Here’s something you all should hear. Three years ago I had viral meningitis that left me severely neurologically damaged and bedridden for two years. I slept around the clock for the first year, as is common with brain injured persons. Long story short, I wasn’t improving. I learned that the keto diet is being used for some brain injured soldiers and I knew that it had long been used for children with severe epilepsy. I had lost my will to go on in such a reduced state of being. And i was a burden to my family. In desperation, last November I started the keto diet. I started getting better at around the two week mark. I’ve been getting better ever since. I’ll never be the same as i was before my illness. But I now have a quality of life that is acceptable. I’ll never go back to eating carbohydrates.

I am a 78 year old man and have been on the Atkins diet for 25 years. I have lost a total of 100 pounds without really trying! Thanks to Covid-19 my wife and I didn't go out much. We stayed home and watched television and used the computer. A lot! We got a lot of rest including cat naps since there was nothing better to do. We are going out bicycling today and I was concerned that I might have trouble fitting into my clothing due to not exercising over the winter. That was a joke! Everything was too large except me. Shows you how we think. No exercise all winter - a lot of rest - would have to mean weight gain. I lost 20 pounds! I was right about one thing though. Nothing fit. Everything was a little too large. At 78 I am now the same weight as when I was 18 years old. It was a fantastic feeling. For the last 25 years I have never been starving. When I was slightly hungry I ate. Something I was never able to do with a clear conscience before Atkins. With all the low carb cooking videos there is no reason for getting tired of eating the same foods. All the best Dr. Westman you are doing a great job!

BTW, my A1c was 9.8 3 years ago. After 2 years low carb and keto, finally got it down to 5.3.

I am the 78 year old man below just adding more information. Casseroles are a great way to keep food ready to heat up on a moments notice. Pizza casseroles and meatball casseroles are some of my favorites. I no longer need to have a crust on my pizza. Saves time, money and carbs by eating pizza in the form of a casserole. I know that most people prefer having a crust on their pizza. Learn to live without it and it will save you a lot of carbs over the years. I was a die hard crust lover who has learned to live without the crust for the last 25 years. There are many ways to prepare foods. Learn the best way to use fewer carbs. There are videos showing you how to prepare anything low carb. Become an expert by watching and listening to experts.

Best line "I am not a big supplement promoter"...

As a type 2 diabetic I eat no bread rice or potatoes or any other food made from grains for that matter. Going very low carb I now have an A1C of 5.6 and shooting for 5.2 or less.

*One of the key aspects of a low-carb diet is eliminating or minimizing certain foods. This typically includes sugary beverages, refined grains, and processed snacks. By avoiding these foods, you can better manage your carbohydrate intake and promote a healthier lifestyle.*

Fiber is actually unnecessary, at least for some people like myself. I used to have constipation for many years on a moderate to high fibre diet but since going very low carb and low fibre, I've been just fine. I think excess fibre can just make things worse for people because it adds bulk to your stool, making it harder to pass.

Great Video!!! Thank you Dr. Westmon.

I’ve been reducing carbs and sugar (not completely eliminating) the last 7 months and have lost 55 pounds - have another 50 to lose but know I will need to lower my carbs even further - can easily not have rice potatoes corn pumpkin etc but love my bread and pasta noodles - Time restricted eating has also helped me I skip breakfast most day - have reduced my AIC from 8.3 to 5.7 and significantly reduced inflammatory and cortisol levels - my kidneys are also no longer leaking protein so thrilled with that

It’s so true , I’m on keto diet for one year , I love it , my mood is so much calmer than before , looooove it 🤩🤩🤩

I love watching these & gaining more knowledge.

I read Dr. Lustig’s book! It was an eye opener. I have limited my fruit intake to just berries. I didn’t know that about sugar & fructose prior to Dr. Lustig’s book.

Thank you Dr. Westman for being a Frontiersman on the Ketogenic Lifestyle “Nutritional Ketosis” You have opened a Big DOOR 🚪 for Others to Follow, I diffidently Respect You Kind Sir and Follow You Always... I’m 58 year old male down 60 lbs on Keto for 3 Years and Now have gone Ketovore with Dr. Ken D. Berry, I Coach others and Love to Help Those Who Struggle with Their Health ❤️

This is very helpful, doc. Thank you for putting this together.

Thanks once again Dr. Westman.

