Hidden Danger in Fruit & Honey [ A1c Misses Fructose Damage ] 2024
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- Fruit & Honey may not spike your glucose, or your insulin, but... Eating too much fruit and honey have known consequences inside your body that can lead to early disease. The only problem is, your doctor can't test you for it. This video may be controversial and the information is true. Don't believe me, here's the research...
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What A1c measures: www.sciencedir...
A1c doesn't detect Fructose Glycation: www.nature.com...
A1c detects Glucose Glycation only: www.ncbi.nlm.n...
Fructose glycation difficult to measure: www.ncbi.nlm.n...
Fruct Glycates Hb more than glucose: academic.oup.c...
Skin Aging: www.hindawi.co...
Fruct raises Triglycerides: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
Fruct causes Metabolic problems: www.ncbi.nlm.n...
Fruct raises Trig's: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
Fruct & Insulin Resist: www.ncbi.nlm.n...
Fruct & Fatty Liver: www.sciencedir...
Fruct & NAFLD: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
Fruct & Insulin Sensitivity: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
Fruct & Appetite: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
Fruct & Leptin Resist: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
More fruit worsens Fatty Liver: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
Oranges worsen NAFLD: www.sciencedir...
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Dr. Berry. Back in late August I was feeling so horrible. My weight was 226, A1-c was almost at 7!
Over all a mess. I watched your Ketogenic video. I then read up on it as well. Took a full blood test 9/22. Numbers not good.
I started my Keto/Carnivore lifestyle.
It was amazingly easy. I wasn't hungry. On 11/1/22 I checked my bloodwork. Everything is in check!! Its a miracle healing to me 🙏🏻
And I am down 14lbs! With my thyroid being removed, losing weight has been almost impossible. Not now, living the Keto/Carve lifestyle is the best for me.
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Is that Cookie worth a needle in the belly, I think not. Thank you for all you do!!!
💖🙏🏻 Blessings from Bulverde TX.
It's that simple? Yes, but lazy psycho people would rather lose a foot, than a cookie
Same with me, almost impossible for a post menopausal woman in her late 60’s to lose weight, yet I’ve lost 55 pounds and I feel great on a LCHF diet. And improved all of my health markers.
Dr berry has helped me get in the best shape of my life. I used to eat a good amount of fruit. I used to be bloated and my weight was stuck at 185. After listening to this great doctor I've lost another 20. I'm 41 now and I have more abs now than when I used to workout everyday in my 20s and I hardly work on my abs now. It's absolutely incredible. 💯
Good for you! Don't pay any mind to the naysayers! Keep up the good work!
did you do regular exercise plus the diet? I am interested because i have recently started carnivore diet but am not always able to get regular exercise
"Your emotions don't change the facts." I have never heard a truer statement .
As Ben Shapiro likes to say it, "Facts don't care about your feelings."
But this is a fact that has not been proven to matter. What is “a lot” and what if I walk or hike 6 miles a day?
It's a an empty statement like: the team that scores the most points will win. We're all trying to find the truth. Admittedly, I don't know if carbs from fruit are optimal compared to 100% carnivore. It's hotly debated.
Yes, that was a real gem, wasn't it?
@@elizabethroe8771 thats the comment i was looking for.
I live in an Eskimo village in Alaska. I can look back and see exactly the diet that was here for the natives and there is no fruit or honey at all not even vegetables other than a few greens in the spring and short summers. They were primarily carnivores and survived very harsh winters and environment and lived healthy.
Not ideal and an extreme
I love learning about Alaska living!! You are very fortunate!!
@@jeffbro1021 Because we cannot learn from an extreme situation?
@@jeffbro1021 Extreme for you perhaps, everyday life for thousands of people for hundreds of years, though! 😉😉
@@jeffbro1021 According to what data?
Fruit use to be limited to two servings a day. A large apple would be shared. Tomatoe was considered a fruit serving. It was also seasonal for the most part.
Now people put 10 servings of fruit in a blender and add sugar or honey. That is breakfast.
I still eat fruit, but not daily. I like to have some clementine at Christmas. I forage for blueberries in the summer. I have a little homemade apples on my pork on occasion. I have homemade, keto friendly cramberry sauce with turkey. But I consider fruit a treat. Not a daily food.
I really think we fail to grasp how much work would go into attaining even a small amount of fruit. We have abundant fruit & nut producing plants on our property. But the wildlife all know it's here & have a knack for getting it the day before we would. Our ancestors might have put in the work to get a little, but as mentioned, it would've been a rare treat. It wouldn't have been pounds of super sweet fruit in a sitting.
Also keep in mind domesticated fruit sold at grocery stores are adulterated and genetically different from their counterparts in the wild. A wild apple tastes NOTHING like a grocery store apple. It’s less than half as sweet, and is TINY.
@@CC86CA Yes, most people have no idea how adulterated our food is. Most vegetables come from one plant that was engineered by scientists to create a whole other plant. When I found that out I didn't quit eating them. With the carnivore diet I feel confident that it is what the body really needs for optimum performance and have dropped all plant foods, as a new carnivore dieter.
Meat for me is an occasional treat. No red meat and no dairy protein!
@@herbbowler2461 That's what I do. I eat fruit only occasionally and chicken meat maybe twice a week at the most, and red meat as a treat. It all comes down to being sensible and keeping all things in moderation.
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In June 2018 after watching Gary Fettke’s video “Is Fruit Good or Bad For You?”, I did my first Diet Elimination Trial in which I stopped eating fruit. Within 2 months I had dropped 35 pounds and was feeling amazing! Turns out “wholesome, natural” fruit was the biggest driver of my prior obesity and painfully arthritic knees and lower back. I eventually lost another 35 pounds as I progressed to become the very healthy low meal frequency carnivore I remain today. Despite Paul Saladino’s recommendations, I had zero intention of adding fruits and honey to my diet given my previous negative experience. This important finding Dr. Berry presents in this video gives me even more reason to continue on this path that has been working so well at keeping me far healthier at age 57 than I ever was the rest of my life.
um aren't fruits rich in vitamins - more so than vegetables? where are you going to get your vitamin c? from supplements? better off getting it from foods. but I see what you mean cuz american food is gmo-heavy, full of pesticide or antibiotics.
@@3xitthissid3 Not all fruits are the same. No way this dude got 70 pounds overweight eating raspberries, blueberries, and lemons. He probably was an orange juice or mango fiend
@@luisdetomaso867 juices bought from the store are waay different from the naturals made at home. to me it just seems you're better off cutting out processed sugar and deserts (rich in sugar). and instead you can swap it for fruits and honey, which is nature's natural and healthy desserts.
that's what people did pre-preservatives and pre-junkfood craze
@@3xitthissid3 Sorry, but drinking any juice is always worse than eating complete fruit because it enters your bloodstream much faster and has had all of the beneficial fiber removed. It's processed food
@@luisdetomaso867 true true
I keep telling diabetics this and I've been told more than once I'm full of s**t. Thanks for addressing this.
Once people start having blood sugar problems their ability to think clearly is gone.
@@mikelarry2602 What???
@@rhiahlMTI was one, it makes you stupid. It sticks to everything.
