Why Has Keto Gotten a Bad Rap?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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In this podcast, I want to talk to you about why keto has gotten a bad rap. You may have heard about things in the news or other media outlets about keto being dangerous and having side effects like:
• Constipation
• High uric acid
• Low calcium
• Low magnesium
• Kidney stones
• Gall stones
• High cholesterol
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Fatigue
• Hypoglycemia
• Slow growth
• Abnormal heart rhythm
Is the ketogenic diet dangerous?
The truth is, these symptoms can happen when you’re doing keto… But here’s the reason why:
The traditional/classical version of the keto diet wasn’t designed to be sustainable—it was designed to treat children with epilepsy.
However, this is a much different ketogenic diet from the healthy version of the ketogenic diet. The diet that causes these side effects is a dirty version of the ketogenic diet.
Healthy Keto doesn’t allow foods like:
• Mayonaise
• Unhealthy salad dressings
• GMO soy oil
• Refined vegetable oil
• Soy
• Non-organic, low-quality casein
• Certain carbs — bread and rice
• Diet soda
• Orange juice
• Corn syrup
• Maltodextrin
If you consume these foods, you are going to deplete nutrients—vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, etc.—and you’re going to create a lot of fo gallbladder issues and bloating with unhealthy fats.
Most of all, Healthy Keto highlights vegetables. Dirty keto includes very few quality vegetables in the diet. This causes nutrient deficiencies and lots of side effects.
So when you see studies on the news about the “ketogenic diet,” you’re only seeing the unhealthy version of keto, which I don’t recommend at all.
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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. So I wanted to answer the question, why has keto got such a bad rap in the |
| 0:48.2 | first place? Why do you see in the news that it's such a dangerous thing to do with so many |
| 0:52.9 | side effects? It's going to cause constipation, |
| 0:56.5 | high uric acid, it's going to deplete your calcium, low magnesium, kidney stones, gallstones, |
| 1:02.8 | high cholesterol vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue. It can even create hypoglycemia, low growth. So it can stunt your |
| 1:10.0 | growth, abnormal heart rhythm. But guess what? |
| 1:13.3 | All these symptoms could happen if you do keto. But here's the differentiation. If you do the |
| 1:19.8 | traditional or classical version of the ketogenic diet, which was designed for children with epilepsy |
| 1:26.2 | to do. But just so you know, I want to differentiate |
| 1:29.4 | this from the healthy version of ketosis. Because if we're going to talk about dirty keto, |
| 1:36.0 | this is dirty keto on steroids. Look at some of the foods that they're going to use. They're going |
| 1:42.1 | to allow mayonnaise with soy oil, |
| 1:45.0 | salad dressings with more soy oil, which is all GML, more vegetable oil. They'll use this thing |
| 1:51.9 | called keto kale 3-1, which is more refined vegetable oil, soy, and other oils, which are GML, |
| 2:00.8 | casein, which is actually a protein over here. And this is obviously |
| 2:05.0 | not organic or it's not grass fat at all. It's a type of protein. And it's definitely very |
| 2:10.9 | little in the list as far as quality of protein. And they're not looking at the nutrient density. |
| 2:16.5 | They will recommend synthetic vitamins, but that's not real nutrition. And they're not looking at the nutrient density. They will recommend synthetic vitamins, |
| 2:18.9 | but that's not real nutrition. And they even allow certain carbohydrates in small amounts, |
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