Even though it says cauliflower tots versus potato tots they still have things in there that are high carb so you probably want to read the labels first before purchasing! I thought this was a great idea till I looked at ingredients and carb count.

It’s so ironic that there are way too many commercials and almost all are for drugs that are killing people or treating symptoms only and causing side effects

Watching this as I eat my cauliflower rice sushi with spam and avocado. Yummo!!

Great advice for a healthy life.

I am close to keto diet I do low carb diet with slightly more fat. Actually, I can go off junk food craving for long hours (intermittent fasting) It fixed variety of issues especially fatty liver and insulin resistance

Thank you for these awesome videos

I realy like these questions!

This is so helpful for people!

Great info ! Thank you both

After the mid point, You Tube interrupted every 60 seconds with an ad. I hate their new ad behavior. But I enjoyed the video in spite of it.

zucchini pasta is a substitute in shape only, lol

About 25 years ago lost 200 lbs. low fat,low calorie bullshit took 2.5 years to achieve walking and pure starvation and fear of heart attack,could not maintain and weight was creeping back on me,out of fear and from doctor recommended lap band,colossal mistake,had I known about keto my life could have been so different,now 58 what a waste of time on those low fat caloric reduced diets.

I lost weight on Low carb but I also continued fresh home juice. Also I used to have spinach smoothie. Cheese 🧀 and practically all fruits.

Page Four List. Borrowed from Atkins. Keeping in ketosis.

I HAVE CKD 3B. VERY LIMITED WITH PROTEIN

Dr Westman could you name the paper and the doctor -Doctor Justin -? you reference re: necessity for carbs. Where can I find it please?

Much would be gained if people could stop drinking all the sugar drinks like Coke, juices and the like!! People behave like children that cry if they dont get some sweet treats!!

Dr. Eric Sissors-hands Westman, from the thumbnail. 😂

I meant to say are there quantitative tables for foods that can cause “oxidative stress” directly or indirectly?

i have like 1/8 cup of strawberries and i guess too many almonds yesterday. gained 4 lbs of water weight over night. so now I know not to incorporate strawberries and to strictly limit nuts. I don't say eliminate because i have them and I don't want to just throw them away. i may be able to get my brother to eat them.

My problem,since i had covid,i dont have my drive to be on low carb/ keto and i use to be on it. I sit and cry when i fail,what do i do?

Dr. Westman do you know a doctor in northern California. Jennifer Pierce.

I've been doing keto For 3 years. I was never really overweight but was considered insulin resident. My cholesterol was 258 my tryglyerides were high etc.. I read labels I don't eat bread, rice, oatmeal, proceeded food etc... I've simplified my food's so much. And have no real appetite. BUT I just had labs done yesterday May 25 2021. My kidneys are functioning low just under the lowest number on the chart? My insulin was 7 which baffles me...I count sugar and eat less than 25 a day max. I try to eat things with zero or 1 gram. But max 6. I eat 25 carbs or less. My only fruit is fresh blueberries everyone needs a treat and this is my sweet treat that's how low I've trained my taste to go on sugar. I drink water or LaCroix water no alcohol or pop. I still could lose 15 lbs. I don't eat cereal. I eat 1000 cal or less. I don't know what else to do. Why my cholesterol won't come down. Why my kidneys are low? And no I don't use Morton table salt. I use hymalian sea salt but rarely salt anything. I can't get any answers from my doctor other than let's watch it or it could be herarity. I also intermittent fast.

I can eat tons of shrimp scampi and broccoli. It does not raise my blood sugar.

Please let me know that milled flaxseed is okay to eat. I have 3-5 tablespoons to give me fiber.

I use kohlrabi to make fries and fake potato pancakes. As close as I’ve found to potato’s.

After 2 days, I went on a 10 mile unicycle ride, without dinner, and I was not ravenously hungry when I got back. How do you articulate this state where you would be happy to eat if it's available, but you don't have any real craving for food, and if you weren't given an opportunity to eat, you would not be disappointed? By the way,, I slipped on the lifestyle and I've gained all my weight back, and am trying to get back into it. 3 days in.

And then they pasteurized the juice they heat it up so they take a lot of the nutrients that are in it and kill them with the pasteurization

How would I check my blood sugars at home?

Curious about jicama

I am watching in2023. What is the doctors opinion about Ozempic?

