Is Keto an Effective Cancer Fighting Diet?
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“Keto” has been the most-searched keyword on NutritionFacts.org for months, and I didn’t have much specific to offer…until now. Be sure to subscribe to the channel to be notified of the remaining 6 videos.
Please look into Keto diet as a treatment for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encefalomyelitis .
Some doctors are treating CFS/ME that way, and it would be really interesting to know if there's at least anectodal evidence that it helps.
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I appreciate hearing your survey of the sum total of existing evidence regarding the ketogenic diet. I just want to arrive at the truth, no matter what it is. The work of Warburg, Seyfried, and now many others, in the application of the ketogenic diet for cancer is very exciting and potentially ground-breaking and life-saving, if true. What is the truth? Do ketones also fuel some forms of cancer?
Hitler breathes oxygen. So avoid oxygen.
Cancer eats glucose. So avoid glucose. So does healthy cells do to need glucose.
It was only the 1900s that we eat more sugar that every food product contains.
Veggies aren't plain glucose.
Ketones can't feed Hitler and Cancer though.
At least not all Cancer.
What about the vegan keto diet?
My brother was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer last January and within six months of being in ketosis the prostate cancer came up blank on an MRI.
I'm glad your brother is better. He is what is called anecdotal evidence, though.
@@tamcon72 hearsay is not taking a 5 mm piece of cancer and shrinking it to nothing in your prostate. Also taking a 20 mm piece of cancer in your hip bone and it reducing Down to 11 mm in 6 months. This is not antidotal these are facts. In fact the bone cancer has been shrinking every single MRI he's taken and soon he will be cancer-free. Checking your ketones two or three times a week and checking your glucose levels is very important while fighting cancer.
Scott Gabelman -- anecdotal doesn't mean non-factual. It just means that it's a single case without control for other confounding factors. People do go into remission spontaneously. Maybe it was the ketogenic diet, maybe it was coincidence. Studies typically require at least 50 people, and if the effects are subtle, sometimes hundreds or even thousands. One, ten, 20 reports like yours are interesting, and perhaps an indication that a controlled study is warranted. But they don't qualify as scientific evidence.
@@broddr honestly, I think it's only a matter of time before it's widely accepted that clean keto along with intermittent fasting is very helpful in fighting cancer (among other things)
Brian Parsons -- it may turn out that a ketogenic diet can help fight some cancers. But both my parents died of cancer, and in the process I met many other cancer patients. I have also had a dog die of liver cancer. In almost all cases in late stage cancer people (and dogs) lose their appetite and become ketogenic. You can smell the ketones on their breath. But it does nothing to slow down the cancer. Perhaps it's too late by that point, but if ketosis had any impact, I would expect that impact to be fairly consistent, regardless of what stage the cancer was at.
There is grey area on this subject. I am Vegan/Vegetarian and so I understand how you may be biased towards not supporting ketosis. Progressive cancer is not a normal life sustaining function. It uses normal life sustaining functions to spread and proliferate, that is why it is a tough disease.
We can look at ketosis as a temporary/intermittent state to be in to reduce cancer. The majority of cancers use glucose, This is the first step to address. Next we would have to look at ketone usage and glutamine metabolism, but these are the more rare cancers. Obviously we haven't figured out how to combat it all or else we would have the cure for cancer.
Diet can and is used as an adjunct. The targetting and elimination of the cancer should be part of the therapy. Apoptosis can go only so far and as we age it's ability appears to wane. Fasting has been shown to increase autophagy and apoptosis.
What it boils down to is that maybe we will have to cut all normal food consumption and proceed with synthetic supply of energy that is counter to what the current cancer needs. Of course it would be difficult in cases of cancers that use multiple types of fuel but maybe manual removal of those is the way to go.
Overall, there is room for ketosis within Veganism. In the far future perhaps all we will need is synthetic forms of energy and no longer consume potentially contaminated fuel sources.
Thanks for this comment. Very levelheaded and informative. 👍🏾
I did keto and the chronic inflammation I had went away. I also dropped my body fat % to 12%. I now do keto 3 months a year. I dont claim to be 100% sure that it's all due to the keto diet. Maybe being more aware in what I eat and counting macros. I do a very clean keto, with no junk food (bacon etc) and exercise 5 days a week. After my body adjusted to keto, I actually feel a tonne better in ketosis than when I'm not. Don't knock it before you try it! If doctors were always right, we'd not be still dying from viruses, heart disease and cancer! Keto also helped my friend who was pre-diabetic as carbs spikes his blood sugar levels.
Keto is good if you already have underlying problems.
No such thing as clean keto.
We aren't flesh eaters
Remember, kids: If the headline asks a question, the answer is always no!
Hmm. Always liked tour work but there is a lot of good research that keto helps cancer. Very good doctors who use this with amazing results on their patients.
Exactly. I truly don't understand why people keep pushing the standard American diet. It's absolutely ass-backward. The ONLY they get right is to not eat processed foods and sugar. But then tell people that 50% of their daily caloric intake should come from carbs, even thought they KNOW that carbs cause a huge spike in glucose every time it's eaten. And then we wonder why Americans are so fat and sick.
When people don't understand something, they tend to ridicule it. That's what this video is doing. Sad really
There's also tons of work that fruit, herbs, saunas, & fasting will cure cancer. Like, almost always.
@@saszablaze1 please tell me more, I need to help someone. Thank you in advance.
"Why go Keto when you can go Chemo?!" ~ Dr. Greger, 2019 😂😂😂😂
Because Keto is healthy and Chemo is literally poisoning your body? WTF
@Mrs. Roper You should read more.
Keto=🥩🧀🥛 chemo= 🤮☠️
@Mrs. Roper nope by a long shot
That was probably the worst line in the video... hey instead of changing your diet just nuke your body and kill off healthy cells, this is Dr Gregor showing his vegan bias quite strongly
Cancer can not feed on ketones in the absence of Glucose or Glutimine has been tested. People say this because Glucose and Glutamine are not absent
Exactly
Started a semi theraputic level ketogenic diet with weekly 48 hour fasts and daily gym sessions 4 years ago alongside meds for an unsuccessful prostatectomy op. Was supposed to restart treatment after 18 months. Now 4 years and no treatment required as growth has slowed. Not a cure as i am expected to start meds again in 3 months..... Been saying that and cancelling my appointments for 4 years now, and have passed the point of expected survival. Don't know what it is, low insulin, controlled blood sugar, enhanced immune system or what, but i am a damn site healthier and fitter at 76 than the extended family members in their 50's who suffer from arthritis, type 2 diabetes, lupus etc. A Ketogenic diet for me works, and no weight problems either.
