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[00:00.960 --> 00:06.160]  Welcome to the vodcast. Keto is a big name in certain health groups and it's a huge word in
[00:06.160 --> 00:11.440]  the advertising industry. I think the public's perception is there's this thing called the
[00:11.440 --> 00:17.520]  keto diet. You can hop on it and lose some weight. I wonder how many people who hear the words keto
[00:17.520 --> 00:24.320]  diet understand that what makes it so effective is it puts your body into a state of ketosis.
[00:24.960 --> 00:31.200]  Since one of the popular keto myths is that it's unsustainable, I thought I'd share with you my
[00:31.200 --> 00:36.640]  experience after living in ketosis for more than five years. I'm going to take you through the
[00:36.640 --> 00:41.520]  timeline and tell you about some incredible outcomes that have occurred along the way.
[00:41.520 --> 00:45.280]  I think you'll find it fascinating and perhaps it will help you make some important decisions
[00:45.360 --> 00:45.840]  in your life.
[01:02.160 --> 01:08.480]  Let's start with this. Today we'll be discussing the following. My pre-ketosis medical condition,
[01:09.200 --> 01:12.720]  how you can be certain you'll get into ketosis and stay in ketosis,
[01:13.360 --> 01:19.520]  what changes occurred within days of me entering ketosis, what things looked like at the 90-day
[01:19.520 --> 01:26.400]  mark, the one and only thing I supplement and why, blood test results a couple of years into
[01:26.400 --> 01:35.600]  ketosis, inflammation markers, cardiac specific tests I took, cholesterol numbers, different ways
[01:35.600 --> 01:41.280]  of maintaining ketosis, how ketosis affects gym-related activities such as cardio,
[01:42.160 --> 01:48.480]  iron-clad proof your body works very differently in ketosis than when not in ketosis,
[01:49.360 --> 01:56.240]  muscle mass issues, chronic disease, acute illness, and my recommendation of apps and
[01:56.240 --> 02:02.560]  devices that can help you stay on track. Obviously that's a lot to cover so I'll be moving briskly.
[02:02.560 --> 02:06.800]  Despite that, I also want to be thorough because I want you to take away an accurate impression
[02:06.800 --> 02:12.080]  of what it's like to live in ketosis for more than five years. I've done earlier videos on several
[02:12.080 --> 02:16.880]  of the issues I'll be highlighting today. Because those presentations discuss a single topic,
[02:16.880 --> 02:21.120]  they go into more detail than I will today. When I discuss a topic today for which there was an
[02:21.120 --> 02:24.880]  earlier more detailed video, I'll let you know and you can find the link in the notes.
[02:25.600 --> 02:34.640]  With all that behind us, let's get into it. I don't do diets. I never have. Diets are, in their
[02:34.640 --> 02:39.600]  very nature, a temporary alteration of how people eat. Once people stop a diet, they return to eating
[02:39.600 --> 02:45.040]  as they did before the diet. That approach has never appealed to me. In order that what I'm about
[02:45.040 --> 02:50.080]  to share with you today makes sense, we should quickly discuss that there are only two ways
[02:50.080 --> 02:57.920]  to fuel the 100 trillion cells of your body. One is glucose, the other is ketosis. In glucose,
[02:57.920 --> 03:02.640]  your cells burn glucose for energy which basically means the cells take in and burn sugar that's
[03:02.640 --> 03:08.640]  circulating in your blood. In ketosis, the cells burn fatty acids for energy and to a lesser extent
[03:08.640 --> 03:15.920]  ketones but do not burn sugar. As you heard that description, if it struck you that the difference
[03:15.920 --> 03:22.240]  sounds pretty damn significant, you're absolutely right. It is as different as day is from night.
