WHY YOU DON’T NEED TO EAT FRUIT ON A KETO DIET - DR. ERIC WESTMAN

[@steph6197]

I do enjoy 1/4 c of berries with heavy whipping cream and a couple almonds on top (4 total carbs) and I still remain in ketosis. I'd rather do this than feel deprived or eating choc zero bars (15 total carbs).

[@hopefulforhumanity5625]

Hey Dr. Westman, you taught me keto 8 years ago. I found your page 4 online. If it's not on pg. 4, don't eat it. Love you, but I'm moving to Rumble. KZbin cancels people for unpopular ideas. I've had enough. I've always loved the free exchange of ideas, and I always will.

[@JYAN2852]

Fruits today are not the same fruits that we ate 100 years ago. They all have been bred to be bigger and sweeter for profit. We also never had access to fruit 24x7 like how we do today. We have no business eating mango in December that came from Ecuador. It's very ancestrally inappropriate for our species' evolution

[@lisalu3994]

So true.

[@YouTuber-ep5xx]

There are no 'lean times' these days. Walk into a supermarket at any time and it is loaded with all manner of carbs, including fruit from around the planet.

[@alexr6114]

The same is true of most if not all vegetables that are produced commercially. And grains are far worse. Even most whole grains have very little nutritional value.

[@brendaandrandyking4126]

I eat some frozen strawberries with a little flaked unsweetened coconut two tablespoons of cream cheese.......this helps me not to eat ice cream candy bars etc

[@alexr6114]

If this works for you and you are no longer temped by very unhealthy foods, it may be smarter to do what works for you.

[@YouTuber-ep5xx]

I stick with the fatty fruits - coconut, avocado, and olives.

[@lf7065]

I like cucumbers, tomatoes and avocado 🙂

[@karooblue7634]

Thank you so much for sharing 🎈 Once / twice a year I crave a good 🍎 apple or yellow peach and in winter a guava. It is easy to just have 1 piece of fruit so I do enjoy it once in a while.

[@Christine-xs2of]

I only eat a few berries once in a while.

[@monicatomelty751]

Yep I grew up believing that if it come off a tree then it’s natural and meant to be eaten, until I was diagnosed with a fatty liver and thought it time to take charge of my health and go keto.

[@brendaandrandyking4126]

As far as fatty liver goes I believe it's the disease of the poison and not per say the fruit .....fruit is not meant yo be eaten all the time nor every day .....back when there were no grocery stores etc fruit was near yourhouse in season.....then it wasn't....for a long time ....and your liver recovered from the fructose loads

[@shielasamuel8530]

I ate lots of fruits each day and believe once upon a time it was good for us. My sugar at that time was very high

[@jameslester6785]

I haven't eaten any fruit for 3 years. You will be much healthier when you don't eat fruit.

[@tonys8243]

Same here 👍 although I still hear from people (fruit is natural sugar and is good for you everyone knows that)

[@jameslester6785]

@@tonys8243 Yes, trying to convince people that you don't need fruit is like swimming upstream.

[@barbtullos3909]

@@jameslester6785 .so true. !! I've been keto for 5 years. Never eat fruit. Never been healthier. I'm 73 feel 30 !!

[@brendaandrandyking4126]

Strawberries or blueberries I eat less than half a cup when I do I love pineapple but I know not to go there for sure

[@dandamerville]

Simply brilliant -- in both the Brit and American senses of the word.

[@AdaptYourLife]

Review transcript here: adaptyourlifeacademy.com/dr-eric-westman/why-you-dont-need-to-eat-fruit-on-a-keto-diet/

[@Marcinmd1]

Ive heard two well respected carnivore guru's claim that long term keto can damage thyroid function. One recommends some fruit so you cycle in and out of keto. True or false? thanks

[@AdaptYourLife]

False

[@francesfarmer736]

Yes, all my life I was told eat fruit & vegetables.....I ate a banana everyday for potassium.....

[@robyn3349]

Thank you!

[@stephenwilliams4406]

Thank you for getting me off my 'Fruit & Nut' consumption. No wonder I'm 'Stalled'!

[@arwenhardy1995]

I believe our bodies don't know the difference between fruit and candy bars.