4:20 Hold on, time out, doesn't the metabolic theory of cancer treatment say that malfunctioning cancerous mitiochondria cannot use ketones as fuel but our healthy cells can? Therefore cutting off the two fuel sources to those cancerous mitochondira helps to retard their growth?
It's debatable whether any cancer can in fact use ketones as a source of fuel; but if they can, there is no question and no debate that cancer cells don't crave ketones like they do glucose.
Likewise the video is disingenuous in insinuating that it's no big deal that cancer cells need to metabolize glucose because all cells need to metabolize glucose.
Whoever scripted this obviously knows nothing about The Warburg Effect (bottom line is that cancer cells have an insane craving for glucose that's wildly disproportionate to what normal cells require).
Been low carb for a year now.
Keto for about a month at the start. Lost 15 kg, have loads more energy and now all my markers for metabolic health are good.
LDL increased but so did HDl and and triglycerides reduced. A1C great.
I hope I never eat processed food, sugar or straight carbs again.
My high carb low fat life style since childhood took me into an adulthood of no energy to function life. Healthy, but always tired. At mid 50s my digestive started falling apart. I was diagnosed with non alcoholic fatty liver disease, I had a golf ball size gall stone that bothered me, my heartburn was killing me, no matter what I would eat, even if I drink water. And extreme fatigue. Eventually gallbladder was removed, followed by appendix removal, in 6 months. That was 4 years ago. I started 90% carnivore diet this February, just discovered that I can eat meat with minimal digestive trouble, than anything else. 4.5 months on carnivore, lost 20lb, my digestive back to normal. Unfortunately, I also was diagnosed with colon cancer two months ago. I am sure, the result of my high carb life style, as it takes time to show symptoms. Today I am having my surgery. I am just so happy that I discovered ketosis diet right before it happened. It gives me comfort knowing that there is something I can do on my side, to beat the beast.
Thomas Seyfried says cancer only feeds on glucose and glutamine, not ketones. So he says you need to both go into deep ketosis and press-pulse glutamine to starve cancer.
I am a lay person with an interest in this topic . Statement made here is 'all cells feed on glucose HOWEVER cancer cells are far more hungry for glucose due to over expression of HIF1 factor . Secondly switching to ketones through fasting is in line with our origins as food gatherers who lived through feast and famine . Glucose was more regulated and stable in hunter gatherers . Thirdly there have been groups of folks where no cancer is known and the diet is really an ancient food gatherer diet as well as physical activity They live to well into the 90's . Also fasting is like computer reboot to safe mode . The immune system is activated .. dodgy cells are killed off .. autophagy whereas Chemo is like using a shotgun to shoot flies and the immune system is switched off which is exactly the wrong thing to do . The only thing that allows us to live is our immune system . Its also the reason that we die .. its not cancer which kills us which is always in us somewhere anyway ( I'm convinced of that ) ... its the immune system slowly switching off and unable to make daily repairs and kill suspect cancer cells. The 'guards' must be fit and active not asleep in the fort . Isn't that why cancer is called the 'disease of the elderly ' because the 'guards are not fit and often asleep in old age ? So to live a long life do the things which boost the immune system .. exercise to boost circulation , fasting , control glucose levels, boost vitamin D with food like salmon leafy greens etc etc .. thats my view .
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Thank you, Dr. Gregger, for this information!
When I first started researching plant based nutrition, I wanted to know if it would work for my daughter with epilepsy, since we had already tried and failed the modified Atkins diet (with daily ketone urine testing).
Almost two years later, I am happy to say a whole-foods, plant based diet has been a blessing for all in our family, especially for me, aging and aching everywhere, now healthy and happy!! My daughter still has a few seizures a month, but is doing better and loves the food.
A few seizures a month is far from normal... Put her on carnivore for a month and she'll be healed completely. At least try if you care for her in instead of forcing your ideology on her
fasting 2-4 days before chemo has been reported to increase effects of chemo. some studies suggest keto might also help chemo work better too.
Of course it does. When youre fasting over 18 hours your body is using ketones and is in autophagy.
What about the ketones that come from fasting induced ketosis, do those cancel out the cancer fighting effects of fasting & autophagy?
As a plant-based eater I've never been particularly "triggered" by people with different beliefs about the health of my (or their) diet. In fact, because their views are based on shakier logic, I've always suspected the keto people would be more defensive, not less. So I guess it's time to...um...put that to the test?
@@twn5858 There are different levels of "logic" and I could have been more clear, but Nutritionfacts viewers will know that I meant scientific research, not "stories". No shade - we all like things that make intuitive sense - but a story is just a hypothesis. I don't think keto as a long-term diet is going to prove out to be healthy. Short-term for weight loss maybe, but it's not looking good as a way of life.
Coffee and animal saturation and naturally occurring trans FAT for the win! wash down with yummy bone broth very palatable
@@twn5858 That's awesome. I know it's used for seizures too. I think the video acknowledged that there are some known medical benefits to a keto diet, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily "healthy" or optimum. As this seems to be the first in a series, I'm guessing future videos will expand on that.
@@andrewclancy2511 science vs stories. "A friend of mine drinks everyday. She has been drinking and driving most days for the last 30 years. And you know what, she has never been in an accident or been pulled over or died. So drinking and driving has worked great for her and I'm going to keep on doing it too!"
@@amyhaen1 Great analogy!
If Dr. Greger were to ever walk into KetoCon (what an appropriate name), the Keto quacks would scatter like roaches with the lights turned on.
Maybe the keto guys would be ROFL 😂.
You're nuts! Ketocon speakers have walked the walk. Doctors who treat their patients with keto, and researchers who do real unbiased science. Dr. Greger would be humiliated.
@@dario2rnr Send me the link of your keto people "debunking" this video. I'll watch it unbiased and see who is right. I'm a vegan for ethical reasons but would like to see it anyway
brilliant love ye buddy im informed thanks to you much appreciated and you really have had a profound positive effect on my health i was 4 stone overweight and very unhealthy diet when i first started watching/listening to you ive now lost the 4 stone and along with it my ashma keep up the good work and THANKS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!