[03:22.240 --> 03:27.360]  A body fueling its cells with glucose and a body fueling its cells with fatty acids
[03:27.360 --> 03:34.000]  operate very differently and that difference has profound health consequences. We tend to look at
[03:34.000 --> 03:38.240]  our bodies as a monolithic structure and then we judge our health by the condition of that
[03:38.240 --> 03:42.960]  monolithic thing we call our body. In my opinion, that perspective is a significant contributor to
[03:42.960 --> 03:49.120]  why Americans are the most ill people in all of human history. I would suggest a much better
[03:49.120 --> 03:54.400]  perspective is to see the body as a community of a hundred trillion cells interacting in an amazingly
[03:54.400 --> 04:00.880]  complex electrochemical ballet and to consider that to be healthy those hundred trillion cells
[04:00.880 --> 04:06.080]  must also be healthy. I'm gonna leave that right there because the purpose of this presentation
[04:06.080 --> 04:11.520]  is to share with you what it's like to live in long-term ketosis, not to give you a physiology
[04:11.520 --> 04:16.560]  lesson. Speaking of physiology, I should mention I'm the author of Body Science, the groundbreaking
[04:16.560 --> 04:22.320]  book on human physiology that explains how the body really works, how the establishment has
[04:22.320 --> 04:27.280]  intentionally misled the American people about how the human body works, resulting in Americans
[04:27.280 --> 04:33.680]  being the most diseased people in all of human history, and how when armed with the factual science
[04:34.320 --> 04:40.960]  every American can have incredible health. So you're considering ketosis. How do you shift
[04:40.960 --> 04:48.240]  your body from glucoses into ketosis? Simple, no longer flood your body with sugar. You see,
[04:48.240 --> 04:53.120]  the modern narrative is that cells burning glucose is how our bodies are intended to fuel the cells
[04:53.760 --> 05:00.240]  and that is complete nonsense. The cells of the human body are genetically coded to burn fatty
[05:00.240 --> 05:06.080]  acids but they permit the burning of sugar as an emergency mechanism. In our modern society,
[05:06.080 --> 05:13.440]  we force our bodies to employ that emergency mechanism 365 days a year and then we call that
[05:13.440 --> 05:20.160]  normal. When I shifted my body into ketosis 63 months ago, I did so by using the keto diet,
[05:20.160 --> 05:26.240]  which is eating in such a way that the macronutrients you consume are 80% fat, 15% protein,
[05:26.240 --> 05:33.280]  and 5% or less carbohydrates. It's the reduction of carbs to 5% or less that moves your body into
[05:33.280 --> 05:38.640]  ketosis because you're no longer flooding your blood with dietary sugar. I should point out
[05:38.640 --> 05:44.880]  that all carbs, whether a candy bar, pasta, broccoli, all break down into monosaccharides,
[05:44.880 --> 05:50.080]  which is the most basic form of sugar. As an aside, I should mention that while I use the
[05:50.080 --> 05:56.560]  keto diet to shift into ketosis initially, I stay in ketosis these days using a different style of
[05:56.560 --> 06:02.720]  eating. I'll get to that shortly. When I began my journey, I set my daily carb limit at 30 grams.
[06:02.720 --> 06:08.160]  The reason for that was the level of carbs that keeps you in ketosis or throws you out of ketosis
[06:08.160 --> 06:13.680]  is not fixed. There's some bio-individuality involved. It's safe to say virtually no one
[06:13.680 --> 06:18.640]  can maintain ketosis eating more than 50 grams of carbs a day and virtually everyone will maintain
[06:18.640 --> 06:25.440]  ketosis at 30 grams a day or below. Between 30 and 50 is a gray area. I didn't want any gray,
[06:25.440 --> 06:30.560]  so I set my daily carb intake at a level that was guaranteed to put me in ketosis and keep me there.
[06:31.520 --> 06:37.840]  When you first deprive your body of its former level of carbs, there will be three to five days
[06:37.840 --> 06:42.960]  when you won't feel fantastic because your cells are accustomed to burning sugar and you're depriving
[06:42.960 --> 06:48.400]  them of it. The feeling most people get during the initial three to five day period is something you
[06:48.400 --> 06:53.120]  may have heard the media mention, keto flu, although the feeling during that three to five
[06:53.120 --> 06:58.880]  day period is really nothing like having the flu. It's more like just feeling run down, perhaps a
[06:58.880 --> 07:05.280]  little grumpy, but then your body flips into ketosis and you feel amazing. I still remember
[07:05.280 --> 07:10.400]  the moment on day four my body flipped into ketosis. I've been working at my desk and I was
[07:10.400 --> 07:18.320]  feeling pretty blase. I stood up to go do something and bam! I suddenly felt amazing.
[07:19.040 --> 07:23.440]  While going from glucose to ketosis won't be like flipping a light switch for everyone,
[07:23.520 --> 07:30.080]  it certainly was for me. By the 90-day mark my weight was down dramatically, blood pressure
[07:30.080 --> 07:35.600]  was great, resting pulse rate was that of a professional athlete, all symptoms of insulin
[07:35.600 --> 07:41.600]  resistance were gone, my AST and ALT numbers which had been high came down into the very
[07:41.600 --> 07:47.040]  desirable low range, hematocrit which also had been high fell back into the normal range,
[07:47.040 --> 07:55.040]  my red blood cell count was up and much more. All of that within 90 days. I really felt a
[07:55.040 --> 08:00.240]  difference when doing cardio in the gym. It felt like I was supercharged. I started exploring
[08:00.240 --> 08:05.440]  different forms of cardio and got hooked for a time on HIIT sprints. Three or four days a week
[08:05.440 --> 08:14.480]  I was doing 10 mile per hour HIIT sprints. When I decided to do the keto diet I weighed 248 pounds
[08:14.480 --> 08:22.720]  at 510. Within five months I had lost 48 pounds, weighing in at 200. If you're watching on video
[08:22.720 --> 08:26.800]  you can see the difference. The image on the left was me the day I started the keto diet
[08:26.800 --> 08:31.520]  and the image on the right is me six months later. For those listening to the podcast,
[08:31.520 --> 08:37.440]  in the before image I was overweight with a bulging abdomen and a noticeably round face
[08:37.440 --> 08:42.800]  and the after photo shows my waist is smaller than my rib cage or hips and my face is slender.
