They Lied To You About Menopause (Here's Proof)

So, are postmenopausal women all of a sudden not human anymore? There's a strange rumor going around that after menopause, your body has different nutritional requirements and will need carbohydrates. This doesn't happen for any animal on Earth. And humans have never needed to do this historically or prehistorically as well. They knew it in other native populations don't all of a sudden change their diet after menopause. And no other animal does as well. Female lions that are past childbearing age still eat the same thing that they did when they were fertile, as do elephants and giraffes and monkeys and chimpanzees and dolphins and all the rest. Now, maybe some of the amounts of essential nutrients and energy can vary, but non-essential nutrients such as carbohydrates do not all of a sudden become essential later in life for us or any other creature on Earth. In fact, carbohydrates raise insulin that blocks estrogen production in women. So, this can actually make things worse and put women into early menopause. I've seen it happen many times in my clinical practice and I've seen this reversed when taken off carbohydrates. 60% of my patients are post-menopausal women. Some are on HRT, some are not, but all of them do extremely well on ketogenic carnivore diets. This is not a stress state. As we've covered in many other videos, the large scale, long-term randomized control trials in humans show this that you do not get elevated cortisol. You do not get a dip in your thyroid or any other hormonal issues. In fact, we get this a bit confused because when in a stress state, this can elevate cortisol. And so, we automatically assume if cortisol is present, that must be a stress state. But that is not the case. Cortisol is an extremely important hormone that has many functions in the body, and without it, you can get very sick or even die. Look up Addison's disease. And again, the randomized controlled human data on long-term ketogenic diets show that there are no elevated cortisol risks from long-term ketosis. We also know from anthropology and paleo anthropology that there are many civilizations who have never eaten carbohydrates and as long as they are getting adequate protein and fat they are extremely healthy and have no delotterious health effects or negative effects on longevity. This has been echoed by such institutions as the national academy of science and the institutes of medicine who have said plainly that there is zero carbohydrate demand for human beings throughout the course of their life and that this does not negatively impact health or longevity. As mentioned before, no animals change their diet after they stop having children, and it wouldn't make sense if they did. Also, something strange that I've heard recently, which is that post-menopausal women may need carbohydrates to boost their metabolism, but in fact, carbohydrates actually slow the metabolism, as has been shown in various biochemical and physiological studies because being in a state of ketosis without carbohydrates actually increases the basil metabolic rate by 350 kilo calories per day. So, that's an increase in metabolism, not a reduction. Another strange assertion I heard recently was that menopausal women will need more glycogen in their muscles or that people in general might need more glycogen in their muscles and therefore they need carbohydrates. However, this is assuming a fact that is not in evidence. Controlled trials in human athletes have actually shown that ketogenic athletes when properly keto adapted actually have the exact same level of muscle glycogen on muscle biopsy before a 3-hour run, directly after a 3-hour run, and then 3 hours after recovering. And this is compared to a carbohydrate group that was actually consuming carbohydrates, sugar gels, and drinks during and after exercise for recovery. So the ketogenic group had the same exact levels of muscle glycogen only with their own natural production. And they actually matched the recovery for muscle glycogen to carbohydrate athletes who had to eat sugar gels and drinks for appropriate amounts of muscle or liver glycogen. And in fact, it's better if you don't because your body can constantly replenish these and you won't run out and hit the wall like you will on a carbohydrate metabolism. And just for athletic performance, head-to-head controlled trials with elite athletes show that when properly keto adapted, the ketogenic athletes are outperforming the carbohydrate fueled athletes, even though the carbohydrate fueled athletes are taking down sugar gels and drinks during performance, whereas the ketogenic group is running on their own body's energy. And why wouldn't it? We store fat in order to use it as energy later, not to try to poison ourselves and give ourselves heart disease. In fact, many of these studies on elite athletes who rely on sugar, carbohydrates, and gels for their athletic performance, are actually finding that they are getting pre-diabetes and even diabetes, even at younger ages, as elite worldclass athletes. So, no, carbohydrates are not an improvement. And there's people that say that if you're not a post-menopausal woman, then you can't speak to the physiological demands of a post-menopausal woman. But that doesn't really make sense because doctors of all descriptions treat patients of all descriptions. Female urologists treat male prostate issues. Male gynecologists still deliver babies and treat uterine pathologies even though they don't have a uterus and don't have babies. Young doctors take care of old patients. Old doctors take care of young patients. If we could only treat people that perfectly matched our own description, the entire medical system would shut down. A veterinarian doesn't have to be a horse to know how to treat a horse. And you don't have to be a post-menopausal woman to understand that our nutritional demands for humans stay as long as you are human. Nutrition is species specific. That goes for animals as well as plants as well as microorganisms. It does not matter what the gender of different plants or animals are. They still require the same basic nutrients because of their species. And that goes from when they're fertile to when they are not in every animal on Earth, including humans. So, just remember, keep it simple. It's not that complicated. Just eat what we're biologically designed to eat and you'll be fine whether you're young, old, male, or female, pre- or postmenopause. Essential nutrients are essential nutrients, and carbohydrates are not essential nutrients. But let me know what you think in the comments. Have you experienced this yourself? Are you past menopause and doing a ketogenic carnivore diet? How are you feeling? Like I said, 60% of my patients are post-menopausal women and they do wonderfully on ketogenic carnivore diets. And I've worked with thousands of people online who do the same. And just remember that rancher Maggie White is in her mid 80s, has been ketogenic carnivore for over 70 years now, and is still thriving in her mid80s, running her own ranch up at 5:00 a.m. every single day, back after dark, and has boundless energy as long as she gets enough meat and fat. My own mother is post-menopause and has been on a ketogenic carnivore diet for almost eight years now and she's doing great. And not only that, but she completely reversed her type 2 diabetes and has had no issues since. So be like Maggie, listen to your body and not talking heads on the internet that are trying to tell you that the diet that you're following that has given you such good health benefits is somehow bad for you. So if you want to eat carbs and feel you get something out of it or just like the taste of them, then go for it. But if you're feeling great on a ketogenic diet, regardless of your age or gender, then don't let people tell you what you know is working for your body is somehow harmful. Because even after menopause, women are still human beings. Strangely enough,