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[00:00.000 --> 00:06.200]  I'm Dave Champion. I've been getting asked a lot lately whether I consume
[00:06.200 --> 00:12.120]  alcohol and if so what kind of alcohol do I consume. This is not a like cultural
[00:12.120 --> 00:15.440]  issue. People aren't asking me you know whether I like this kind of brew or that
[00:15.440 --> 00:20.120]  kind of vodka. It's about health.
[00:20.120 --> 00:31.560]  The reason I'm getting asked so often lately if I drink alcohol pertains to
[00:31.560 --> 00:36.280]  the graphics of the macros and calories that I've been consuming and of course
[00:36.280 --> 00:38.600]  you've been following me for any length of time you know that I've been living
[00:38.600 --> 00:43.920]  in the state of ketosis for years now and I've been eating the carnivore style
[00:43.920 --> 00:48.840]  for more than a year. So when I post those people have a lot of questions but
[00:48.840 --> 00:52.800]  one of the questions they ask is do you consume alcohol and if so what. Before I
[00:52.800 --> 00:57.080]  answer that question I want to be clear I'm not advocating that people not
[00:57.080 --> 01:01.800]  drink or advocating that people do drink or should drink. I'm speaking only of my
[01:01.800 --> 01:07.360]  own choice and even that is within the construct of living in ketosis. So if
[01:07.360 --> 01:12.920]  you've chosen not to live in ketosis, bad move, then probably nothing I'm
[01:12.920 --> 01:18.080]  gonna say in this video pertains to you. No I don't drink alcohol. I've never been
[01:18.080 --> 01:23.640]  a big drinker to begin with. When my significant other and I we met at a
[01:23.640 --> 01:28.040]  dance club and that's something we really enjoy doing and so prior to the
[01:28.040 --> 01:32.680]  whole COVID thing and prior to ketosis really about the only time we would
[01:32.680 --> 01:37.000]  drink would be when we went out to have a good time. Other than that alcohol
[01:37.000 --> 01:43.760]  wasn't a big part of either of our lives so when I say no I don't drink for me
[01:43.760 --> 01:47.580]  that's not a huge sacrifice. In fact it's not a sacrifice at all but I know some
[01:47.580 --> 01:52.940]  people might consider not having any more alcohol to be a sacrifice. For me
[01:52.940 --> 01:59.260]  it's neither here nor there. Living in ketosis, not drinking alcohol. Is there a
[01:59.260 --> 02:04.140]  connection between the two? Absolutely there is and let me explain this. First
[02:04.140 --> 02:08.620]  of all let me start with a quick comment on glucose, the opposite of living in
[02:08.620 --> 02:13.540]  ketosis. That's when the cells burn glucose. So you're eating all these
[02:13.540 --> 02:16.780]  carbs they're being broken into monosaccharides in the gut and as soon as
[02:16.780 --> 02:21.620]  they transit the gut wall they're known as blood glucose and then the cells are
[02:21.620 --> 02:26.220]  having to incinerate that garbage to get rid of it. Okay so that's a glucose. In
[02:26.220 --> 02:32.020]  ketosis especially after you progress for several months the cells have zero
[02:32.020 --> 02:38.980]  need for glucose anymore. The trillion cells in your body no longer even want
[02:38.980 --> 02:42.060]  glucose and they will not tolerate glucose they will not accept glucose.
[02:42.060 --> 02:46.140]  Which is good because in ketosis you're not eating a bunch of carbs and so
[02:46.220 --> 02:50.340]  there's not a lot of glucose. Basically your body maintains what I refer to in
[02:50.340 --> 02:55.540]  body science as your glucose baseline because glucose is used for two or three
[02:55.540 --> 03:01.940]  incredibly trivial functions in the body. Okay so what does then fuel the cells?
