The Ketogenic Diet: A Metabolic Reset to Cure Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Cancer

Tucker Carlson with Dr. Mark Hyman on the Ketogenic Diet: A Metabolic Reset to Cure Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Schizophrenia
Tucker Carlson:
"So it sounds like you said so far the ketogenic diet can cure, Diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer. Yeah. And now schizophrenia. Schizophrenia. So will you describe the ketogenic diet just to be sure?"
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Dr. Mark Hyman:
"So, basically, this is something that was developed for epilepsy years ago because when no drugs work for epilepsy, neurologists realized that if they put people on a diet where their brain was just running on ketones, which is the fuel instead of sugar that the body can run on. Remember, I said we're hybrid a ACDC. The gasoline is carbs, and the hybrid electric clean burning fuel is ketones."
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"So when you switch to ketones, it activates the brain's, repair systems. It improves mitochondrial function. It reduces inflammation. It helps cognitive function at every level. So I've seen it work from autism to Alzheimer's to schizophrenia to depression. It's just an all protein diet. It's not all protein. It's fat. It's actually 75% fat. Olive oil, avocados, nuts and seeds, animal fats, dairy fats."
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"And it basically should be a healthy version of it because you can, you know, eat bacon, and that's not a good idea. But you you you can do healthy ketogenic diets that actually improve health and reverse disease and work across all these things. So sugar is really driving this big problem, sugar and starch. And by the way, flour, bagel, I mean, I did a, a lecture the day and a woman said, you know, I had a bagel for breakfast. I noticed my had a glucose monitor, my sugar spiked 70 points."
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"She's got a metabolic problem. And and you can start to see when you eat these foods, your your your body gets dysregulated. And when you use use a diet that actually shuts off these cravings, that repairs the metabolic dysfunction, that improves insulin sensitivity. It doesn't take long. So it's shocking. In five or ten days, you get we get a seventy percent reduction from all symptoms and all diseases by people just changing their diet."
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"And most people, Tucker, don't connect how they feel with what they're eating. They don't make the connection. And so they they they think they're suffering from all these problems that are related to what they're eating. Why is it so hard for people to maintain, ketogenic diet?"
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"Well, it's a very extreme diet. I don't think you need to be so extreme. Like, a ten day detox is not keto, but it does, like, probably 80 or 90% of the benefit. So you get to eat more starchy foods. Well, let's just say you decide I'm going on a keto diet from now until I die. Well, probably, what you wanna do is use it to fix the problem and then come off it."

"We were always doing this historically because we were hunting and gathering, and sometimes we didn't hunt and gather very well. We couldn't find anything. So we would switch into burning fat because we probably have 2,500 calories of sugar stored in our muscles. That doesn't last very long. That'll last a day. But we probably have thirty, fifty, 60, hundred thousand calories of fat in our body because we just naturally have fat in our body, and that's a great source of fuel."

"So what happens is the body starts to break down the fat and uses that, and that's what happens when we overnight fast and we do, a ketogenic diet, you flip into this alternative metabolic pathway. And that pathway is incredibly helpful for longevity. It's helpful for reversing chronic diseases. And across all these diseases, we're seeing the same thing happen."

"So really, the bottom line here is that sugar and starch is the problem in America, and it's in every processed food. It's in what people are eating every day, and people have no idea how much they're consuming. And So if you take out all the sugar and all the starch, is that the same as keto?"

"Not necessarily. I mean, for example, if you can take out ultra processed food and you can stop your liquid sugar calories, if you can eat more good fats, eat good quality protein, lots of fruits and vegetables, most of our problems will go away. This is not this is not complicated science."

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