My position is that we don’t quite know the long term effects of keto, so we should avoid the diet, especially long term. It could have negative effects on brain health. If you want to lose weight, eat nutrient dense, fibrous foods and excercise
My mother has metastatic breast cancer and her oncology doctor suggested a keto diet. As a student studying nutrition, this has been frustrating. I questioned the exact same thing pretty much when she brought it up, "but...all cells feed on sugar." Thank you for doing this research and posting!
CeliaXx99 my dad’s wife had aggressive breast cancer and had both breasts removed and went through chemotherapy. Her doctors told her that she needed to be on a very low fat diet like what Dr. Greger cited and she has carefully stuck with that. My mom on the other hand continues to do a Keto diet after breast cancer because she wasn’t given any nutritional advice and she’s just following a popular diet. The medical community really needs to be in the same page about this.
Did you ask for citations to research? You are within your rights to ask for verification. I can't imagine my mother's oncologist years ago recommending that. This was before the latest keto/carnivore insanity, mind you.
tamcon72 the low fat diet recommended for my dad’s wife is the same one cited by Dr. Greger in this video from the American Cancer Society and Oncology. My mom didn’t have any diet recommended to her; she is following the Keto diet of her own accord because she thinks it will help her lose weight. She lost weight but then gained it back, lost weight then gained it back...
@@kathivy That's such a shame. I can't imagine how hard this is. Please keep trying to get through to you mom.
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I've been patiently waiting for this! 👍
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@@livthedream91 Thank you so much! 😊
...finally! ...for someone diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer....sleepless nights of whether to do vegan or keto - for someone who doesnt like much meat at all, and not crazy about 80% fat ...confused, not knowing what to do ...thank you, i believe this is my confirmation from constant prayer in seeking Jesus on what to do(after trying keto)...thanks again!...i would eat keto, and almost have a conviction that this doesnt feel right - so now some facts...thanks agan
I hope you get better and beat this thing whichever you decide. God bless.
Watch Forks Over Knives, get pumped up, and adopt the kind of diet they talk about in that. Whole food plant based. All the best to you!
After my experience with certain people who prayed for me I think you have a point on that one.
Ketones also appear to feed cancer cells. Plant based fats such as the ones in avocados don't though
Sure, but that's not all it turns to. According to one of the earlier videos on this channel avocados has naturally occurring substances that kills cancer cells also. As Dr. Greger would say look at the whole food as it is a package deal. More to food than just calories and macros. Your sources matter too.
A serie on keto would be at least as needed as the arsenic one...
This is the series on keto diet. There will be 7 videos total. This one was the first. They'll get progressively better.
@@GregVidua you made me read the description and it sounds good 😉
turns out rice only has arsenic content when grown in watered rice fields. they do this to maximise profit. if rice is grown in dry fields, and watered just like regular veggies (watered only when needed and not too much), rice tends to have ZERO arsenic.
@@ImprovingAbility do you have any links to share?
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Awesome awesome awesome once again. Make a great point. I’m looking forward for one video to the next, but this one topped
It all.
Not a single downvote yet, keto cult members must be too exhausted and tired to click!
MemoFromEssex - looks like five ketards checked in as of my writing this
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They were too busy blending butter into coffee
@@RedPillVegan 😆😆😆😆
Maybe the fad has lost momentum.
Vote now for what will be the next low carb movement name!
I would love to see this guy talking to dr. Berg and many others that are on Keto for more than 3 years.
Maybe a LIVE conversation would be better...
ua-cam.com/video/arqWjAqBMNY/v-deo.html, try Garth Davis vs Bart kay or Bart kay vs vegan doctor on UA-cam, or vegan gains debates. Those debates show how plants are our species specific diet.
Marcelo Ribeiro Simões “dr Berg” lmao. He’s a chiropractor you dummy. Everything he says is complete nonsense. He’s selling you something and you like it because he says eggs bacon and grass fed meat are health foods no doubt.
Justin setting I’m 100% vegan and I have to say our species never ate just plants. We must’ve eaten s little fish eggs bugs occasional meat in most populations as well. So for credibility we must admit that. Look at apes- they almost al eat insects and some eat a little meat. Still, these were a tiny part of our dietary heritage and nothing like the eggs and bacon. Real fast chicken for lunch and steak for dinner of the SAD. Thunder gatherer thing is quite overrated- mostly gathering, and if one thinks the males were bringing back the kill for the females and sharing equally, well, that’s patently false. So half our genetic contributors probably ate 1/10 what the other half ate.
I’ve never heard this argument against exaggerated hunter gatherer conclusions but must assume it’s been made many times before.
@@kbkesq Hehehehe...
...you're on plants alone and I am the dummy...
...ok, ok...
Blood tests and my doctor with a wide smile asking me what am I doing to get those so beautiful results.
Sadly, you plant alone eaters are following a messy New Era Movement ideology...
@@kbkesq - Are you an evoluted ape?
...'cause I am not.
I don't know what to think. Keto. Not keto. Saturated fat. No saturated fat. Eliminate grains. Don't eliminate them. There never has been such a divide in the complementary health community as there is today. The problem is that many older individuals ( 50 +) don't have time to play around with their health.
Thank you for this!
I thought that the body was able to break down protein into glucose specifically for the brain, a process called gluconeogenesis that happens in the liver. So the brain would still be getting the glucose it requires
We cannot store unused proteins in the body, so protein that is not used as a building material is broken down into amino acids. Half is stored as fat and the other half is converted to glucose.
Tried the Keto diet, I couldn't afford it, (quality) meat is NOT cheap... LoL, being broke may have saved me..Im now plant- based.
It sure saved the animals at least!
But do you really believe that Eating cheap plant foods is better than expensive high-qualty meats?
Swiss Lady Driver He doesn’t have to “believe” anything, that is what the best science we have says.
@@Nice-sm5hr Everything is all about belief. He believed that Keto would be good for him and he wanted to try it, but gave up because he believed that he couldn't afford it. He also believes that he is broke and appears to be plant-based not because he believes that it is better, but a last resort economically.