[08:43.680 --> 08:49.040]  Between calorie restriction and fasting over the next few months I lost more weight getting down
[08:49.040 --> 08:56.400]  to my lowest weight of 186 pounds. The process of getting there was a good exercise but 186 pounds
[08:56.400 --> 09:02.080]  was not a good weight for me. I was too slender. When I began keto in addition to excess body fat
[09:02.080 --> 09:07.760]  I also had a lot of muscle mass from pushing heavy weights for at that time 34 years because
[09:07.760 --> 09:13.280]  the muscle requires protein with a lot of muscle requiring even more protein and the standard keto
[09:13.280 --> 09:19.120]  diet being just 15% protein I lost a good deal of muscle in addition to body fat. Fortunately I had
[09:19.120 --> 09:23.600]  a lot of muscle to begin with so it wasn't too much of an issue. However after about the eighth
[09:23.600 --> 09:29.120]  month on keto I increased my protein to 23% and that stopped the muscle loss. I'll have more to
[09:29.120 --> 09:35.040]  say about protein and muscle shortly. I don't want this presentation to seem like my ketosis
[09:35.040 --> 09:39.520]  autobiography so I'll quickly give you some facts and move on but before I do it's important for me
[09:39.520 --> 09:46.960]  to let you know that the only supplement I take is vitamin D because I work indoors. Blood test
[09:46.960 --> 09:51.360]  results after a couple years in ketosis showed the following were all within the normal range
[09:51.920 --> 10:02.880]  sodium, potassium, chloride, carbon dioxide, calcium, protein, albumin, globulin, ag ratio,
[10:02.880 --> 10:10.160]  bilirubin, alkaline phosphate, AST, and ALT. I also had an SED test that indicates the level
[10:10.160 --> 10:17.200]  of inflammation in the body. A male wants to be 22 or below. The further one is below 22 the less
[10:17.200 --> 10:26.240]  inflammation is present in the body. Mine was 2. Now let's talk lipids. My triglycerides were 77
[10:26.240 --> 10:37.280]  which is excellent. HDL cholesterol was 60 which is excellent. LDL was 207. In the glucose world
[10:37.280 --> 10:43.280]  which is 99% of the world's population 207 would be considered a disaster but for a body in ketosis
[10:43.920 --> 10:50.960]  it's a meaningless number. A meaningful number is remnant cholesterol. A remnant cholesterol
[10:50.960 --> 10:55.920]  score of 20 or below indicates little chance of a person being at risk for heart disease.
[10:55.920 --> 11:03.280]  The lowest I've heard of is 11. Minus 13. I did a video dealing specifically with my LDL
[11:03.280 --> 11:08.160]  level in ketosis. Among other things the video includes a simple equation to determine your own
[11:08.160 --> 11:13.920]  remnant cholesterol number. The link is in the notes. Just for shits and grins I took a coronary
[11:13.920 --> 11:18.560]  calcium scan which uses computer thermography to determine the level of calcium in the arterial
[11:18.560 --> 11:24.960]  arteries. The level of calcium in the arteries is a strong indicator of arterial heart disease
[11:24.960 --> 11:30.560]  because when inflammation damages the walls of the arteries cholesterol comes in first to act as
[11:30.560 --> 11:36.400]  a salve on the injury. Calcium follows forming a protective cap on the cholesterol. In other words
[11:36.400 --> 11:41.920]  a high level of calcium in the arteries translates into high confidence of coronary artery disease.
[11:42.960 --> 11:49.520]  My number was zero. I have a video specifically on coronary calcium scans. The link is in the
[11:49.520 --> 11:55.520]  notes. A couple of years ago I went from eating keto style to eating carnivore. Carnivore keeps
[11:55.520 --> 12:00.800]  your body in ketosis because people eat even fewer carbs on carnivore than keto. While living
[12:00.800 --> 12:06.640]  in ketosis for years on the keto diet was transformative. Moving to carnivore took things
[12:06.640 --> 12:12.880]  to the next level. As I mentioned earlier I only supplement vitamin D. Since carnivore means eating
[12:12.880 --> 12:18.800]  nothing but animal flesh or very close to that, carnivores don't consume any vitamin C unless they
[12:18.800 --> 12:24.720]  take a vitamin C supplement which I don't. Eating carnivore without supplementing vitamin C gives
[12:24.720 --> 12:29.760]  us a glimpse into the amazing physiological differences in how the body functions in
[12:29.760 --> 12:38.000]  glucose versus ketosis. Current science tells the entire world that scurvy is caused by an absence
[12:38.000 --> 12:46.640]  of vitamin C. Yet I and countless other carnivores consume no vitamin C in my case for years. Yet we
[12:46.640 --> 12:53.120]  never get scurvy. What physiological commonality all of us share who consume no vitamin C and don't
[12:53.120 --> 12:59.200]  get scurvy? Answer. Our bodies are in ketosis. In other words those living in the toxic state of
[12:59.200 --> 13:05.520]  glucose, the cells burning sugar for energy, who don't consume vitamin C will get scurvy. Yet those
[13:05.520 --> 13:11.040]  living in ketosis, the manner in which the body is genetically coded to function, can never consume
[13:11.040 --> 13:17.440]  any vitamin C and not get scurvy. I did a presentation on ketosis, vitamin C and scurvy
[13:17.440 --> 13:20.560]  in which I provide all the relevant numbers to make sense of the subject.