"An island of ignorance that resides in my sea of knowledge" This is the first time I've ever heard such a powerful arrangement everyday words. That is one of the greatest statements of all time. Oh, and the information is a medical breakthrough for diabetics. Thanks
I literally just finished reading five articles, by medical professionals, claiming that my carnivore regimen (I refuse to call it a "diet") is making me more susceptible to developing breast cancer and/or other types of cancer, and that reducing or eliminating meat consumption and focusing on eating fruits and vegetables is the ONLY healthy alternative. I was actually considering adding some fruit UNTIL I found this video, even though I avoid fructose due to its confirmed association with dementia and my general carb aversion. As I have nothing but the utmost respect and faith in the info you share, I will stay the path with carnivore. I've lost over 50 lbs; am one of the only senior-aged women I know who is not obese; and have had my hypothyroid medication cut by more than half, all in the last two years. Thank you so much for being such a valued and dedicated resource! Though I'm definitely done with fruit, you're the one "Berry" I refuse to do without!🙏❤😉
Doctor Berry is the best berry in the world!
But Carnivore diet IS a diet! Just because people misuse the word diet doesn't mean you have to shy away from using the term in its proper meaning.
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I checked some of the studies you linked (not all) and the tests used fructose in isolation, not as a complete food like honey or fruit like a banana. So you can not draw the conclusion that fructose in fruit causes glycation. Fructose in isolation seems to cause this problem, but not in fruit as a complete package as other studies have definitively proven there is a difference between a complete fruit/food and fructose, lactose, or sucrose in isolation.
I am hesitant to demonize fruit, milk, and honey these days as after 12 years of keto and IF (including carnivore) I ruined my electrolyte system in my body - I couldn't retain electrolytes and supplementation didn't help. My heart was pounding non-stop for 3 months and it drove me crazy - though specialists and doctors said my heart physically was fine. It would sometimes pound so hard that I got jitters and felt very unwell. I reintroduced fruit after 12 years - just 1 fruit with each meal, and stopped fasting and I was feeling better on day 1 and completely recovered in a week.
Will the fruit make me fat? No idea, maybe, time will tell. I'll check my bloods in 90 days. But definitely feeling much better.
YMMV 🖖
The fructose in fruit and isolated fructose...are still the exact same thing -- fructose.
@@veniqer yes, but delivery mechanism is different. And this makes a difference. Fructose in fruit is fine, and, if anything, has a positive impact on health. Plenty of studies show this in humans and animals and if you watch Paul’s video he will list some examples.
High insulin levels prevent the kidneys from secreting electrolytes. This can cause high blood pressure when electrolytes are also high. There's a very well known recommendation on keto/carnivore to get plenty of salt and electrolytes because our RDA is grossly underestimated when we don't have chronic hyperinsulinemia.
@@mikafoxx2717 I get that, but I had the same issue as Paul Saldino, after two months of strict carnivore (so zero carbs) and a decade of IF/Keto (with weekly cheat days) my body could not retain electrolytes. I ended up dosing myself with very high/dangerous levels of them to no avail. Your body ends up just dumping electrolytes, it can't retain them, which leads to severe heart palpitations (though I wasn't hospitalised others have been). As soon as I added fruit into my diet - just 1 with each meal, and cut out fasting entirely, my heart calmed down immediately and I was fully recovered after about a month. More recently studies show that insulin reaction is critical to the electrolyte cycle of the body, and, if you go for long periods one zero carb (so no insulin reaction) you will crash your electrolyte system. Surprisingly, after 3 months of the "animal based diet" with all its fruits and honey I have not gained any weight but feel much better.
I think the thing that kept me going, in retrospect, so long on keto and IF were the cheat days. As soon as they were eliminated I got this issue. No idea if its a specific to my genetics or specific to people of Mediterranean descent (Paul Saldino is Italian) or what, but keto is untenable for us long term, or that the carnivore people are actually cheating just enough to get by (and I Just mean they are getting carbs somehow) but, I wouldn't wish what I had on anyone.
/shrugh, YMMV.
@@solomani5959 what I've heard, is that you need to up your protien dose and have a good sized meal so you get an insulin response. Also a possibility is that you were drinking too much water as well. I think one of the issues is that people think you need to constantly be in ketosis and dare not get kicked out, but when in reality things like fish and most meat has plenty of protein compared to fat, closer to 50/50 or less. The people eating 80% or more calories by fat to stay deep in ketosis and eating several meals to not spike insulin via the protein may be doing themselves a disservice. There's also the possibility of genetics. Those of some genetics that trended north interbred with Neanderthals ~65,000 years ago, which gave them a better ability to deal with cold among other things. Perhaps they kind of differences change how people react to all carnivorous eating. The Inuit seem to have done fine for hundreds of generations. I do believe that sugar isn't good for us however, nor a daily occurrence. I'm outdoorsy and I know the local wild fruit and for the few months it exists a year, you'd have to spend all day picking and eating to gain weight. The locals are fish and cervids mostly, which have higher protein to fat ratios than what most peddle for keto/carnivore. Perhaps it's that we need to fat adapt firstly before allowing protein load to be increased.
Dr Ken, you were the initial person/expert who I watched and made the decision to go carnivore back in June of this year. It only took a few months for major changes to start happening, and they are continuing to get better and better. Family and friends are amazed, some are making the leap to a PHDiet based on my results. I was overweight and out of shape and very depressed. In fact, it was your video with Dr Palmer that made me decide to go full bore carnivore, immediately, rather than wait another day, week or longer. So glad I did the results are amazing!!! I'm a true believer now and hope any others maybe still on the fence give it a try - truly a miracle way of life! Thank you
Is it ok if I still have carrots, rice. But mostly carnivore??
@@mctow8554 I always suggest looking up any food on google and finding out from there how high (or low) the carb count is of any food you are thinking about eating. If it's high carb, you really do not need it...some foods you may be able to get away with eating a much smaller amount though...but rice for one is generally high carb.
give your system another 10 years and come back to this comment. I pray you' ll be right.
@@mctow8554 You don't need those. The truth is that you only need meat to survive, but people don't want to acknowledge the truth because most treat food as entertainment rather than as something to use to rebuild their bodies and keep themselves alive.
@@mctow8554 Depends upon a lot of other factors, like state of health, age, goals, weight etc. In general rice and carrots should be kept to a bare minimum!
Oh boy this answers a lot for me. I used to eat fruit and honey until going carnivore in October. I have huge health problems and massive amounts of inflammation but the majority of time my A1c was great. Thanks for all that you do.
I have 4.9 a1c but still have bad inflammation and health problems. I also got the stupid shot so up till then I was fine.
Alot of heart probpems
Send your blood to Igenex Labs Calif for Lyme/tick diseases if you have massive inflammation. Expensive but worth it!
Then get treated if positive.
@@joyshuman2727 I'm in South Australia, I am pretty sure it's not Lyme disease. I've had a lot of blood tests done over the years. We have only just got ticks discovered in northern South Australia and I'm not in that region. I haven't got the symptoms.
