There's no such thing as "essential water" or "essential air" either... "Essential" literally means that the body cannot make it. So "essential fatty acids" fit that category. Your body *_makes all the saturated fats it needs_* so saturated fat (as in animal fat) is not "essential" at all. Look it up yourself. Dr Berry's fundamental ignorance (or disingenuous-ness) as reflected thru your backward comment is stupefying...
@annfraley2590 Your body converts food into glucose and fructose *_in the bloodstream._* NO other sugars are present in the blood. Mercola focuses on blood glucose levels since that is the critical type of sugar your body CANNOT live without...
Researcher here. I met Dr Mercola a few years ago at a seminar. At that time he was talking a bout EMFs which is a real thing. He has good points on specific things but tends to go to the extreme to sell products. Being a ketovore I have to say being low carb, keto, ketovore & carnivore is by far the best. My labs 12 years ago were within normal ranges but now they are optimal & I look & feel younger
I've heard so many times that glucose is the primary, or the preferred fuel for the body because the body will use glucose before it uses fat for fuel. I'm leaning more towards the body realizes that a high level of glucose is damaging to the body, THAT is why the body goes for the glucose first, to get it out of the blood.
Exactly! I just heard the way to think about it is that too much is toxic, so it uses that first. The person who said that also used alcohol as an example, as this is something that is also used quickly.
High glucose,starch,Lactose and carbohydrates put a massive strain on your pancreas and liver as your body tries to process everything you eat/drink that stuff gives a large fast energy burn but it's only temporary then you run out and you can't keep doing anything till you put more in, plus all that sugar/glucose is still in the blood stream. Everyone I know who's a carbohydrate addicted is over weigh and diabetic.
It also works organs to store as fat. Anyone you see around who has a lot of fat, is or has consumed carbohydrates and is putting a massive burden on their organs.
I’m coming up on my 3 year sugar free anniversary. I’ll never go back. After almost 3 years on keto I’m off BP meds after 20 years, no more acid reflux, my scalp is no longer crusty, all my aches and pains are gone, I’m no longer pre-diabetic, no more brain fog, much my of my gray hair has reverted back to brown and I’m down by over 30 pounds.
Congratulations! I am coming up on my 4th year Keto. I am also Off BP meds after 20 years, no more reflux, aches and pains gone, no longer pre-diabetic or brain fog or vertigo. Sleep great and down 60 lbs , I feel better now than when I was in my 40s. This is my lifestyle forever.
Hi, congratulations 🎉 I’m no longer pre diabetic and more BP medication. Congratulations to all of us. I wish everyone a beautiful long healthy happy life ❤ God Bless 🙏
Second. I'd listen to a calm, thoughtful and thorough man before a loose cannon or one who failed to consider that diabetes cannot be solved by the consumption of any form of sugar. Utter nonsense out there. This man has pure and straight logical abilities.
I’ve followed Dr Mercola for YEARS!! When I watched his rejection of keto with Jay I listened with an open mind and got Jay’s free class. I had to reject their way of thinking at least for me. I am a carb addict and cannot follow their way of eating. Thanks for all you do for us!!
I didn't. The guy is a quack who advocates for what ever is being searched a lot. Probably advocated for injecting yourself with the urine of pregnant women at some point.
Carb addict here, too. I have zero control around carbs and know I would binge all day on the wrong carbs if I went back. That said I'm still struggling with cravings, cramps I would still not go back, 7 weeks in and about 8lbs down.
😊😊Carbs are my downfall! I tried reintroducing them slowly and only “good carbs” many many times but each time my weight started to increase, sleep worsened, got bad tempered, got depressed, sleepy during the day and after meals, got skin rashes etc so carb free it has to be.😊😊
Anesthesiologist here. I have been carnivore for years. All labs excellent. I am very thin but have a lot of energy. Mercola did some good when exposing the statin scam. I no longer follow the guy with this sugar push. Paul Saladino, MD, author of "The Carnivore Code" , a great book, is now also recommending fruits and honey. I take him with a grain of salt now.
How did he expose the statin scam? I'm 39 and suffered a TIA and all the doctors are doing is pushing it on me and not suggesting anything regarding diet changes besides to lose weight by eating more fiber, low salt etc.
Great analysis, Dr. Westman! Check out Dr. Mercola’s recommendations for a ketogenic diet. His protein recommendation calculation is as follows: weight in kg x 0.8 x 0.5 = daily grams of protein. A 200 pound male would eat approximately 36 g of protein per day. Mercola also recommends primarily plant-based protein and fat with a little animal protein and fat thrown in occasionally. This is a recipe for disaster and explains why he became ill on his “ketogenic diet”
Dr. Mercola at one time also taught about how good soy is for you, many years ago. He has a right to change his mind on what works for him. Me? I'm a ketovore. I do meat and fat mostly. It works for me.
Mercola actually was a clinical Dr. I was a patient of his in Schaumburg IL back in the late 90’s. I had been following him on the internet and was looking for natural solutions to my Hashimoto’s and life time of obesity. He did a multitude of metabolic testing on me and came up with a food plan tailored to my metabolism. The diet was strange, eating high fats fois gras, raw organic milk etc. and I never lost weight on it but I do thank him for some of the alternative healing modalities I was introduced to in his practice like tapping, like Carlsons fish oil, high quality probiotics. Over the years he stopped his practice and I found him to jump ship rapidly with a new study. When he advocated for us to stop COD Liver oil because of the “dangerous amounts of vitamin A” I stopped reading his stuff and thought he was knee jerk reacting to something we already knew.
I don't believe the body needs anywhere near as much sugar as people try to claim but as long as it can make its own glucose and enough for whatever functions it needs then I don't see the need of adding any unnecessary extra to my diet. I'd rather my body synthesize the sugar than me dumping 1,000x more than is needed via diet.
Truthfully it makes me wonder what Dr. Mercola’s motivation is anymore. What he is saying flys in the face of millions of results experienced by people who have suffered from wrong dietary advice.
pretty simple he got paid off or blackmailed into submission most of the people peddling all this crap from feminism to pronouns to lgbt hee bee gee beez do not actually believe in it they do it for the money they are puppets with someones hand far up their a** ....
6 years carnivore here. Started at age 54. Now 60. I was never checked for heart disease previously at the V.A. (Retired vet), as a matter of fact, they didnt even know what a CAC SCAN was. When I explained to them what it was they were like dear in the headlights. “Never heard of that”. That was two years ago. I since got a new PC. I was trying had to switch PCs but was denied every time. I guess my old PC finally died of heart disease (im just guessing. May have been complications with type 2 diabetes. Which is most likely. He was a short, very fat, Chinese man. Who refused to listen to me when I spoke. Continued to offer the same advice. Was incredulous when I cured my type 2 diabetes. His nurse on the other hand, “this isnt possible. We must have gotten lab tests or records mixed up. It says here your HbA1c went from 11.8% down to 5.5% in four months?” I simply said, “damn. I was shooting for 4%”. She looked at me dumbfounded. “How?” I explained to her that I never at any carbs. A simple elimination diet. Cut out all carbs. Eating only meat now.” Now she was a bit over weight. I suspect she was type 2 diabetic based on how well she listened to my story. When I saw her again maybe 6 months later I didnt recognize her. She had lost maybe 80 pounds, was strolling through the hospital like Mary Tyler More, saw me, and blew me a kiss. I never saw her again. But I digress… so I finally got the CAC done. Only took me nearly three years. My score is 1460. Really bad. Im not worried about this as they really dont know wtf they are doing there. I go in for a stress test in a few weeks. I opted to do it at a local clinic. Somewhere, where they know what they are doing. A specialist. Then, I’ll be asking for an ultra sound. And see how much clogging I have. I fully expect them to tell me the reason for my heart disease is the diet. But I fully intend to ask them how they know? What was my basline? What was the score before I changed diets? On what evidence do they base it on? Observational only? Epidemiology? Oh yeah, the his is going to be fun.
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a Vietnam vet as well, and the VA is woefully understaffed, and not fully educated. I also have a civilian doctor and went on a keto diet and finally carnivore diet myself. My A1C is now 5.2, down from 7.2. Some of us cannot eat large amounts of carbs and sugar. I got off the MERCOLA train when he got on the SUGAR train. Nuff Said!
*REMEMBER* When taking vitamin D3 don't forget The vitamin K2 as MK7 is to avoide calcification /plaques in the arteries. (Sorry for my English l am from Puerto Rico) How were the results?