I am having trouble finding page 4, can you place a link here for it please?

I have a question. I’m keeping my carbs below 20grms. However I’m finding it super difficult to get enough fat...I’m filled to the gills on one meal a day 20:4 or 24 hour fasts a few days a week. I can’t eat that much protein ( ie bacon etc). I use butter, coconut oil as much as I can, but damn I get full. Example: late breakfast, had two eggs, 3 slices of bacon, Lunch: 5 ounces of ground beef with organic pasta sauce over zucchini noodles. 🤢 full. Is it a worry to not get the fat? Believe me I have plenty of body fat to burn! So, maybe I shouldn’t worry since I have the body fat to burn?

And also any food that is cooked and brown has sugar in it especially onions. The fat in which the ingredients are cooked is NOT the reason why they turn brown, sugar does! So what is left?

Foods with carbs in’them, maybe?

Some drinks raise the blood sugar-black unsweetened coffee and tea does make some people’s blood sugar go up. I guess your body thinks that a meal is coming.

I chew a lot of gum / (former smoker) 6 yr smoke free / of course weight problems since stopping / I couldnt make it (lol) with out my gum . I chew surgar free but also have had regular. What are you thoughts or anyone that sees this .. Its hard to loose weight

Halo dear doctor tell me know i am 64 years mom and I have all my life obese in these day i am 94kg I try every diet but not work easily i am blood pressure patients is your diet is ok for me -i am so scared from keto diet for heart and kidney disease

I definitely understand what you are stating and I have followed this paradigm myself always staying as low as I can on carbs in general. However, I am still wondering if you & many others are missing the real central point! That point I’m trying to make is that the real direct culprit to eventual cardiac problems is really “oxidative stress “! Oxidative stress we know will damage the LDL particles which I believe makes them very “sticky” and smaller. This allows these particles to the epethealial lining of the arteries and create a plaque and certain white blood cells go after that site due to some immunilogicsl reaction and as a result it builds up with white blood cells, cholesterol, calcium ions proteins i guess too snd keeps building as long as there is “oxidation” or oxidative stress going on! So can you tell me if the glucose or fructose themselves have high enough oxidation potentials to invoke electron transfer reactions causing more radicals to also form is by definition a single electron in an orbital. And this single electron really wants to pair with another electron to make it more stable in terms of spin multiplicity. Or after the sugars get converted to fat with have many keto groups, is it this that is the culprit for the oxidative stress effects that go on? But I would like to ask, am I correct by stating that its “oxidative stress “ that is what everyone needs to avoid. And are there tables that I can look up that promotes “oxidative stress” even indirectly???

foods that are high in carbs?

Out of curiosity since I haven't seen it mentioned, is there a concern about oxalates in foods? It's not a Keto issue, per se, but I'm told it can be a concern, especially with foods such as spinach, chard, sesame, almonds.

Hi The one event that would really put Keto into the mainstream is Keto items on menus of major restaurants. This would do more for low carb than all else. If Panera offered a low carb bread or dominos offered a keto pizza it improve the acceptability so much. And it’s seems to me they would be an incentive as they viable from a marketing standpoint.

Funny he mentioned whey...I tried a "Keto Bread machine bread" by the Banting King that closed my nose shut and raised my BS, wasted $42

Do tell...Are ground spices allowed? Garlic, onion powder, and the like?

agree that carbs are not essential nutrients because humans can make carbs / glucose as needed. We have a system for gluconeogenesis which uses amino acids and glycerol for glucose synthesis as required - but the mechanism is inefficient one . The daily capacity of human being for gluconeogenesis is estimated to be about 2.8 gm / kg body weight / day . About 200 gm / day for an adult weighing 70 kg. But if we consume carbs ( only sufficient enough) then requirement for protein will go down. Body will use ingested carbs for obligatory requirement. In this case proteins would be preferably used for other body functions. Would it be advisable to to eat carbs up to 120 to 200 gm / day so as to spare proteins for other body functions ? - protein sparing effect of carbs. Obviously the carbs should be unprocessed and no sugar !!! Any scientific argument would be appreciated -

What about probiatic medication for the gut?

