go back to running my body and sugar because once you feel feel the benefits you  won’t go back now the other thing is that ketosis pretext protein in other words when you go on this  eating plan it’s you’re not going to have to worry about your body eating up your own protein that’s  only when you have insulin so your body’s not going to convert protein into fat so people are  just concerned am I going to lose muscle mass no no you’re going to gain muscle mass your ligaments  tendons collagen is going to get better now what’s going to happen you can lose a lot of weight  with this program the thing is that let’s say you didn’t lose a lot of weight doesn’t necessarily  you didn’t burn fat but the best indicator because what’s happening is you could actually gain  muscle mass and lose fat and actually weigh the same because muscle weighs more than fat so  the best indicator to know it’s working is the ketone strips or a tape measure around your waist  at the very outer portion so you check the waist every week and you can measure and see  how many inches you lost that’s the ultimate measurement of success okay because who cares  what you weigh if you can get a flat stomach so the problem is it’s going to be very expensive  you have to get rid of all your old clothes your old belt your old suits your shirts get all new  clothes it’s going to be very very expensive you can blame me okay so when you do this also your  get rid of a lot of excess fluid now sugar always follows fluid and or fluid follows sugar so if  you get rid of all the sugar you’re going to get rid of the fluid as well okay so when you get rid  of fluid you’re going to lose you might lose up to I don’t know ten pounds in the first week some  people lose ten pounds that’s fluid the most fat that you can burn per week is two pounds that’s  in a healthy body anything more it’s just fluid so anyway I wanted to kind of explain the timeframe  it takes what we’re trying to do we’re trying to switch over to ketones it’s a better fuel source  and let’s let’s show you the next next video