Of course you couldn't afford it. They want the pleb to be on a plant based aka slave diet lol.
meats and fat are lower in deuterium and lower deuterium intake slows cancer
Im no expert at anything but as someone with Diagnosed Early onset Parkinson's at the age of 38 and taking Sinemet every 5 hours going. Vegan has made me feel better walk better talk better and has made my medicine work better I'm not full blown vegan I still have Salmon once in a while but hey no one is perfect Thanks Dr Greger for making my life better and it didn't cost me a dime 😆
Then try a plant-based Keto. It does exist. These people have no idea what they're talking about. It's NOT all about eating tons of animal fats. Can you? Absolutely. Is that what most people on Keto do? Yup. But, you can still stay within the macros of a Ketogenic diet while being plant-based. Just stay away from processed garbage, sugar, and eat all low-carb veggies. If you make a big salad, put plenty of cut up avocado in it and then use plenty of olive oil as a dressing. And yeah, there is NOTHING wrong with having meat if you're feeling up for it. Some argue that you need fatty meats, but I think there needs to be a balance. SOME fatty meats but also some lean meats where you control the fat by adding your own healthy sources such as avocado, coconut, MCT, Macadamia Nut, or EV Olive oil. Certain fish like salmon, trout, sardines, etc., actually have a lot of omega 3s which are very heart healthy and exactly the kinds of fats that you want in your diet. So, if anybody ever tries to tell you that Keto is all about eating tons of protein and fatty meat like beef, bacon, cheese, etc., they are either lying to you or just don't know what they're talking about. You CAN, but the optimal way of doing Keto is NOT that.
Great informativ video as always!
I have a very serious concern regarding a family member and wanted to ask for advice:
Μy sister, who went plant-based vegan with me nearly 6 years ago, recently (a few months ago) decided that, because of her acne and digestive issues, going full on animal-based keto with no fruits and very limited vegetables was the best decision for her.
Since then, her cravings and issues went away, her acne cleared up and she reportedly feels better and lighter than ever.
Me, a curious and skeptical med student, also noticed extrem halitosis, her seemingly lethargic temper and her first ever shingles 3 months ago which accompanied a viral infection, that made her feel sick and stop exercising for several weeks.
Whenever we try to talk about diet, she gets very aggressively defensive and brings up books like “Lies my doctor taught me” and how illnesses associated with western diet come from the vast amount of refined and unrefined carbohydrates consumed and not from grass fed organic meat, coconut oil (her holy grail) and other foods rich in saturated fats.
She also reports studies she read about cholesterol actually being quite the opposite from harmful for the body, but rather necessary and atherosclerosis etc. being the result of inflammation correlated to high-“sugar” (=carbohydrates) consumption.
All she sees in plant foods are harmful anti nutrients and insulin spiking carbs. She has spent a lot of time researching the ketogenic diet, the AIP and all their benefits for the treatment of various diseases.
But the lacking evidence in actual studies really makes me question her sources.
I am deeply worried about her long-term health and wanted to ask if anyone has ever faced a similar situation and how he/she dealt with it? Your fellow plant-based nutrition interested med student from Vienna.
That's tough, but she may need to bottom out before listening to reason. Some people are just too biased to look at evidence or even what's happening to their own body. FWIW, I had acne and poor digestion for most of my life and although going vegan helped, it didn't completely clear the problem, until I went Starch Solution (by Dr McDougall). Within 24 hours my acne cleared up and my digestion is so much better. Maybe she's clinging to keto because she doesn't think there's a better alternative and if she knew there was, she might listen? It makes no sense that keto would be good for digestion -- you're literally starving the good bacteria in your gut by depriving them of fiber. The halitosis is probably from all the bad bacteria proliferating. High fat is really hard on your gall bladder and animal protein is hard on your kidneys. Neither will show symptoms for years.
Since she still believes in inflammation, have her get a HS-CRP test (highly sensitive C-reactive protein test).
She is brainwashed. All you can do is set a fine example and when her health begins to fail hope she will use reason and adopt a better lifestyle.
My mom has been doing Atkins and now Keto for many years trying to lose weight but her weight goes down then just goes back up again. Breast cancer and now a hip replacement for arthritis, and this diet is exactly what she should not be doing. It’s really sad because I love her terribly and I’ve talked with her about this being a fad diet not backed by science but I think that a lot of people believe that popularity = credibility. It’s really too bad that it’s legal for people to promote these snake oil diets.
This is classic cognitive dissonance and happened to all of us. When you invested so much energy, money and time to a particular matter (in this case a diet), it is very difficult and painful to admit that your diet is wrong even if the facts (e.g. the evidence presented here by Dr Greger) are in front of you and you will seek out keto advocates who will reinforce your belief.
In before the triggered keto community.
Wait what? Muh bacon isn't helping my cancer? I better add some more beef lard! That will help my heart cancer!
@@rynecollies361 🤣🤣🤣
Ketards
Thank you for doing this video! I’m a breast and thyroid cancer survivor and my husband and I initially discussed doing a keto diet after I was diagnosed. But, it didn’t make sense to me to eliminate healthy carbs and add a lot of unhealthy fats. And my oncologist told us that the best way to eat is to consume a healthy balanced diet including lots of colorful fruits and vegetables (as well as fish and lean meats). He told us that we shouldn’t do any fancy or trendy diets.
Raul-Beniamin Tătar, yes we’ve been reducing unhealthy fats and processed foods and boosting our intake of veggies, fruit, nuts and seeds, wild caught fish, hormone free chicken, and organic yogurt. We still eat some grains too but have greatly reduced the amount. I think our diet is closest to a “Mediterranean diet” than keto or anything else. We’ve been trying to eat a greater proportion of plant foods with smaller portions of poultry, meat, and fish.
You don't have to add unhealthy fats, look at Dr berg...so much good info, I have breast cancer too. It sucks. Good luck to you
@@Candlewick14 Thank you, and all the best to you as well!
@@ladyaero8424 we can do it! X
@Raul-Beniamin Tătar exactly
Thanks!!! ❤️
This video is powerful and excellent timing, because I was just about to recommend keto to a friend who has advanced prostate cancer and is waiting for new insurance before continuing treatment after his prostate was already removed. Now I will hold off on recommending keto to him...I definitely don't want to make him worse!