As I did 1 year of keto and then 3 years of carnivore, I can assure anyone that is interested, I still have glucose in my veins and have not died from scurvy. I used my keto mojo to calculate my GKI for a while to see if I was in ketosis on carnivore. I measured so often my poor fingers were black and blue, but the results were that there was a consistent level of glucose with no real spikes (80-102) and always had measurable ketones in my system (.3 - 1.5). The GKI said for 12 hours a day I was not in ketosis, but the other 12 hours I was in low to medium ketosis depending on how far away from my 2MAD I was. No exogenous ketones or MCT oil needed. I am still fat adapted and the proof is last week I completed a 14 day fast with no problems.
keep going! We need long-term data to show Keto/Carnivore diet actually leads to longevity. Since this is so new we don't know what will happen in the long run. In contrast, there are many carbs eater live until 100 with no diseases, let's show them carnivore is for 120!
@@tzu-hsianglin7011What are you talking about? Humans throughout history have been carnivore. The Comanche and the Mongols were carnivores. All cavemen were carnivore. How many millions of instances do you need?
Super important. Oral health is crucial to the whole body. If your mouth is healthy, it will contribute all kinds of positive things to your body (like NO). If it's sick, it will most likely wreak havoc (e.g. through bacterial toxins).
I had constipation really bad while adjusting to carnivore. I trued adding fibre and it made me worse. For me I needed to increase my fat intake. By quite a lot. Also excercise made a difference.
I think we should look at glucose in a similar way to oxygen: Oxygen is highly reactive and dangerous to life, but as an aerobic organism the body needs it, so it handles it very carefully (it's still poisonous to anaerobic organisms). Similarly, glucose is highly reactive, and will readily react to all kinds of body tissue (glycation). HbA1c measurement can be considered to be an indication of how much glucose has damaged the body in the last 3 months by glycation. Since the body can make all the glucose it needs, then the best thing to do is let the body make the right amount, and not add more than that because the more we consume over the minimum required, the greater the damage to the body from glycation.
Keto diet saved my life I can only go by what I experience eating keto.i had high blood pressure, 50lbs over weight,high heart rate constantly,insulin resistant border line type 2 diabetes constant anxiety attacks,sleep apnea w trouble sleeping. I lost 52lbs and reveresd every health issue that I had 100% all from eating keto diet. These problems I had were all official diagnose from doctors medicated for multiple of them. Now no med all 100% reversed. I'm no doctor but for me it has saved my life literally I feel amazing so that's all I can go by. Good luck to you all in your health journey may you be blessed as much as I have been!
Love watching influencers defend their turf. There’s a reason nature gave us alternative energy paths and I believe using them both is a sound approach. Mercola has changed paths but his message is less about sugar and more about carbohydrates not being the enemy.
Cats especially are obligate carnivores, yet look at all the junk that's in many cat foods, in particular dry cat food. All kinds of grains and other plant ingredients, because they are cheap. It's basically cat junk food.
I’m proud of you Dr Westman, your one of my heroes I’m a 74 year old carnivore down 85 lbs. Hudson NC a carnivore desert no one believes in my way of eating. I’m sorry for them .
I look at it this way, when I go into a Store, there is not much to buy when it comes to food, 3/4 of the food in Stores contain processed garbage with sugar, if many knew this, many Companies would go out of business.
I quit Mercola when he put everything behind a paywall, and when his company wouldn't replace a lifetime guaranteed ceramic skillet that shattered when it was set on a hot burner.
TH-cam took mercola off during Covid. He’s now going to sing any song that gets him back on TH-cam because he was giving up millions of dollars by not being on.
@@jakehayes1345I think you're on to something there, but I'll go a step further. He may have been bought off by big Pharma or big Food to change his tune. Just like they buy off politicians to change legislation which benefit their businesses, they do the same with individuals who have a very large following and if the price is right they will do it.
I was surprised to hear Dr Mercola had millions of viewers. Years ago, I was a follower of his for a while. I forget why I stopped following as it was a long time ago, but I do remember being worried about him because I thought he looked bad and hoped he wasn't sick. I haven't heard much about him until this broadcast. I'm glad he's still around though I won't follow him any more. Too many other good doctors to follow, like you Dr. Westman, and Anthony Chafee.
I always had a sugar crash after eating sugar or carbs of any kind. As far as cortisol, I've never had mine checked, but I was always more stressed out before going carnivore.
I have type 2 diabetes and can't eat any sugar, even while on Jardiance to treat my condition. On Monday I ate a tablespoon of sweet chili sauce with my dinner, which consisted of chuck roast, at 6 O'clock in the evening. I did not eat another thing before having my blood drawn the next day at 10 O'clock. So even though I had been fasting for over 12 hours, my blood sugar was still at 130 mg/dL. I can't believe it was so high! I have little to no sugar for the last three months, eating only meat. This tells me that I have to be more strict and not eat any sugar at all, not even for a treat. No more sauces. I know they all contain sugar, but I measure out the quantity and only add it 1 or 2 times a week. Interestingly enough my lipids are all under the recommended values. When 35% of the country is obese and has diabetes, how can doctors continue to say that sugar is alright? They are obviously just echoing the dogma that has plagued us for the last 60 years.
That's my exact situation. I ate a little tiny Halloween size twix bar... My glucose went from 80 something to 136. That was it.. That little tiny candy bar.
I do carnivore with fruit, but only one different fruit every day, mostly papaya, strawberry 🍓 blueberry, raspberry, orange 🍊 pears 🍐, before lunch , and after my lunch which is steak 🥩 with butter 🧈 intermittent fasting until the next day, I’m so happy because I’ve been losing since February this year 16 kilos which it’s around 35.274 pounds. Veeeeeeeery happy 😆
IF you’re NOT obese, and IF you don’t have high blood sugar, and IF you are NOT diabetic or pre diabetic, and IF you are relatively healthy for your age with no other chronic disease likely linked to food allergies or insulin resistance, and IF you are active and exercise, THEN why the hell not? Up the carbs a bit. You should still avoid processed foods, but a slice of cake once a month ought not kill you anytime soon. However, if any of the above apply to you then keep your eye on the ball and realize your waistline is the one thing that will kill you quicker than anything else. Don’t worry about the noise in the background. Ignore the “studies” and “experts.” Listen to your glucose monitor, bathroom scale, waistline measurement, and blood tests.
The best study and the best diet has allowed many people to live more than 100 years. None of them have had such restrictive diets, but they have been characterized by metabolic and nutritional flexibility.
So given a baby nursing is a natural course of events for a newborn human and the mother's milk is fat, protein and cholesterol, then the baby is in fact in ketosis. This means going carnivore is essentially switching us back to our natural state away from glycolysis. So, if our natural state is ketosis and our brains will make whatever glucose we need then the brain isn't technically capable of using ketones for energy, it uses ketones for energy and it's able to switch to glucose as needed. Seems as a species we've just been using a glycolysis-based diets for so long we think it's the normal state and ketosis is the odd way of doing things.
Good argument, and I do agree with your end theory. There is however, a bit of lactose in the milk. But, here is the thing. The enzyme used to break down the lactose, lactase, is usually only produced efficiently by babies and small children. As humans get older they tend to have a decreased production of lactase. So, yes, your argument’s final answer is most certainly credible. Cheers.
@@ekondigg6751 babies in the womb are naturally in ketosis. When they are newborn they are in mild ketosis. Beyond 6 to 7 months after weaning the state of ketosis becomes undesirable as a sustained state, this is why to maintain a state of ketosis is precariouslydifficult. All mammals go thru weaning and no animal on Earth goes into a state of ketosis as their permanent state. Innuits (eskimos) eat the "perfect" keto diet but evolution to their high fat diet made it such that they don't go into ketosis. I have absolutelt no idea what is the fascination with the state of ketosis or the adult desire to be in a pre-weaned infant state nowadays... other mammals naturally wean. Some humans seem not to want to.
@@jimmckay2337 That is not true. Adults can still produce lactase, and do so. Especially if they continue using milk/dairy. If you cease, you interrupt production, but the body is capable. I often take a bit of a good quality milk to help me feel better if I am feeling sick, and mostly as a snack while out and about if I need to. It is not as a constant, though. Dairy, milk as a meal is not like consuming a bread roll, it is not a dump of lactose into the body like that, particularly whole milk. Without wanting to sound anything other than genuine, there is a genetic-race basis to the difference in consumption of meat, dairy and carbohydrates.