[03:01.940 --> 03:07.660]  If when you go from glucose to ketosis glucose no longer fires up the cells
[03:07.660 --> 03:14.300]  what does? Well primarily fatty acids. Dietary fat when you eat it breaks down
[03:14.340 --> 03:18.860]  in your intestines into fatty acids and then those fatty acids break down even a
[03:18.860 --> 03:23.340]  little bit further but I'm not going to get into that and then they transit the
[03:23.340 --> 03:27.460]  intestinal wall and this whole process and then it goes out to the cells. This
[03:27.460 --> 03:32.980]  is what I describe in body science as the lymphatic lipid system. I had to put
[03:32.980 --> 03:36.700]  a name to it because you know all of medical history no one put a name to the
[03:36.700 --> 03:40.860]  system. Dietary fat goes in here all the things that happen in the body and then
[03:40.860 --> 03:44.620]  it goes into the cells and the cells burn it for energy. That entire sequence
[03:44.620 --> 03:48.220]  of events in the body had never been named by medical science if you can
[03:48.220 --> 03:53.180]  believe it so that people could understand that system. In body science
[03:53.180 --> 03:57.420]  I put the name to it lymphatic lipid system. So if the cells are burning
[03:57.420 --> 04:03.260]  primarily fatty acids what else are they burning? Well to a minimal extent they
[04:03.260 --> 04:07.260]  are burning ketone bodies what is typically just referred to as ketones
[04:07.260 --> 04:10.380]  there are several variants of ketones but we're just going to refer to them as
[04:10.380 --> 04:15.060]  one big bunch just under the title ketones. So a small percentage of what
[04:15.060 --> 04:23.060]  the cells burn is ketones except in your brain. Aha! There's something called the
[04:23.060 --> 04:27.140]  blood brain barrier you may have heard of that and that keeps most everything
[04:27.140 --> 04:32.940]  out of the brain that should never be in the brain. Because of the size of fatty
[04:32.940 --> 04:38.500]  acid particles they are not able to transit the blood brain barrier so the
[04:38.500 --> 04:43.500]  cells of the brain are not able to access fatty acids and therefore of course
[04:43.500 --> 04:47.060]  they can't access them they can't oxidize them as a source of energy. So
[04:47.060 --> 04:50.420]  the lion's share of what's burned up here in your noggin keeping your brain
[04:50.420 --> 04:55.740]  humming along feeling good when you're living in ketosis is ketones which do
[04:55.740 --> 05:00.500]  pass through the blood brain barrier. I promise I really am getting to the
[05:00.500 --> 05:04.940]  alcohol part okay so the vast majority of the cells in your body they burn
[05:04.940 --> 05:09.260]  almost completely fatty acids when you get to the brain it burns no fatty acids
[05:09.260 --> 05:12.940]  what it burns for energy is ketone bodies which do pass through the brain's
[05:12.940 --> 05:22.220]  barrier. Got it? Ketones. Where do they come from? They are manufactured by the
[05:22.220 --> 05:27.900]  liver and what is affected when you consume alcohol? Yeah the liver and let
[05:27.900 --> 05:31.740]  me explain to you pretty much what alcohol is and how the body deals with
[05:31.740 --> 05:37.780]  it. All food that we put into our mouth falls into three macro nutrient
[05:37.780 --> 05:44.340]  categories proteins fats and carbs however when we drink alcohol it is the
[05:44.340 --> 05:47.780]  only substance that is none of those things. The best description I've heard
[05:47.780 --> 05:52.660]  of it by scientists looking at how it works in the body is alcohol is sort of
[05:52.660 --> 05:58.860]  like a solvent and the body doesn't like it at all. The body considers it frankly
[05:58.860 --> 06:03.860]  poison now you may love it you may feel great it may enhance this for that in
[06:03.860 --> 06:07.900]  your life and that's fine I'm just describing physiologically the body go
[06:07.900 --> 06:13.620]  when you consume alcohol the body goes into an emergency mode it senses the
[06:13.620 --> 06:17.780]  alcohol in the blood the blood alcohol level like when you get pulled over for
[06:17.780 --> 06:21.960]  DUI I know you wouldn't know anything about that so when the body senses the
[06:21.960 --> 06:27.460]  alcohol in the blood it goes into emergency mode and the way the body
[06:27.460 --> 06:34.980]  looks at that is what is this poison we need to get this out right now and so
[06:34.980 --> 06:38.420]  it tells the liver okay as the blood is coming through your number one job
[06:38.420 --> 06:45.500]  number one is to remove this crap from the blood so when the liver is doing
[06:45.500 --> 06:51.620]  that in this emergency mode one of the things it is not doing it literally
