What is the Dietary Requirement for Carbohydrates?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 11 April 2020
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In this short podcast, we’re going to talk about carbs and carbohydrate requirements.
There are no RDAs for carbs. There is no such thing as essential carbohydrates. There are essential amino acids and fatty acids but no essential carbohydrates. The definition of “essential” that I’m talking about means that your body can’t make it. It needs to get it from the diet.
Can your body make glucose? Yes, it’s called gluconeogenesis. Some things say glucose is necessary for the brain and red blood cells. That’s true. But when you reduce glucose and cut down on carbs, your body starts burning ketones and fatty acids. The body can actually turn ketones, fat, and protein into any glucose that it needs. You do not need glucose.
That being said, your microbes do like to eat fiber, and fiber is a carbohydrate. But, it is the only carbohydrate that has zero effect on insulin. Fiber is okay.
A low-carb diet will do a lot of great things for you even if you consume more fat. When you lower your carbs and raise the amount of fat you consume, your cholesterol can actually go into a really good range. Your LDL may go up temporarily, but the good LDL will be high, and the bad LDL will be low.
A high carb diet may increase your risk of high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart problems.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey guys. I'm back. I'm going to answer a question that came up from someone that wanted to know, what is the dietary requirement for carbs? Okay. This is not going to be a long video, but I will say this. |
| 0:57.0 | The requirement is that there isn't any, there's none. There is no RDAs for carbohydrates. |
| 1:04.8 | There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. There are essential amino acids. |
| 1:10.0 | There are essential fatty acids. There are essential fatty acids, |
| 1:12.1 | but no essential carbohydrates. And in this definition, essential means that your body can't make it. |
| 1:20.9 | It needs to get it from the diet. Okay. Well, guess what? The question is, can your body make glucose? Yes. It's called gluconeogenesis. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay. But when you read textbooks sometimes, they'll even say, oh, glucose is necessary for the brain, for the red blood cell. |
| 1:43.4 | And that's all true. But when you actually reduce glucose and you cut for the brain, for the red blood cell, and that's all true. |
| 1:45.2 | But when you actually reduce glucose and you cut down the carbs, your body just converts and |
| 1:50.6 | starts burning ketones, starts burning more fatty acids. |
| 1:54.7 | And any glucose that it needs, it can turn the ketone, the fat, the protein into glucose. |
| 2:02.5 | So you do not need glucose. |
| 2:05.1 | Now that being said, your microbes do like to eat fiber. |
| 2:12.8 | And fiber is a carbohydrate, but it is the only carbohydrate that has zero effect on insulin. So, fiber is okay, |
| 2:23.5 | unless you have a lot of digestive issues where when you consume fiber, it just tears you up. |
| 2:29.1 | Other than that, I would recommend vegetables to get your fiber to feed the microbes, |
| 2:33.8 | and also the vegetables have |
| 2:35.2 | some nutrients as well. So there are no requirements. Going on a low carb diet will do a lot of |
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