There’s a reason for it, I was like you as well. Your body thrives with balance, if carbs are so bad then why do they exist in the first place 🤦🏻♂️😂😂 stop listening to all these gurus
@@fivestarlimosThere are different eating patterns that work for people. Keto/low carb is really how we ate before industrialized foods. Just meat and vegetables. Some societies like the Egyptians were higher carb with bread and beer. They have drawings of guys with love handles and many of their skeletons have tooth decay. One thing is for sure. 2/3 of Americans are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. Reversing it is as simple as going low carb/Whole Foods. Of course, some are allergic (not in the traditional sense) to veg and carnivore works for them.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 yes for short term nothing extreme is healthy. Of course everybody is different but to say keto or carnivore is the perfect diet is laughable
@@fivestarlimos You’ve got to use what works for you. Virta health is using Keto for reversing TTDB. They should get a Nobel prize. Being sick from high carb, processed foods is reversed by doing the opposite, which is Keto or low carb. You don’t get to vote on that. The standard of care reverses TTDB around 1% but the very best are 13%. Virta health has a 72% reversal rate. There are a small percentage of Americans that can eat whatever they want and they won’t gain weight. But that’s 5% or less. The lucky ones.
That is a real problem into your totally fat adopted. There are people that as carnivores though do run marathons including the Moab 250. It takes about 3 months to become fully fat adopted for an athlete and your performance will suffer during that 3 months.
I've been following Dr Mercola for about ten years. His version of keto was not a very sustainable version. He kept his protein way too low to ever feel satiated. He got caught up with the whole mTOR thing. Though I did enjoy reading his articles.
Meat doesn't have carbs, but eggs, milk, cheeses, nuts do have carbs. Vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, asparagus, cabbage and legumes are essentially carbs. Most keto diets do have carbs. It's only the lion diet, meat only diet that doesn't include carbs and those that eat this way are perfectly fine.
I’m 79 and I’ve been carnivore for 5 1/2 years and won’t go back to the old way of eat! I am off all meds as well. I think Dr. mercola is just trying to stay relevant in the diet discussion on TH-cam. There are so many influencers out there such as Shawn Baker that may be Dr. Macola is starting to feel irrelevant. Just a thought!☸️❤️🙏
I have been low-carb, Keto for around 8 years, I decided one day to have some carbs, was fine for a few moments, then my toes started to have spasms, like a charlie horse for about 20 minutes, so, over the years I tried to stay away from sugar and carbs, well last month I tried them once again, and not only did my toes have a charlie horse but my left hand had one and the pinky finger part of my hand looked deformed the spasm was so intense, I think I will stay away from sugar and carbs from now on. Any idea why the carbs caused spasms?
I'd be interested if you'd do the experiment again with certified Organic vegetables. Am wondering that glyphosate (herbicides/pesticides) in most supermarket vegetables, that can't be washed out, is affecting your digestion? One of my massage therapy tutors decided to do juicing of leafy veges/ fruit everyday - thinking it was healthy. After 3 months he had terrible pain & knots in his leg muscles & had to spend hours massaging it out, plus he always had a sore stomach. He discovered it was glyphosate poisoning & he'd never been near a garden. So it was all the veges he'd bought. He only buys organic now, stopped juicing & has recovered.
Interesting note about the kidney I actually found research suggesting the kidney is capable of producing its own ketones and burning them simultaneously
Well Dr westman's been doing this for over 20 years through Duke University. I think that supports the safety of the diet and it's the most studied diet in the world. It's been around since the early 1900s used for children with epilepsy. It's now helping a lot of people with neurodegenerative disorders. There is two cardiologists that recommend a carnivorous diet. One of them wrote a book called Stay off My operating table You could probably take a dive into checking him out.
Your cortisol levels definitely increase if you get continuously constipated from an all-meat diet which is what happened to me. I ended up in the ER and then in the hospital. I was put on a 24 hour Holter test and was throwing PACs. I was scheduled for a treadmill test which I never did. I had to add fiber back into my diet. Maybe some people can tolerate all-meat, but that situation caused me serious problems. And yes, my condition switched 180 back to being well again once I did. I went off full carnivore to keto based. Still most meat, but always greens as well now. I believe dr/ westman advocate full keto foods. but some others advocate just meat products.
My mother died from a fiber blockage from eating too many vegetables. If you're constipated on a meat diet which after knowing ones that have ileostomies doesn't seem possible... One just needs to increase their fat. When they went in to remove the blockage it distributed sepsis to her entire gut and she died within a week.
Going beyond a moderate protein intake ... my body converted the excess for the moment to sugars. Want to disagree; explain how with eating around 10g of carbs per day ... my triglycerides were at 185
I've been low carb for 2 years and am metabolically healthy and fat adapted. Last week about 3 hours after lunch I was involved in a car accident (nobody hurt thankfully). I did go into shock. I'm 65 (here in Australia that is called "geriatric" - she apologised when she said it!). About 1 to 1.5 hours later when the paramedic asked me about medical conditions I said I'm diabetic in remission on low carb for 2 years and she said oh that's good. She did a finger prick glucose test and it was 5.1. She also checked my heart and it was fine. My body did what it needed to do. However, I'm wondering if I had had a small amount of sugar it might have helped me to recover from the shock faster than I did.
Probably not. If the body needs sugar, it can get it via various hormones. The car accident is new, but traumatic shock events we have experienced for millions of years. The body knows what to do.
No. Sugar will make it worse. Your body makes its own energy from your food. Trauma is real, do not try to side step this natural process. It is okay, and it is your system dealing with the experience. Go easy on yourself. xo
@@WhitePositive Thank you! That makes a lot of sense. And I appreciate the reminder about trauma. Thankfully nobody was hurt and it was just an unfortunate accident. It's been 10 days now and I know that I am still reactioning to it in various ways. I'm driving a huge 6 month old car (I normally drive a really small car which only has reversing sensors) with all the new technology which isn't always correct - that in itself is stressful), I haven't got the dash cam SD card back yet so I haven't reviewed the incident (I never got to see the incident because I was told to wait in my car until being assess by the paramedics), I'm still waiting to hear if my car is going to be written off or repaired. So yes, even though there are other things going on in the world that are worse and the accident itself could have been worse, my body and mind need to process what I have been through. And of course what happened and the "fall out" was totally unexpected. Again, thank you. What you said is very helpful.
@@jobrown8146 Thank You, take it easy on yourself. Totally, our system remains alert because it is an ever existent possibility. I was struck by a car on my pushbike more than two decades ago, broke my pushbike and many injuries but you cannot see them, they just hurt when I sit, stand, move around, or don't move, and I still get a bit nervous when anything happens on the roads. It is automatic reflex. I guess that is how I know a little about the lived experience. I have found the less or zero carbs has helped reduce symptoms, but has not eliminated them, and cannot be expected to. xo
I listened to one of those interviews- one third fat one third protein and one third carbs - I have always trusted mercola but I wasn’t sure about that!
This is very curious. Back in the days when cell phones were huge and were only used to make calls my mother was being eaten alive by rheumatoid arthritis. She turned on her computer that had a 14.4k modem and found a message board run by a guy named Dr, Mercola. Through what he told her and her following the ketogenic diet she was able to put this arthritis in complete remission in a couple of months. Her doing that was what got me interested in studying the ketogenic diet and later fasting when I had time and could find the studies and literature. I would imagine in his career he has countless people that he has been able to help, so why would he throw all that to the wind? More than curious to me. Would love to find out the real reason why because what has to be his vast experience it makes my mind boggle at what I just saw in this video.
He does sell product! Big pharma is very concerned about the keto movement. We already know that two Harvard scientist were paid off by the sugar industry... So would we be surprised if someone that sells a lot of product might also be a sell out. I'm not saying that's the case people are able to change their mind about things but it just seems suspect to me.
Hey Dr Westman Upon reacting to what Shawn Baker has said, and your thoughts, just because the body makes glucose or any other molecule, does it mean it cannot be consumed at all? Why are keto, carnivore, vegan, vegetarians and everyone across the board like to use the "we can make enough of X so we don't need it"? Are these diet camps interested in excellent health?
Yes we all are concerned about excellent health but I feel that mother nature doesn't best. You produced exactly the amount of sugar glucose that you need. A teaspoon more causes fat storage.
Since going low carb keto, my stress hormone go to the levels has significantly dropped, resulting in no more anxiety and depression, so again, complete opposite of what he saying
I've tried lots of diets. Atkins keto, vegetarian, but the best I felt was doing vegetarian. I think maybe I'm a Buddhist from my past life. I like the nutritarian philosophy of Doctor Fuhrmann too.... If the shoe fits..
