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Myths & Fallacies : "No Such Thing as an Essential Carbohydrate"
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Myth Busting: Essential Carbohydrates?
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chrisyzen
In this segment of myths and fallacies on the how to actually live longer podcast with your host Christian Ordonov, let's tackle this one. I love this one. no There's no such thing as an essential carbohydrate in the textbooks. Great. Let's see how that works out for all the keto priests and priestesses. So we have the concept of nutritionally essential, right? So, uh, for example,
00:00:29
chrisyzen
We can synthesize something in sufficient quantities to meet our daily needs in the body. That thing will be classified as non-essential because we can synthesize it if we need to.
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chrisyzen
for example the amino
The Physiological Necessity of Glucose
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chrisyzen
acid glycine that one we can synthesize it in the body so it's considered a non-essential amino acid does that mean that taking more glycine or eating more foods that have glycine and stuff like that is not going to be beneficial no of course to it would it will be very beneficial for you so similarly glucose we have multiple ways of making glucose in the body, maybe, maybe, because it's so super essential, we have multiple ways to make it as backup sort of emergency pathways. If there's a lack scarcity in the environment, maybe that's why. Or maybe it's it's just it's very easy to make, you never know. But here's the thing, you can have something be nutritionally non-essential,
00:01:37
chrisyzen
but still be physiologically essential. In fact, glucose is physiologically essential. And you know, do you know what water is? It's actually technically not nutritionally essential, right? Because we can actually make, we can turn fat into water in the body. But if you don't get water for a long enough time period,
00:02:07
chrisyzen
Do you think you're going to be thriving, making your own water from your fatty tissue? No, of course not. Likewise, with glucose, glucose is absolutely physiologically essential because that's what the brain runs on, right? Most of the time, unless you're starving, dying, and you're in ketosis, or you decided that keto is going to be your religion and this is how you're going to live the rest of your life. ah Good luck with that again.
00:02:36
chrisyzen
so
Glucose in Medical Emergencies
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chrisyzen
um Glucose is so essential that when you go, if touch wood, a person goes to the emergency room, what ah what is the first thing that they put them on? Not a fat drip, you don't get fatty acids dripped into you.
00:02:57
chrisyzen
or amino acids or protein, you don't get ah a protein drip, you get a glucose drip. Why? Because they know after trying multiple things probably, maybe they did like, ah let's do a Coca-Cola drip and okay, the person died very quickly. ma Okay, can the Coca-Cola, should we try Pepsi? No, no, no, let's move on to something else, right? But actually, Coca-Cola perhaps would be better to drip to a person because there's a lot of sugar in there. So there will be glucose and fructose. So maybe that's not the worst thing but you know the point is that's the medicine knows how essential
00:03:36
chrisyzen
glucose is for the brain the central nervous system and look even if you're in very deep ketosis you continue to make glucose but you will never live only on ketones that is an absolute sort of pipe dream myth fallacy right nonsense so what's the point here glucose is physiologically essential you will die without it so that's why you have multiple ways to make it in the body So why why deprive of yourself of this and force your body to break down protein amino acids to make glucose? That is actually
Critiquing Low-Carb and Keto Practices
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chrisyzen
an energetically expensive process. These processes are inefficient if you want to turn 100 grams of protein, not 100 grams of food, 100 grams of protein. So if 20 grams per 100, right, let's say steak is 20 grams,
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chrisyzen
of protein per 100, you have to eat more than a pound or or half a kilogram of steak to get, let's say, roughly 100 grams of protein. That, to get converted to glucose, do you know how much glucose you net out of that whole process? 50 grams, roughly. 100 grams of high quality protein grass fed the best thing in the world that a lot of keto paleo folks are eating, very good.
00:05:01
chrisyzen
And then what are they doing? They're wasting it to turn it into glucose instead of having a little bit of honey or some fruit or whatever. you know So extremely misguided. And i I still hear people talk about it now in 2024. When I got into the the sort of low carb keto stuff back in 2018, that's the kind of stuff I was parroting. So people are parroting now.
00:05:29
chrisyzen
the same stuff I was parenting six ago. So either people are way behind the times, they didn't learn, or they decided, this is Mecca, I'm going to stay here for the rest of my life. Or they're just getting into the space. And the problem is, some of these folks have a lot of followers and they're influencing, you know, hundreds of thousands or probably more people in some cases.
00:05:49
chrisyzen
And they're they're very, very badly misguided about how the human body should function optimally, not how it can function, what states of survival we can kind of, ah ah you know, get through, what sort of bad times it can get, because that's what ketosis was. Remember,
The Dangers of Long-term Scarcity Signals
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chrisyzen
ketosis is a thing that gets us through really tough times of starvation.
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chrisyzen
Just because we can mimic it by ah restricting carbohydrates does not mean we're not sending the same signals of scarcity to the body. And when you send signals of scarcity to the body for a long time, bad things start to happen. Nice to have functions start to get shut down. And if you want to thrive,
00:06:40
chrisyzen
and and have longevity, health span and lifespan, these are things you don't want to do on a regular basis. To be honest, I don't even think that that's another thing that is a little bit of, it seems like a little bit of a fairy tale that therere some of these guys are saying it's super beneficial to get in and out of ketosis once in a while. But why?
00:07:04
chrisyzen
Where does it, where what evidence base are are these folks sort of drawing from to to kind of, you know, to think that and to tell us that, that it's useful to get into ketosis once in a while. Where, how, why? Is it because this is your religion and you believe that?
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chrisyzen
or you have an
Reevaluating Nutrient Classifications
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chrisyzen
actual like have you done have you done studies with like dozens of people at least or maybe hundreds of people no you haven't are there any studies are there any long-term studies on on keto on ketosis and what it does to the body we have like most of these studies like are like a few months and some studies will be like occasionally ah a year or longer but that those are very rare a lot of the initial research was just these one to three months studies and stuff like that what how are we gonna at all understand the long-term implications of sending signals of scarcity scarcity to your body with those kind of studies, you know? So fallacy that, ah what was the fallacy? I forgot what I was even talking about. Oh yeah, the fallacy that there's no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. there's no there There are amino acids that are considered non-essential. Does that mean if you don't eat them,
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chrisyzen
If you don't get them from the diet, you're going to do just fine. No, you're going to have very serious health problems very quickly. Right. Also there there is such a thing as, so we can synthesize saturated fats and even monounsaturated fats, we can do stuff with those. So technically fat, saturated fat is not is not an essential ah nutrient, right? And polyunsaturated fats, they're the ones that are classified as essential. So do you think
00:09:03
chrisyzen
only eating polyunsaturated fats you're gonna do do really well do you think not eating any fat or saturated fat and just polyunsaturated fat you're gonna do well no you're gonna do oh horrifically bad horrifically bad right so this like nonsense of there's no such thing as an essential carbohydrate yeah in the textbook in the way we classify nutrients sure Physiologically, you're dead without glucose in minutes. In minutes, you
Conclusion: Textbook vs. Physiological Reality
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chrisyzen
are gonzo. And even in the deepest of deepest of deepest ketosis is sit and fasts, you are still producing glucose, which means you are degenerating your body to turn it into glucose.
00:09:51
chrisyzen
your fat, um your lean tissue, your um skin, organs, your muscle, bones, joints, the cartilage in them, the collagenous tissues in them. And yeah, so no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Next time someone tells you that, you know what to tell them, physiologically essential though. Thanks for, thanks for listening to my rant and I'll see you on the next episode.