I'd like to share a bit of my own keto story, which isn't about cancer but about pre-diabetes symptoms. I've been a Dr. Greger fan for years and was nearly a vegan until late last year. But even then I still ate a lot of carbs, such two to four pieces of "whole grain" bread a day. So after learning about time-restricted eating aka intermittent fasting (IF), almost a year ago I decided to gradually try it to get my body into ketosis without a keto diet, which at the time I didn't even know much about. But as I learned more about keto too, I also decided to see if my own relatively minor health issues might improve after reducing carbs -- but still eating all of my favorite veggies and fruits. So this past winter I gradually eliminated all breads, pastas, and rice except for some small amounts on occasional restaurant outings. Didn't think I could ever give up bread, but now I rarely miss it. 😎
Now I'm at a point where I can "fast" for up to 20 hours without feeling hungry, and one day I aim to do a fast of at least 24 hours. But in general I eat 3 times in a 5-7 hour window: first a post-workout protein drink, second a high-carb meal of plain oats with a half banana, cinnamon and other spices; and later a meal of lots of veggies and mostly vegan fats.
In sum, so far I have seen lots of noticeable benefits from ketosis through this combination of reduced carbs (about 100g a day vs 200-300 before) and IF or timed eating. My skin looks younger, my arms/legs eczema is slowly clearing up, my legs swell a bit less (though I still need compression socks if I stand or sit too long without much movement), I sleep more soundly, I'm more mentally sharp in general, and more productive because I don't have to think about eating or prepare food until after my evening workout. 💪
I don't know if all of these benefits come from ketosis, less carbs, more healthy (and 90% vegan) fats, or what. But my point is that burning ketones has health benefits, and you can get there without eating animal products or giving up healthy veggies and fruits. If anyone else has personal experiences or studies to share related to this, please do! I'm definitely still open to constructive advice. 😃
The answer to the success of your diet is that you've become primarily whole foods plant-based. To reach ketosis, you would need to drop your carbs to 20-50 g a day maximum or you're not actually in ketosis. You've also cut out the refined carbs - which is also a part of the whole foods plant based diet - and replaced it would a whole grain such as oats.
It's on now!!! This is what we've been waiting for!
@@twn5858 I get worked up when people who consume animal products destroy the planet with their lifestyle that's "so hard to give up".
@@twn5858 Here is one example of thousands. You just have to look and you will see it everywhere.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/taking-big-agribusiness-court-how-we%E2%80%99re-fighting-back
Amazon rain forest being slashed and burned to raise livestock is a big one.
@@twn5858 I care about my friends and family that have recently got hooked on this deadly diet. I also care about really everyone. I also care about other earthlings like the animals that are force bred into existence only to be tortured and slaughter. And I care about the environment that is grossly destroyed at unbelievable rates by the unsustainable practice of animal agriculture. You mention monocrops, over 80 percent of cropland is used for animal agriculture for housing and feeding. Those are the monocrops. My whole food plant based diet consists of a large variety of beans, greens, grains, fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, spices, herbs, and teas. If you look at the land usage chart by the intergovernmental panel on climate change you'll see how land use is divided. It's astounding how much land is used for animal agriculture. The waste alone is 2 gigatons and humans only consume 1.54 GT's of food. We already mostly eat plant based worldwide. We're running out of viable, rainfed cropland. And now the Amazon is being burnt down for cattle. Yet, if we transition to a plant based diet globally we could easily feed 118 billion more people, over 20 fold more on the same amount of land. And that's not even factoring in more advance plant agricultural practices. So, yes I care about human health, health care cost, the animals, and the world.
@@twn5858 Those places where animals graze and it's good for the land, those animals obviously don't need to be eaten for that to happen, lol.
@@twn5858 Watch Earthlings. It should give you some perspective on how we treat animals for food/clothing, etc.
www.nationearth.com/
"Why go keto when you can just go chemo" 😂
Great video Dr Greger 👏🌱💪❤️
You guys should watch the video “The science of fasting”
Can you talk about non alcoholic beer? I have been drinking NA beer for health and weight control reasons and wondering if I am still harming my body. Thanks!
im not an expert but its still carbs and calories
Alcohol is the only bad thing in beer. A-free beer is a good fermented drink with some benefits. Nothing special. Better than coke for sure.
Just had a friend die from breast cancer. She went keto a few years prior to her diagnosis and stuck to it during her treatments. She did holistic treatments with Hope4Cancer and when that didn’t work she did low dose chemo! So sad! Makes me angry! My little town is full of keto and a local retired chiropractor has been leading the charge!! He has her death on his hands as far as I’m concerned.
To add... she lived less than 14 months from diagnosis!! Thanks keto!!
Any diet high in fat and protein Will stress out the heart, arteries, brain and kidney. I would never go on a keto diet, I have one kidney. And the kidney will have a difficult time processing all that protein, leading possibly to its own self destruction,!,!💔 Not to mention clogging of the arteries with fat leading to a very quick heart attack.💔
Keto is not high in protein, only fat. The brain needs fat
Keto, short term. I would prefer that to chemo any day. I just doubt that it would be enough.
But... the video pointed out that keto is not good at starving cancer cells, and some cancers spread faster during ketosis. I wouldn't have chemo either. Those are not the only 2 options, thankfully.
The Rebalancer what about raw vegan for healing?
@@spartanshred I haven't done raw myself, but have known people who do juice fasts for a while to lose weight and they generally feel good from that. I think cooked starches are important for health/energy, but if people feel great on raw, and their bloods are good, then all power to them.
@@therebalancer7445 And there are articles suggesting that Keto may help to slow down cancer. Whoever thinks they know the answer to whether keto works for answer is fooling themselves. There isn't enough evidence to confidently suggest anything yet
Thank you for this video Dr. Greger; I really appreciate having more cut and dry evidence to counter those who claim health benefits other than for refractory epilepsy or short term weight loss
"Ketones: Metabolism's Ugly Duckling" what a great name for a scientific paper 🤣🙌
It sounds unscientific and biased.
This man is so intelligent!!! I wish there were more doctors like him... I fallow the not to die diet for 5 years now, and never felt better my entire life!!!
He’s amazing!!! Just not all of us can do grains though due to autoimmune diseases! Other than that he’s 💯
you are so full of glucose yay!
Exactly the information I’ve been in search of. Thank you Dr. Greger!
Expect the keto hate to come strong! Great video.
@@twn5858 Meat tax will be here before you know it. :)
@@twn5858 Government to ban what you eat? Government artificially makes animal products cheaper via subsidies and is in bed with the meat industry. Cool story bro, enjoy your heart disease, cancer, obesity, ect etc.
