4 Ways to Lower Ammonia in the Brain
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 February 2020
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Elevated ammonia in the brain can affect your mental clarity, cognitive function, and more. Here’s what to do.
Today, we’re going to talk about ammonia and ammonia toxicity in the brain.
When you’re fasting or doing the ketogenic diet, you’re generating a lot of ketones which are acidic. Ammonia is generated to counter some of the acidity of the ketones. This isn’t a bad thing.
If you consume a lot of protein, you may also smell ammonia, which is usually not a problem unless you have liver damage.
If you have liver damage or kidney damage, you may not break down ammonia fully to urea. This can cause it to build up and back up into the brain.
What is ammonia?
Ammonia is a by-product of protein.
An imbalance of your microbes can also generate excessive amounts of ammonia, which is one cause of ammonia in your brain.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Now today we're going to talk about ammonia and the toxicity in the brain. |
| 0:48.0 | Now I have done some videos on ammonia before, especially if you have a strong odor in your urine and what that comes from. |
| 0:55.0 | This is mainly going to be the toxic effect in your brain. |
| 0:58.0 | It's not a bad thing, but when you're fasting or you're doing the ketogenic diet, |
| 1:02.0 | you're generating a lot of ketones as your fuel. |
| 1:05.2 | Ketones are acidic. |
| 1:07.2 | Ammonia is basic. |
| 1:09.7 | So ammonia is generated to counter some of the acidity from the ketones. |
| 1:14.0 | It's not a bad thing. |
| 1:14.8 | Your body is just compensating for the acidic urine. |
| 1:19.2 | So if you're fasting and your urine is very, very strong like ammonia, I would not worry about it. |
| 1:25.0 | Now if you're consuming a lot of protein, you may smell like an ammonia type odor. |
| 1:31.0 | That can be either some ammonia or just a really |
| 1:34.0 | concentrated byproduct of ammonia which is called urea which is less toxic. |
| 1:39.6 | That is usually not a problem unless you have liver damage. |
| 1:44.4 | Now if you have liver damage or kidney damage you may not break down ammonia fully to urea |
| 1:50.7 | and so it could actually build up and it could back up into the brain as well. |
| 1:54.4 | But ammonia is a byproduct of protein amino acids. Now the friendly bacteria in your gut |
| 2:00.9 | also make proteins. They make neurotransmitters. So if there's an imbalance with your microbes, |
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