Be honest.. WHAT ELSE did you eat... it would be moronic to eat everything including fruit and honey and then blame fruit and honey for your problems
@@JackTheStrippa yes you are right I must be a moron. Been on Keto for years, doing what I thought was “healthy eating “, smoothies, almond flour, nuts etc etc, not knowing about the harm of oxalates in veggies and yes in the fruits as well. So all the “healthy eating “ has contributed to my inflammation.
Omg. Don’t know what to say. There is just so much we don’t know. I thank you so much for all the time you put in to researching. It is deeply appreciated. I don’t eat fruit or honey but mainly because I have arthritis and sugar affects it. Now I have a good understanding as to why.
Yes, fruit and honey just aren’t as nutrient dense, so not optimal nutrition compared with meat-/animal-based products. Honey is insect-based, an inferior food source for humans who have a choice about what they fuel their bodies with!
Yes Susan , yet they want us to believe that they put the man on the Moon !
It's known just not spoken about for so many reasons most people don't realize that the medical world raised the fasting insulin up 13 points to normalize higher readings as normal. Trust me they know.
When I started eating cherries for pain in my elbow, it was numb the next morning, and gone the day after that, never to return, probably because I caught it at an early stage. Other joints have been helped by cherries, an old treatment for arthritis. Fresh cherries are not really that sweet though.
Hey Dr Berry. As someone who was having hormonal issues on the carnivore diet with things like elevated cortisol and lower testosterone. I think you should cover these topics more often. I started carnivore last year because of autoimmune and overall health issues. Not because I was fat. I feel like most of your advice is directed towards overweight people which is fine but what about the rest of us who aren’t overweight but have chronic health issues? I had diarrhea the entire time I was on carnivore and it never cleared up until I started eating fruit again. This isn’t a sugar craving or an excuse to eat other things. I actually enjoyed eating 100% animal products. Can you answer this for people like myself that had issues on carnivore? It would be much appreciated
There is no one size fits all diet. I see nothing wrong with adding fruits like berries to your carnivore diet, especially if it helps with diarrhea. I am 3 weeks into my first 30 day carnivore diet and I have already lost 15 pounds. After 30 days I plan to return to a well balanced diet, while eliminating processed foods and processed sugar. - Dave
Diarrhea is not bad . Usually clears up in a few weeks . If not it means you were eating too much fat.. That fruit is going to do a lot of damage to your body .
@ArtMotivations-tc8ol too much fat can lead to diarrhea. Your body just expels whatever it is not able to use . If I consume 200 grams of fat In one meal I will immediately be running to the bathroom. If I consume 70 grams of fat Per meal I have zero diarrhea. Diarrhea is not bad, is not painful . Diarrhea is just you wasting your money. Wasting fat. It can take a month to develop the enzymes to digest large amounts of fat
How did you do the carnivore diet?
You were eating too much fat most likely . The #1 cause of diarrhea. It’s not dangerous or anything
Holy cow! My health problem makes so much more sense now. Inflammation but excellent a1c and excellent blood pressure. Been on carnivore since June 2022. No more inflammation and no meds or problems now.
@@VidNibs Inflammation is caused by carbs, sugar, seed oils, and anti nutrients in plants. I eat meat mostly - bacon, eggs, steak, a little bit of cheese. Sometimes chicken or other meats.
Wow! ! What an eye opener. I had to stop & rewind several times to take notes. So, even if my hbA1C is in the mid 6s, the Glycation is most likely much higher if I have a bad habit of eating "Fructose" filled foods, wow! Thanks for this TH-cam video which will definitely help my KETO journey.
Your persistence in studying research is marvellous. “ islands of ignorance” made me smile. You and Bart are stars.
This is brilliant. So now we know why somebody can have a normal or slightly impaired a1c, but extensive atherosclerosis. The fructose damage is not measured in a1c, so the lipid damage is also not only not measured, but not even proxied for by the a1c.
...yet fruit is suggested as a preventative measure against atherosclerosis...?
@@gmailaccount-liamcousins9932 of course. The general message is that all plants are always good. The dogma is so deep you get looked at as a nutjob for even suggesting otherwise
...surely the fiber in plants and fruit plays a preventative role against atherosclerosis?
@@gmailaccount-liamcousins9932 how?
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Certainly, however everything has a limitation and as someone mentioned foods being seasonal one would not consume the quantities that we are today. If we stayed in the daily allotment that the body can tolerate it does not cause this issue. But today people consume far more fructose than the body can deal with whether from too much fruit and juice or from other means. You do not see this issue so much with vegetables that do not have higher fructose levels. Fructose can not be blunted so it affects the body differently than sucrose does.
Hence why we need to pay attention to all three tests fasting insulin, glucose and A1c but we have raised the range of normal insulin levels to higher levels normalizing what we are seeing, the range was raised about 6 years ago I feel because someone knows the truth.
The fiber does not blunt fructose as much as it does sucrose therefore higher levels of fructose is more damaging. No one is saying not to have it but keep in proper limits.
How lucky we all are to have Dr. Berry in our lives 🙏
Great video, Ken - I always appreciate when you mention you've been interpreting something wrong, made mistakes, been misinformed, etc. A lot of people with your platform would double down rather than admit a fault. Thanks for the great content as always 👍
Can't do any of it .....reversed my T2D thanks to your excellent videos. Tried a few pieces of cantaloupe and good grief my bs shot up very high. Carnivore after doing LCHF for a year and feeling 30 yrs younger ar age 63. My glucomter keeps me on track. 👍❤️
Berries are better
Thank-you Dr Ken. Fructose is ten times more glycating than glucose, and we have no way of measuring that damage. That doesn’t fit into my health plan. The elevated view of the perceived wholesomeness of “fruits&vegatables” is leading us down a road that is not healthy. Thank-you !
Need another chat with Mr Saladino
Thank you, Dr. Berry. I am beginning to wonder if any medical advice given to patients is accurate. Please continue to fight the good fight, may God bless you.
All the studies quoted are based on extracted, isolated fructose. Fructose in whole food complex does not affect body in the same way. Also, mice handle fructose poorly physiologically so results would not replicate in humans.
Thank you Dr. Berry, I agreed with you 100% because fruits and honey messed up my carnivore diet 😢
NEVER listen to insane Saladino again!
You have said it 👍
I gave up fruits and honey ,but I still consume candy bars , I'm trying to not eat those things. Food unlike people can be way less problematic. It's like a hostile individual we have to deescalate a situation. Sugar kills
@@lisashapiro4714 eat some butter if you tolerate it and that will help with sugar cravings...or it does me...type 1 diabetic I just had to eat a little extra butter yesterday because I had a craving for sugar. Tallow, Lard also...I have boiled a couple eggs and put bacon grease on them to get over the craving...hope this helped...keep going you will be the sugar addiction!!
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Best doctor on TH-cam possibly the planet, humble, willing to put ego's to the side in the pursuit of truth and real science.
Saved my life, and helped me to help a friend who is now carnivore and doing amazingly.
I had my cholesterol levels checked last week and they're better than average.
Even the doctor was in shock when she saw the results and me showing her what I eat.
God bless you and your great family Dr Berry, I can't thank you enough. 🙏
Dr. Ekberg is wonderful blessing also. Check out Lewis Howes interview with him and be blessed 😇🙏💜👍
Dr Eric Berg is amazing check him out
@@s.thomas6251 but he is not a Dr.
