Eat More Mushroom on Keto
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about why you should add more mushrooms to your diet.
Many people consider mushrooms a vegetable, but it’s actually a type of fungi. Mushrooms are made up of 92% water, 4% carbs, 2% protein, and less than 1% fat.
One cup of mushrooms comes out to 2g carbs and 1g of fiber, making the net carbs 1g.
There are many benefits of having mushrooms in your diet:
• They break down plastics within weeks
• They have a closer biology to animals than plants
• They are rich in vitamins and minerals, including B2, B3, B5, B9, D, selenium, zinc, copper, and potassium.
• They contain B-glucans, which have anti-tumor properties
Fungus is an important part of your microbiome and acquired immune system.
Funguses can also break down nutrients in the soil, which allows plants and our bodies to absorb and utilize them more efficiently.
As you can see, mushrooms aren’t just keto-friendly; they are also very healthy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:12.0 | So I'm going to talk about why you should probably add more mushrooms to your diet. |
| 0:26.4 | There's several reasons. |
| 0:28.1 | First of all, is a mushroom, a vegetable? |
| 0:30.8 | No, it's not. |
| 0:31.6 | It's a fungus. |
| 0:33.0 | Okay, it's a fungi. |
| 0:34.6 | And fungus and mushrooms are very, very keto-'s break it down we've got 92% water |
| 0:42.2 | okay in mushrooms 4% carbs 2% protein and less than 1% fat so in one cup of mushrooms we only have 2 grams |
| 0:53.7 | of carb and 1 gram of fiber so really we only have two grams of carb and one gram of fiber. |
| 0:55.8 | So really, we only have one gram of net carb. |
| 0:59.1 | So again, mushrooms are extremely keto-friendly, but it's not just the low carbs that we're |
| 1:05.0 | interested in. |
| 1:05.6 | They have a lot of other things. |
| 1:08.5 | Very rich in the B vitamins, especially B2, B3, B5, folate, very high in selenium, which is a powerful |
| 1:16.4 | antioxidant that is vital for your thyroid and a precursor for glutathione for the liver, which is the most |
| 1:23.5 | powerful antioxidant. Also loaded with zinc, which I've done a million videos on that. |
| 1:29.3 | Great copper source. Copper is part of the vitamin C complex, which is important in making |
| 1:37.0 | collagen and also in your immune system. And it has a good amount of potassium. Also, if that |
| 1:43.4 | mushroom is exposed to UV light, there'll be some |
| 1:47.0 | vitamin D in a form that's like a pre-vitamin D that has to be converted, but there's some vitamin D |
| 1:53.1 | in that mushroom. But I think the biggest benefit of mushrooms go way beyond just the nutrients. |
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