[@silviam2835]

Great video once again! You’re the best doc! Thank you and Glen! 🤗

[@AdaptYourLife]

Thank you for watching Silvia 😊

[@WordsBloom]

Since doctors all contradict each other, I listen to my body. I felt truly awful on both keto and carnivore (and vegan before those two). Through trial and error I found that the best diet for me is meat-based with a little fruit a day (i.e 1 cup grapes) and a couple of ounces of hard cheese. My digestion is perfect eating this combination (no more diarrhea or other IBS symptoms) and I feel fantastic all over and my health is very good. There's no point eating a keto or zero carb diet if you still feel absolutely awful more than a year later like I did.

[@johnkenney7987]

Hi Dr Westman. I think Im experiencing diabetic autonomic neuropathy with pain in nerves of intestines. Have you seen this in your experience?

[@mungomidge1090]

Watching after just eating a bowl of blueberries and heavy cream :)

[@spaceghost8995]

I have pretty much always hated most fruit anyway. Usually it just tasted sour

[@judymurray191]

That would only if it is not ripe.

[@garyroberts3859]

Some sub tittles on the main points would be helpful

[@cyndimanka]

I may not need to but I did and lost weight. I ate watermelon and berries my first summer on keto

[@christianallen6202]

Thanks Guys... !

[@nebojsabogovac6208]

Lustig says fruit is okay because of fiber. Who should I listen to now?

[@niranjanpaul2176]

Ocassinally

[@stevec3872]

Back in the spring of 2020 I was trying to lose weight on the DASH diet and sending messages to my doctor, telling him how I was eating lots of fruit and veggies. My treat each night was having "a" cookie. I was riding my bike 20 miles a day. I did lose weight and then it stopped and then I started to gain weight. A few weeks later I discovered keto, lost another 40 pounds and have never looked back. I haven't had a banana now in nearly a year.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

What vitC foods? List them pls I know ripe bell peppers have some but not alot What else?

[@YouTuber-ep5xx]

I take a 5 cent vitamin for vitamin C.

[@JE-cy9ly]

optimisingnutrition.com/vitamin-c-foods-the-ultimate-guide/#more-18546

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

@@JE-cy9ly This didn’t have many that I’ve come across on VitC lists but I HAD forgotten cabbage and esp fermented cabbage! Parsley is hard to eat enough of to count. Fresh only has it as heat destroys it. I took out the overtly high carb ones but added strawberries as they’re higher than the other berries listed. Berries however are rare treats on keto so 🤷🏼‍♀️ kale broccoli parsley green peppers cauliflower lemon juice cabbage lime juice zucchini sauerkraut asparagus lettuce garlic cucumber onion raspberries strawberries blueberries I think that site’s hypothesis that reduced BG let’s one eat reduced vitC is right. But for my sugar burner kids, I need high vitC fruits. Maybe if we ever afford to feed them vlc even (no beans and grains anymore or even porridges for brkfst) then we can switch to some sauerkraut and ripe peppers doing the job!

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

@@KZbinr-ep5xx Synthetic vitamins and minerals are notoriously unabsorbable. You’re simply producing expensive urine. Whole food supplements, esp the God made first supplements ever; we call them herbs/weeds. Very high in vitC - and minerals too. But if you must take pills, take ones made from wholefoods. You need much less than the ascorbic acid, etc. The good ones are made from powdered herbs/weeds! (Weeds are herbs growing where we don’t want them to lol They’re often forgotten as very useful as they were poo-poo’d by “science” in the 1900s)

[@dana102083]

well sugar competes with vitamin c, so if you cut the sugar, you don't need as much of it. Are you doing keto? Meat is a good food to focus on to ensure you have good vitamin c levels, actually. Some will call it an antiscurvy agent.

[@outbackscout9719]

9:20 "It hasn't added any health benefits by adding fiber" Curious, because that's exactly what this study is saying it does: Effect of a very-high-fiber vegetable, fruit, and nut diet on serum lipids and colonic function Conclusions: "The high-fiber vegetable diet resulted in the largest reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol" "We conclude that very high-vegetable fiber intakes reduce risk factors for cardiovascular disease and possibly colon cancer." The best observational studies to date found that fiber appears to significantly protect against the risk of stroke. Depending, evidently, on how much fiber they ate. Notably, increasing fiber just seven grams a day was associated with a 7% reduction in stroke risk. This seems pretty significant, but maybe that's just me?