Is it the carnivore diet or the fact when you went on this diet, you stopped eating all the things you shouldn't? As an 80 year old, I just had my blood work checked last month and it's still perfect including cholesterol levels. Just a healthly balanced diet, exercise, and my vities. No medications.
@@sharsue5596 Going carnivore is stopping eating the things you shouldn't. A lot of people who watch this channel and start carnivore do it after having already cleared out the obvious junk but are still not seeing optimal health. It's once they clear out the junk that people tell them is "healthy" that they start to really improve.
You say "healthy balanced diet". That's a phrase you have been taught to use, and is not based on any actual science. My late grandmother remembered coming in (she passed 5 years ago, age 89). I'm glad you are healthy at 80, I've seen plenty of health conscious 70+s with metabolic issues, but follow a "healthy balanced diet" because that's what they were told to do. It may work for you, but for most people, it really doesn't.
Dr Berry, thanks for all you do. I was wondering where your data about the content of honey comes from? My understanding was honey was low in fructose and mostly sucrose/glucose. My grandfather (a beekeeper born1896) swore by honey and consumed quantities of it daily. Was never sick a day in his life, never went to a hospital a day in his life (kids were all born at home-he said hospitals are were people go to die! how prescient in the era of Covid!). He lived to 93 working every day until the day of his death (which ultimately was from lung cancer as he was a leather worker/shoe maker as well (inhaled a lot of nasty solvents/mercury I am sure, and smoked a pipe regularly for 75+ yrs). All in all if I make it to 93 and still active and strong as he was, I won't be complaining.
I used to have honey often, until I learned that it had so much fructose. Then, I swore off any sweeteners...😥 But so much the better for it today!😺
From medicalnewstoday:
"The proportions of glucose and fructose in honey and sugar are different: sugar is 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose. honey contains 40 percent fructose and 30 percent glucose.Jun 1, 2017
Your grandfather ate better food so honey was not a problem back then.
@@howiefine3074 He also WORKED, which many people no longer do.
he burned it off. not that hard to understand.
This is good to know! Although I keep my fruit consumption to small servings scattered throughout the week and limited to berries, it has me considering dropping the frequency or entirely eliminating except for rare special occasions. My HA1c has dropped from 7 to 6.1 over the last year. It has my doctor thrilled. I’ll take that with a smile and eye roll-she also informed me that all white cheese has no fat and can be consumed as much as desired and that only yellow cheese has fats. I didn’t bother to tell her the yellow comes from beta carotene not fat. Figured I would be pissing in the wind.
Another reason why people shouldn't blindly trust "experts" who read a few books and think they have everything figured out.
I highly recommend the TH-cam channel, BeatDiabetes. Dennis is a serious advocate of post prandial blood glucose testing in order to identify which particular foods are particularly problematic for you.
@@muchasalud2011 oh she most definitely is! I’ve moved and that was my last visit with her, simply for the renewal for a couple scripts and management of my labs at that point. I was excited for my a1c because I knew what I’d been doing and that I’d have a great result. I believe my a1c came down slower simply because I’d been diabetic for about 4 years and the body has a hard time changing what it’s been accustomed to but certainly removing fruit is worth a trial.
You have to treat fruit like nature’s candy. Eat very sparingly or never at all.
Why do people go back to see obviously stupid doctors? That will bite you in the butt one day, trust me. I've been harmed by doctors , and lost loved ones to their stupidity. That's a sign to find a new one.
Thank you Dr. Berry. You just confirmed my intuition. I was carnivore for 2 years and decided to add fruit and honey on recommendations from another carnivore MD and my health and training performance went downhill. I've dropped them from my diet and I'm I'm back to being well. Also I noticed the faces of the high carb proponents is weathering at an accelerated rate.
Hate to say it but I noticed the same thing.
Agree about faces
Uhhh… you can’t not eat fruit for two years and then add it in and not expect a drop. I’ll put money that you didn’t give enough time to this test of yours. And what fruit did you consume…
Thank you very much, Dr Berry. I'm surprised that this information hasn't been made known more widely. Having said that, the medical system and research is heavily biased towards making money and not towards the promotion of health.
I’m glad I listened to your initial advice not to consume fruits and honey.
What about avocados and tomatoes?
Ken, thanks. Your informational videos continue to be both informative and helpful for those of us trying to take personal control and responsibility for our health.
Had a CT scan a couple of months ago that revealed fat on my liver. It didn't get diagnosed as NAFLD, but I know that that's what fat on my liver means. From all the smoothies over years. Not much one for alcohol, so it's from fruit. I have been being a strict carnivore for about 12 weeks. Next time I have a CT scan I'm going to ask them to take a peek and see if my liver has cleared up from the fat deposit. Seems kind of shocking that fruit could be detrimental to one's health. But when you consider that we absolutely did not evolve with any of the fruits that we are eating today, especially not consumed daily, in multitudes, it becomes not surprising that it is problematic for our physiology. Good thing meat and fat are so tasty! I really don't miss sweet things.
You don't need a CT scan you can have an ultrasound of the liver to check for fatty liver. I'd have another scan in 6 months and see where you are, talk to your doctor.
The Real Deal what is your height/weight or BMI?
@@muchasalud2011 that's not the point, the point is the person needs to talk to their doctor about fatty liver disease and have their doctor recognize the issue and keep track of how the liver is doing, liver enzyme tests for one to test it's functioning. I have a fatty liver and keep a close eye on it as I go through carnivore dieting.
@@muchasalud2011 thanks for the feedback. Yeah I was thinking to give it a year.
@@luisdetomaso867 26. Working on that.
Even though my wife detests baseball analogies, I am compelled to remark, “wow- outta the park, Doc!” I’ve been investigating the little known phenomenon of lipid glycation as an explanation of insulin resistance that I suspect I’m seeing in my own circumstances, and as such, I’m not surprised at this rediscovery of arcane fructose data- just grateful. Impressive sleuthing, Sir.
as someone that eats a lot of fruit and uses honey quite abit, this is very eye opening and i know that many years ago when i went on a diet of just meat and veggies my body
changed drastically with weight loss and i felt great but when my wife kept complainging about how different i looked i went back to eating the usual diet to put some weight back
on and it has never been the same since then, being single and in my 70s i will be finishing up what ever fruit i have and cutting out a lot of stuff and going basically meat and veggies again. tooooooooo much coffee and fuit smoothies that have contributed to my health issues
coffee (sans the creamers and sugar) is NOT contributing to your health issues - unless you're drinking a gallon a day or something.
Why on earth would a wife complain that you are getting healthier, feeling better, and looking better? She should have been proud of you. It's never too late to change...so good for you for working towards a healthier you again. And the coffee, it's awful for the adrenal glands anyway. When I hear people say they cut out coffee and had horrible headaches....that right there tells you coffee isn't good for your body. At that point, it's an addiction that the body doesn't need. LOTS of people in the health world today cutting out the caffeine...and it's been so much better for their health.
@@audreygregis8721 I call Bull Crap, its good for you.