Maria Emmerich alluded to this in a recent video where she said she had just attended a conference. She said it’s not a bad thing for our blood sugar to have spikes based on new information she has received and would share in future videos. I was wondering about this myself. Any new information you can find on this would be most helpful.
Does that mean glycation is now good, and dietary carbohydrate has suddenly become essential if we need those sugar spikes? It would be interesting to look at the physiological data when and if there's one that'd suggest that.
I think Dr Cywes talks about spiking insulin in the morning with carnivores with flat blood sugar levels because he was noticing blood markers were off in some of his long term carnivores.
This makes more sense now. I've been reading Mercolas articles for awhile and yesterday I followed a link, that he posted, in an article, to a video with Jay Feldman and another guy who are against keto. They were talking about how bad keto was for the thyroid, diabetes, etc... I know that is not true because my A1C went from pre-diabetic to normal when I was on keto/carnivore.
Even if we assumed that the requirement of glucose by certain cells means the optimal diet would contain some glucose, how much glucose is actually needed by these cells? 5g a day, 10g, 50g, 500g? And how much do we get from the glycogen in fresh meats? That argument is too incomplete to take seriously.
Also look at the triglyceride backbone of fat. It's used in one of the other pathways in gluconeogenesis. Probably results in 25g of glucose per day or so.
Also, how is a modest increase in cortisol (we suppose saliva, does it matter? did the cortisol level elevate?) from baseline helpful for complete resolution of systemic inflammation? An increase in cortisol is a progression of the stages of stress from alarm to resistance stage. How is that really reducing inflammation?
I think Mercola jumped on the anti-keto bandwagon as a business strategy. Listen to Dr Berg's video recently on keto censorship (at least he has the integrity to stick to his guns). Mercola is trying to make his way back to undo any censorship of his material. Ironically, Dr Mercola was the one I first heard about LC from, though I didn't take it too seriously. My shift happened when I listened to the late, great Sarah Halberg's TedTalk.
Would appreciate if you could share your thoughts on the bioenergetic way of eating. Few people on TH-cam like jay feldman, Mike fave make videos about it. A lot of it is based on Ray Peat principles.
When I am in ketosis my total testosterone is excellent BUT my free testosterone is barely detectable, a level that would be of concern in a 100 year old woman (3.9 pg/mL). By adding some carbs/sugar my free T increases to mid range and my symptoms clear up. (some fruit and white rice--selected due to $ and low fiber because fiber gives me severe IBS)
Rice has no benefit whatsoever, and is pure carb. Your approach has worked for other men, I wish I had a reference for you. Still does not have to be high carb to get that result.
@@WhitePositive did someone mention "high carb" (besides you)? 20-25 grams per meal is enough to get my free T to mid normal for my age though I think that is still far too low.
@@geoffreylevens9045 A touch of arrogance as a response to a comment? Was that necessary? Ordinary/normal limits are often on the safe side so that specialists do not get into trouble with powers that be, or crowds, possibly?
I had a little bit of chocolate the other day like one tiny little square, and it made me miserable for the rest of the day and disturb my sleep dramatically that night by making me anxious and on edge
I have been reading Dr. Mercola 's information for nearly 20 years. He is willing to change his opinion according to the new research and his personal experience, unlike many so called "health guru" over these years. It is up to us to educate and make the best decision for our self . His products are expensive but with good quality, which set a standard for his competitors to match, and it is good for the consumers like me.
He sells so many products, that tells me a lot. Disappointed as I used to trust him. I know how my body feels and it feels better fueling my body with a carnivore plan. 6 years now, 2 of those full carnivore. I have needed fewer supplements on Carnivore and actually used to buy more from him when I ate more vegetables and fruits. I don’t need as many supplements on carnivore. Again…… that tells me a lot. As people are needing fewer supplements that affects his bottom line. 🥰🙏🏼🥰 I just read his email I get daily and had to seek second opinions as it confused me. Thank you Dr. Westman and Dr. Baker. I’ve actually met all 3 of you at different summits. Mercola in 2019 @ Dr. Bergs summit and also The Omaha Summit where I met Dr. Baker. I’m more trusting of people that aren’t selling products. I know how to listen to my body now too.
Gluconeogenesis is a metabolic pathway that results in the generation of glucose from certain non-carbohydrate carbon substrates. THAT'S how we get glucose.
The argument that we absolutely need glucose, therefor we should eat more is a fallacy. Just because we need a small amount, which is already created by the liver (especially with too much protein-gluconeogenesis), it doesn't mean we need to intake more. The claim is a mix of a false cause and appeal to nature fallacy.
At the end of the day,whatever the nutrition and exercise protocol, what meaningful data (personal and case study) are being provided and who are you comparing it against?So hs-CRP?...salivary cortisol levels (good luck with that one in establishing a meaningful data set)...so what personal markers is Mercola sharing and who is he comparing it to of similar age and sex?
Dr. Ken Berry said it best. “There’s no such thing as essential carbohydrates.”
There's no such thing as "essential water" or "essential air" either... "Essential" literally means that the body cannot make it. So "essential fatty acids" fit that category.
Your body *_makes all the saturated fats it needs_* so saturated fat (as in animal fat) is not "essential" at all.
Look it up yourself.
Dr Berry's fundamental ignorance (or disingenuous-ness) as reflected thru your backward comment is stupefying...
Ken Berry is a quack.
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Mercola focuses on glucose. What food offers plain glucose without other sugars?
@annfraley2590 Your body converts food into glucose and fructose *_in the bloodstream._* NO other sugars are present in the blood. Mercola focuses on blood glucose levels since that is the critical type of sugar your body CANNOT live without...
I felt like death before keto and I will always maintain some sort of low carb diet from now on😊 As always great info Dr Westman
Researcher here. I met Dr Mercola a few years ago at a seminar. At that time he was talking a bout EMFs which is a real thing. He has good points on specific things but tends to go to the extreme to sell products. Being a ketovore I have to say being low carb, keto, ketovore & carnivore is by far the best. My labs 12 years ago were within normal ranges but now they are optimal & I look & feel younger
I've heard so many times that glucose is the primary, or the preferred fuel for the body because the body will use glucose before it uses fat for fuel. I'm leaning more towards the body realizes that a high level of glucose is damaging to the body, THAT is why the body goes for the glucose first, to get it out of the blood.
That’s also what I’ve heard. Too much glucose is harmful. Our body makes glucose so we don’t need to ingest extra.
Exactly! I just heard the way to think about it is that too much is toxic, so it uses that first. The person who said that also used alcohol as an example, as this is something that is also used quickly.
High glucose,starch,Lactose and carbohydrates put a massive strain on your pancreas and liver as your body tries to process everything you eat/drink that stuff gives a large fast energy burn but it's only temporary then you run out and you can't keep doing anything till you put more in, plus all that sugar/glucose is still in the blood stream. Everyone I know who's a carbohydrate addicted is over weigh and diabetic.
It also works organs to store as fat. Anyone you see around who has a lot of fat, is or has consumed carbohydrates and is putting a massive burden on their organs.
Both such things could result from the selection pressures we have historically experienced
I’m coming up on my 3 year sugar free anniversary. I’ll never go back. After almost 3 years on keto I’m off BP meds after 20 years, no more acid reflux, my scalp is no longer crusty, all my aches and pains are gone, I’m no longer pre-diabetic, no more brain fog, much my of my gray hair has reverted back to brown and I’m down by over 30 pounds.
Congrats!! Great work and thanks for sharing your story
rock on:)
Congratulations! I am coming up on my 4th year Keto. I am also Off BP meds after 20 years, no more reflux, aches and pains gone, no longer pre-diabetic or brain fog or vertigo. Sleep great and down 60 lbs , I feel better now than when I was in my 40s. This is my lifestyle forever.
Awesome
Great job.
Hi, congratulations 🎉 I’m no longer pre diabetic and more BP medication. Congratulations to all of us. I wish everyone a beautiful long healthy happy life ❤ God Bless 🙏
Dr Westman, you are the sweetest doctor there is! Kind, gracious and factual!
Shout that from the rooftops because the good Doc is a rarity.
Second. I'd listen to a calm, thoughtful and thorough man before a loose cannon or one who failed to consider that diabetes cannot be solved by the consumption of any form of sugar. Utter nonsense out there. This man has pure and straight logical abilities.
AND UNSCIENTIFIC
LMFAO BLESS YOUR HEART ❤️
Gave up Mercola quite a while back.