[13:21.600 --> 13:28.240]  The link is in the notes. Due to an illness I had almost 25 years ago, my testosterone had been low
[13:28.240 --> 13:32.320]  for decades. While there is some disagreement in the medical community about the proper range of
[13:32.320 --> 13:38.720]  male testosterone, a good generalization as the normal range for a healthy adult is 400 to 900.
[13:38.720 --> 13:45.440]  The last time I was tested before I went carnivore, mine was 210. On a lark I tested again
[13:45.440 --> 13:55.120]  after 17 months on carnivore. My testosterone had soared to 714. It was the first time in 20 years
[13:55.120 --> 14:01.600]  that, absent hormone replacement, my testosterone was normal. In fact it was closer to the high end
[14:01.600 --> 14:06.800]  than the low end. I think it's important to note that the only thing I changed in my life was my
[14:06.800 --> 14:12.320]  diet. I'd gone from the keto way of eating to carnivore. I did a presentation focusing on this
[14:12.320 --> 14:18.160]  amazingly positive outcome after 17 months on carnivore. The link is in the notes. Let me take
[14:18.160 --> 14:24.160]  a quick moment to ask you to subscribe to the channel or the page and hit the like button. By
[14:24.160 --> 14:29.280]  doing so you trigger the algorithms to show this content to more people. Thank you for taking that
[14:29.280 --> 14:33.840]  simple step to help spread the word. Many of the things we've discussed thus far were not a big
[14:33.840 --> 14:39.120]  surprise because in the internet age we can check out what those who've come before us experienced,
[14:39.120 --> 14:44.080]  much like you may be doing right now. Here's something that came out of left field and surprised
[14:44.080 --> 14:50.800]  me. Let me give you some context. Prior to choosing ketosis I wore double x shirts and depending on
[14:50.800 --> 14:57.200]  the brand sometimes triple x. After my initial weight loss in the first year I wore single x
[14:57.200 --> 15:03.360]  and sometimes even size large. Imagine going from wearing triple x shirts to wearing a large.
[15:03.840 --> 15:09.760]  That's a pretty big change. At that point I got rid of all my triple x and double x shirts because
[15:09.760 --> 15:15.920]  they no longer fit. We're talking t-shirts, tank tops, polo shirts and collared shirts.
[15:15.920 --> 15:21.920]  They were all donated to charity and I began the gradual process of replacing them with xl shirts.
[15:23.040 --> 15:31.040]  But then the unexpected happened. When I switched to carnivore I was 61. In one's 60s is not the time
[15:31.040 --> 15:37.680]  of life when men gain muscle mass. In fact most men in their 60s begin losing muscle mass. Exactly
[15:37.680 --> 15:44.160]  the opposite happened to me. At some point after I went carnivore muscle mass in my arms, shoulders
[15:44.160 --> 15:51.200]  and upper back began increasing. At first it was slow and I barely noticed. Then about 18 months ago
[15:51.200 --> 15:58.080]  the process began accelerating. Shirts I'd wear in winter that were xl and fit me in as an example
[15:58.160 --> 16:05.040]  January of 2022 no longer fit. They were too small in January 2023.
[16:05.840 --> 16:10.800]  More recently spring weather came to southern Nevada where I live and my xl t-shirts,
[16:10.800 --> 16:16.800]  polo shirts, collared shirts and even tank tops that fit in the spring of 2022 no longer fit
[16:16.800 --> 16:24.240]  in spring of 2023. I'm now having to give all my xl shirts to charity and replace them with
[16:24.240 --> 16:29.600]  double xl shirts. One of the important factors to consider in this unexpected muscle growth
[16:29.600 --> 16:34.400]  is that I didn't change my workout routine. I went to the gym five to seven days a week before
[16:34.400 --> 16:39.200]  going into ketosis. I continued going to the gym five to seven days a week once in ketosis
[16:39.200 --> 16:43.440]  and I've continued being in the gym five to seven days a week since going carnivore.
[16:43.440 --> 16:48.320]  Pretty much the only change I made in my training was about four years ago I started doing more core
[16:48.960 --> 16:55.040]  including things like hanging straight leg to leg raises. At 63 I think I'm the only guy in the gym
[16:55.040 --> 17:00.240]  who does them routinely. I think it's reasonable to say that working more core is not responsible
[17:00.240 --> 17:05.040]  for increasing the muscle mass of my arms shoulders and upper back. I'm curious to see
[17:05.040 --> 17:10.800]  where this is going to go. I'm hoping the growth stops because I have no desire to be any bigger
[17:10.800 --> 17:17.680]  than I am right now and that brings us to the next issue which is joint pain. Shortly before I chose
[17:17.680 --> 17:23.760]  ketosis I was diagnosed with level 4 osteoarthritis in both shoulders. I have no one to blame but
[17:23.760 --> 17:29.920]  myself. I spent three decades pushing the heaviest weights possible in the gym and eventually that
[17:29.920 --> 17:35.120]  wore away a good deal of the protective cartilage in my shoulders which is what osteoarthritis is.
