What to Drink When Fasting: Dr. Berg Guide
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about what to drink while fasting. Water won’t kick you out of ketosis, but water quality varies greatly. Tap water is generally pretty toxic, and plastic water bottles contain microplastics. Glass water bottles are a better option, but they can be costly. Canned water often contains BPA. Unless you have access to a well or spring water, a water filter is best. Crystal Quest water filters are cost-efficient and work well. Some people find that they feel more hydrated after drinking carbonated water. Carbonated water contains carbon dioxide, which helps drive oxygen into your tissues. Carbonated water is also slightly more acidic, which may be helpful for digestion. You can add apple cider vinegar to your water to increase energy, help with insulin resistance, improve mitochondrial function, and help improve a fatty liver. While fasting, you can also add electrolyte powder or sea salt to your water. If you’re doing one meal a day, it's especially important you’re getting enough salt. Stevia is fine on keto, but oftentimes, you’ll see maltodextrin added to stevia-sweetened beverages. Keto-friendly sweeteners that will not kick you out of ketosis include erythritol, monk fruit, and stevia. You can drink coffee without sugar while fasting—just be careful not to overdo it with caffeine. Try using heavy cream for your coffee rather than half-and-half. Bulletproof coffee involves adding coconut oil, MCT oil, or butter to your coffee. For some people, this can hinder weight loss. Tea is also fine while fasting. Coffee and tea can sometimes deplete vitamin B1. If this happens to you, simply supplement vitamin B1 and decrease your consumption of coffee and tea. Most people can not consume coconut water while fasting due to its sugar content. Alcohol kicks you out of ketosis and autophagy. Kombucha is okay in small amounts, but don’t consume too much because it is high in sugar. Shakes or smoothies are fine on keto but can inhibit fasting because of the calories. Smoothies are better consumed closer to a meal, not while you’re fasting.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's discuss what to drink when you're doing fasting. |
| 0:03.6 | Okay, in general. Does it really matter? |
| 0:05.9 | Are there things that will bump you out of ketosis? |
| 0:08.8 | Let's first start with water. |
| 0:10.8 | Please comment down below of what type of water that you drink. |
| 0:15.2 | Is it tap water, plastic bottles, do you use glass bottles, to use a water filter? |
| 0:20.0 | I'm really curious. |
| 0:21.2 | Obviously, you probably already know that tap water is pretty toxic. |
| 0:25.4 | So a lot of people are shifting to more bottled water. The problem with bottled water is that |
| 0:30.8 | you're constantly consuming microplastics and once it gets in your body it's really hard to get out of your body and these are endocrine disruptors. |
| 0:39.0 | So in other words they mimic estrogen and they kind of mess up your hormones but there's certain types of |
| 0:45.3 | plastics that are lower than others like Perrier, Pellegrino, Lroix, things like that. |
| 0:52.7 | And then of course when you get into glass bottles, |
| 0:54.8 | those are better, but they're very expensive. |
| 0:57.6 | And then you also have the canned water, right? |
| 0:59.9 | That is expensive, but it also has another toxin called BPA. |
| 1:04.8 | Unless you live on a farm like I do and get your water |
| 1:09.0 | from a well or a spring, you're going to be better off getting a water filter. |
| 1:15.0 | When I lived in the city, there was a really good water filter I got |
| 1:19.0 | from a company called Crystal Quest. |
| 1:21.0 | I'll put a link down below. I'm not affiliated with this company. I'm not |
| 1:24.6 | getting an affiliate check or anything like that but it's a good company for |
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