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.

Hey guys, listen, we're going to talk about the key foods on a ketogenic diet, okay?

Those relate to key nutrients that you would need to consume.

Now let's start with vitamin C. Why do you need vitamin C on a ketogenic diet?

Because we want to repair all the damage from the high levels of sugar and high levels

of insulin, which by the way, have to do with the vision and the arteries and the kidney

and the nervous system.

Vitamin C is necessary for that.

It's also necessary to heal insulin resistance.

Now a lot of vitamin C is in the vegetables, but people think that they're going to consume

lemon juice from a bottle and pour it in the water and get all the vitamin C, but that's

not true because all the vitamin C that you buy on the shelf is all pasteurized.

It's cooked.

It's heated.

So you don't have any more vitamin C left.

So if you're taking an actual lemon and juicing that, you're getting some vitamin C, but

not from the bottle.

Now the advantage of consuming lemon juice would be to counteract some of the stones that

could be developing on a ketogenic plan, but not necessarily vitamin C.

Bell peppers are loaded with vitamin C, especially the green bell pepper.

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