[@HappybyChoice]

Probably written by someone who still believes in the low fat diet standard and still prescribes statins.

[@ernesthader1109]

Seems that the conclusions is anchored on ldl that is causing cardiovascular disease when in fact it is inversely proportional to cardiovascular disease. Of course any plant food will lower ldl but that doesn't mean it will lower cardiovascular disease.

[@brumleytown1882]

Changing cholesterol doesn't change risk of heart disease near as much as you believe.

[@ralphhamdeed2977]

How many carbs are in strawberries

[@axxxingforanswers4648]

Google is your friend.

[@carolferguson]

5.8 gr per half cup, but 1.5 gr fiber! Yeah! (“Fitness pal” is a great app... sometimes you have to hunt around because “just anyone” can add info, but look below and see all the cool info they give us, for free! (Sorry he was rude)

[@ralphhamdeed2977]

@@carolferguson thank you carol

[@lindap.p.1337]

You can type your question into a search engine just as easily as to ask here.

[@carolferguson]

@@lindap.p.1337 be nice

[@Isaac5123]

The saying is an apple a day keeps the doctor away not a few fruit keeps the doctor away. Saying an apple a day is not another one it's the original. Limit fruit or give it up

[@Manakel77]

Dr Westman, we know that populations adapt their digestive system to the environment over thousands of years. Think about dairy products. Likewise may the effect of fruit in metabolism be different, for example between Mediterranean people and Scandinavians?

[@AdaptYourLife]

For folks with metabolic syndrome or T2D, the sugar content in the fruit is what negatively affects them, despite the environment.

[@Manakel77]

@@AdaptYourLife I totally agree with that. I was referring to effects on healthy people with no pre-conditions. Likewise with dairy or alcohol, we all know that in healthy people they have a different effect according to lack of lactase or ADH, which is genetic, derived from habits built over millennia.

[@AdaptYourLife]

@@Manakel77 of course 😊 Dr. Westman’s new book End Your Carb Confusion is specifically about that👌

[@Manakel77]

@@AdaptYourLife wow I can't wait for reading it! Cheers.

[@newlife3222]

I love fruit!

[@garyroberts3859]

Many drs will say eat berries only, but Eric seems to say even berries should be avoided…please comment

[@AdaptYourLife]

Berries still have sugar in them.

[@garyroberts3859]

@@AdaptYourLife thanks for your reply, I do appreciate it.

[@brumleytown1882]

Berries have a lower glycemic index and are higher in antioxidants than most fruit.

[@lisalu3994]

I only eat strawberries once a flood.

[@outbackscout9719]

So I am interested, does anyone know what studies have brought this man to the conclusion that fruit makes you fat and sugar in fruit is as bad as that in candy bars? Because there are a bunch of studies that are claiming the opposite: Industrial, not fruit fructose intake is associated with the severity of liver fibrosis Conclusions: "The daily intake of industrial, not fruit fructose is a risk factor for metabolic alterations and the severity of liver fibrosis in patients with G1 CHC." Sugar, uric acid, and the etiology of diabetes and obesity Conclusions: "We found, for example, that whereas fructose from added sugars is associated with hypertension, fructose from natural fruits is not" Some biochemical effects of a mainly fruit diet in man (participants ate 20 servings a day of fruit) Conclusions: "Despite the extraordinarily high fructose content of this diet, presumably about 200 g/d, the investigators reported no adverse effects (and possible benefit) for bodyweight, blood pressure, and insulin and lipid levels after 12 to 24 weeks." Effect of a very-high-fiber vegetable, fruit, and nut diet on serum lipids and colonic function (20 servings of fruit and 44 servings of vegetables per day - Yikes!) Conclusions: "The high-fiber vegetable diet resulted in the largest reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol" "We conclude that very high-vegetable fiber intakes reduce risk factors for cardiovascular disease and possibly colon cancer." Curious if anyone has come across studies that are in contradiction to these? I like to hear the evidence from both sides when I can.

