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Hey guys, Dr. Berg here.

I want to answer the question, will vegetables slow your ketosis?

And this is a common question that I keep getting over and over again.

Typically, no, okay, especially if you're going to avoid certain vegetables, like of course

corn and maybe beets or carrots, okay, so but if we actually eliminate those, no, you do

not have to worry about the vegetable family.

In fact, I've never run into a problem with it.

In fact, most traditional ketosis diets does not differentiate the type of carbohydrate.

So they're always just saying, well, just have your 50 grams of carbohydrate.

But what I want to recommend is that you try to get your 50 grams from the vegetable family.

And you can even go higher than that if you're just doing like leafy greens and bitter

vegetables that are not very sweet and sell everything like that.

So typically on the ketosis diet, you want about 50 grams, but if your metabolism is

really slow and maybe you're a little bit older and you've destroyed your metabolism

in the past, you might need to go down the 43rd or even 20 grams of carbohydrate, okay?

So you might want to go lower.

But it's the other thing that you might want to do if you're having difficulty is count

the total carbs on the label, not the net carbs.

And the net carbs are basically just to take the total carbs in minus the fiber because

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