Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools

you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome back to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. This week I have another episode of my all new

series where I share quick and easy life-changing tips to optimize your health.

How fast? Keto and intermittent fasting tips. Okay, the keto diet is one of the most popular

diets around, but also one of the most misunderstood. So today I'm here to set the record straight

and give you a quick look at some of my latest research. As you may know, the keto diet has

become increasingly popular based on the belief that when your body converts to making

something called ketones, you experience to improve energy and weight loss. However,

it turns out ketones are not the super fuel they're made out to be. The truth is, published

literature in humans proves that that's exactly opposite the case. Ketones, it turns

out are a lousy fuel. Studies at Boston and the National Institutes of Health show that

even at full ketosis, that the body only gets 30% of its energy needs supplied by ketones.

And the brain, which most keto experts tell you, it's rise on ketones, the brain at

full ketosis, still needs 30 to 40% of its fuel as sugar has glucose instead of ketones.

So the idea that ketones are some miraculous fuel, or some miraculous fat efficient tool,

is simply raw and not based on human research. Okay then, if ketones aren't a super fuel,

why do they have what appears to be some really good effects? Well, as I showed in my most

recent book, unlocking the keto code, ketones, in fact, are signaling molecules. Now, signaling

molecules are actually a communication system that tell cell membranes what to do, that tell

mitochondria what to do, that tell your genes what to do. And signaling molecules, we now know,

are the communication system in our body and all our bodies. ketones normally would have only

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