He still has mercury poisoning symptoms
Into the same pile as salad I don't know
I’ve followed Dr Mercola for YEARS!! When I watched his rejection of keto with Jay I listened with an open mind and got Jay’s free class. I had to reject their way of thinking at least for me. I am a carb addict and cannot follow their way of eating. Thanks for all you do for us!!
I didn't. The guy is a quack who advocates for what ever is being searched a lot. Probably advocated for injecting yourself with the urine of pregnant women at some point.
Carb addict here, too. I have zero control around carbs and know I would binge all day on the wrong carbs if I went back. That said I'm still struggling with cravings, cramps I would still not go back, 7 weeks in and about 8lbs down.
@@miraak8523 Jay Feldman. He had a TH-cam channel
Mercola is a quack
😊😊Carbs are my downfall! I tried reintroducing them slowly and only “good carbs” many many times but each time my weight started to increase, sleep worsened, got bad tempered, got depressed, sleepy during the day and after meals, got skin rashes etc so carb free it has to be.😊😊
Anesthesiologist here. I have been carnivore for years. All labs excellent. I am very thin but have a lot of energy. Mercola did some good when exposing the statin scam. I no longer follow the guy with this sugar push. Paul Saladino, MD, author of "The Carnivore Code" , a great book, is now also recommending fruits and honey. I take him with a grain of salt now.
How did he expose the statin scam? I'm 39 and suffered a TIA and all the doctors are doing is pushing it on me and not suggesting anything regarding diet changes besides to lose weight by eating more fiber, low salt etc.
Great analysis, Dr. Westman! Check out Dr. Mercola’s recommendations for a ketogenic diet. His protein recommendation calculation is as follows: weight in kg x 0.8 x 0.5 = daily grams of protein. A 200 pound male would eat approximately 36 g of protein per day. Mercola also recommends primarily plant-based protein and fat with a little animal protein and fat thrown in occasionally. This is a recipe for disaster and explains why he became ill on his “ketogenic diet”
Saladino’s diet works for a small subset of people. If you aren’t in that subset, your health may suffer.
I first learned about keto from Dr. Mercola a long time ago. I was shocked to see this! My husband and I still love our mostly carnivore lifestyle.
Dr. Mercola at one time also taught about how good soy is for you, many years ago. He has a right to change his mind on what works for him. Me? I'm a ketovore. I do meat and fat mostly. It works for me.
Dr.Westman, you are well informed, unflappable, and so likeable. Keep up the good work!
LMFAO BLESS YOUR HEART
The doctor that wrote “The End of Alzheimers” recommended getting into and staying in ketosis as a major way of preventing and minimising Alzheimers.
Mercola actually was a clinical Dr. I was a patient of his in Schaumburg IL back in the late 90’s. I had been following him on the internet and was looking for natural solutions to my Hashimoto’s and life time of obesity. He did a multitude of metabolic testing on me and came up with a food plan tailored to my metabolism. The diet was strange, eating high fats fois gras, raw organic milk etc. and I never lost weight on it but I do thank him for some of the alternative healing modalities I was introduced to in his practice like tapping, like Carlsons fish oil, high quality probiotics. Over the years he stopped his practice and I found him to jump ship rapidly with a new study. When he advocated for us to stop COD Liver oil because of the “dangerous amounts of vitamin A” I stopped reading his stuff and thought he was knee jerk reacting to something we already knew.
I don't believe the body needs anywhere near as much sugar as people try to claim but as long as it can make its own glucose and enough for whatever functions it needs then I don't see the need of adding any unnecessary extra to my diet. I'd rather my body synthesize the sugar than me dumping 1,000x more than is needed via diet.
Truthfully it makes me wonder what Dr. Mercola’s motivation is anymore. What he is saying flys in the face of millions of results experienced by people who have suffered from wrong dietary advice.
He's thinking that he's made all the money he is going to from low-carb diets and so now it's time for his next hustle
It is a global religion/narrative, and it gets tiring to butt against it, so maybe he is just trying to cope.
pretty simple he got paid off or blackmailed into submission
most of the people peddling all this crap
from feminism to pronouns to lgbt hee bee gee beez do not actually believe in it
they do it for the money they are puppets with someones hand far up their a** ....
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In all fairness, that doesn’t fit his character. He’s stood up for truth when it doesn’t benefit him and has helped a lot of people.
Great video! Been carnivore/keto with only beef and eggs for 7 years… just interviewed with Dr. Baker a week ago. Should be out soon…
6 years carnivore here. Started at age 54. Now 60. I was never checked for heart disease previously at the V.A. (Retired vet), as a matter of fact, they didnt even know what a CAC SCAN was. When I explained to them what it was they were like dear in the headlights. “Never heard of that”. That was two years ago. I since got a new PC. I was trying had to switch PCs but was denied every time. I guess my old PC finally died of heart disease (im just guessing. May have been complications with type 2 diabetes. Which is most likely. He was a short, very fat, Chinese man. Who refused to listen to me when I spoke. Continued to offer the same advice. Was incredulous when I cured my type 2 diabetes. His nurse on the other hand, “this isnt possible. We must have gotten lab tests or records mixed up. It says here your HbA1c went from 11.8% down to 5.5% in four months?” I simply said, “damn. I was shooting for 4%”. She looked at me dumbfounded. “How?” I explained to her that I never at any carbs. A simple elimination diet. Cut out all carbs. Eating only meat now.”
Now she was a bit over weight. I suspect she was type 2 diabetic based on how well she listened to my story. When I saw her again maybe 6 months later I didnt recognize her. She had lost maybe 80 pounds, was strolling through the hospital like Mary Tyler More, saw me, and blew me a kiss. I never saw her again.
But I digress… so I finally got the CAC done. Only took me nearly three years. My score is 1460. Really bad. Im not worried about this as they really dont know wtf they are doing there. I go in for a stress test in a few weeks. I opted to do it at a local clinic. Somewhere, where they know what they are doing. A specialist. Then, I’ll be asking for an ultra sound. And see how much clogging I have.
I fully expect them to tell me the reason for my heart disease is the diet. But I fully intend to ask them how they know? What was my basline? What was the score before I changed diets? On what evidence do they base it on? Observational only? Epidemiology? Oh yeah, the his is going to be fun.
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a Vietnam vet as well, and the VA is woefully understaffed, and not fully educated. I also have a civilian doctor and went on a keto diet and finally carnivore diet myself. My A1C is now 5.2, down from 7.2. Some of us cannot eat large amounts of carbs and sugar. I got off the MERCOLA train when he got on the SUGAR train. Nuff Said!
Let us know how you made out
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When taking vitamin D3 don't forget The vitamin K2 as MK7 is to avoide calcification /plaques in the arteries.
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How were the results?
@@anamariafernandezpabon822 Its hard to find. But got some on order.
As I did 1 year of keto and then 3 years of carnivore, I can assure anyone that is interested, I still have glucose in my veins and have not died from scurvy. I used my keto mojo to calculate my GKI for a while to see if I was in ketosis on carnivore. I measured so often my poor fingers were black and blue, but the results were that there was a consistent level of glucose with no real spikes (80-102) and always had measurable ketones in my system (.3 - 1.5). The GKI said for 12 hours a day I was not in ketosis, but the other 12 hours I was in low to medium ketosis depending on how far away from my 2MAD I was. No exogenous ketones or MCT oil needed. I am still fat adapted and the proof is last week I completed a 14 day fast with no problems.
Nice. I never went more than 2 days of fasting, but I feel great.
I have become very fond of coconut cream 🥥 😋
keep going! We need long-term data to show Keto/Carnivore diet actually leads to longevity. Since this is so new we don't know what will happen in the long run. In contrast, there are many carbs eater live until 100 with no diseases, let's show them carnivore is for 120!
@@tzu-hsianglin7011What are you talking about? Humans throughout history have been carnivore. The Comanche and the Mongols were carnivores. All cavemen were carnivore. How many millions of instances do you need?
@@InsolentVillagerHow many or what percentage lived a long life?
Produce data... not rhetoric.
I did the No Suger,
Never heard of that program…I wonder how much more success you would have had on the No Sugar,
Even my teeth thanks me for abandoning sugar.
Super important. Oral health is crucial to the whole body. If your mouth is healthy, it will contribute all kinds of positive things to your body (like NO). If it's sick, it will most likely wreak havoc (e.g. through bacterial toxins).
I had constipation really bad while adjusting to carnivore. I trued adding fibre and it made me worse. For me I needed to increase my fat intake. By quite a lot. Also excercise made a difference.
This is common.
Yup, not enough fat and you might be more constipated. Too much fat, and you might get diarrhea. We each gotta find our "middle".
