#208 (Keto): The Wrong Way to Go Keto

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns talks about the common mistakes and drawbacks of a shortcut approach to keto. If you are still even a bit carb dependent when attempting keto, what you will get is a flood of stress hormones in response to the sudden deprivation of your primary fuel source glucose. Lacking dietary carbs, you will commence the hallmark fight or flight process of gluconeogenesis to give your body the sugar it needs. You may even feel alert and energetic for a while from the stress hormone buzz, but when the stress response becomes exhausted, you are destined to crash and burn, featuring overeating, extra sleeping, and programmed lazy behavior to recalibrate.

Also in the show, Brad rips on the concept of “cheat days.” If you are allured by the prospect of a cheat day, this suggests your approach is too regimented and unpleasant to sustain. With the Keto Reset approach, you will instead progress gracefully with your metabolic fitness so that you are enjoying nutritious, satisfying meals, getting better and better at burning stored energy so you don’t have to deal with “low carb flu” or afternoon blues, and be patient in unwind the metabolic damage caused by decades of carbohydrate dependency.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson.
0:03.3	Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.
0:05.7	It's time for another show dedicated to the world of keto.
0:09.4	Check out KetorReset.com for details about my New York Times bestselling book
0:13.5	and send your questions to info at KetorReset.com.
0:22.5	Hey, listeners. I hate to start off with a downer title, but this is a very important show, something important to get into your mind the wrong way to go keto, the way to fail, okay?
0:34.4	And don't worry, we'll wrap it up with some instructions about how to avoid the stuff we're going to talk about.
0:41.1	And basically, when you rush into a comprehensive dietary transformation, a significant dietary transformation, such as cutting your total daily carbohydrate intake to under 50 grams per day,
0:56.4	you have to do it in a methodical manner and ensure that you are prepared for such a transformation
1:02.8	and not at risk of the fallout that occurs so commonly when people get psyched, they get motivated,
1:09.4	and they go to town, they cut out, they do as
1:12.3	they're told, they take a template from a coach trainer, book, magazine, and stick to it
1:17.7	with a tremendous amount of willpower exerted every single day to turn down all the things
1:22.1	that they enjoy.
1:23.3	We have this mentality that seems to be so popular now, where we talk about things like cheat
1:29.4	days and that sort of nonsense, which when you talk about cheat day, right out the gate,
1:37.1	I want to slam this concept, because if you have to cheat on something, that means that you
1:41.5	don't enjoy it, you don't appreciate it, and it's going to be very difficult to adhere to. So we don't want to have a cheat day. We want to have you
1:48.6	eating and enjoying your diet and your life to the maximum extent possible. And of course,
1:54.2	there's going to be some restrictions and there's going to be some trade-ins where you're
1:57.1	going to indulge in keto-approved foods rather than the slop that's out there
2:02.1	presented to us in the modern world. So it's going to take some discipline and recalibration,
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