[17:35.120 --> 17:39.520]  Before I go further on this subject I should mention that being diagnosed with osteoarthritis
[17:39.520 --> 17:45.200]  had no connection to my choosing ketosis. 63 months ago I didn't see any connection between
[17:45.200 --> 17:51.120]  the two. The worst manifestation of osteoarthritis for me was that I'm a side sleeper and the pain
[17:51.120 --> 17:57.440]  in my shoulders was so brutal at night that it awakened me every 20 to 30 minutes. I'd roll over
[17:57.440 --> 18:01.920]  to my other side to alleviate the pain in one shoulder and in 20 to 30 minutes the pain in the
[18:01.920 --> 18:08.960]  other shoulder would wake me up. That would continue all night. It was pretty brutal. One of
[18:08.960 --> 18:14.320]  the unexpected benefits of living in ketosis was that my shoulder pain diminished significantly.
[18:14.320 --> 18:18.800]  If we say the level of pain I was experiencing at night was a 10 then after several months in
[18:18.800 --> 18:25.600]  ketosis it was more in the range of four. That's a pretty meaningful reduction in pain but even more
[18:25.600 --> 18:32.240]  interestingly since going carnivore I have zero nighttime shoulder pain from a brutal level of
[18:32.240 --> 18:37.120]  pain that prevented me from ever getting a good night's sleep to sleeping like a baby with no pain
[18:37.120 --> 18:43.680]  whatsoever is obviously phenomenal. To be clear carnivore hasn't cured my osteoarthritis. One of
[18:43.680 --> 18:48.720]  the consequences of osteoarthritis in the shoulders is limited range of motion. After 63
[18:48.720 --> 18:53.520]  months in ketosis that limited range of motion is still there. In fact the only time I have shoulder
[18:53.520 --> 18:59.680]  pain now is when I attempt to move my shoulders where they're no longer willing to go and as you
[18:59.680 --> 19:05.200]  might imagine training shoulders at the gym can be uncomfortable. Let's talk about illness of which
[19:05.200 --> 19:10.800]  there are two types. Chronic what the medical community calls acute. Chronic is something that
[19:10.800 --> 19:17.280]  persists like type 2 diabetes. Well in a standard English dictionary acute means serious. In medical
[19:17.280 --> 19:23.280]  terminology it simply means short-lived such as a cold or flu. Because acute as used by the medical
[19:23.280 --> 19:29.520]  industry can be misunderstood I refer to short-lived illnesses as transitory. Let's tackle chronic
[19:29.520 --> 19:34.880]  disease first. You may recall I mentioned having insulin resistance before shifting into ketosis.
[19:35.520 --> 19:40.480]  Insulin resistance is a chronic disease and virtually always leads to type 2 diabetes
[19:40.480 --> 19:45.920]  which then leads to a slew of other diseases. The astounding thing is that as soon as I shifted
[19:45.920 --> 19:52.560]  into ketosis every one of my insulin resistance symptoms disappeared. One of the big tells
[19:52.560 --> 19:58.000]  concerning insulin resistance is afternoon drowsiness. There were days I could barely keep
[19:58.000 --> 20:05.200]  my eyes open around two or three in the afternoon. Since the moment I shifted into ketosis I have
[20:05.200 --> 20:11.920]  never had a single moment of daytime drowsiness not one. It may have taken months to completely
[20:11.920 --> 20:16.960]  eradicate the insulin resistance in the sense of my body doing a complete reset of insulin sensitivity
[20:17.600 --> 20:24.960]  but it sure was nice for the symptoms to disappear immediately. 63 months after shifting in ketosis
[20:24.960 --> 20:30.720]  and having eaten nothing but animal flesh for several years now I have zero chronic diseases.
[20:30.720 --> 20:34.960]  That outcome is of course completely the opposite of what your doctor would tell you will happen if
[20:34.960 --> 20:40.160]  you eat nothing but meat. I should mention that being in exceptional health is the outcome
[20:40.160 --> 20:45.360]  experienced by every carnivore. This is one of those cases where the consistent result attained
[20:45.360 --> 20:51.120]  by millions of people is the exact opposite of the false dogma put out by the medical industry.
[20:51.680 --> 20:57.760]  Remember there is no money for the medical industry if you're healthy. What about transitory
[20:57.760 --> 21:04.320]  illnesses such as a cold or flu? I haven't been sick a day since going into ketosis.
