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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

#226 (Keto): How and When to Add Carbs Back During Keto

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

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

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns discusses this common and perhaps over-analyzed topic of the role carbs play in your keto journey. This show attempts to simplify the issue, giving you some important concepts to consider while allowing you the freedom and flexibility to follow a strategy that works best for you. Brad discusses whether mornings or evenings are better for carbs, where pre- and post-workout fueling fits in, and also what are the best carbs to consume and which you should always avoid.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. It's time for another show

0:06.9

dedicated to the world of keto. Check out KetorReset.com for details about my New York Times

0:12.7

bestselling book and send your questions to info at Ketorreset.com.

0:27.3

Welcome, listeners, and let's get right into it with this exciting, popular topic, common question, when to add carbs back in on the keto journey. And if you don't have much time to listen,

0:34.3

I'll give you a short answer, Never or whenever. Thank you for listening to

0:41.0

the keto reset podcast. Good luck with that. Or maybe we'll get into a little more detail. But one

0:47.0

thing that concerns me out of the gate is this overly analytical approach to keto, to health

0:53.8

goals of all kinds. I did a whole show on that,

0:56.7

so please listen to that. And when it comes to this question, the nuances have been debated so

1:02.7

frequently. There's so much content out there. It can really become too much information and give you

1:08.0

sources of stress and anxiety. So I want to give you some talking points to consider,

1:13.5

some big ideas to consider, but realize that when you've made that, when you've hit that fork in

1:20.0

the road, made that turn from carbohydrate dependency into fat adaptation, anything beyond that fork in

1:26.8

the road, we really are just splitting hairs,

1:29.2

and we're doing so well in comparison to the tremendous negative momentum toward lifestyle-related

1:34.8

diseases and dysfunction that come from carbohydrate dependency. So we just want to proceed on that

1:41.2

bright path toward fat adaptation and use keto as a tool, a weapon in our arsenal

1:47.4

to unleash in all kinds of different ways, different times, different durations, and obtain

1:53.5

the highest level of metabolic benefits. But we want to get to that base level and then not

1:59.3

sweat the details so much. So the first thing to

2:03.2

consider, and I did a complete show on this topic, so please listen to that one, is you want to

2:09.0

make it through one complete keto reset journey as a bucket list item for everyone. Very highly

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