I'm 74 y.o. now and still on Keto. Lost 74lbs, the ladies can't believe I'm in my 70's. Blood work normal, I Door Dash for a living. Keto is a no brainer for old sick people.
Hmm. This is the first time I ever heard that cancer cells thrive off of ketones. Call me skeptical. I watched a program on the power of fasting (which puts you in ketosis by the way). In the program, a woman with breast cancer went through Chemo therapy and did much better with it while fasting as opposed to increasing her caloric intake which is the AMA recommendation. Of course, this is an anecdote and not a study. The fact remains that there is much more money to be made in new medical treatments than dietary changes such as Keto. Doctors do practice medicine after all.
Han Boetes I searched for the title and cannot find it any longer. Sorry. It was a fascinating show that discussed the religious origins of fasting, then visited a Russian clinic that treated patients with various diseases with fasting, then visited a German clinic that did the same thing and finally interviewed someone in California that did an experiment subjecting mice to chemo with half the mice on a normal diet and the other half fasting. Of the mice on a normal diet almost all died as a result of the chemo therapy. The mice which were fasting all survived and acted as if nothing happened. The woman with breast cancer knew of this experiment and wanted to try fasting during her chemo therapy and did much better while fasting.
@@joem5639 That's interesting. From what I recall radiation damages cells that are reproducing and cells need energy to reproduce. It could be that fasting simply reduces the number of cells that will be vulnerable to radiation damage. It certainly seems plausible to me.
odizzido yes, that is another way to look at it. The hypothesis reached at the end of the program is that during fasting the cells go into a protective/defensive state while the cancer cells not being able to thrive in a low glucose environment are more vulnerable to chemo radiation.
Keto for most people means high meat and animal products, do you think there’s no big money power behind that?
Nicecore , I’m not sure about most people but Keto to me means about 70% vegetables and low sugar fruits and 30% fats and proteins. The Atkins diet is what you’re describing.
Right about now I bet there's a bunch of keto fans wondering what to do about depression.
Lol I was vegan and I never felt more depressed in my life. What's your point?
@@twn5858 It begins rotting long before you even bite into it.
@@twn5858 Your intestinal peristalsis or movement would still allow the passage of a small rock or piece of plastic, and eating a rotten apple would raise your blood sugar as well so I'm not sure why those things you stated are relevant. All foods are certainly not rotting. Especially as is the case with live foods - fruits and veggies - their enymatic activity keeps going long after they're picked from the soil. Contrarily, when an animal's body becomes a corpse or carcass, the decomposition process begins quite quickly. Ask any police officer, coroner or anyone in animal control and they'll back that up. Putrescine and cadaverine are organic endproducts of this amino acid breakdown, and their names are quite telling as to what animal flesh is - putrefying cadaver.
@@twn5858 Wrong! Fruits and vegetables are certainly alive if eaten fresh. Many in my fridge continue to try to grow, such as carrots, onions, garlic, sprouts, etc.
Top food researchers observed white blood cell-like activity from the phytonutrients in vegetables attacking fungus/bacteria. Most fruits/veggies stay fine when left at room temperature for days. Try that with meat.
@@twn5858 Also keep in mind today's meat and most other food is full of toxins. Even our pets get sick eating the garbage the pet food industry is putting out now. Our planet is polluted pole to pole. Best to grow your own as much as possible.
I do Keto along with intermittent fasting for weight loss and to reverse my insulin resistance. Once thats done im back on a very manageable intake. I have to say its working more than anything else ive tried in the past. Whats more i crave carbs and sugar WAY less once my body adapted about 3 days into it. I dont crave night snacking, or snacking in general, no sweets here, and i can pass the bread and chips now. That along w/ your body change is very exciting!
Yup! Keto really allows for going long periods in between meals. It's why that diet *truly* goes hand and hand with intermittent fasting (At this point I think all sides of the diet wars so-to-speak agree that there are definitely health benefits to intermittent fasting). It gets you out of the glucose / insulin cycling where you get hyopglycemic and have to keep eating frequently. Vegan diet is great and all, but it's not *near* as good as keto for allowing for intermittent fasting. It's proven to reverse insulin resistance and even type 2 diabetes (look up the clinical trial by Sarah Hallberg)
Same here and I switched to a whole food plant-based diet (not low carb) and intermittent fasting (1 meal per day) 4 months ago. I have finally broken my addiction to food and sugar. I have lost a lot of weight and I do not feel like I am on a diet.
Keto and intermittent fasting really works. It's amazing how people can't mentally and emotionally come to grips with keto.
Cutting down on eating processed sugar can only be a good thing whether you have cancer or not. Here's an interesting speculation - cancer cells tend to close down or expel their mitochondria to prevent the mitochondria from detecting that the cell is cancerous and therefore suiciding the cell, cancer cells ferment their sugars as a method of digestion to fuel themselves instead of the mitochondria doing the job, processed sugar is both fructose and glucose and I think the fructose acts as a catalyst which accelerates the fermentation of the glucose component of the processed sugar molecule and therefore providing a superior fuel source to sustain cancers higher than normal growth rate, so eating less processed sugar must make less sugar available to cancer to ferment causing cancer to grow less.
I think its unfair when people make the absolute worst assumptions
concerning a diet they don't prefer while assuming the best scenario
of a diet that they do choose.
the anti-keto people assume that this is all about meat, cheese
fried foods, etc etc etc.
I eat keto and my daily diet is FULL of veggies. Its devoid of sugar
processed anything, wheat flour and potatoes but massively full of
zucchini, eggplant, onions, peppers, garlic, broccoli, brussel sprouts
cauliflower, among others, and all sorts of green leafys, tree nuts.
I don't drink milk or eat milk products
I make my own sauerkraut and fermented onions and garlic
I also make my own natto
I get my protein from pea protein, from eggs and fish
lots of avocado and olives and olive oil based dressings.