Well think about it. If there was a clog in your sink drain, would you add fiber to clear it out?
@@lloydhlavac6807😂
Just for the record, Dr Mercola was a practicing physician in Schaumburg IL. He is now retired in FL.
I think we should look at glucose in a similar way to oxygen:
Oxygen is highly reactive and dangerous to life, but as an aerobic organism the body needs it, so it handles it very carefully (it's still poisonous to anaerobic organisms).
Similarly, glucose is highly reactive, and will readily react to all kinds of body tissue (glycation). HbA1c measurement can be considered to be an indication of how much glucose has damaged the body in the last 3 months by glycation.
Since the body can make all the glucose it needs, then the best thing to do is let the body make the right amount, and not add more than that because the more we consume over the minimum required, the greater the damage to the body from glycation.
Keto diet saved my life I can only go by what I experience eating keto.i had high blood pressure, 50lbs over weight,high heart rate constantly,insulin resistant border line type 2 diabetes constant anxiety attacks,sleep apnea w trouble sleeping. I lost 52lbs and reveresd every health issue that I had 100% all from eating keto diet. These problems I had were all official diagnose from doctors medicated for multiple of them. Now no med all 100% reversed. I'm no doctor but for me it has saved my life literally I feel amazing so that's all I can go by. Good luck to you all in your health journey may you be blessed as much as I have been!
Amazing. Do you eat grain fed meat?
@@jamescokl3 yes
@peterfantoni919 bless you. Hope live to 120 years with good health and mobility.
Love watching influencers defend their turf. There’s a reason nature gave us alternative energy paths and I believe using them both is a sound approach. Mercola has changed paths but his message is less about sugar and more about carbohydrates not being the enemy.
Based
Thank you, Dr. Westman for your calm, reasoned comments!
There is no essential carbohydrate for humans, dogs, or cats.
Cats especially are obligate carnivores, yet look at all the junk that's in many cat foods, in particular dry cat food. All kinds of grains and other plant ingredients, because they are cheap. It's basically cat junk food.
I’m proud of you Dr Westman, your one of my heroes I’m a 74 year old carnivore down 85 lbs. Hudson NC a carnivore desert no one believes in my way of eating. I’m sorry for them .
Westman, you are a legend. Keep going.
I look at it this way, when I go into a Store, there is not much to buy when it comes to food, 3/4 of the food in Stores contain processed garbage with sugar, if many knew this, many Companies would go out of business.
There is almost zero human food in any shop, except for the butcher and the dairy and maybe the salt merchants.
I quit Mercola when he put everything behind a paywall, and when his company wouldn't replace a lifetime guaranteed ceramic skillet that shattered when it was set on a hot burner.
Lol, he sells skillet?
13months now on Carnivore diet, sometimes on Keto I am much better, ache n pain on my joints , pins & needles on my feet are completely gone.
TH-cam took mercola off during Covid. He’s now going to sing any song that gets him back on TH-cam because he was giving up millions of dollars by not being on.
@@jakehayes1345I think you're on to something there, but I'll go a step further. He may have been bought off by big Pharma or big Food to change his tune. Just like they buy off politicians to change legislation which benefit their businesses, they do the same with individuals who have a very large following and if the price is right they will do it.
@@jakehayes1345such a little toad
He also had some good things to say at one point in time and then he got into the sales of all of his supplements and lost all credibility in my book!
So what
@@cookshackcuisinistahe says everything, a broken clock is right twice a day.
This is the first time I've seen his name in years ,,, I'll try a few more years without him. ;0).
Mercola’s information came from research done by Ray Peat and has been carried on by Jay Feldman.
I've been low carb for years and now if I have a piece of birthday cake or something else high in sugar I crash within an hour
I was surprised to hear Dr Mercola had millions of viewers. Years ago, I was a follower of his for a while. I forget why I stopped following as it was a long time ago, but I do remember being worried about him because I thought he looked bad and hoped he wasn't sick. I haven't heard much about him until this broadcast. I'm glad he's still around though I won't follow him any more. Too many other good doctors to follow, like you Dr. Westman, and Anthony Chafee.
Dr.Westman, please 🙏🏽 continue with the research and Teachings... A lot of, patients, and followers are finding success with the Keto diet 😊.
I always had a sugar crash after eating sugar or carbs of any kind. As far as cortisol, I've never had mine checked, but I was always more stressed out before going carnivore.
I'm curious about Dr. Mercola's full reason. Please see if you can interview him. Thank you so much
Yes, please interview Dr Mercola. How was he sleeping on Keto…? 🤔
I have type 2 diabetes and can't eat any sugar, even while on Jardiance to treat my condition. On Monday I ate a tablespoon of sweet chili sauce with my dinner, which consisted of chuck roast, at 6 O'clock in the evening. I did not eat another thing before having my blood drawn the next day at 10 O'clock. So even though I had been fasting for over 12 hours, my blood sugar was still at 130 mg/dL. I can't believe it was so high! I have little to no sugar for the last three months, eating only meat. This tells me that I have to be more strict and not eat any sugar at all, not even for a treat. No more sauces. I know they all contain sugar, but I measure out the quantity and only add it 1 or 2 times a week. Interestingly enough my lipids are all under the recommended values. When 35% of the country is obese and has diabetes, how can doctors continue to say that sugar is alright? They are obviously just echoing the dogma that has plagued us for the last 60 years.
That's my exact situation. I ate a little tiny Halloween size twix bar... My glucose went from 80 something to 136. That was it.. That little tiny candy bar.
I do carnivore with fruit, but only one different fruit every day, mostly papaya, strawberry 🍓 blueberry, raspberry, orange 🍊 pears 🍐, before lunch , and after my lunch which is steak 🥩 with butter 🧈 intermittent fasting until the next day, I’m so happy because I’ve been losing since February this year 16 kilos which it’s around 35.274 pounds. Veeeeeeeery happy 😆
Congrats on the weight loss. How can it be carnivore if your eating sugar fruit? Sounds more like keto.
@@mobile_noble4026 I don’t know, but it’s working for me . Very happy 😃
IF you’re NOT obese, and IF you don’t have high blood sugar, and IF you are NOT diabetic or pre diabetic, and IF you are relatively healthy for your age with no other chronic disease likely linked to food allergies or insulin resistance, and IF you are active and exercise, THEN why the hell not? Up the carbs a bit. You should still avoid processed foods, but a slice of cake once a month ought not kill you anytime soon. However, if any of the above apply to you then keep your eye on the ball and realize your waistline is the one thing that will kill you quicker than anything else. Don’t worry about the noise in the background. Ignore the “studies” and “experts.” Listen to your glucose monitor, bathroom scale, waistline measurement, and blood tests.
But with 88% of Americans metabolically unfit... That would pertain to very few of us.
@ i know. And dont say us. I have to watch everything i eat. I get one sice of cake a year.
The best study and the best diet has allowed many people to live more than 100 years. None of them have had such restrictive diets, but they have been characterized by metabolic and nutritional flexibility.
So given a baby nursing is a natural course of events for a newborn human and the mother's milk is fat, protein and cholesterol, then the baby is in fact in ketosis. This means going carnivore is essentially switching us back to our natural state away from glycolysis. So, if our natural state is ketosis and our brains will make whatever glucose we need then the brain isn't technically capable of using ketones for energy, it uses ketones for energy and it's able to switch to glucose as needed. Seems as a species we've just been using a glycolysis-based diets for so long we think it's the normal state and ketosis is the odd way of doing things.
Good argument, and I do agree with your end theory. There is however, a bit of lactose in the milk. But, here is the thing. The enzyme used to break down the lactose, lactase, is usually only produced efficiently by babies and small children. As humans get older they tend to have a decreased production of lactase. So, yes, your argument’s final answer is most certainly credible. Cheers.
Lactose is a carbohydrate. Babies are NOT in ketosis. You guys care really going overboard with your fascination of the state of ketosis...
@@JappaKneads Actually, breast-fed babies are in ketosis. Do your research.
@@ekondigg6751 babies in the womb are naturally in ketosis. When they are newborn they are in mild ketosis. Beyond 6 to 7 months after weaning the state of ketosis becomes undesirable as a sustained state, this is why to maintain a state of ketosis is precariouslydifficult.
All mammals go thru weaning and no animal on Earth goes into a state of ketosis as their permanent state.
Innuits (eskimos) eat the "perfect" keto diet but evolution to their high fat diet made it such that they don't go into ketosis.
