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So I had another question.

Do medications slow down your keto and intermittent fasting results, okay?

This is to kind of look at some of the top medications.

Number one, if you're a diabetic, you're taking either metformin or insulin or other drugs

that increase insulin, okay?

Now both of these right here will definitely slow the results because the goal is to lower

insulin, okay?

And this is kind of acting as a crutch to help insulin resistance, but it's not correcting

it.

It's kind of like temporarily kind of patching it.

And we have steroids like in prednisone or cortisone injections for inflammation or skin

problems.

This is an adrenal hormone.

This will definitely block your keto results.

In fact, this will greatly stimulate insulin.

And that's why one of the side effects of taking corticosteroids or prednisone is diabetes.

Antidepressants will also slow your results.

And actually one of the side effects is weight gain because it increases insulin.

Stattons also increase insulin resistance.

It worsens the result.

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