If the person's on the ketogenic diet and they somehow come off the ketogenic diet, and they eat something that they shouldn't be eating, and how do they neutralize the effects of that?

That's what we're going to talk about.

All right, so let's start with number one, sugar.

Your friend has just eaten some sugar.

What should they do to counteract the effects of the sugar?

Now, the damaging part of sugar is that it tends to act like rust in your arteries, destroys your energy factories, your mitochondria.

You have something called the glycemic index of foods, so you eat a certain food, and the higher the sugar, the higher the spike, and it creates damage.

Each carbohydrate has an index from high to low.

You also have something else called the glycemic load, and that's looking at the carbohydrate in food, but it's also taking into consideration fiber, because fiber tends to buffer and inhibit this sugar spike.

Out of all the carbohydrates, fiber, which is a carbohydrate, has no effect on insulin.

Other carbohydrates will raise insulin, but not fiber, so it's neutral.

The more something has fiber in it, the less the sugar effects.

Carrots, for example, are loaded with fiber, and so it's really hard to spike the blood sugar if you're consuming a carrot, unless you juice the carrot and just drink the juice, carrot juice, which I used to do a long time ago.

What you need to understand if your friend consumes some sugar is to recommend that they start consuming some fiber right away, and if there's fiber in a salad, that would be the best thing, because that will buffer or slow the effect of this spike.

The other thing to know about sugar is that sugar, especially refined sugar, depletes you of potassium, B1, zinc, and magnesium.

If you were to take some electrolytes and B vitamins and trace minerals, that will counteract the deficiencies that you just created from that sugar.

That's just a way of minimizing the side effects from that.

Grains, because eventually grains turn into sugar.

There's different things about grains that you need to know.

Number one, you have the refined grains.

If you're consuming refined grains, it's going to deplete you of certain nutrients, because when you refine the grain, it's empty of nutrients.

When you consume that, your body starts to metabolize it, and then it needs to pull from its reserve certain nutrients to burn it up.

This is why the more refined grains or even sugar that you consume, the more of certain nutrients that you need, because refined foods does not come with these nutrients.

You have to tap into your own reserves to be able to process them or digest them.

Refined grains have their own issues, but then you have the whole grains.

Whole grains has some nutrients, not as much as you might think, but it also has something called phytic acid and other anti-nutrients.

The phytic acid actually blocks you from absorbing certain minerals.

If you're consuming whole grains, you might want to consume an oyster or some shellfish to get those minerals back, because shellfish, especially oysters, are loaded with zinc.

The other big problem with grains is the gluten.

That's the protein in the wheat or some other grain.

You can have a gluten allergy.

You can have a gluten intolerance, but it can really tear up and create inflammation in your gut on so many people, especially because they've did hybrids of grains, especially wheat.

They don't just come with more carbs.

They come with more protein in some cases.

That protein can do some interesting things to your gut.

It can even mimic a bit of morphine, which numbs the pain that it creates, making you think it's totally fine to consume.

You keep eating it.

Then sometime down the road, you have this gut inflammation that creates all sorts of additional problems that you didn't suspect.

Just as a side note, to counter inflammation in your gut, let's say you want to counter that.

You can take glutamine or consume foods high in glutamine.

What would that be?

Meat.

This is why when someone goes on a meat diet or a carnivore diet and gets all this glutamine from that, they tend to heal their guts as long as they're not consuming at the same time the sugar and the grains and the starches, things like that.

This video is all about neutralizing the effects of some of these carbs and other things as well.

The other thing refined grains depletes is vitamin E.

There's a big correlation between a vitamin E deficiency and angina because the heart needs that vitamin E.

In fact, if you're low in vitamin E, your muscles, including your heart muscle, will work harder and you might have more weakness within the muscle.

When you think of eating refined grains or your friend eating refined grains, think of deficiencies in the B complex, especially B1 and other B vitamins, as well as vitamin E.

You want to put those back to neutralize the effects.

You can even consume some nutritional yeast to get your natural Bs.

Just make sure that they're not enriched with synthetic B vitamins.

Also, I want to mention, if you're consuming grain foods like breads, pasta, things like that in Europe, people have less bloating because they ferment the grains longer, which actually tends to break down more carbs because the microbes eat the carbs.

Also, it can actually break down a lot of the gluten as well.

All that enrichment of iron and synthetic vitamins will tend to make your gut feel very heavy.

The other thing about grains is a lot of times they'll use Roundup Ready or glyphosate, which is a herbicide to dry out these grains.

Now you're consuming this grain that has these chemicals in it, which is not good.

Make sure you have an organic grain if you're going to do grains.

As another side note, I want to mention the chemistry of glucose is very similar to the chemistry of vitamin C.

If you're eating sugar, don't expect any vitamin C absorption because it's competitive.

This is why when people take those vitamin C gummies, I mean, they're just loaded with sugar, you're not getting any vitamin C.

Just realize that glucose blocks vitamin C.

One thing you need to do or tell your friend when they consume this carb or sugar to have more vitamin C foods.

The food that has the most vitamin C is a sauerkraut, but then you also have bell peppers, lemons, or really any of the leafy greens has a good amount of vitamin C.

I also want to mention berries.

Any of the berries are a good source of vitamin C.

When you start consuming fruit, people always ask me about fruit.

Is fruit bad?

Well, yeah, it's high in sugar.