I have absolutelt no idea what is the fascination with the state of ketosis or the adult desire to be in a pre-weaned infant state nowadays...
other mammals naturally wean.
Some humans seem not to want to.
@@jimmckay2337 That is not true. Adults can still produce lactase, and do so. Especially if they continue using milk/dairy. If you cease, you interrupt production, but the body is capable. I often take a bit of a good quality milk to help me feel better if I am feeling sick, and mostly as a snack while out and about if I need to. It is not as a constant, though. Dairy, milk as a meal is not like consuming a bread roll, it is not a dump of lactose into the body like that, particularly whole milk. Without wanting to sound anything other than genuine, there is a genetic-race basis to the difference in consumption of meat, dairy and carbohydrates.
I try to do carnivore but fall off for short periods every so often. I feel horrible every time I go on those "binders".
There’s a reason for it, I was like you as well. Your body thrives with balance, if carbs are so bad then why do they exist in the first place 🤦🏻♂️😂😂 stop listening to all these gurus
toxic elements like Arsenic, Plutonium, Mercury exist as well, bufoon😂
@@fivestarlimosThere are different eating patterns that work for people. Keto/low carb is really how we ate before industrialized foods. Just meat and vegetables. Some societies like the Egyptians were higher carb with bread and beer. They have drawings of guys with love handles and many of their skeletons have tooth decay. One thing is for sure. 2/3 of Americans are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. Reversing it is as simple as going low carb/Whole Foods. Of course, some are allergic (not in the traditional sense) to veg and carnivore works for them.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 yes for short term nothing extreme is healthy. Of course everybody is different but to say keto or carnivore is the perfect diet is laughable
@@fivestarlimos You’ve got to use what works for you. Virta health is using Keto for reversing TTDB. They should get a Nobel prize. Being sick from high carb, processed foods is reversed by doing the opposite, which is Keto or low carb. You don’t get to vote on that. The standard of care reverses TTDB around 1% but the very best are 13%. Virta health has a 72% reversal rate. There are a small percentage of Americans that can eat whatever they want and they won’t gain weight. But that’s 5% or less. The lucky ones.
Mercola I'm afraid, has gone to the dark side. The IRS will now ease off on him.
Dr Mercola changed his stance in a complete 180.... Follow the money, did some payoff occur?
He's always been A Kind Of Guy
Dr. Westman, can you please talk about the impact of si much fat and protein on the kidneys? Thank you so much😊
He has. I would do a Google search.
I am carnivore and when I get yearly blood work done my fasted glucose is always around 80-85 so it looks like my body does make enough glucose.
I agree with Dr Mercola. I can’t work out if I don’t have carbs…
That is a real problem into your totally fat adopted. There are people that as carnivores though do run marathons including the Moab 250. It takes about 3 months to become fully fat adopted for an athlete and your performance will suffer during that 3 months.
It's called gluconeogenesis. The body can make enough glucose for the body if needed
I've been following Dr Mercola for about ten years. His version of keto was not a very sustainable version. He kept his protein way too low to ever feel satiated. He got caught up with the whole mTOR thing. Though I did enjoy reading his articles.
Fat is what causes satiety
it would be nice to link the original video in the description
Thanks for the review
Meat doesn't have carbs, but eggs, milk, cheeses, nuts do have carbs. Vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, asparagus, cabbage and legumes are essentially carbs. Most keto diets do have carbs. It's only the lion diet, meat only diet that doesn't include carbs and those that eat this way are perfectly fine.
Always appreciate your level headed approach
Mercola is off the planet. He is just a supplement salesman these days.
I have always appreciated Dr. Mercola. I am concerned about the recent attack on him and his family by the powers at be.
I’ve never thought Dr Mercola looks healthy
At 2:00 well you should check out those “bretharians” because if I understand well they just breathe and are spared from eating anything at all. LOL!
In Thailand, we got enough sugar in condiments. So, no need for more sugar please.
I’m 79 and I’ve been carnivore for 5 1/2 years and won’t go back to the old way of eat! I am off all meds as well. I think Dr. mercola is just trying to stay relevant in the diet discussion on TH-cam. There are so many influencers out there such as Shawn Baker that may be Dr. Macola is starting to feel irrelevant. Just a thought!☸️❤️🙏
Thank you!
I have been low-carb, Keto for around 8 years, I decided one day to have some carbs, was fine for a few moments, then my toes started to have spasms, like a charlie horse for about 20 minutes, so, over the years I tried to stay away from sugar and carbs, well last month I tried them once again, and not only did my toes have a charlie horse but my left hand had one and the pinky finger part of my hand looked deformed the spasm was so intense, I think I will stay away from sugar and carbs from now on. Any idea why the carbs caused spasms?
I'd be interested if you'd do the experiment again with certified Organic vegetables. Am wondering that glyphosate (herbicides/pesticides) in most supermarket vegetables, that can't be washed out, is affecting your digestion? One of my massage therapy tutors decided to do juicing of leafy veges/ fruit everyday - thinking it was healthy. After 3 months he had terrible pain & knots in his leg muscles & had to spend hours massaging it out, plus he always had a sore stomach. He discovered it was glyphosate poisoning & he'd never been near a garden. So it was all the veges he'd bought. He only buys organic now, stopped juicing & has recovered.
It is not the veggies it is the carbs that cause the reaction, I live in Amish country and they don't use herbicides/pesticides@@mymai5859
Interesting note about the kidney I actually found research suggesting the kidney is capable of producing its own ketones and burning them simultaneously
I do hear about arteries blockage from keto. Any studies to ease my mind please.
Well Dr westman's been doing this for over 20 years through Duke University. I think that supports the safety of the diet and it's the most studied diet in the world. It's been around since the early 1900s used for children with epilepsy. It's now helping a lot of people with neurodegenerative disorders. There is two cardiologists that recommend a carnivorous diet. One of them wrote a book called Stay off My operating table You could probably take a dive into checking him out.
I was prediabetic I had a atroke. I'm now carnivore. I can tell you when I eat sugar I feel it in my brain 1st.
What about fruit? Is that just as bad as eating sugary & probably high fat food?
yes
Your cortisol levels definitely increase if you get continuously constipated from an all-meat diet which is what happened to me. I ended up in the ER and then in the hospital. I was put on a 24 hour Holter test and was throwing PACs. I was scheduled for a treadmill test which I never did. I had to add fiber back into my diet. Maybe some people can tolerate all-meat, but that situation caused me serious problems. And yes, my condition switched 180 back to being well again once I did. I went off full carnivore to keto based. Still most meat, but always greens as well now. I believe dr/ westman advocate full keto foods. but some others advocate just meat products.
Similar experience here. For me this comes with insomnia as well. I can sleep every other night but no more than that. So frustrating. 😢
You needed more fat, not fibre.
My mother died from a fiber blockage from eating too many vegetables. If you're constipated on a meat diet which after knowing ones that have ileostomies doesn't seem possible... One just needs to increase their fat.
When they went in to remove the blockage it distributed sepsis to her entire gut and she died within a week.
Going beyond a moderate protein intake ... my body converted the excess for the moment to sugars. Want to disagree; explain how with eating around 10g of carbs per day ... my triglycerides were at 185
Dr Mercola must have a financial reason for this!!
I've been low carb for 2 years and am metabolically healthy and fat adapted. Last week about 3 hours after lunch I was involved in a car accident (nobody hurt thankfully). I did go into shock. I'm 65 (here in Australia that is called "geriatric" - she apologised when she said it!). About 1 to 1.5 hours later when the paramedic asked me about medical conditions I said I'm diabetic in remission on low carb for 2 years and she said oh that's good. She did a finger prick glucose test and it was 5.1. She also checked my heart and it was fine. My body did what it needed to do. However, I'm wondering if I had had a small amount of sugar it might have helped me to recover from the shock faster than I did.
Probably not. If the body needs sugar, it can get it via various hormones. The car accident is new, but traumatic shock events we have experienced for millions of years. The body knows what to do.
Yes, I thought that too, but I was wondering if that takes longer to happen than ingesting a small amount of easy to access sugar. @@wocket42
No. Sugar will make it worse. Your body makes its own energy from your food. Trauma is real, do not try to side step this natural process. It is okay, and it is your system dealing with the experience. Go easy on yourself. xo
@@WhitePositive Thank you! That makes a lot of sense. And I appreciate the reminder about trauma. Thankfully nobody was hurt and it was just an unfortunate accident. It's been 10 days now and I know that I am still reactioning to it in various ways. I'm driving a huge 6 month old car (I normally drive a really small car which only has reversing sensors) with all the new technology which isn't always correct - that in itself is stressful), I haven't got the dash cam SD card back yet so I haven't reviewed the incident (I never got to see the incident because I was told to wait in my car until being assess by the paramedics), I'm still waiting to hear if my car is going to be written off or repaired. So yes, even though there are other things going on in the world that are worse and the accident itself could have been worse, my body and mind need to process what I have been through. And of course what happened and the "fall out" was totally unexpected. Again, thank you. What you said is very helpful.
