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  1. Hi dr Steve, can i please ask you about the uric acid on keto. Mine is very high although i don't have gout or kidney stones. My dr wants me on Allopurinol. Please advise me

  2. On 'lite' salt – we have not been able to find potasium chloride or a blend of sodium chloride with potassium chloride that did not have added chemicals. Instead, bone broth is a good source of minerals, and is ridiculously easy to make. This is what used to be called simply broth, or clear soup. A splash of organic apple cider vinegar in a slow cooker with the bones and scraps from whatever meat you have available helps the minerals to be released from the bones. Simmering the broth for 2-3 days also helps. In the not long ago past, everyone used to keep a pot of broth simmering over the fire, woodstove, or on the back burner.

    Adding a good measure of unprocessed salt (Himalayan,Redmonds, etc) enhances the flavor, and also helps provide the salt we need. Other herbs can be added to taste.

    Of course, 100% grassfed beef or lamb or other herbivore, or pastured poultry or pork that have been raised without chemicals or chemically contaminated feed is ideal.

  3. I have lost 238 pounds on Keto and I have kept it off. I have wanted to make sure that I keep all my minerals and vitamins in check when I was having some odd symptoms. I felt like I may be low in magnesium so I started eating a lot of spinach. I ate 85-170 grams of it a day. After about a year of that, I got terrible kidney stones and the dr said I need a low oxalate diet for the rest of my life after the surgery. My muscles symptoms never cleared up when eating all the spinach anyway but how can you get magnesium when you can not eat the green leafy veggies as they recommend?

  4. I do not understand and I have been looking for months for this answer but I am no finding it. My pink salt says that it is 1/4 TSP is 1.1 grams of salt. It says it has 420 mg of sodium. But if sodium is not salt then where do I get up to 5 grams of sodium from? So if I was to take in pink salt to hit the 5 grams of sodium a day I would need to have 2.5 teaspoons of pink salt a day?

  5. Most people are saying that protein will not effect Ketones but seems like he is saying it really does. So hard to know what to believe. I am 190 pounds and I hear I should have 58 grams a day all they way to about 200 grams a day. I don’t want to be to low.

  6. What a great presentation, you have Q and A included as well.
    Inflammation was my enemy for well over 3 decades, most because of my lifestyle.
    I am slowly weening off carbs and have never felt better, inflammation fell faster than you can count.
    Now it is my beer I need to tackle, my last vice.
    Glad to hear wine is ok here and there as I love a red or white as well.
    I know, I have a drinking obsession like most Aussie men do. 😁

  7. dear Dr. with due all respect for your smart lections, I am trying to keep staying in ketosis for 4 weeks I start but I see I am struggling to keep my blood sugar level low,and low carb I follow any good advice I find in professional lectures in this regard to get back into a healthy way of life with only natural food low carb low protein(if possible) 3 times a week doing sport etc. to maintain my ketosis stage and if I drop off to get back again, but everywhere is said (you & other colleague of yours)"the older people shall go for low 10-20g/day,carb and moderate protein (100 g/day due to my condition)consumption because if too high protein consume the lever will turn it to sugar being this said my simple question is where on god sake can I find low carb and low protein food to consume avoiding starving? because any food you see even in nature just a little amount of them for example meat or fish or egg or chicken all have in 100g serving min.40-50 g protein and how can I eat food to satiety if I gain just by 100g.so much amount of protein? I have the restriction due to my condition to eat max.10g carb,100g.protein and top max 1000Kcal/day!!! so shall I go for water fasting? for how long? I have diabetic T2 high blood pressure, I am using blood thinner med and 30+ overweight! shall I hang myself or fast like a monk to reach my maker or F… drink water to the end of my life ???? I would love to have an direct answer so I can get clear if this all is based on a real fact for human life or just a hooks for ideal person who is nowhere to find(as you know the normal human in our sick society with normal daily life & job has to keep this silly show move on I am sure you understand me and my frustration.thank you.

  8. Question, A friend of ine had hospital visit. he is almost 60 years old. He had eaten what he thinks has been healthy all his life. Anyway he has been trying to eat keto this week. and after three days we tested his ketones in his urine and has has none, is there any reason this will happen?

  9. Jesus Christ! This talk has so much gold in it … not the least of which is regarding alcohol and salt (from the 40 minute mark through the next 10 minutes or so) … two things people like, and two things a keto diet permits (and for salt, encourages). Those two things could be leveraged to gain adherence (and adherents) to the diet, but would also cause a huge scandal. lol!

  10. I am having the damnedest time getting my fat up over 50%. Carbs I have no problem with I can stick under 20 – 30g, protein though that's always about 50-70g. I just don't see how people can eat so much fat without the protein.

  11. Seriously you guys had to waste so much time on dumb alcohol questions? :/ If you are so concerned whether you can drink wine, you should go to rehab before the keto diet.

  12. Dr phinney, I have an awful feeling that because of the low fat eating that most women have been eating for the past three decades , especially while pregnant has given rise to all of these children with auto immune disease , I feel guilty but not culpable ! I have three sons in their twenties , one with Crohn's disease and all with varying degrees of depression and poor immune systems! SAD stupid American diet!

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