The results from switching from my vegan diet of 3 years to keto as
described above....i reversed my pre-diabetes, and my HDL increased by
about 6 points, my LDL dropped by 43 points.
so the cholesterol and pre-diabetes improved when switching from
a vegan diet (with admittedly too much sugar in retrospect) to a
"clean keto" diet
I'm also eating in a time restricted manner (eat during a 6 hour window)
The point is....if you define keto as meat meat meat meat meat then
you're not being completely honest when discussing the topic
High PSA led to some prostate cancer 5 years ago ,I have always been a pretty good eater ,never processed or fast food always made my own ,I work out ,have a high metabolism ,I consider myself in good shape ,so for 5 years I never use sugar ,went from 3 beers a day to glass or 2 of wine a week,, no dairy cept a little in my morning coffee ,got off meat ,ate more fish ,veggies ,{not as much as you } also make my own S K , and the last 4 years my blood work sucks ,cholesterol is up ,glucose why up ,triglycerides up ,,,frustrating ,,meantime my brother started keto and his numbers all came down ,wtf
Dr. Greger taking down the keto trend nonsense one video at a time.
Love how r/keto calls you biased yet this video says otherwise. Keep up the great work!
Great video! Thank you!
Much appreciated!
Here we go lads....
@Steven L. 😂🐷
This makes so much sense. Dr. Greger has such strong analytical skills. Makes me feel a little silly for not realizing some of these things before...but glad to know!
Finally. Research about keto.
Can you go over CVD and keto diet next?
Here's the listing of the keto videos coming up from here: nutritionfacts.org/2019/06/20/sign-up-for-my-webinar-on-intermittent-fasting/
Is Keto an Effective Cancer-Fighting Diet?
Keto Diet Theory Put to the Test
Keto Diet Results for Weight Loss
Is Weight Loss on Ketosis Sustainable?
Are Keto Diets Safe?
Keto Diets: Muscle Growth and Bone Density
Does a Ketogenic Diet Help Diabetes or Make It Worse?
I see most comments here rejoicing on the useful information, however this is conflicting with the information put out by Dr. Seyfried that cancer cells cannot use ketones as fuel, yet both this Channel and Dr. Thomas Seyfried are all legitimate peak western academic and medicine sources. Also when you fast you use Ketones, so this video goes against another video from this very site. So I get the feeling still we know absolutely nothing about what to do with Cancer. Everyone still has an agenda to preach whatever they are already preaching.
Thank you so much for making this video! More people need to know about the issues surrounding this diet. I can't wait until other videos about this come out! Thank you!
There's an equal number of PubMed journals that still support this diet for Cancer patients. The journals that Dr. Gregor has presented are not all there is about keto.
@@kayondothomas7343 Can you respond with some links. I'd love to look at them.
@@RabbitFoodFitness ua-cam.com/video/zYcjnGi5cOs/v-deo.html
@@kayondothomas7343 Thank you. I will check this out. Maybe I'll make a response video on my channel.
This is gonna be interesting
Potatoes tho
The high fat is not needed, just low carb is.. Do moderate normal fats ni saturated fats. And your good..just NO sugar period..!!! Cannt stress that enough.. 😊
Thank you
I'd like to ask Dr. Greger about autophagy and the nobel prize it got.... if he can share with us his opinion. I'm really curious about that...
If you ask your question directly on his site, nutritionfacts.org, someone on staff will respond to you there : )
Dr. Greger has a series coming up on fasting. Autophagy will almost certainly be covered.
Oh I knew this will be a good one :D
I am in nursing school and I have been having trouble figuring out why my professors think that we “need” to eat protein before our exams. One of my professors always states, “It’s been proven.” Then the go and teach us that our brain runs on glucose...why do they think that we need protein to get good grades???
Mung Bean i get the fed state part, but why protein? Your brain runs on glucose
Please make a video on “Metabolic Therapy” for cancer.
Several relevant facts related to endocrinology and glucose metabolism have been omitted:
1. Carbohydrates are the strongest nutritional stimulator of insulin release.
2. Insulin has powerful anabolic (growth stimulating effects) and triggers other downstream effects of growth factors (e.g. IGF-1 release and m-TOR complex). This is why athletes caught in the BALCO doping scandal were using insulin.
3. Excess glucose (blood sugar) is stored in the liver as signaled by insulin, which released in response to dietary carbohydrates. That is why carbohydrates, especially high glycemic index carbs, causes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
4. Obese men are 60% more likely to die from prostate cancer compared to men of “normal weight.” Obesity is a direct result of errant carbohydrate metabolism called “insulin insensitivity.”
It seems disingenuous to suggest ketone metabolism by the liver as a reason breast cancer tend to metastasize to the liver, while ignoring the profound liver inflammation and dysfunction caused by excess glucose.
Respectfully,
Joseph J. Harris
Good points.
People still doing Keto diet in 2019? lOl
Yep, the pseudoscience is sound.
The last batch of Keto people already died or have organ failure.
Flaky Amanda Fae I am doing a higher plant consumption/ plant based approach to keto, have been for 4 years. Total 120 cholesterol, perfectly healthy in blood markers, and I reversed my hereditary liver disease. Have been skinny all my life and until now gained a lot of lean mass.
This is how I will eat for as long as I’m alive. I don’t consume dairy or butter
Yall are still herbivores?
Yes! It's super popular right now
The thing about keto is that there is literally no harm in trying it if you or someone else has cancer. Eat keto for one year, fatty meats, no carbs. Do your research on what to expect. I'd recommend looking up Dr KenDBerry here on youtube as he has covered this subject multiple times on various livestreams and videos.
Brilliant 👏👏👏👏👏👏 like always Doc 👏👏👏👏👏👊👊👊👊
AND another nail in the coffin for the Keto nonsense..
Ooops... LOL!
Red Pill Vegan - Next!
Mike B 👀
Great info. Thank you so much Dr.
And what about the vegan-keto diet? So far I feel myself in a better shape (I’m more active, working out better, having less depression) after a month on vegan-keto… I take micronutrient suppliments, but keeping the carbs intake around 30-50g a day… eating only plant based meals (I’m vegan for 4 years now). I believe studies should consider the fact of more mobility and activity that could come with certain dietary changes: when I’ve started the vegan diet, I felt myself like an energy bomb for the first 3-6 months. I believe that dietary changes must be done in our lives to keep our body more adaptive… changing nutritional composition of a vegan diet in 3-6-12 months periods is always great. Fasting periods 1-2 times a year also have their benefits.
Resveratrol (peanuts,red wine grapes) eggplant, cocoa, garlic, jackfruit
Chemo can make you fell awful. Keto not so much.
actually keto can make you feel awful as well. And chemo doesn't have to make you feel awful at all if you get IPT
@@StillTrustNo1 Yes for a short period while you shift to ketone burning but it doesnt happen to everyone and its not as prolonged and doesnt damage other parts of your system.
