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Thomas DE Lauer & Dr. Berg Collab: Health & Fitness Review of the Ketogenic Diet

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This is going to be an A to Z breakdown of when to time your workouts, when to time your meals, and a multitude of other things when it comes down to looking at ketosis from a fitness lifestyle or ketosis from a general health lifestyle. In order to make this a perfectly balanced video, I am collaborating with the one and only, Dr. Eric Berg. Dr. Eric Berg and I are the leading health experts, when it comes down to ketosis, on the internet today. We figured, what the heck, let's collaborate. I'm bringing Dr. Eric Berg here all the way from the east coast and we're going to collaborate on this.

Hey, everyone. Thanks for watching, and Thomas, let's get started.

We're going to break this video down into a few different chunks. I'm going to talk about the types of exercise that you should be doing in ketosis, and then I'm going to hand it off to Dr. Berg who's going to talk about how energy is actually created in ketosis. Then we'll talk about a few other things. Let me get right into this part.

You see, we have three different energy systems within the body. We have the aerobic system, which is where your body is utilizing oxygen as a source of energy. Then we have the glycolytic pathway, this is the energy system that you're normally using when you're working out, when your weight training, things like that. Then we have the creative phosphate system. The creative phosphate system is what gives you that initial burst of strength.

Well, here's what we need to be thinking about. What kind of exercise should you be doing to get the best results when you're in ketosis? When you're in ketosis and you're deprived of carbohydrates, you don't have the carbohydrates that usually give you the energy for the glycolytic pathway. What this means is that the repetition range of, say, 6 reps to maybe 15 reps is a little bit more difficult because that particular range uses carbohydrates as a source of fuel. Since you don't have carbs as a source of fuel at that point in time, it can make it pretty hard to have strength.

However, we have those two other energy systems that we can utilize. We have the aerobic energy system, which utilizes mostly fats as a source of fuel. That's why when you're in ketosis, you feel like your endurance is phenomenal. Your body is usually using fats when it comes down to endurance activities. So you respond really, really, really well to cardio. That means increasing your rep range so it's a little bit more of a cardio burn, or doing a little bit more good old-fashioned cardio. You're going to get a lot of benefit out of it and your body is going to preserve muscle because of the specific ketogenic state that you're in.

It's a great time to maximize on some low intensity exercises. Also, things like high repetition weight lifting, things over 15 to 18 reps. Your body's just going to respond really well and you're not going to have that fall on your face feeling that you're normally going to get in ketosis, that happens between the 6 and 15 rep range.

Now, the other thing that we can focus on doing is leveraging the creative phosphate system. This helps us get a lot of strength in the early phases of movements. Those first one to four repetitions that you get when you're weight training are not even utilizing carbohydrates, they're using a very specific energy system in the body known as the creating phosphate system. It has nothing to do with the amount of carbs in your body. It's a chemical reaction that occurs, which means that if you're in ketosis, you might find that you have a lot of strength in the first one to three or one to four reps, which means you can still get good muscle growth and good hypertrophy, which is good actual just muscle development, by working in that short, low rep range.

There you have it. You just simply work on either the low rep range or the very high rep range and forget the middle ground, you don't even need at this point in time. Now, I'm going to hand off to Dr. Berg, who's going to explain a little bit more about how ketosis and the ketones themselves actually give you energy.

Well, thank you, Thomas. That does make a lot of sense. All right, let's go into ketosis. Okay, what is ketosis? Ketosis is the condition where you're using ketones as your primary fuel. What's a ketone? A ketone is a byproduct of fat burning. Now, when you're eating food, there's two types of fuel that you can run your body on. One would be sugar, or glucose. The second would be fat, which then will turn into ketones.
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