@@jobrown8146 Thank You, take it easy on yourself. Totally, our system remains alert because it is an ever existent possibility. I was struck by a car on my pushbike more than two decades ago, broke my pushbike and many injuries but you cannot see them, they just hurt when I sit, stand, move around, or don't move, and I still get a bit nervous when anything happens on the roads. It is automatic reflex. I guess that is how I know a little about the lived experience. I have found the less or zero carbs has helped reduce symptoms, but has not eliminated them, and cannot be expected to. xo
I listened to one of those interviews- one third fat one third protein and one third carbs - I have always trusted mercola but I wasn’t sure about that!
This is very curious. Back in the days when cell phones were huge and were only used to make calls my mother was being eaten alive by rheumatoid arthritis. She turned on her computer that had a 14.4k modem and found a message board run by a guy named Dr, Mercola. Through what he told her and her following the ketogenic diet she was able to put this arthritis in complete remission in a couple of months. Her doing that was what got me interested in studying the ketogenic diet and later fasting when I had time and could find the studies and literature.
I would imagine in his career he has countless people that he has been able to help, so why would he throw all that to the wind? More than curious to me. Would love to find out the real reason why because what has to be his vast experience it makes my mind boggle at what I just saw in this video.
He does sell product! Big pharma is very concerned about the keto movement. We already know that two Harvard scientist were paid off by the sugar industry... So would we be surprised if someone that sells a lot of product might also be a sell out. I'm not saying that's the case people are able to change their mind about things but it just seems suspect to me.
Hey Dr Westman
Upon reacting to what Shawn Baker has said, and your thoughts, just because the body makes glucose or any other molecule, does it mean it cannot be consumed at all?
Why are keto, carnivore, vegan, vegetarians and everyone across the board like to use the "we can make enough of X so we don't need it"? Are these diet camps interested in excellent health?
Yes we all are concerned about excellent health but I feel that mother nature doesn't best. You produced exactly the amount of sugar glucose that you need. A teaspoon more causes fat storage.
Since going low carb keto, my stress hormone go to the levels has significantly dropped, resulting in no more anxiety and depression, so again, complete opposite of what he saying
I've tried lots of diets. Atkins keto, vegetarian, but the best I felt was doing vegetarian. I think maybe I'm a Buddhist from my past life. I like the nutritarian philosophy of Doctor Fuhrmann too.... If the shoe fits..
Maria Emmerich alluded to this in a recent video where she said she had just attended a conference. She said it’s not a bad thing for our blood sugar to have spikes based on new information she has received and would share in future videos. I was wondering about this myself. Any new information you can find on this would be most helpful.
Does that mean glycation is now good, and dietary carbohydrate has suddenly become essential if we need those sugar spikes? It would be interesting to look at the physiological data when and if there's one that'd suggest that.
It goes up and down throughout the day but then so does insulin. Insulin is a fat-storing hormone.
I think Dr Cywes talks about spiking insulin in the morning with carnivores with flat blood sugar levels because he was noticing blood markers were off in some of his long term carnivores.
New information? It’s never been bad to have a spike as long as it goes back down in a couple of hours. She is not a credible source of information.
Dr Mercola is all over the place these days.
Thank you.
This makes more sense now. I've been reading Mercolas articles for awhile and yesterday I followed a link, that he posted, in an article, to a video with Jay Feldman and another guy who are against keto. They were talking about how bad keto was for the thyroid, diabetes, etc... I know that is not true because my A1C went from pre-diabetic to normal when I was on keto/carnivore.
Even if we assumed that the requirement of glucose by certain cells means the optimal diet would contain some glucose, how much glucose is actually needed by these cells? 5g a day, 10g, 50g, 500g? And how much do we get from the glycogen in fresh meats? That argument is too incomplete to take seriously.
Also look at the triglyceride backbone of fat. It's used in one of the other pathways in gluconeogenesis. Probably results in 25g of glucose per day or so.
He’s paid off
Also, how is a modest increase in cortisol (we suppose saliva, does it matter? did the cortisol level elevate?) from baseline helpful for complete resolution of systemic inflammation?
An increase in cortisol is a progression of the stages of stress from alarm to resistance stage. How is that really reducing inflammation?
I think Mercola jumped on the anti-keto bandwagon as a business strategy. Listen to Dr Berg's video recently on keto censorship (at least he has the integrity to stick to his guns). Mercola is trying to make his way back to undo any censorship of his material.
Ironically, Dr Mercola was the one I first heard about LC from, though I didn't take it too seriously. My shift happened when I listened to the late, great Sarah Halberg's TedTalk.
Would appreciate if you could share your thoughts on the bioenergetic way of eating. Few people on TH-cam like jay feldman, Mike fave make videos about it. A lot of it is based on Ray Peat principles.
Invite Dr Mercola on to your podcast. Have a debate
When I am in ketosis my total testosterone is excellent BUT my free testosterone is barely detectable, a level that would be of concern in a 100 year old woman (3.9 pg/mL). By adding some carbs/sugar my free T increases to mid range and my symptoms clear up. (some fruit and white rice--selected due to $ and low fiber because fiber gives me severe IBS)
How many meals per day at in the months before the blood work and how much protein if I may ask?
Rice has no benefit whatsoever, and is pure carb. Your approach has worked for other men, I wish I had a reference for you. Still does not have to be high carb to get that result.
@@WhitePositive did someone mention "high carb" (besides you)? 20-25 grams per meal is enough to get my free T to mid normal for my age though I think that is still far too low.
@@geoffreylevens9045 A touch of arrogance as a response to a comment? Was that necessary? Ordinary/normal limits are often on the safe side so that specialists do not get into trouble with powers that be, or crowds, possibly?
@@geoffreylevens9045 Also, calculating carbs before or after is rather interesting, and I imagine tricky?
I had a little bit of chocolate the other day like one tiny little square, and it made me miserable for the rest of the day and disturb my sleep dramatically that night by making me anxious and on edge
The way to know impacts of things is to try them and know that is a problem. Next!
I have been reading Dr. Mercola 's information for nearly 20 years. He is willing to change his opinion according to the new research and his personal experience, unlike many so called "health guru" over these years. It is up to us to educate and make the best decision for our self . His products are expensive but with good quality, which set a standard for his competitors to match, and it is good for the consumers like me.
If I add any sugar to my diet I will immediately experience back pain muscle aches and barely get around the same thing if I eat too many carbs.
He sells so many products, that tells me a lot. Disappointed as I used to trust him. I know how my body feels and it feels better fueling my body with a carnivore plan. 6 years now, 2 of those full carnivore. I have needed fewer supplements on Carnivore and actually used to buy more from him when I ate more vegetables and fruits. I don’t need as many supplements on carnivore. Again…… that tells me a lot. As people are needing fewer supplements that affects his bottom line. 🥰🙏🏼🥰 I just read his email I get daily and had to seek second opinions as it confused me. Thank you Dr. Westman and Dr. Baker. I’ve actually met all 3 of you at different summits. Mercola in 2019 @ Dr. Bergs summit and also The Omaha Summit where I met Dr. Baker. I’m more trusting of people that aren’t selling products. I know how to listen to my body now too.
He got offered an amount he could NOT say no to.
Gluconeogenesis is a metabolic pathway that results in the generation of glucose from certain non-carbohydrate carbon substrates. THAT'S how we get glucose.
The argument that we absolutely need glucose, therefor we should eat more is a fallacy. Just because we need a small amount, which is already created by the liver (especially with too much protein-gluconeogenesis), it doesn't mean we need to intake more. The claim is a mix of a false cause and appeal to nature fallacy.
So what does he use as a diet?
Mercola is more woo-woo than science!
I'm guessing Mercola got offered a lot of $$$ to change his direction. Or he was threatened.
At the end of the day,whatever the nutrition and exercise protocol, what meaningful data (personal and case study) are being provided and who are you comparing it against?So hs-CRP?...salivary cortisol levels (good luck with that one in establishing a meaningful data set)...so what personal markers is Mercola sharing and who is he comparing it to of similar age and sex?