Our bodies were designed to consume moderate amounts of fruit that wasn't genetically made sweeter, but nowadays they are produced with more carbs and sugar contents.

Also, fruit is seasonal, but we have it all year round.

Is there a big difference between fruit and high fructose corn syrup?

Yes, there's a huge difference.

The fruit has the fiber.

High fructose corn syrup is like drinking this pure fructose and glucose.

It creates a completely different effect than if you were to even get your fructose from the juice from a fruit because you have the antioxidants.

You see, if someone's a diabetic and they have high levels of sugar in the blood, and if you're a diabetic, you should know this.

You have all these side effects, these complications from diabetes.

You can greatly neutralize a lot of those side effects by just consuming antioxidants from vegetables.

Also, things like benfotiamine is a really good one, or alpha lipoic acid.

I mean, a lot of diabetics get peripheral neuropathy of their feet where their feet are numb or painful.

If they just took some benfotiamine or alpha lipoic acid, they would at least not feel that pain anymore because it decreases the complications of diabetes.

Diabetes affects four areas, your brain and nervous system, your vascular, your arteries, and the eyes and the kidneys.

Of course, changing your diet is the ultimate solution, but also just to counteract or neutralize some of these other effects, you can just start eating these high antioxidant foods.

You can also exercise.

You may have high blood glucose, not necessarily from eating carbs, but it can come from stress.

It can come from not sleeping.

It can come from various reasons.

Let's say you're on the ketogenic diet and you haven't transitioned and your body's still producing sugar because it has really bad insulin resistance.

You can counteract a lot of that just by exercising every single day because that burns off the sugar and it actually strengthens the mitochondria.

It actually makes new mitochondria.

Then there's another thing you can do.

A lot of people are on metformin being a diabetic.

If you were to take berberine, for example, it's a natural remedy.

There's studies that show that it can create a similar effect but with less side effects.

Cinnamon is another thing you can take.

Just put some cinnamon on your toast and sugar in your butter where you make this cinnamon toast.

I'm just being sarcastic, but cinnamon actually can help stabilize blood sugars.

So can apple cider vinegar that helps to neutralize some of the effects of consuming sugar and refined carbs.

One from acidifying the stomach, another from just helping your blood sugars.

You'll find that if you have some apple cider vinegar in the morning when you wake up, if you did have some carbs, your sugars will be a little bit better from the apple cider vinegar.

The other point I want to bring about that because since we're on the topic of your blood sugars is that if you consume lean protein, as in whey protein powder, you can actually spike insulin.

That's the thing that helps to control blood glucose.

Now there's something called the insulin index and that is looking at all the non-carbohydrate things that can increase insulin that go beyond just like sugar and things like that.

So the thing that really spikes the insulin is the whey protein because there's absolutely no fat in there.

So this leads us to the next point.

Fat has one of the least effects on insulin.

Like fiber and fat, they don't trigger insulin too much.

So fat is a way to buffer the insulin response.

So if you have the choice between egg whites and the whole egg, always have the whole egg or a fatty hamburger versus a lean piece of meat, do the fatty hamburger.

If you have the nuts or maybe pecans, those are much better than the nuts that are leaner or whole fat kefir or cheese versus low fat or no fat cheese, huge difference.

Go for the fat.

The fat will buffer the insulin response from the protein.

Another thing that will help you neutralize the bad effects from the sugar is fasting.

If you fast, definitely do regular intermittent fasting, but a periodic fast will greatly help reduce the damage that that sugar has done to your cells.

I think if we combine certain things, we can create a cool effect.

Let's say you had a salad, right?

You have the fiber in there.

It doesn't have a lot of sugar in there.

We add the apple cider vinegar to it and then we add the olive oil.

We have fat, we have the vinegar, we have the fiber.

So the oil actually helps pull the fat soluble nutrients out of the salad.

And this combination is kind of a nice compounding effect of one meal to help counter maybe some bad things that a person ate.

Now I talked about sugar, I talked about grains.

Now I want to talk about alcohol a bit.

Alcohol is from grains and alcohol depletes your B1.

Alcohol is detoxified from the liver as a toxin.

So it takes priority and it creates damage to your liver and inflammation, et cetera.

So if you happen to have known of someone who has drank some alcohol, tell them to counter it by consuming B1, vitamin B1 or nutritional yeast, but B1 is a good one.

They probably won't have a hangover from that.

Pickle juice also is a good kind of an electrolyte that can help counter that or just taking electrolytes in general can help reduce the effects of a hangover, which is the toxicity that you're feeling of what's happening in the liver and anything that you take to damage the liver.

Milk thistle is a good antidote or neutralization factor.

Milk thistle is good for anything poisonous, whether you had a snake bite or consumed a poisonous mushroom or you drank alcohol or took Tylenol or the next thing on the issue, which is drugs.

If you're on certain drugs, they can damage the liver.

Take some milk thistle that will help counter or neutralize some of the bad effect.

If you're on a statin drug, make sure you take coenzyme Q10 or you may end up with some muscle damage.

If you're a diabetic and you take metformin, make sure you take B1 and B12.

And if you're on an antibiotic, make sure you take a probiotic.

If you're on an antacid, really you just need to take betaine hydrochloride because that antacid is going to get rid of acid in your stomach.

And usually the true cause of an acidic stomach is a lack of acid.

So a lot of times you'll go from bad to worse.

So if you start to add more acid in there, it will actually help neutralize some of the side effects that it's creating, which is a lack of stomach acid.