[06:51.620 --> 06:57.340]  shuts down the production of ketones remember I said that the ketones are
[06:57.340 --> 07:04.460]  the fuel source for the brain connecting the dots here so when you have
[07:04.460 --> 07:08.900]  consumed alcohol and the liver is clearing it out in this emergency mode
[07:08.900 --> 07:14.220]  so it stops producing ketones you no longer have the production of the very
[07:14.220 --> 07:19.980]  substance that your mind needs in order to continue to oxidize the ketones for
[07:19.980 --> 07:26.300]  energy in the brain now is this life-altering it's not people do live in
[07:26.300 --> 07:31.220]  ketosis and they'll go out and they'll have a cocktail and they're fine okay
[07:31.220 --> 07:36.020]  they're they're not fine for a couple hours I mean they feel fine don't get me
[07:36.020 --> 07:39.180]  wrong but physiologically speaking they're really not fine their bodies in
[07:39.180 --> 07:43.620]  this emergency mode trying to clear this out and the brain is not getting the
[07:43.620 --> 07:48.460]  energy source that it demands so yeah physiologically speaking it's kind of a
[07:48.460 --> 07:51.980]  problem and this is why people who are in ketosis it might take a guy who's
[07:51.980 --> 07:57.180]  living in glucose is like five drinks to get really rocked okay so a person who's
[07:57.180 --> 08:01.300]  in ketone ketosis yes like one drink and that's because of the whole blood
[08:01.300 --> 08:05.900]  ketone shutdown thing I would never be so presumptuous is to sell to tell
[08:05.900 --> 08:10.380]  somebody do this or don't do that but I did want you to understand why if you're
[08:10.380 --> 08:15.580]  living in ketosis perhaps drinking alcohol isn't the very best thing now
[08:15.580 --> 08:18.700]  first of all if you're living in ketosis you already know you shouldn't be
[08:18.700 --> 08:21.460]  drinking beer because it's high carb and it's gonna throw you out of ketosis okay
[08:21.460 --> 08:25.900]  even if you get the low carb if you have enough beers then yeah and if you add
[08:25.900 --> 08:29.980]  the carbs in the beer to whatever carbs you may be getting from what you put in
[08:29.980 --> 08:33.660]  your mouth food wise yeah that could develop a problem so it is highly
[08:33.660 --> 08:37.580]  recommended the people who are living in ketosis do not drink beer if you want to
[08:37.580 --> 08:40.820]  drink something drink something without a mix because you're never quite sure
[08:40.820 --> 08:45.140]  especially if that's made at a bar by a bartender you're never quite sure what
[08:45.140 --> 08:51.620]  the sugar level is or the carb level is of the mix so the best thing is like if
[08:51.620 --> 08:56.660]  you want to go out and have something to drink go out and order say a shot of
[08:56.660 --> 09:02.740]  vodka and of course because the alcohol shuts down the production of ketones in
[09:02.740 --> 09:07.100]  the liver yeah it's not recommended to have like five shots because the more
[09:07.100 --> 09:10.580]  alcohol you put in the blood the longer takes to scrub for the liver's liver to
[09:10.580 --> 09:15.100]  scrub that out means the longer you are without ketones fueling your noggin
[09:15.100 --> 09:20.100]  that's the part where you think right so your ability to think and coordinate
[09:20.100 --> 09:23.380]  and so forth is compromised so yeah if you want to go out and have a shot I
[09:23.380 --> 09:26.820]  don't do it but there's nothing right or wrong about this if you want to go out
[09:26.820 --> 09:32.180]  and have a shot maybe to you and you're living in ketosis hey whatever should
[09:32.180 --> 09:37.100]  you be drinking all the time if you're living in ketosis well nobody should be
[09:37.100 --> 09:39.740]  drinking all the time that's problematic obviously that would be
[09:39.740 --> 09:44.580]  especially problematic and I I can't even anticipate what the consequences
[09:44.620 --> 09:48.700]  would be of somebody drinking frequently when they're living in ketosis not one
[09:48.700 --> 09:52.260]  sip of alcohol has passed my lips in years now since I started living in
[09:52.260 --> 09:55.820]  ketosis and I don't anticipate that it will I flirt with the idea every once in
[09:55.820 --> 09:59.820]  a while of my significant another other and I having like a shot of Ike but
[09:59.820 --> 10:03.660]  they're just especially with COVID like in the last 14 months where we gonna go
[10:03.660 --> 10:07.320]  what are we gonna do so we haven't done it but I hope this sets the record
[10:07.320 --> 10:11.340]  straight for you and answers the question about alcohol and ketosis and
[10:11.340 --> 10:13.060]  whether or not you should be drinking