Dont have a suction hose attached to a 5 gallon jug.hahahhaha
I'm down 50 pounds since watching your video on Triple B&E. I decided to do it for a month and just see what it was like. My sleep normalized, I stopped snoring. Pain is non-existent for me now as well, and I had chronic back pain from a car accident and surgery to correct it in 2018 (it didn't). I planned on doing Triple B&E from 9/21 to 10/21, lost 36 lbs through the diet change alone during that period (no exercise). I've just kept going because I feel completely different, physically, emotionally, mentally. So wild. For December, I've added in weight lifting to see how the nutrition change with exercise works out. So strange to not be extremely sore after lifting decently heavy weights. This nutrition info is life changing. Thanks Doc!
This is what I am been looking for Dr B. Especially after following you and Dr Saladino. It’s such a struggle of what’s best.
So my question is, what is “a lot” of fruit and honey? I’m a very active, 6ft 210lbs 44 year old carpenter, manual labor and exercise every day. I eat a Whole Foods diet of meat and leaves and some fruit. I have a apple with my egg yolks and avocado for breakfast, maybe a few handfuls of berries (raspberries, blueberries and blackberries) with my dinner (steak,salmon,beef ribs, hammer in daily rotation) and about a half a teaspoon of honey with my chamomile tea in the evening. It seems we are in the infancy of truly understanding what healthy IS, thank you for taking us along in your evolution.
1) why? What purpose do you think some leaves serves?
2) mixed macro meals are deleterious to health outcomes.
3) it's your money to waste, but what purpose does eating a bunch of expensive sugar treats for breakfast, in your mind, benefit you besides being colorful and entertaining?
He was pushing, eat all your vegetables just 5 years ago. Now he is on a beef butter and bacon kick. Sounds cute but is wrong again. Do you and move on.
A vegetarian friend of ours eats a LOT of fruit: smoothies and juices mostly. He became diabetic but insisted to his doctor that he didn't have any white sugar in his diet! His doctor had to point out that he has a very high sugar diet, and the fact these sugars are 'natural' doesn't matter. I can't believe he couldn't figure this out for himself.
He should have drunk way more water than fruit juices. Green tea with lemon, a little honey, and cinnamon.
You bet, I studied AGE’s as a postdoc and they are an important consideration that Paul Saladino is overlooking. Bart Kay is the bomb by the way 💣!
The saddest thing is that it's obvious, just look at pictures of him over the last 2 years, he aged 10 years in that time while Dr Berry only looks younger. Sure it's not scientific evidence but it's a big enough hint that something is amiss.
@@JezaGaia He just looks like a dude who's in the sun surfing 3 hours a day
@@thestuff4321 Look his eyes, his skin is also grey-ish and not nicely tanned. I'm not talking about some skin damage from the sun.
@@JezaGaia Delusional
As always, great information delivered by a medical physician known to all of us as Ken D. Berry, MD. Really kicks those in the shorts that sell fructose as being safe. It should be illegal to add sugar in any form to foods when people can add it themselves if they want it and all they get with it. Thank you doctor! Be well.
I know and understand what your saying, I have lost 35 lbs eating carnivore, but giving up Honey every morning I am now suffering with all the allergies that I had before. Went to doctor twice for sinus infection. He recommended Zyrtec but not as good as the honey was doing.🤷♂️
I am very happy that you made this video. It opened my eyes. The problem is that family doctors are not aware of fructose and the damage it creates. On the other hand, they encourage the consumption of fruit from the age of 0.👍
Wow. I am glad you shared this. I thought A1C was testing for all glycation. Thank you!
Dr Berry thanks for breaking the glycation process down in this video, it's very helpful 👍
Dr. Berry, Thanks for the eye opener! Wish I had known this 20 years back. I am a long term diabetic who has changed his lifestyle significantly over the last 7-8 years. I am down to a HbA1C of 6.2 and I hope to pull it down to early 5s in due course of time. I used to consume significant quantity of fruits for 'health reasons' a long time back - I stick to occasional berries now. This revelation has made me somewhat wary and reevaluate the changes I have made in my diet!
Thanks, Dr. Berry.
I had to leave the fruit and honey behind, mostly because they were refusing to leave my behind behind (if you follow my meaning). Your video today makes me aware of how big the gaps in our understanding still are. I also wonder how badly glycated some of our guru friends out there might be.
I don't know that this really matters very much considering most of the fructose you consume is going to be converted by the liver into glucose anyways, i.e. it isn't going to be running around your body free to do all that damage - in which case, the HbA1C test would still give you most of the picture of the glycation in your body.
Interesting about what the test actually tests for. I was like you and thought it tested "sugars", not just glucose. Thanks for letting us know about this test that is actually lacking. Hopefully, some enterprising scientist will come up with a complete "sugar" test that won't cost an arm and leg.
Thank you Dr. Berry, for making this video. I was hoping you would do so as I recently watched you speaking with Dr. Saladino.
Would love to see Paul Saladino's response to this. I've recently started my carnivore adventure and am planning to ad back in fruit and honey in a month, but might reconsider.
be carefull with it b, very easy to overdo. try to add in skinned potatoes and and apple in here or there if you need a treat. starches have more anti nutrients but arent as addictive as fruit
@@Saundersstrongthat’s terrible advice. Potatoes are loaded with oxalic acid/oxalate crystals and other anti-nutrients. Look up “Sally Norton and Oxalates” on TH-cam if you want to learn more.
The healthiest I've ever been was grain free eating fruits and honey. But i guess if you want to add carbs you will need to eat grains.
Don’t do it❤️
@@CC86CA 🎯🎯
I am DARN glad i ran into your channel. I am going to cut down on fruit for a month to see how my body reacts. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
give it 90 days
Dr Berry. I personally love the research you do an information you so freely, give.
I am honored to own your "lies..." book.
This video is excellent!
Hat is off to you, kind sir.
Kip Bonin
My great grandmother eat fruit and honey with breakfast every day for 97 years she is now 104 years old .
My grandma smoked 2 packs of non filter Camels a day from the time she was 13. She lived to be 100. There's always those strange cases.
And if your great Grandma ate rat poison everyday and lives to be 120, would that mean it’s good to eat Rat poison?
That’s what people don’t want to admit, diet affects how you feel / perform but at the end of the day you are on a genetic path.
Emmm..
Does this mean the Finger prick blood test , doesn't measure all the different sugars in ur blood pls..?
Thankyou in advance.🤔🙂
she ate it for breakfast so she burned it off quite fast when moving around or just living throughout the day. This is common sense not a rebuttal.
I realized early on in this adventure that any kind of fruit was terrible for my reactive hypoglycaemia. However the absolute worst thing I can have is honey. Being that I understand that I don't eat any and haven't for years. It's not hard to do.
I admire your integrity in the pursuit of the whole scientific truth, and your passion to share it. Thank you Doctor Berry!
Thank you Dr Berry for all the help you give us xxxx
I eat a pound of fruits and honey per week. No impact on my BMI or blood markers. Energy balance is key 🗝️
What is the point in eliminating fruits if you have to take supplements on a carnivore diet? And what is so bad about glycation? Every time I try full carnivore I get chest cramps and lethargy. Kinda sus.