[21:04.960 --> 21:10.160]  Does that mean pathogens never attack my body? Of course not. Coming in contact with pathogens
[21:10.160 --> 21:14.800]  is a routine part of the human existence. Interestingly I can tell when my body is
[21:14.800 --> 21:20.720]  working to defeat something I experience telltale signs. The most common telltale signs for me are
[21:21.600 --> 21:29.520]  a lessening of my usual sunny disposition, a lack of enthusiasm for my work, and or not feeling
[21:29.520 --> 21:34.640]  enthusiastic about going to the gym. While those are tip-offs that my body is fighting something,
[21:34.640 --> 21:40.800]  I haven't actually been sick a single day since I shifted into ketosis. Prior to ketosis I used to
[21:40.800 --> 21:47.440]  get sick four or five or six times a year. Not only do I know that in a general sense but Facebook's
[21:47.440 --> 21:52.480]  memories feature often brings up posts from years ago in which I'm talking about how it felt good
[21:52.480 --> 21:57.680]  to get back in the gym after being out of the gym for a week because I was sick. I don't know how
[21:57.680 --> 22:03.760]  you feel about it but to go from being sick five or six times a year to not being sick a single day
[22:03.760 --> 22:10.080]  in five years is pretty impressive. And that five-year period we're discussing included the SARS
[22:10.400 --> 22:17.040]  2 event. During that time I went where I wanted, when I wanted, never wore a mask, only social
[22:17.040 --> 22:22.080]  distance in public so strangers didn't freak out, shook hands with like-minded people, hugged my
[22:22.080 --> 22:27.360]  friends, and never got COVID. I mentioned my significant weight loss during the first several
[22:27.360 --> 22:33.520]  months I was in ketosis so I want to make clear that in my mind ketosis isn't a weight loss tool
[22:34.160 --> 22:40.640]  it's about health. Weight loss is merely the visual manifestation of your body finally operating in
[22:40.640 --> 22:46.240]  the manifold which is genetically coded which then makes you incredibly healthy. Again weight
[22:46.240 --> 22:52.000]  loss is the consequence of those hundred trillion cells of your body loving what you're doing and
[22:52.000 --> 22:57.120]  returning to their natural healthy condition. There are people out there who will attempt to
[22:57.120 --> 23:01.280]  dismiss and discredit everything I've said in this presentation. Those folks generally fall
[23:01.280 --> 23:06.320]  into three categories. First, members of the establishment who are trying to protect various
[23:06.320 --> 23:13.920]  false narratives usually to continue reaping huge profits. Second, the people who believe those false
[23:13.920 --> 23:20.720]  narratives. And third, vegans. One of the most ridiculous responses I hear from vegans when I
[23:20.720 --> 23:29.680]  share my ketosis story is, you're an anomaly. No I'm not. Their statement is an attempt to dodge
[23:29.680 --> 23:35.760]  the truth of ketosis by childishly claiming it only produces those results in me. Essentially it's
[23:35.760 --> 23:41.840]  attempt to dismiss or discredit truth. As you hear those attempts to dismiss or discredit,
[23:41.840 --> 23:46.880]  remember that the benefits of ketosis I've discussed with you today are universally enjoyed
[23:46.880 --> 23:51.680]  by everyone who is living in ketosis. In other words, to believe the folks who are attempting
[23:51.680 --> 23:57.120]  to dismiss or discredit what I've shared with you today, one has to ignore the results universally
[23:57.120 --> 24:04.000]  attained by millions and millions of people around the world. It takes a certain kind of person
[24:04.000 --> 24:11.520]  to assert that the results experienced universally by millions of people are invalid. I'll leave it
[24:11.520 --> 24:16.160]  to you to decide what kind of person does that. Let's talk about things you can do to significantly
[24:16.160 --> 24:22.560]  help you in your ketosis journey. The number one thing you should do is read body science so that
[24:22.560 --> 24:28.160]  you aren't flying blind. It's one thing to just do what someone tells you in order to achieve a
[24:28.160 --> 24:33.120]  particular result, but that's not my approach and I hope it isn't yours. When it comes to something
[24:33.120 --> 24:40.480]  like ketosis, I want you to have a firm understanding of the science that undergirds your choice.
[24:40.480 --> 24:45.120]  Additionally, if you're going to put your body into ketosis, shouldn't you know exactly how
[24:45.120 --> 24:50.720]  and why it's so incredibly healthy and the alternative is not? Here's something a reader
[24:50.720 --> 24:58.560]  wrote in a review of body science. Michael wrote, champion is absolutely 100% right when he says
[24:59.200 --> 25:05.760]  this changes everything. My wife says putting names to the lymphatic lipid system and hepatic
[25:05.760 --> 25:12.000]  lipid system and glucose is game changing. Labeling those functional systems creates
[25:12.000 --> 25:17.280]  an understanding otherwise not attainable. Thank you for researching with your intellect,
[25:17.280 --> 25:22.000]  having the fortitude to speak the truth to power and somehow the skill to communicate it all so
[25:22.000 --> 25:28.320]  well. I can't see myself ever getting fooled by the establishment again. Close quote. I share that
[25:28.320 --> 25:34.640]  with you because body science is the only book in existence that makes everything about human
[25:34.640 --> 25:40.800]  nutritional physiology crystal clear in a way everyone can understand. As Michael says, once
[25:40.800 --> 25:46.640]  you've read it, you'll never again be fooled by the establishment about how human physiology really
[25:46.640 --> 25:53.600]  works. I'll put the link to body science in the notes or go to drreality.news drreality.news.
