Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Hey guys, today we're going to talk about something kind of disgusting.

Someone wanted to know, why do I have sticky, tarry, black stool on Keto?

Okay, so for those of you that have this, let's kind of go into why you might have this.

It's basically unabsorbed fat.

When you are transitioning from running on sugar for many, many years and then you're

going to actually burn fat and you're going to consume more fat, it's going to take some

time to make this transition or this adaptation.

You have to make new enzymes, you have to make more bile, your whole body has to adjust

to it.

In that transition phase, which is just temporary, you may end up with some fatty stool, too much

fat in the stool.

So, stool might float, might be greasy, it might leave skid marks on the toilet and that

condition is actually called stianoria, which you're overloading the colon with more fat

than it can actually handle.

Now, there are other causes to this, but if you're just starting Keto and this starts

happening, the most likely reason is because you're in the transition phase and you're kind

of overloading the colon with too much fat at this point because your body hasn't adapted

to it.

Here are some other reasons and a reason I want to bring this up is that if you make the

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