Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

So, in this video we're going to answer the question, does ketel decrease your fitness

performance and will you lose your muscles? Let's talk about that. Well, in 2012, there was

a study done and I'll put the link down below, that demonstrated that ketel does not affect

strength performance in elite athletes. In 2018, another study, I'll put it down below,

you get decreased oxidative stress and inflammation in deep-sea divers. So, basically it allows

you to perform better the same thing that goes with an athlete. When you run your body

in ketones, you get less oxidative stress, which means your organs and tissues don't

break down as easily and they can go longer. All right, another study was cyclists. When

they were put on keto, the endurance was not compromised. Right now, I know of two of

the top ultramarathon runners. They run like 100 miles. They're both doing ketel and

they dominate. In fact, one of the guys named Zach Bitter took the record for 100 miles

in America. I think it was like 11 hours and 40 minutes. Incredible. All right, let's

go through some things. It's not the carbs that build muscle. Protein helps build muscle.

Your muscles are built out of protein, not carbohydrates, training, strength training,

builds muscle. Now, it is true that insulin is anabolic. So, that is the hormone that helps

you, your muscles grow, but there's two things that stimulate insulin. One is carbs and

one is protein. Every time you consume protein, you're going to increase insulin. Now, when

you do a keto plan, you're going a low carb. When you go low carb and you also combine

intermittent fasting, you fix something called insulin resistance, which the majority

of the population has, that is a situation where the cells need more and more insulin

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