Is lactose in raw milk and cheese just as bad?
Glycation IN VITRO was 8-10 times higher...But what do we know about what actually happens in the body? Orange juice and honey added to the diet actually improved endothelial function in the blood vessels for instance. Paul Saladino has videos about this where he shows the studies on this. Also, his inflammation markers even improved after reintroducing fruits and honey. This is a very interesting video but I think we need to have more information of what actually is going on in the body when eating fruits and honey.
Fructose is not kryptonite (nor are we Superman). In fact, there are enzymes in the body specifically for the purpose of converting glucose into fructose. Also, the liver is not constrained in metabolising fructose, as it is with glucose, so that metabolism occurs relatively rapidly. And glucose is one of the principal end products.
The author of the cited paper refers to premetabolic production of AGEs in the gut due to dietary fructose. No mention is made of how these are then able to somehow escape the fate of other unneeded substances in that location. There is no lack of evidence for the other ill-effects of excess fructose consumption -- NAFLD, elevated triglycerides, metabolic syndrome risk, etc. But the "hidden" risk of tissue and organ damage due to fructose-induced AGEs seems to be lacking substantiation (and just because it's hard to measure doesn't mean it's really there -- don't forget Mr Occam!)
Very valuable information to share with the medical and scientific communities. Dr. Ken Berry and Prof. Bart Kay... The Dynamic Duo!
I add fruits to my carnie diet because I was sent to the emergency room for dehydration. Doctors should discuss electrolyte dumping MORE and how dangerous it can be. And I was drinking a lot of electrolytes~!
Doc B this is stunning! I really am sitn here with my mouth open LOL. I thought A1C was the gold standard.
Your great Doc, you've helped me, my wife, my mother in law AND my T1D son!
Your making a difference.
Do what Dennis Pollock says test test test your blood sugar to know exactly how foods are reacting in your body ! I lost 60 pounds reversed pre diabetes and I now weigh what I did in high school at 54 and menopausal ! Keto and carnivore are great initially but as time went on it stressed my adrenals too much raised cortisol and I decided to add a modicum of organic fruit and even lower amount of organic vegetables and eat meat based and I started to sleep again ! Cortisol lowered so the stress in my body dropped / resolved best yet I now keep a steady A-1C of 4.8 eating meat , eggs, butter , fruit, vegetables in small amounts ! DO NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO SCARE YOU ! TEST TEST TEST GET AND USE A GLUCOSE METER !!!!!!!!! YOUR PROPER HUMAN DIET IS UNIQUE TO YOU NO ONE ELSE !!!!!!!!!!
What test are you doing to figure out how much of the fructose is glycating your proteins? Or are you satisfied because your a1c is 4.6? Just wondering? 🤔
Thank you, for your time researching this topic. I needed to hear this.
Thank you for speaking up on this topic Dr. Berry, regardless of how it may or may not make people "feel". The truth is the truth.
Bananas grow on our island. It seems counter intuitive to watch them ripen in the contour 🍌shape of your hand and just let them drop to the ground and rot without eating them 💩 Monkeys eat them and thrive, swinging from the trees 🐒 I resemble them, not the American tourists who lie around here like beached whales 🐋 Balance, moderation, movement with 'real foods' is the 🗝 Naturally occurring fruit is not the villain.
I wish Dr Barry could do a video on the longevity of red blood cells on various diets. Some people theorize that on a PHD the red blood cells live much longer skewing the 3 month lifecycle assumed in the HbA1C standard test.
Wow good to know. Been doing strict carnivore for 5 months and was thinking about adding fruit. Damn I was looking forward to going crazy on some blueberries, strawberries and melons oh well ribeyes and eggs it is.
45 years old
Blood Results from Nov. 28, 2022
Total cholesterol 566
Triglycerides 77
HDL 92
VLDL 7
LDL 467
A1c is 5.4
Love the timing! Just watching after the Paul interview 😄
Me, too!
My grandma eats and has eaten fruit every day of her life and she is 94.
Never had diabetes or any issues you mention
Using outlier's as a standard is not honest. If you find 10 000 people like your grandma, then and only then, it will BEGIN to be relevant.
We all know smokers that never got cancer.
Yes, but Grandma may be the exception that proves the rule. At the very least, she's just N=1. Maybe a lucky N=1, but only 1 however you slice and dice it.
Exactly! This is BS. "Fruit is.bad" nonsense. Everything in moderation. Don't eat 5 bananas every day. Good grief man, you keto cook's are just on to a new "religion". Eat some fruit everyday, and gain its benefits. Make sure its clean Fruit! Get organic stuff!
@@T-aka-T Prince Philip was also a very heavy meat eater and also loved fruits very much . Lived to almost 100 y. old without any health issues .
My grandmother is the same way. She eats fruit, honey, veggies, etc in moderation but she's never had major health issues.
I have been on low carb for a while now and I only eat meat, veggies and some healthy fat.Prior to this, I ate a banana and and apple every day and honey laden oatmeal. I have also been researching on glycation and this video just makes it clear
What was your body telling you eating that healthy diet? Not the video, but your body.
why cant people just eat a balanced diet? you dont have to eat only fruit or only meat, why not just eat a balanced diet? eat everything that is not processed but moderately. Why do you only have to eat one thing?
Because plants aren't our proper human diet. We're hyper carnivores.
I thought fructose converted to either glucose or fat in the liver, and rarely in the bloodstream.
Nope
How about having a small amount of fruits daily while separating fruits meals from protien/fat meals. Is that still going to cause a risky glycation?
Thanks for this research. I'd love to know more about what pathologies glycation leads to, and symptoms.
I have diabetes type 2,I take all the new drugs, still my sugar is not going down,after talking to my endocrinologist,he asked how much fruit I eat,I was honest I love fruit,I would eat 4-5 pieces of fruit like the guidelines mention,my doctor explained to me that being diabetic I should try and stop eating fruit and go on a fructose free diet.i was surprised we were told how healthy fruit is and filled with vitamins.
I have started my fructose free diet this week, very eager to see the changes.
What I've learned from all this modern Internet advice is that it's very unhealthy to eat. Breathing is also very dangerous as is going outside.
Several of the studies you referenced that conclude fructose is problematic compared beverages containing either glucose or fructose in a water solution. I wonder if the findings would be different if subjects were given actual fruit instead of a fructose solution... given that fruit would contain fiber and other nutrients the fructose solution is lacking.
The liver converts almost all the fructose it gets into glucose, so there is very little fructose in the general circulation. So, since there's very little fructose in the blood, how much glycation can it be causing? They also claim that fruit sugar raises triglycerides, but I eat a lot of fruit, and my triglycerides last checked were 47. My glucose was 87.
Exactly. In the video he even quoted research stating that typical plasma levels of fructose are 1% that of glucose
@@luisdetomaso867 Yes, I picked up on this maths too. If plasma levels of fructose are 1% of glucose, but 10 times more glycating, then this effect is still small compare to glucose. But fructose in the Liver is a real issue as it will raise Uric Acid levels, which can be a real issue for people eating a high animal based diet as meat/seafood are high in purines, which also lead to high Uric Acid. High uric acid levels lead to Gout and other inflammatory conditions.
