How many carbohydrates do I need before I go into ketosis?

How many carbohydrates do I need before I go into ketosis?

Andrea Giancoli (Registered Dietician ) gives expert video advice on: What is the 'Atkins Diet'?; What is the philosophy behind the Atkins Diet?; What happens when I restrict carbohydrates? and more...

In general, people need at least a hundred to a hundred and thirty carbohydrates, grams of carbohydrates, a day to feed the brain and use the carbohydrate for essential purposes. When we start going below that, that's when we're going to start either converting our protein calories into carbohydrate or converting our body proteins into carbohydrate, and then you go into ketosis. It happens over a couple of days.