A great message somewhat lost with the amount of ads - I'm aware channels need to earn money and I make a point of watching the ads to support channels I like if it's just a couple in the middle but when it's every few mins it breaks the conversation up so much it's hard to keep focused. Perhaps you need to adjust your ad preference ?

where to find "page 4" in one of his books?

really a cherrio ad first

I got fatter doing keto diet psorious got worse felt tired all the time it did work at first defo but now I'm mystified what I can do I've read all the books I was exhausted all the time

Where do I find the one on hunger. I'm always hungry.

Where can I find the ‘page 4’ list please?

Real foods, ok, but what about lectins?

Corn on the cob spiked my glucose to 210mg/dl

Dr I hope you can find this because I have a major question which you can answer me like no one else! So. December 19 had 2 stents placed. 90% obstruction. No damage though caused. I have been ketogenic since and also I walk 6km daily. My A1c is

Im sick of meat and eggs. What else can i eat for bfast ?

Rhubarb??

If I am adding a fruit (lets say Mango Chunks) to my smoothie that has higher sugar content and then add enough fiber rich foods (like Avocado chunks) to bring the net carbs down to few grams. Would my smoothie not be considered low carb overall?

I'm surprised he's bringing up cauliflower tots. Read the ingredients. If you are buying them pre-made at a store you are still setting yourself up for diabetes. There are so many low carb recipes on you tube for things like this. Where the ingredients are good and clean.

I’m sorry but the number of ads is out of proportion to the info.

I’ve lost over 80 pounds in 8 months of keto and daily 18:6 intermittend fasting. My blood ketones are around 0.8-1.0 most days. But I am still hungry most days so what am I doing wrong? Or is this “you’ll no longer be hungry on keto’” really a myth?

I still want a copy of page 4

So...can I dip my lobster in butter? Can I dunk my chicken in it's own drippings?

high protein raises my blood sugar. So why are you saying it does not?

Can i have light cream in my coffee this is the only dairy i get

What kind of bread was being eaten during biblical times that it was used as a metaphor for Jesus being "the bread of life" or praying "give us this day our daily bread"?

Anita, please email this to me.Thank you

Can I eat Tofu tempeh and soy milk?

Please have less ads on your video, it breaks up the flow.

avocado is a fruit

Where would I get my minimum requirements of Vitamins and minerals from fat? I am most confused about what my body needs to properly function and Keto does not ring well.The body requires food to survive and transform everything into anything, sugar into fat, fat into sugar as needed.But IMO if you exercise and work with a diet of 1700or 1800 calories/day anybody will loose weight and detox quit rapidly. French food relies mostly on carbs and meat and yet before the fast food invasion was renown for being "skinny". South East Asia is also "skinny" and eat all sort of carbs.After watching dozen and dozen of videos and interviews I still do not hear the scientist talking about menus...they all speak about how good it is and what you should not have.Why isn't this diet available in schools?Doctor Atkins died and weighted over 400 lbs.I am afraid that like building muscles when you stop it all comes back as fat...

What's about seed oils? Sunflower, corn...

an infamous food list that people can actually have.... sounds dubious 🤪

In terms of the argument for being a sugar burner using a low fat nutritional approach vs a fat burner using a low carb approach: I’m a sports massage therapist not a physiologist but it seems to me that if the body stores the vast majority of its excess energy as fat then shouldn’t that be a big indicator that biologically we were designed to eat very little carbs and focus on eating/burning fat? It seems like if we were really meant to be sugar burners God would have designed us to store excess energy as glucose/glycogen primarily.

A rather rambling discussion of some foods that are anti-keto. Not exactly concise or complete. Didn't even attach the list from page 4.

I hate the zucchini substituted as noodles and the sweet potatoes substituted as fries. Some of the cauliflower products ( like cauliflower mash as mashed potatoes) are gross to me too. I like some cauliflower products( like Green Giant cauliflower and broccoli hashbrowns) but I am sure doctors and dieticians won't find those products to be healthy.

Meat WILL raise glucose readings especially liver!

I would think a potato is healthier than a fake cauliflower tatertot made in a factory somewhere.

Sure, replacements for stuff that we shouldn't eat. Just like vegan meat, milk, cheese, and egg Just don't bother.

OMG!!!!! So many ADs! Come on!!!

Unusual to see Dr Westman appear so awkward throughout a conversation

Is dr Neil Bernard…(the vegan guy)…is he out of his mind???

Ugh, they give poor mothers WIC 😭. Cereal and fruit juice. 😭😭😭