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The Dr. Gundry Podcast

Keto results without the diet? | Ep214

The Dr. Gundry Podcast

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Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Talk Radio

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

I reveal what most people are getting WRONG about the keto diet, how to eat practically anything and still lose weight, and the trick to consuming fruits on the Plant Paradox diet. Full show notes and transcript: https://drgundry.com/Keto-mistakes And thank you to our sponsors: For a limited time, SAVE 35% OFF on Cozy Earth bedding. Go to CozyEarth.com/GUNDRY and enter our special promo code GUNDRY. For a delicious, mushroom-packed beverage, go to mudwtr.com/GUNDRY and use code GUNDRY to get 15% off your first purchase. Experience the benefits of better gut health for yourself with a 20% discount on the first month of an Akkermansia membership with code GUNDRY20. Go to www.pendulumlife.com and use my code, “GUNDRY20” at checkout. For all your blue-light blocking and EMF blocking needs, go to boncharge.com/GUNDRY and use coupon code GUNDRY to save 15%. ClearUP is a modern, clinically proven way to help clear up congestion and stop sinus pain. Try Tivic ClearUP today with their 60-day risk-free trial. Go to tivichealth.com and enter promo code “GUNDRY22” for $20 off plus free shipping on your ClearUP device. Press play on comparing auto rates. Quote at Progressive.com to join the over 27 million drivers who trust Progressive.

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0:00.0

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.

0:14.0

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. This week we're back with our Rapid Fire Health Lecture Series.

0:20.0

Today it's all about some F words you hear me talk about a lot.

0:25.0

Fasting and Fruit. For best fasting tips to healthiest fruits I'll be sharing a ton of takeaways to help you thrive.

0:34.0

So don't go away. You won't want to miss what I think may be the most informative episode yet. We'll be right back.

0:43.0

The best keto and intermittent fasting tips.

0:48.0

Okay the keto diet is one of those popular diets around but also one of the most misunderstood.

0:55.0

So today I'm here to set the record straight and give you a quick look at some of my latest research.

1:02.0

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,

1:12.0

you experience to improve energy and weight loss.

1:17.0

However, it turns out ketones are not the super fuel they're made out to be.

1:24.0

The truth is, published literature in humans proves that that's exactly opposite the case.

1:31.0

Ketones, it turns out, are a lousy fuel.

1:36.0

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.

1:53.0

And the brain, which most keto experts tell you, thrives on ketones.

2:01.0

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

2:14.0

So the idea that ketones are some miraculous fuel or some miraculous fat efficient tool is simply raw and not based on human research.

2:30.0

Okay then, if ketones aren't a super fuel, why do they have what appears to be some really good effects?

2:40.0

Well, as I showed in my most recent book, unlocking the keto code, ketones in fact are signaling molecules.

2:51.0

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.

3:08.0

And signaling molecules, we now know are the communication system in our body and all our bodies.

3:18.0

Ketones normally would have only been generated when we were starving, when we had nothing deep.

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