Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Today I'm going to answer some questions on my YouTube channel. Someone wanted to know,

can a product with extras still be classified as keto? And the answer is technically maybe. It

really depends on how much extras. Preferably you want carbohydrates that are low glycemic,

which means they don't create a huge spike in your blood sugars. Now the essence of what makes

keto is the low carb. The carbs need to be below 50 grams or less per day. And then what's left is

moderate protein and high fat. If the fat's high, if your protein is moderate and your carbs are

high, that is not keto. So to really be keto, it has to be low carb. Preferably below 30 grams per

day, but it can go up as high as 50 grams. As your carbs become higher and higher above 50 grams,

you're going to have less and less ketones. So what you're doing is you're depriving your body

of carbohydrates, so then it's forced to burn fat and make ketones out of fat. Now a carbohydrate

is a term to describe fiber, sugar, and starch. Now let's take a bagel for example. One bagel is

50 grams of carbohydrate and a bagel only has two grams of fiber. So when you don't have enough fiber,

you don't have that buffer for that blood sugar spike. So the lower amount of fiber, the higher the

glycemic index. And then in a bagel, you have seven grams of sugar. I consider that on the

high side. If you're going to consume something, you probably want to keep it two grams of sugar

or less, but seven grams of sugar pretty high for one bagel. Now the question is what is left?

What's left is starch. And what it starch is, it's the string of glucose molecule stuff together.

And so in the body, it's going to break down and it's going to then spike your blood sugars.

And there's some other variables as well, which I don't want to get into in this video. I'll put a

link down below for that video. But for example, if you were to eat a raw potato, a lot of its starch,

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