Always Hungry on Carnivore or Keto? One Possible Cause

hey guys welcome back to my channel so this is going to be a quick and Casual video I just want to share something with you that I learned the hard way and this has to do with artificial sweeteners so whether you're eating carnivore keto low carb or even just a standard American diet this could be an issue for you and this is something that happened to me a few months into carnivore I started having some really weird symptoms and I didn't understand what was happening and it was very very difficult it was surprisingly difficult for me to maintain how I was eating which really surprised me because prior to doing this experiment with carnivore I was eating so low carb that I thought it would just be like a baby step over but then I started having uh this excessive excessive hunger and for some people it is normal to have periods of that type of hunger when they're transitioning into eating a different way like carnivore or whatever it is and that can be normal maybe your body is in need of some more nutrition or more food in general because you were depriving yourself but for me it became a whole separate thing a different type of issue that was not normal I could eat a large amount of food a large amount of meat with fat and afterwards I don't understand where it was going because it felt like it was gone it just felt like it disappeared and I'm pretty thin and it just felt like I don't know what's happening but I need to eat and eat and eat and it was really weird because prior to carnivore what I loved about being so low carb is the even Keel of not having you know high levels of starvation which can occur when you're eating carbs and sugar and then I started having this issue and it didn't make a lot of sense I just felt this excessive hunger I did talk about uh how I had have had an issue with my sleep since starting carnivore since one month into carnivore and this did affect it a little but this isn't my main issue so I'm going to talk about that in a separate video I'm still working out the details but my sleep is a lot better now back to this issue in addition to feeling like I needed to eat all the time it also caused an issue where I had to urinate more often or just go to the bathroom just excessively throughout the day and it seemed to the point where I thought I had a urinary tract infection which I did not have and I never Associated it with an artificial sweetener until I ran out of this drink that I was having so I didn't realize that I was addicted to this drink but I was and it was called true energy and in addition to having some um natural flavors which could be made up of any number of chemicals it also had Stevia in it and I'm not judging anybody who continues to drink coffee or whatever it is as they've gone into carnivore whatever they're doing low carb pedo because you should do whatever works for you but I just want to share this so that you're aware of a potential issue that some people can have for me I ran out of my drink and I ended up um my symptoms went away basically and it made me realize I had the light bul moment where I realized that this was causing my problems and through further testing I realized for sure that this was the cause of my issues so I stopped drinking that for me I like to transition into things I like to take things step by step when I'm ready and at that point I'm like this is doing me a big disservice this is out so I stopped drinking it so I also want to share that since that time I did a little research there's one study in particular that really stood out to me and it was published in cell metabolism and this study okay it was done on flies but the research was still very interesting it said that artificial sweeteners mimic a state of starvation in your brain and that's exactly exactly to a te what I experienced and what I feel like I experienced exped I know for a lot of people they're afraid to have artificial sweeteners or they may avoid artificial sweeteners because it makes them crave sugar I haven't had that but it just made me generally hungry and in this study it said that flies that were fed the sugar-free diet for five or more days consumed 30% more calories than those who actually had sugar so those who had the artificial sweeteners they felt like they needed to eat more in general and they consumed 30% more calories than those without it and when the fake sugar was removed from their diet they used sucralose the calorie consumption went right back to normal like the other flies so like I said I know that was done in flies but for me as a human that is exactly what I experienced I felt like I was in a state of complete starvation and it was very very difficult so I know this won't just affect people doing carnivore but it could affect anybody who has these things added into their diet I became very sensitive to this stuff and so it's out of my life now and I'm doing a lot better I just wanted to share that I'm going to do other updates coming up I hope you guys are doing well take care