Keto, Fasting and Everything in Between- Thomas DeLauer (Your Questions Answered)

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Keto, Fasting and Everything in Between- Thomas DeLauer (Your Questions Answered) Week of 11/19/18

So, in this video, I'm covering comments that were placed on videos from the week of November 19th, 2018. So I'm going to go through, and there's a lot of questions. The particular videos I posted up that week where once they yielded questions that were a little bit more miscellaneous. So I did a video on cravings, I did a video of those a little bit of vlog style or grocery shopping.

The first one that I want to do comes from the video, "How Cravings Work: Crabs Fats & Everything in Between." This video is about how we end up having hormonal responses that make us crave certain things. How it's not just a process of wanting more food or needing more food, is literally a hormonal response that could be dictated from so many different direction in our life. So if you haven't checked out that video, definitely, make sure you check it out after this video.

All right. So the first question comes from Vijayendra Shah, says, "Does body fat percentage affect the ability to put on muscle? More fat percentage equal slow muscle gain." That's a really good question. One thing is for certain, lean body mass directly has an impact because, obviously, your metabolism is a little bit faster and it's easier to activate mTOR and easier to build more muscle.

More body fat would allow you to have what's called more aromatization, more estrogen production, which can kill off testosterone. So you have more estrogen, it turns to a vicious cycle, which ends up taking all your extra testosterone, converting it to estrogen so that you're not able to build muscle properly. So, in short, the higher the body fat, yeah, it is a little bit harder to build muscle if you're not in a truly anabolic muscle building stage.

Azeem says, "Can you take creatine while you're fasted?" Creatine monohydrate works totally fine while you're fasted. In fact, you're going to absorb it very well, at that point in time, so you're totally fine, but remember that it takes a long time for you to absorb creatine, so why bother taking it in a fasting period?

It's not like it hits you instantaneously. It takes days to build up and actually have an effect on your system, so you might as well just take it during your eating window, to be completely honest.

Traci Nichols says, "Hi Thomas, a couple of questions. One, do we need to eat more fat or is that we have more body fat regarding the leptin? Or two, if I exercise more well, I like it more, create a dopamine response?"

Question one, eating more fat, isn't necessarily going to have a leptin response, it's having more body fat and different kinds of craving response. So that doesn't really make too much of a difference there.

If you exercise more, will you like it more? If you create a positive habit loop out of it and you see an actual reward from it, then sure, you will create a habit loop and you'll like it more.

This next video was really cool. This was a grocery trip with me, and it was my first real vlog style video. So camera crew went along with me. We went to the grocery store. It was a day in the life sort of thing where I was in a pinch, just needed to grab some simple things in the grocery store. Ultimately, ended up getting kicked out of the grocery store for having some camera stuff there. It was interesting and people really, really liked it.

Lapointe0174 says, "I'm glad you guys are okay. I liked the grocery trips because I can put a face with the name. I do have one question about Lion's Mane. How often should I have it? I like it and it's really great, but I don't want to overdo it. I take one packet a day of coffee with Lion's Mane."

Lion's Mane, you're good to go. You can take that as much as you want. Lion's Mane is a specific mushroom, for those of you that don't know, that it increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor, but also helps with what's called neuroplasticity. It helps the brain sort of stay in a positive way and retraining, develop new neuro channels and neuropathways. You're good to have that. Honestly, three, four times a day if you really want to.

So that's it for these videos for this week. Make sure you keep it locked in next week when I answered videos from this week. So the whole idea of this is to make sure that you understand this as a community. Engage, comment, ask questions, I'm going to do the best that I can to answer them.

As always, keep it locked in here on my channel. See you in the next video.

[EsseQuamVideriSeen]

I almost find hit hard to believe how knowledgeable Thomas is and how willing he is to share that knowledge with all of us. If there is a better person on YouTube I'd like to know who.

[maxdads]

I LOVE the advice of not "planning" a cheat day! This makes SO much sense to me...Seeing food as a "reward" is one of the major psychological factors that led to my struggles with obesity in the first place. Keto/IF has changed my life, but lately, I have been promising myself "treats & cheats" for certain occasions or achievements...This STOPS now!!! Thank you!

[nj]

I love the advice to not plan a cheat meal/day. This is contrary to what I have always heard, but how I usually do things. My cheats are never planned and I always felt like I was doing something wrong by deciding on a whim that I would cheat. I've always felt that my body responds better to this and I am able to exercise more self control and get back on track if I don't plan.

[dillenbeck]

So I've been full keto for like a year now and I live and die by dairy. I eat cheese, sour cream, butter, beef and whole milk occasionally. So far its been great and I have never felt better in my life. I think it could just be different for different people. I just wanted to add this because I see so many keto enthusiasts that seem to shun dairy yet I don't know where I would be without it!

[aaronhughson]

Lakanto Monkfruit Sweetner is amazing. I made a Creme Brûlée and it was excellent! I’m sure it was zero carbs.

[jc]

Would you consider doing some more shopping videos, BUT... where you only can shop at Kroger, or Walmart. Places that are more practical to the viewers. Like me. shopping at places like Whole Foods just isn’t even a option, rather it be for lack of locations, or from a financial standpoint... I live in Kentucky, and to be perfectly honest.. a lot of foods you mention “to me”, sounds like it only grows on a side of a mountain... in Yemen, or some other 3rd world country. Leaving me believing that my goals are completely unreachable... pretty sure I’m speaking for many. Hope you consider, but praying you except this...as a challenge! Keto has changed my life forever. Your videos play a major role in that. Thanks for all you do!

[VicM]

Thomas, would love to see an updated video on TKD, particularly prior to working out. Thanks!

[jasongualito]

Thomas what would be your thoughts on a 5-7 day water fast to reset your system, and also drastically reducing calories on OMAD for short term but hitting nutrient needs for massive weight loss results?, love your videos as always !!

[Sue-In-Oregon]

this is great, wish more presenters answered their viewer questions. THANK YOU!!!

[bretoffski]

I really like these videos, Thomas gives the facts in bitesized chunks rather than give 10 minutes of science for one answer. Plenty of flow and very easy and fun to watch! Keep up the good work!

[MarcusStne]

I'm so glad someone asked about the monster. All I needed hear was "technically that won't break a fast" 😂

[ketodeb]

I started researching IF and landed on Dr. Jason Fung, where I learned that the keto diet makes fasting much easier. Maybe because I was type 2 diabetic, insulin resistant, it took me 9 months of keto to be able to fast for 24 hrs without any hypoglycemic symptoms.

[Tickles]

You never talk about spices !! Do they break a fast ?eg..Cayenne pepper, ginger,turmeric, cinnamon mixed in water ?! Thx

[peterlaw]

That was a great clip... I think it is great that you cover these questions

[KevosMagic]

Starting keto + IF tomorrow. Hope I can make it trough a month at least

[SA-zsup]

Can you please address kidney pain due to being too acidic how that happens and how to prevent/fix it?

[jamesdeininger]

I genuinely had no idea what the “white monster” was — Definitely thought he was asking about cocaine 😂❄️☃️

[points]

thanks for all of your informative videos! any thoughts on using hemp oil as a source of fats?

[ksmr]

Love your videos! Posted the one from yesterday on beginning keto on my MFP page and ppl inboxed me thanking me for posting. Your content is awesome and really helps this lifestyle become that much easier to understand.

[Kimahri]

I work 64 hours in 5 days. So I work 16 hours to sleep 5 to work 8 hours again and repeat. How should I eat to keep in keto, have enough energy and reduce the cravings.

I using the bulletfat coffe and some tea between meals, but still sometimes I have to eat more than 3 times.