[25:54.160 --> 25:59.440]  The next thing you want to do is track your daily macros. I use an app called Simple Stupid Keto
[25:59.440 --> 26:06.080]  and it works great. That said, if you go straight to carnivore, there's no need to track your macros,
[26:06.080 --> 26:11.760]  at least in terms of keeping carbs low because animal flesh doesn't have any carbs. I'm not an
[26:11.760 --> 26:16.960]  absolutist, so even though I'm carnivore, I still have an onion slice on my lettuce wrap burgers from
[26:16.960 --> 26:23.600]  time to time. I have an occasional tasty treat my wife makes, what we call seed treats, and when I'm
[26:23.600 --> 26:29.040]  in Vegas, because I live in a small town about an hour away, I have a low carb treat at an amazing
[26:29.040 --> 26:34.000]  keto bakery called Starburst Parlor. I did a short video about Starburst Parlor, you can find the
[26:34.000 --> 26:40.960]  link in the notes. I share that because with those small deviations from absolute 100% carnivore,
[26:40.960 --> 26:47.280]  I've still never exceeded 9 grams of carbs in a day. The point being, the carnivores don't need
[26:47.280 --> 26:52.720]  to track their macros. That said, I'm able to tell you I've never exceeded 9 grams of carbs in a day
[26:52.720 --> 26:58.880]  because more than five years in, I still track my macros every day. It is essential for people who
[26:58.880 --> 27:04.240]  are beginners and choose the keto diet to put themselves in ketosis to track their macros. There
[27:04.240 --> 27:10.640]  is no way to know if you're eating 80% fat, 15% protein, and 5% carbs without tracking everything
[27:10.640 --> 27:14.480]  you put in your mouth. If you attempt the keto diet without tracking your macros,
[27:15.280 --> 27:20.000]  you're essentially setting yourself up for failure. Several weeks after I went into ketosis,
[27:20.000 --> 27:27.120]  I wanted scientific validation I was in ketosis, even though I knew I was. For me, that scientific
[27:27.120 --> 27:32.160]  validation was just part of the journey. There are a couple of different types of devices that can
[27:32.160 --> 27:38.560]  verify you're in ketosis. There are urine strips, blood meters, and breath meters. Let me stir you
[27:38.560 --> 27:43.280]  away from the urine strips because there are several factors that can give you false results
[27:43.280 --> 27:48.640]  with the urine strips. Yes, they're dirt cheap, but what's that worth if they're unreliable?
[27:49.440 --> 27:54.720]  Blood meters are reliable and give you a fairly exact count on the volume of ketones in your body.
[27:54.720 --> 28:00.240]  The standard for being in ketosis is generally considered to be 0.5 or higher. To be absolutely
[28:00.240 --> 28:06.560]  certain, I considered that I had to be at 1 or above. The first time I tested, I was 5.6,
[28:06.560 --> 28:11.520]  which is quite high. That sort of high number is fairly common in the early days of ketosis
[28:11.520 --> 28:16.000]  because while your liver is pumping out ketones, at the same time, your body is releasing fatty
[28:16.000 --> 28:21.440]  acids from your adipose tissue like crazy. Between eating 80% fat of the body releasing
[28:21.440 --> 28:26.240]  all the stored fatty acids from the adipose tissue, the cells have all the fat-based energy
[28:26.240 --> 28:30.960]  they need so more ketones are left unused in the blood than would otherwise be the case.
[28:31.600 --> 28:38.640]  As an aside, in body science, I explain why dietary fat is totally healthy while in contrast,
[28:38.640 --> 28:45.040]  how the body copes with excess blood glucose by hepatic conversion to fatty acids is so destructive
[28:45.040 --> 28:53.120]  to your health. It's critical information to know. The second time I tested, the number was 2.3.
[28:53.120 --> 28:56.960]  Again, that makes sense because a good deal of the adipose fat had already been released
[28:57.040 --> 29:01.520]  and the mitochondria and the 100 trillion cells in my body were becoming more adapted to ketosis.
[29:02.080 --> 29:07.280]  After 5 years in ketosis and being carnivore, if I tested today, my number would likely be
[29:07.280 --> 29:14.400]  under 1. But here's the thing, all those numbers are good. You may hear people say that a higher
[29:14.400 --> 29:20.160]  ketone level means your ketosis is stronger. That's nonsense. In fact, the more fat adapted
[29:20.160 --> 29:25.120]  your cells become, the lower your ketone number will be while remaining above 0.5, of course.
[29:25.680 --> 29:30.800]  Breath ketone meters are reasonably accurate, but they're considerably more expensive than a
[29:30.800 --> 29:35.360]  ketone blood meter. However, if it freaks you out to prick your finger for the blood meter,
[29:35.360 --> 29:40.240]  the breath meter would be the best bet. In the notes, I'll put a link to where I got my meter.
[29:40.240 --> 29:46.560]  I just got the basic $50 kit that had, I think, 10 test strips because I was only looking for
[29:46.560 --> 29:51.840]  verification of what I already knew. A moment ago, I mentioned that most MDs would predict doom and
[29:51.840 --> 29:55.680]  gloom for your health if you go carnivore, despite the fact that carnivores are the
[29:55.680 --> 30:01.920]  healthiest people on the planet. Why is that? Why do they say things that real world experience
[30:01.920 --> 30:10.320]  shows are completely false? Because so-called experts, just like everyone else, follow the herd.
