Why Has Keto Gotten a Bad Rap?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Why has the ketogenic diet gotten a bad rap? Listen, and I’ll explain in this short podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | So I wanted to answer the question, why has Keto got such a bad rap in the first place? |
| 0:26.1 | Why do you see in the news that it's such a dangerous thing to do with so many side effects? |
| 0:30.7 | It's going to cause constipation, high uric acid. |
| 0:34.7 | It's going to deplete your calcium, low magnesium, kidney stones, gallstones, high cholesterol |
| 0:40.6 | vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue. |
| 0:42.8 | It can even create hypoglycemia, low growth. |
| 0:46.1 | So it can stunt your growth, abnormal heart rhythm. |
| 0:49.8 | But guess what? |
| 0:50.8 | All these symptoms could happen if you do Keto. |
| 0:53.9 | But here's the differentiation. |
| 0:56.3 | If you do the traditional or classical version of the ketogenic diet, which was designed |
| 1:01.8 | for children with epilepsy to do. |
| 1:04.1 | But just so you know, I want to differentiate this from the healthy version of ketosis. |
| 1:10.6 | Because if we're going to talk about dirty keto, this is dirty keto on steroids. |
| 1:16.8 | Look at some of the foods that they're going to use. |
| 1:18.9 | We're going to allow mayonnaise with soy oil, salad dressings with more soy oil, which |
| 1:24.0 | is all GMO, more vegetable oil. |
| 1:28.1 | They'll use this thing called keto kale 3.1, which is more refined vegetable oil, soy, |
| 1:34.6 | and other oils, which are GMO, case scene, which is actually a protein over here. |
| 1:41.3 | This is obviously not organic or it's not grass fed at all. |
| 1:45.0 | It's a type of protein. |
| 1:46.8 | And it's definitely very low in the list as far as quality of protein. |
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