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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The Unhealthy Type of Ketosis - Dr. Berg On Low Carb Diet

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Berg discussed the unhealthy type of ketosis called a classical ketogenic diet.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, there is an unhealthy type of ketosis, okay?

0:04.0

It's called the classical ketogenic diet, okay?

0:09.0

Now, this is used for kids that have epilepsy to reduce seizures.

0:13.0

It's very effective for that.

0:15.0

But from my viewpoint, it's not healthy long term.

0:18.0

It does serve its function of helping the body get into ketones,

0:23.0

which is great, but it doesn't provide a lot of nutrition

0:25.0

because they don't look at it from the viewpoint of nutrients.

0:28.0

They're giving the person a lot of synthetic vitamins.

0:30.0

I wanted to show you a couple products that they promote using the classic keto.

0:36.0

One is called keto-cal, okay?

0:39.0

And so, they're using four grams of fat to every one gram of protein and carb.

0:44.0

So, it's a really high in fat, low in protein and carb, okay?

0:49.0

Now, that's fine, but look at the first ingredient, hydrogenated soy oil.

0:53.0

Well, that's GMO, okay?

0:56.0

Hydrogenated is a trans fat.

0:59.0

It's like consuming plastic, so that's not healthy.

1:03.0

It has whole dry milk, refined soy bean, soy less than corn syrup solids,

1:10.0

and then a bunch of synthetic vitamins.

1:12.0

Here's another one.

1:14.0

RCF.

1:15.0

This is a soy formula base with iron product.

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