[30:10.320 --> 30:14.240]  If the leaders of the medical herd say eating high levels of saturated fat causes heart disease,
[30:14.240 --> 30:19.200]  the overwhelming majority of that herd will parrot what the leaders say without performing
[30:19.200 --> 30:24.080]  any evaluation as to whether it's factual. And of course, there's the reality that if
[30:24.080 --> 30:29.600]  everyone in the US went carnivore tomorrow, within a year, the entire medical industry
[30:29.600 --> 30:34.640]  would be in a state of economic disaster, along with the pharmaceutical and processed food
[30:34.640 --> 30:40.160]  industries. One of my favorite quotes is by Upton Sinclair. It's one of my favorite quotes
[30:40.160 --> 30:46.560]  because it is a universal truth. Sinclair said, quote, It is difficult to get a man to understand
[30:46.560 --> 30:52.560]  something when his job depends on not understanding it. Of course, the medical industry isn't the only
[30:52.560 --> 30:58.160]  example of this. Let me give you another highly disturbing example. There is a narrative in the
[30:58.160 --> 31:04.080]  US that ordinary hardworking Americans owe income tax. That narrative exists for a couple of reasons.
[31:04.080 --> 31:09.360]  First, it exists because the US government has engaged in a massive disinformation campaign
[31:09.360 --> 31:15.280]  to convince the American people of that lie. I urge you to never forget what William Casey said
[31:15.280 --> 31:19.920]  in his first staff meeting after becoming the director of the CIA. In that staff meeting,
[31:19.920 --> 31:26.000]  Casey said, quote, We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American
[31:26.000 --> 31:32.880]  public believes is false. Of the many domestic disinformation campaigns the US government has
[31:32.880 --> 31:37.600]  run and continues running, the narrative the Congress imposed the income tax on ordinary
[31:37.600 --> 31:43.520]  working Americans is certainly one of the most successful, with most Americans blindly believing
[31:43.520 --> 31:49.280]  that lie. The second reason that false narrative continues is America is exactly what we were just
[31:49.280 --> 31:54.880]  discussing. So-called experts follow the herd. In this matter, we're talking about accountants and
[31:54.880 --> 31:58.800]  attorneys rather than doctors and medical researchers, but it's the same phenomenon.
[31:58.800 --> 32:04.480]  If the leaders of the tax industry herd say income tax applies to everyone, the overwhelming majority
[32:04.480 --> 32:09.280]  of that herd will parrot what the leaders say without performing any evaluation as to whether
[32:09.360 --> 32:15.600]  it's factual. And Sinclair's observation remains just as true. It is difficult to get a man to
[32:15.600 --> 32:21.120]  understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. And of course, I'd be remiss if
[32:21.120 --> 32:26.000]  I didn't mention that whether it's nutritional physiology or income tax, the reason these
[32:26.000 --> 32:32.480]  destructive false narratives persist is the American people don't bother looking into them.
[32:33.280 --> 32:38.720]  Many years ago, a friend shared with me a quote he felt described most people. It goes like this,
[32:39.760 --> 32:46.560]  why stand when you can sit? Why sit when you can lay down? His point was that the majority of
[32:46.560 --> 32:52.240]  people will always do what is easiest, not what is right or best. So when it comes to nutritional
[32:52.240 --> 32:58.480]  physiology or income tax, people don't look into whether the narrative is true because the easiest
[32:58.480 --> 33:05.600]  thing to do is blindly believe the establishment. Doing otherwise requires effort. To help my
[33:05.600 --> 33:11.440]  countrymen discover the truth, I wrote Income Tax Shattering the Myths. I put in the 17 years
[33:11.440 --> 33:16.800]  of legal research so you don't have to. I took that 17 years of research and distilled it down
[33:16.800 --> 33:22.560]  to 400 pages of incontrovertible, absolutely conclusive facts, evidence and data presented
[33:22.560 --> 33:29.680]  in a way every American can readily understand, showing you Congress never imposed the income
[33:29.680 --> 33:35.120]  tax on the ordinary working American. Just as it's time to stop believing the absurd nonsense that
[33:35.120 --> 33:41.360]  glucose is the way human cells are intended to be fueled, isn't it time to stop believing the lie
[33:41.360 --> 33:48.400]  that the income tax applies to you? And so you know, I don't just talk the talk, I walk the walk.
[33:48.400 --> 33:54.880]  I haven't filed an income tax return or paid a penny in income tax in 30 years. The only difference
[33:54.880 --> 34:01.440]  between you and me is I know what the law really says and you've taken the word of liars about it.
[34:02.080 --> 34:07.280]  Isn't it time you have a look at the truth? You can't decide what path is right for you if you're
[34:07.280 --> 34:12.000]  clinging to a lie. Once you know the truth, you can decide what path is right for you.
[34:12.720 --> 34:18.720]  The good news is both body science and Income Tax Shattering the Myths are on special right now.
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