What is the Dietary Requirement for Carbohydrates?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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You might be surprised at the dietary requirements for carbohydrates. Check this out.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg |
| 0:08.0 | takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:15.3 | Hey guys, I'm back. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm going to answer a question that came up from someone that wanted to know, what is the |
| 0:27.2 | dietary requirement for carbs? |
| 0:29.5 | Okay? |
| 0:30.5 | This is not going to be a long video, but I will say this. |
| 0:34.1 | The requirement is that there isn't any, there's none. |
| 0:38.6 | There is no RDAs for carbohydrates. |
| 0:42.1 | There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. |
| 0:45.7 | There are essential amino acids, there are essential fatty acids, but no essential |
| 0:50.5 | carbohydrates. |
| 0:52.2 | In this definition, essential means that your body can't make it, it needs to get it from |
| 0:59.6 | the diet. |
| 1:00.9 | Okay? |
| 1:01.9 | Well guess what? |
| 1:03.3 | The question is, can your body make glucose? |
| 1:06.3 | Yes. |
| 1:07.3 | It's called gluconeogenesis, okay? |
| 1:12.1 | But when you read textbooks sometimes, they'll even say, oh, glucose is necessary for |
| 1:18.2 | the brain, for the red blood cell, and that's all true. |
| 1:22.3 | But when you actually reduce glucose and you cut down the carbs, your body just converts |
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