What Do You Do If You Get Ketoacidosis?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 19 January 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about ketoacidosis and what to do when you have this condition. There’s a lot of confusion with the words "ketosis" and "ketoacidosis" which both have the common word “keto” but are NOT the same thing.
3 Different Types of Ketoacidosis
1. Alcoholic Ketoacidosis
2. Starvation Ketoacidosis
3. Diabetic Ketoacidosis
5 Abnormal Things about Diabetic Ketoacidosis
1. Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)
2. Acidosis
Normally, the blood is between 7.35 -7.45 (slightly alkaline)
Mild: 7.25 – 7.30
Moderate: 7.00 – 7.25
Severe: less than 7.00
3. Low Blood Volume
4. Potassium Loss
5. Low Insulin
Symptoms of Ketoacidosis
• Thirst
• Frequent Urination
• Exhaustion
• Breathing
• Confusion
• Dry Mouth
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute 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 what to do if you have ketoacidosis. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay? There's a lot of confusion on what ketoacidosis is versus ketosis are they the same sometimes people |
| 0:57.2 | scare you and say like don't do ketosis because that's dangerous what they're |
| 1:01.1 | talking about is ketoacidosis. They have the same word ketel, but ketoacidosis is very different than ketosis. So let me explain the three different types of ketoacidosis. |
| 1:13.4 | You have alcoholic ketoacidosis, which we're not going to talk about in this presentation. |
| 1:18.8 | You also have starvation ketoacidosis, which would occur, let's say if you're really starving not fasting but |
| 1:24.0 | starving okay you're you have no food and your body's eating up your own muscle and |
| 1:29.5 | fat and you're very thin like maybe even you have anorexia, so we're not going to even cover this because these two are completely different. |
| 1:38.0 | We're going to talk about the diabetic ketoacidosis condition, okay? Mainly type one. You can get it with type two if you're taking a certain |
| 1:47.1 | medication but it's rare but type one it's more common. Okay. So let's talk about that there's there's about five |
| 1:55.2 | five abnormal things about diabetic ketoacidosis. Number one, there's hyperglycemia, there's high |
| 2:07.1 | levels of blood sugar, okay? Why? Because the type one doesn't have any |
| 2:11.5 | insulin. So let's say you forgot to take your insulin, |
| 2:15.1 | sugar goes really, really, really high. Okay? So the other characteristic is low insulin or at no |
| 2:21.2 | insulin. So we just have very high blood sugar. What's going to happen is that's going to drive a lot of electrolytes in fluid out of the body because you're peeing out glucose and wherever the glucose goes, the water goes and the |
| 2:36.0 | electrolytes go. So you have low blood volume, okay, low blood pressure, you're going to feel weak. |
| 2:42.3 | So this is another characteristic right here. You're going to feel weak. So this is another characteristic right here. |
| 2:44.0 | You're going to have major potassium loss. Okay? Now you're also going to get |
| 2:50.7 | acidosis and this is the danger of diabetic ketoacidosis is the |
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