389: Primal Vs. Keto?
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What's the difference between primal and keto? How do I know if I'm in ketosis? Do I have to be in ketosis to burn fat?
We're tackling these questions and a whole lot more in today's episode.
In episode 387 I laid the foundation for our week of discussion around ketogenic diets. I defined ketosis, ketones and talked a little bit about "clean keto" versus all those keto plans touting ketogenic treats & desserts.
In episode 388 I had the great pleasure of interviewing Mark Sisson (author of The Primal Blueprint) and talking about his newest book, The Keto Reset Diet.
Today we're doing a bit of a debrief on those episodes to answer some questions and dive deeper into some of the powerful points we rushed through in episode 388.
If you've got questions about fat burning, ketosis or anything we talked about in episodes 387 or 388, don't miss this episode!
Reminder: next week I'm hosting a free mindset & motivation masterclass. The more we talk about nutrition & consistency, the more I feel the need to tackle mindset and the ability to create motivation because we can know a lot about nutrition strategy but not have the mental muscle to consistently implement it.
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Key terms:
Ketosis is a state of metabolic efficiency where you are able to burn stored energy in the form of body fat and ketones & not be dependent on regular high carbohydrate meals to sustain your energy, mood and cognitive focus.
Ketones are an energy source just like carbs, fat & protein are energy sources. Ketones can be used by your brain, your heart, and your muscles. Ketones are produced by the liver as a byproduct of fat metabolism.
Ketones produced under certain conditions:
- blood sugar is low
- insulin is low
- muscle & liver glycogen stores are low
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Menden. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.7 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | I am Elizabeth Menden and this is another episode being recorded from my car. |
| 0:34.2 | So for any audio issues, I apologize but we're just trying to make it work as I am out of town |
| 0:44.0 | to many moving parts inside and so we're in the car. |
| 0:48.1 | What I wanted to do today is talk about key takeaways from Episode 387 and 388 and follow |
| 0:57.1 | up on some of your questions. So if you listened to 388, you heard me get a little bit fan girl |
| 1:04.7 | because we had Mark Sisson author of the Primal Blueprint on the show and we were talking about his |
| 1:10.9 | new book, the Keto Reset Diet. And we talked about so many different things. We could have gone |
| 1:17.7 | on for many more hours but we weren't able to so I want to kind of circle back and talk about |
| 1:24.4 | some of the questions you guys have sent in since then and some of the deeper dive areas I wanted to |
| 1:30.0 | explain a little bit more. I used Episode 378. No, no, that's not true. 387 as a sort of primer. |
| 1:41.2 | So if you haven't heard 387 or 388 yet, please go back and listen to those. In 387, I talk about |
| 1:50.7 | like what is ketosis and what are ketones. So if you have questions about that, that would be a good |
| 1:55.2 | place to start 388. Absolutely. You want to hear before you listen to today's episode. I want to |
| 2:04.0 | start off with a couple of important things before we dive in. Number one is the next Fat Loss |
| 2:12.3 | Fast Track, which is the final Fat Loss Fast Track of 2017. Kicks off on October 1st. I can hardly |
| 2:18.7 | believe that we are almost into October. 2018 is going to be here before we know it. But if you want |
| 2:24.1 | to take advantage of the last few months of the year and feel like you are not only in control |
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