It may poison the cancer but chemo is poison.
@@clintrichardsonclintfromny203 Wrong. If you have a variation in your LPL, CETP, APOC3 or APOE SNP(Snip) then you can have REALLY dire outcomes from a fat based diet.
You need to dig A LOT deeper my friend if you want to claim to know nutrition.
Consider starting a free audible account and get the book "dirty genes" to get you started with the wonderful science of SNP's - then maybe after that consider an education.
Best of luck
And just to add - chemo is only "poison" to the cells that "eats" it - hence IPT:
You can learn more here:
ua-cam.com/video/dyBaIjuFWMs/v-deo.html
Are you so sure about that?
That was sad. I was hoping at least fasting would be anti cancerous :( What about autophagy?
I know his next book is going to go into Fasting. He might be holding onto the research for Video format until it's released.
Keto has nothing of significant importance to do with fasting and the big picture of it’s benefits. I love Dr greger but he took fasting out of context. Starvation is not fasting. Starvation drives you to a ketogenic state...
@@emilybelle2083 I thought his next book was "How Not to Diet". Oh, actually, I guess that could go into fasting, good point!
@@ScrapKing73 yep,as you may recall his last book had lots of topics as chapters :)
The researchers behind the study refered to at 4:35 don't understand the root cause of cancer, which is dysfunctional mitochondria.
Cancer cells can live without oxygen and without ketones, as the damaged mitochondria produce almost all energy using fermentation. Just like normal cells they have pathways to get both oxygen and ketones but due to the damaged respiration, neither are used for ATP production, rather they produce ROS which further damage the mitochondria and even worse they are the ones causing mutations in the nucleaus.
Unfortunately, this video has it all backwards and so does the American Cancer Society which is probably the reason why not much progress has been done in the cancer area in the past many years. The "industry" is trying to fight the downstream effect (somatic mutations) instead of the root cause of the disease.
Can you do a video on varicoceles?
This is the first video from nutritionfacts that i saw that mention Hitler and also the first one that mention Jesus.
Thanks for the info Doc! I'm getting tired of those clips regarding how amazing keto is!
I've only watched two videos so far, but it looks like this channel is primarily promoting the vegetarian lifestyle, am I right? I was wondering what you think of keto that mostly relies on plant fats, or vegan keto - which is entirely animal free? The villain here appears to be the carnivorous aspect of this diet. I have seen a lot of positive studies on the use of a ketogenic diet to help cancer. You seem to cherry pick the ones that are negative. Also, seem to be speaking on ketogenic diets in terms of a long term dietary method, but oftentimes people need to do a temporary diet change - such as, when they have cancer - so the issues that could come from years of following this wouldn't even come into play. I think chemo is great for cancer, but it's really hard on the body long term and most people don't do it for the rest of their lives.
Yes I find meat, dairy eggs harmful for me, but even deep fried vegan samosas and vegan restaurant curries make me feel bad
Dr Gregor to the rescue
Keto - Putting the Die in Diet .
So how do you campare keto to low carb which is not to low some people can't have a lot to of carbs
But is comapring a cetogen diet to chemo not too aggressive? Cause chemo is the superlative....
Why is ceto so popular then?
Opening a can of worms with this one 😂
I think people may actually realize the keto crew are even more religious about their diet than any vegan 😂
True, vegans have scientific evidence, ketogenic fans just have dogma.
(Except for proven short-term weight loss. But a whole food plant based diet also promotes weight loss.)
YEAH KETO CREW IS BAD! VEGANS ARE GOOD! VEGANS HAVE EVIDENCE! WE'RE BETTER! THEM BAD, US GOOD! LET'S GET OUR IDENTITY WRAPPED UP IN OUR DIETARY CHOICES! Bunch of egoic idiots in these comments.
@@broddr ketogenic dogma? im curious then why was ketogenics used to treat patients with epilepsy? why is the US military using keto esthers for their navy seals? why is keto the MOST searched diet in google? why do most people who research and follow it properly lose more weight then eating a vegan diet, have a better quality of life due to being able to do more then having to feed every couple hours like most vegans, but last do you even understand what a keto diet is? cuz a lot of people have this impression of what it is and they are 100% wrong.
D Scholtz -- a ketogenic diet for epilepsy has a 40% drop out rate. That's for people (mostly children) for whom this diet can literally be lifesaving. For the average person, the dropout rate is much higher. And after they go back to their previous eating habits, they gain all that weight back.
And scientific studies, both controlled feeding and observational, show that the ketogenic diet and a vegan diet have essentially identical weight loss results. And you do realize that anyone eating three meals per day and a snack or two is "eating every few hours." That's not unique to a whole food plant based diet.
And the Navy is using keto esters to combat oxygen toxicity from extended deep dives. Not as a diet, or even as a regular supplement. Nice try at over generalizing.
A plant based diet has hundreds of scientific studies that show many significant health benefits. Other than "bro science" the only positive scientific results for a ketogenic diet are fewer seizures for epileptics (are you an epileptic?) and short term weight loss. No doubt _some_ people who try a ketogenic diet keep the weight off. But that's true of any diet that moves people away from the high fat, high sugar standard American diet.
Yes! Finally the videos on keto! I literally cheered and fist pumped when I saw this posted.
I believe this is only first of a series of videos about the keto diet
these people are a joke at best.......... millions are getting cancer and heart attacks from this Atkins= Keto cult of fools.
@jim young lol@ even funnier - Dairy Fairy
You ever been to the farm mr blob ?
@@s7r49 My comment was not blasting the people doing the keto diet. My excitement is because I am studying for my masters in nutrition and I respect Dr. Greger's opinion greatly. I have been waiting for his keto videos for a long time to hear and contemplate his opinion to further my knowledge in my field of expertise. Thanks for sharing your story, depression and Crohns are two very serious afflictions and I am happy that you have turned your life around. No matter what dietary pattern we follow, we can respect each other and wish each other well. Good luck on your proposal! My finacee and I are getting married next month. :)
Can you please talk about the link btwn saturated fat and heart disease? I recently listened to a podcast by a doctor who didn't acknowledge that her studies were just removing sugar out of the diet, instead of comparing high sat fat to low sat fat!
He has a section on his website about saturated fat: nutritionfacts.org/topics/saturated-fat/
Please more keto videos!