For millions of years our ancestors ate animal based every day, its our natural way of eating and where we evolved on. It doesnt cause inflammation you are misinformed, vegan diet actually cause inflammation togetyehr with bad carbs like bread, potatoes, brown rice, pasta etcc, not eating animal based will cause malnutrition and screw you up
@D B You've got it backwards. Look: you have to eat something. One way or another, I am going to fulfill my caloric needs. So, if I don't eat the carbs, I'm going to those calories as protein and fat. And my body is going to have to do a lot to "get that crap" out of my system. And the worst of the two is probably protein because of the nitrogen. It doesn't burn. Carbs burn all the way down to carbon dixoide and water. And the water isn't toxic at all, and the carbon dioxide is exhaled, so that doesn't build up in my system or pose any burden. But that nitrogen instantly forms ammonia, which is some serious crap. Fortunately, the body has a way of wrapping two ammonias with one molecule of carbon dixoide to form urea which doesn't burn the way ammonia does. But, it's still a burden, and over time, high protein diets wear out the kidneys. Carbs don't do that. They don't increase the workload of the kidneys at all. Dr. Kempner at Duke University reversed fatty liver by putting obese patients on a diet of fruit and white rice. You should be worried about your liver, not mine.
@@Firsk The liver converts almost all the fructose it gets into fat in a process that produces an inflammatory byproduct, which acts upon the liver's insulin receptors and makes it more insulin resistant. High protein diets do not harm your kidneys. Oxalates are more prevalent in plants and are a main cause of kidney stones. Carbs wear out your entire body by glycating your blood and cholesterol, raising your insulin resistance, stimulating glutamate that overloads your neurons and kills them and requiring you to consume more nutrients like Vitamin-C and thiamine.
"Well, Kempner’s rice diet is pretty drastic, so definitely don’t try this at home. In fact, the rice diet is dangerous. It’s so restrictive that it may cause serious electrolyte imbalances, unless the patient is carefully medically supervised with frequent blood and urine lab testing. Dangerous? Says who? Said the world’s number-one advocate for the rice diet: Dr. Kempner himself."
The diet depends on supplementation and processed goods like vitamin/mineral enriched grains and fruit juices, which cannot be found in nature. It also doesn't say whether or not patients that lost weight kept it off, which is often a problem for vegetable-based diets. Also, I can't find anything about him reversing fatty liver disease, only that he helped obese people lose weight.
My wife and I were in great health. But when we started to listen to Dr. Berry about the Carnivore Diet, we thought we give it a good try because we're always willing to learn. We were perfect weight when we started, but started to lose weight we couldn't afford to lose. I lost 18 pounds of muscle which made me lose my strength. My wife also lost quite a bit of muscle. My heart was no longer beating regularly because my electrolytes were too low. We ate plenty of salt, butter and even Dr. Berry's electrolytes, but our health continued to decline. We also lost a lot of our hair. I could tell my testosterone had went way down. I told my wife we had to quit this. This diet was killing us. That's when we found Dr. Paul Saladino and added fresh fruits and raw honey to our diet, along with the grass fed beef we were already eating. Our health began to turn around and we started to feel better immediately. Over the next several months, we got our muscle back and our hair grew back in. I also got my testosterone back. But the thing I wasn't expecting was, I could do the splits! I haven't been able to do the splits in decades. I'm more limber now than I've ever been. I believe this is due to the raw honey. I discovered a researcher that studied and lived among a tribe called the Honey Shepherds. They walk many miles every day looking for trees to climb to gather their honey. They lick it off their hands and arms while they gather it and their diet consists of mostly honey. He noticed how heathy this tribe was. But what impressed him most was how limber and flexible they were. He believes it is because of the raw honey. He discovered several people that are serious Yoga people that swear by raw honey to make them flexible. I am a believer now!
🍃 You will live forever ☻️👌
Highly doubt you gained all your muscle back from adding fruit and honey. This story stinks of BS.
@@CC86CA -•- I agree ...
Thank you Dr Berry for explaining the pervasive glycation fructose can cause, which would not show up on the standard HbA1c test. This is MOST revelatory.
The more I learn, the more I think, that my dietary fructose intolerance is a blessing.
Thank you for the knowledge
I was amazed when I first watched this. I don't eat honey or fruit but I know a bunch of my carnivore FB friends do. I'm hoping they see this. Some of our best-known Carnivore influencers are recommending fruit and honey!
I vaguely recall that years ago the measurement of A1C used something like mass spectrometry, showing how much hemoglobin was unusually heavy due to the added sugar molecule. Presumably such a method would detect glycation from any sugar: all the variants would be equally heavy.
I could be mistaken about that.
Methods used today are glucose-specific, as far as I can tell, whether I’m right or wrong about earlier ones.
So you could take the mass spectrometer result and subtract the modern result to determine the fructose glycation component
@@luisdetomaso867 presumably. I think it was actually a chromatographic method but as far as I know it worked off how much the glycated hemoglobin weighed.
BRILLIANT!
Thank you, Dr. Berry!
I really appreciate you sharing your "island of ignorance".
I also had assumed the A1C measured all sugars.
But since that is clearly not the case it raised a question.
Since soft drinks/pop/soda are sweetened w/ "high fructose syrup" did you overlook them?
That is, should soft drinks be included w/ "fruits and honey"?
Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!
PS
Thank you for all your advice & excellent videos.
I'm still sick (asbestosis) but I've lost 100lbs (net), I think the steroid diabetes & insulin resistance is fixed, supplements have helped asthma & COPD, & the fatty liver is better too.
So I really appreciate your help.
Table sugar(Sucrose) is 50% Fructose/50% Glucose. HFCS is only marginally worse IIRC it's 52-55% Fructose/45-48% Glucose so there's really not a lot in it...I have no idea what is in the average fruit or honey because I eat neither!!!
I'm a fruit smoothie fanatic, and this isn't as surprising to me as you'd think. Taking 'organic chemistry' in college, I was fascinated by the sugars and their role in oral bacteria and weight gain; and in the fact that everything seems to boil down to glucose, even fat and protein. So I had my suspicion yet I satisfied myself by saying using whole fruits has so many other benefits. Now I'm looking at salad again :(
Glucose itself does not contribute to weight gain but a caloric surplus contributes to weight gain. Spiking glucose can make you feel more hungry and can contribute to eating more. Your body needs carbs which is why our body has the ability to convert fat / protein into glucose via gluconeogenesis. I got to around 6% body fat with a heavy carb diet because the amount of energy needed to perform at the level I needed could not have been done without significant carb intake. In the end I was at a deficit when losing weight regardless of macro/micro nutrient intake. I'll outperform a strictly carnivore individual who has no carb intake any day of the week
@@chickendumpling1335 I don't care about the weight loss aspect but others wrote about it constantly. It was impossible to avoid.
@@chickendumpling1335 I have seen misleading articles saying you don't eat carbs on the keto diet. Half of the calories consumed are supposed to be carbs on the most extreme regimen.