[@AdaptYourLife]

Dr. Westman has over 20 years of clinical work treating over ten thousand patients and over 100 peer reviewed papers. Here is a link to most of his published papers pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=westman+ec For folks that have Type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome fruit is no different than candy. A simple blood glucose test after eating fruit will show the same blood sugar results as eating candy. Sugar in all forms are what is driving Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. It’s actually widely accepted by most diabetes associations around the world that carbs (in any form) are not advised in large amounts for T2D patients.

[@marianking1379]

He does not have a British accent, oz,,??

[@peterbulloch4328]

Canadian I think, the guy asking the questions is South African for sure.

[@alimo1611]

meat and 2 veg as become fruit and veg

[@Lala.903]

???

[@alimo1611]

@@Lala.903 it was a repeated frase that we must eat "meat and 2 veg" to be healthy. now it's always a "good" thing to eat "fruit and veg". How things have changed for the worse.

[@jerome4276]

Carnivorous animals (eg lions) manage to poop just fine without any veggies, so meat must contain sufficient fibre to poop. So do we humans need veggie fibre to poop either?

[@spaceghost8995]

No.

[@lornalewis7262]

Yes we needed certain vegetables to build muscles

[@lilpoohbear653]

@@lornalewis7262 not true...there are weight lifters that are completly carnivore. Carbs are not an essential nutrient...neither is fiber

[@lornalewis7262]

@@lilpoohbear653 Every one is not the same

[@DirkLemaitre]

@Bill T Hi Bill T kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3bJcqCef92oaZY An interview whit dr Paul Mason, in favor of a carnivore diet. The human gastro intestinal tract is not designed to be herbivorous only.

[@dharma_star]

But he recommends fruit flavored diet soda.Good luck with that.

[@lilpoohbear653]

the point he is making is to avoid sugar

[@holmes12001]

This is not about optimal health ... this is about seriously ill people .. morbid obesity .. diabetes .. his plan gets the weight off and gets diabetes under control .. he also said that some people can tolerate the sugar in fruit .....

[@dana102083]

What should have been said is, dont let this lack of fruit make you quit keto. Do it any way you can. If you can do better, do it and commit to better. If you cant, do the best you physically and financially can do and improve when able. Everyone starts at different points due to their determinants of health. It's a wicked world out there..

[@survivorship4290]

What about tomato? That's a fruit I read.

[@majipoorcat]

I eat very few tomatoes. Mostly just in a sauce once in a while.

[@peterbulloch4328]

Take the skin off and de sead them before eating or saucing.

[@amandalewis1503]

I lost weight in keto then I gained it all back on with interest my psoriasis got worse got fed up with it my blood pressure was all ways high I felt tired and I was angry have you see you tube potatoe strong it's this guy who ate potatoes he lost all his weight doing opposite to keto theirs millions of people on high carb diet s doing very well fed up with keto it made feell awful

[@jg6091]

The randle cycle You can eat high fat or high carbs.

[@winsomewife7112]

Fruit has its healthy place in our diet... not much and not every day, but zero fruit for everyone is not real medical advice. God didn't make ALL fruit types as the forbidden fruit. Some grain is ok too, depends on your health, the quality of the grain, the preparation, your activity level, frequency of eating, etc. Its not never. Just the right balance, if it's something you want to eat. We even have a small tolerance for sugar, it's just a low tolerance where there's no damage at all. Honey helps your health in small amounts. So does fruit. In fact, many actual poisons can help your health in small amounts, like cyanide & the active ingredient in bleach. Depends on health, amount, frequency etc.

[@valbrenneman9071]

The problem is, the fruit we have today is not like God created for Adam and Eve. Man has messed with it. Same with grains.

[@monicabostan1081]

@@valbrenneman9071 well said

[@Faithandseekerofchrist]

​@@valbrenneman9071yeah grains are really bad for you and all of them are pretty much made from flour and eventually gets stored as sugar and fat. So even when I reach my goal weight, I will not be eating bread. If you're under 20 G of carbs per day, I think it will be very hard to hard to add fruits to your diet. I found out that a whole avocado was 11 to 17 G of carbs per day and I might be able to get away with maybe half of an avocado but not a full one. I mean it has the fats and not sugary like the other fruits and I can see why it is praise and the keto community but that is if you are 30-50 grams of carbs day. But if you're 20 to 25 grams per day of carbs then probably not unless you eat half of an avocado.