Debunking Saturated Fat Myths on Keto with Dr. Bret Scher

You may wish to follow a high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet to treat a medical condition such as diabetes or a serious mental illness like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or major depression. Do you have to worry about saturated fat on a ketogenic diet? In this video, Dr. Bret Scher addresses common concerns and dives into the details you need to know.

Key Highlights
- Introduction to Saturated Fat and Mental Health: Unpacking the myths and truths about saturated fats and their impact on health.
- The Flexibility of Ketogenic Diets: The keto diet involves achieving a state of ketosis. There are various dietary patterns that can shift the body's fuel source from glucose to ketones, and it is not necessary to consume saturated fat if one prefers not to.
- Saturated Fat Health Implications in Ketosis: Saturated fat in a high-carb diet, often found in processed foods like pizza and desserts, can lead to poor health outcomes. However, in a whole foods, low-carb ketogenic diet, saturated fat is consumed with nutrient-dense foods, and the body burns the fat as fuel, leading to improved metabolic health. There is no quality evidence proving that eating saturated fat on a keto diet would be harmful.
- Evidence-Based Analysis: A review of various studies and meta-analyses exploring the link between saturated fat intake and heart disease risk, with insights into the quality and limitations of the evidence.
- Research Insights: Most studies linking saturated fat to heart disease involve high-carb diets. In contrast, research on ketogenic diets shows significant metabolic improvements and reduced cardiac risk, highlighting the importance of dietary context.

Studies
Dietary fat and coronary heart disease: summary of evidence from prospective cohort and randomised controlled trials
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19752...
Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20071...
Association of dietary, circulating, and supplement fatty acids with coronary risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24723...
Intake of saturated and trans unsaturated fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26268...
Evidence from prospective cohort studies does not support current dietary fat guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27697...

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:07 The power of ketogenic therapy
1:26 Ketogenic therapy can come from many dietary patterns
2:13 What data says about saturated fat and heart disease
4:38 Where saturated fat comes from is key
5:46 Cochrane review of saturated fat and cardiac mortality/cancer
7:17 Conclusion

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