My reason is cardiovascular disease and dementia
well if you’re a competitive athlete and need to burn rocket fuel then knock yourself out with sugar. But I’m here for health and quality of life. I’m DONE performing! Don’t care to impress anyone except myself that my body can heal from illnesses and enjoy a good life.
When I stopped eating plants my energy & strength shot up & my body wasn’t swollen up looking anymore. I was never fat, just puffy. When I was 30yo, tiny & ripped from the gym is when I got my first medical diagnoses with hypothyroid. Plants & lo fat destroy digestion & ruin hormones. 2.5 decades later Carnivore is now dramatically improving my hormone imbalances & first time ever NO constipation. Hallelujah for carnivore! Little did I know all my elaborate, time consuming & expensive smoothies were killing me.
There is a correlation between Fructosamine and HbA1C. They are interchangeable with a simple linear regression formula. When we're unable to obtain a reliable A1c due to possible interfering hemoglobin fraction (there are many types of hemoglobin fractions) with our HPLC method, then the manufacturer recommends the physician order Fructosamine as alternative test. I found years ago that when I increased my fruit and dairy intake over a 6 month period that my HbA1c increased by about 15%. HbA1C methods are not all the same. As a Med Tech of 25 years, I recommend HbA1c via HPLC as other (cheaper) methods do not pickup interfering hemoglobin fractions or variants. Those variants can falsely elevate results.
Naturally occurring fructose in fruits, honey, vegetables etc is not the problem. It’s fructose and sucrose we add into our diet.
Yes saladino is confusing people who have problems with sugar. Fruit is fine but not in the amounts he recommends. I've never liked honey anyway. Good work 👍
@@davidsmith9189 what a load of rubbish
Yet I reversed diabetes eating mostly fruit. The look on my Drs face when I told him I was eating bananas and mangoes after he announced I no longer need meds. 3 years later I'm slim, energetic, healthy, have great blood work, lowered cholesterol. Idk. This whole oh be terrified of fruit movement is just weird.
Agreed. We’re all human yet all have unique needs. I eat fruit and honey as I was losing too much weight on only meat and dairy. Now I feel so much better, and the weight loss has stopped. I’m super active as housecleaner, so I may just need it.
I agree. I’ve lost 15 pounds eating strictly meat, honey, dairy and fruit. Salt and honey on pineapple is 🤌🏽.
You are mostly fruit? What else did you eat daily?
@@saltyprepper5513 grass-fed organic beef
The key word in there is you mentioned you were thin. You can eat fruit as long as you are not gaining weight thereby using the fruit sugar as energy and not storing it. Any diet will work as long as you are not on a calorie surplus. That being said, you would probably be healthier if you avoided the fruit and ate more fats and protein instead. Your insulin levels were much higher eating all that fruit
First of all you got Eskimo DNA but for me I do well with carnivore and some fruits sometimes.
Yep, I have African DNA and they eat meat and raw honey. I think my ancestors might have a better idea of what suits my body than Berry, but I do agree with him on the benefits of meat/animal products.
I do great eating fruit in the morning only 30 to 80 grams and then 3 hours later start the carnivore diet. My energy soars for a few hours. The problem with these tests is that they use raw fructose. This is not how nature works. If you eat small amounts of fruit, it has fiber that prevents the fructose from overloading your body. Fruit digests quickly. By the time you eat carnivore your blood sugar has normalized. Just keep your fruit away from your carnivore meal to prevent issues. Try it for a week and you will see what I am talking about. Try this....one granny apple or pear with a few berries no more than 50-80 grams in the morning...and that is it. Then wait at least 2 to 3 hours before a meal. The feeling I get is amazing. Energy throughout the day. I use to have chronic fatigue and always needed a nap around 6:00 PM. Now my energy is stable and my health is returning.
Ok so if there is no measure or test for fructose glycation, how do you know it is happening when you eat fruit/honey?? There could be other mechanisms at work that do not produce glycation with natural fructose. Until we know this, or have a tool for measuring, i’d be cautious about dropping fruit/honey. Other processed fructoses should be avoided, as should refined carbs. I like the idea of carnivor and some fruit/raw honey.
I feel like it's been forever since you have done a video nice to hear your wisdom again 😊
Dr. Berry drops some life changeing gems in this short video
Who’s going to tell Paul Saladino?
I appreciate that you’re speaking out and backing with research and facts. I am not going to add fruit and honey to my carnivore journey just because someone else is setting a bad example. Thank you, Dr. Ken Berry!
People like myself who suffer from insulin resistance should not be eating fruits and honey. Not everyone is the same and some people can handle fructose just fine but I’m simply not one of them. My cravings for carbs become out of control if I consume fructose no matter the form.
You didn't become insulin resistant because of fruit and honey, but because you were eating too much carb-heavy processed crappy food.
@@Astrum11 true lol but I still have to watch out for foods that trigger my addiction.
I have literally gotten my life back after reintroducing fruits and honey to my animal based diet!!!!!! Couldn't sleep on carnivore, just ran on stresshormones 24/7 bcs my body just cannot fat adapt. My blood sugar hardly budges from fruits and honey! I have seen several carnivores that have higher blood sugar than I have. I must admit that all this "glycation" stuff scared me, but since my blood sugar is low even though I eat around 200 g of carbs a day, I think that SLEEPING and don't running on stresshormones 24/7 is more beneficial than when I take all the carbs out and crash completely bcs I just cannot fat adapt. I have tried EXTENSIVELY, a year when I was younger and most recently about 17 months in total. It took a MASSIVE toll on my body to do it for such a long time. But I was hoping for the fat adaptation to kick in. Never happened. I had severe insomnia, shaking in my whole body from constantly running on stresshormones, racing heart and arythmias, stabbing chest pain and intense intracranial pressure to the point that I actually thought I would die at any second in the end. I had tingling hands and feet, I couldn't get my electrolytes in check no matter what. It for real got really dangerous! Even my carnivore coaches told me to go to the ER. I couldn't get my pulse down, it was just hammering away like a hummingbird. Plus the severe arythmias aswell....But eating 2 tbsp of honey instantly brought down my pulse. After having dealt with it for months and months it literally just took a couple of minutes for my pulse to calm down bcs of the honey. I also had horrible BO, smelled so acidic from my whole body, I had dark circles under my eyes, I lost my period and developed so many gray hairs. And yes, I did everything possible to stay carnivore. I didn't undereat, I tweaked with electrolytes and so on, so forth. I still love the carnivore diet and think that it's AWESOME for the ones that it works for. Maybe I can fat adapt further on when I'm longer into my low oxalate journey. Dumping oxalates messes up mitochondria and metabolic pathways. I just know that adding back fruits and honey has been a life saver. I want to eat lower carb though bcs if I just eat what I naturally crave I eat around 30-60 grams of carbs a day. I actually have to track macros so I eat enough carbs! It feels crazy but if I go under about 160 g a day, shit hits the fan and I just lie there staring in the dark, feeling like someone injected my brain with pure caffeine or something. (I don't drink caffeinated beverages btw.)
Anyways..videos like this scares me, but what choice do I have? I have to rely on that bcs my blood sugar is still low, this glycation thing is under control. As I said, I have seen plenty of people that have higher readings in the carnivore groups. Maybe talk about that more bcs that can't be good either!