#66 – Chris and Miriam Bair – Keto Chow and Electrolytes

Meet Chris and Miriam

Miriam and Chris Bair started Keto Chow in 2015 as a way to get great tasting, simple, and complete meals to make it easier to succeed with keto. They also have a line of concentrated electrolytes: “Fasting Drops” and “Mag Drops” that have no flavor, no sweetener, just pure electrolytes. Their most recent venture is introducing a keto/low carb conference in their own community: Keto Salt Lake. Miriam and Chris are married with several sets of twins, and some backyard chickens.

ABOUT CHRIS AND MIRIAM

Miriam:

• We have a company that we made
• It’s called Keto Chow
• It is a meal replacement shake with all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals you need to replace one of your meal
• You add your own fat to it
• You can do it however you want for your body

Chris:

• We have been around since 2015
• We started to go big in 2016
• And I quit my day job in 2018
• It has been very interesting
  
• Way back in 2014, I wanted to lose weight
• And there was this movement for a nutritionally complete meal replacement shake and making your own recipes and I got into that, but it was high in carbohydrate
• I did that for 9 months, lost 12 lbs., but gained it all back
• I heard about this Keto thing and I found another recipe for a nutritionally meal replacement, mix it up, jump right in and got Keto flu really bad
• Turns out, the guy who made that recipe did not know anything about Keto and just knew that it’s high fat and made this recipe and just threw it out there
• So, I found a different recipe, made my own, started experimenting and came up with I thought was a really good tasting shake and people kept asking to try it
• And so, we put it up for sale in our site and there were 3 or 4 orders a day
• It started to get pretty nuts and Miriam was working for one of our neighbors doing craft stuff
• I convinced her that it would probably be better if she’ll help me with Keto Chow instead
• She quit that job and started helping me out
• She was doing the shipping and I was doing the mixing. It just exploded from there
• I am an engineer and I was looking for something to fill a need that I had which is, I am accessibly lazy and I wanted to do Keto and not have to worry Keto flu again
• So, that first year, I lost about 60 lbs.
• At that point, Miriam was doing Whole30, and she had pretty good success with that
• Nowadays, we pretty much make Keto food in our house
• We don’t force our kids to eat Keto, but we do have 2 daughters who have chosen to do Keto
• They are really strict and they make their own lunch

Miriam:

• I did think it was restricted when I started
• I started with my 2 neighbors
• We were swapping some dinners and it made it a little easier
• I think when you have somebody on your team, you have accountability as well as encouragement
• It was hard because there was no dairy, but because there was fruit, I felt like I was not going to die
• I really think it was a natural way to get to Keto
• If I did not do whole 30 first, I probably would have struggled more with Keto
• We heard Keto through our son’s neurologist because he was having seizures at that time and every medicine he tried would not stop the seizures
• And they gave us another medicine to try and told us that if it does not work, they will recommend the Ketogenic diet
• We looked it up to know what it was and I was like, how can a child live like this
• I did not understand how many things he could have
• I was just overwhelmed
• The more we learn about it, it just makes sense
• There has been ups and downs
• I think, when you first start you are super strict, and after a while, you kind of let thing slip in
• Even if it’s not carbs, too many Keto treats will make you gain weight
• Sometimes, when you lose weight, your metabolism changes
• When you hit a stall, you kind of have to try something different to get your body restarted again
• We got a couple new products
• We have 2 different electrolyte supplements
• One is called, Fasting Drops

Chris:

• We are actually changing the name of that to Electrolyte Drops
• People think it’s just for fasting, but it works great with fasting
• It’s sodium, magnesium and potassium
• It’s concentrated and you just put it in any kind of liquid even on your food
• It just tastes kind of salty
• It has no sweetener or flavor, just the minerals
• It comes in a little bottle or big bottle and the reason for that is that, the lid of the little bottle is what you can use for measuring
• If you fill up the entire lid, that’s half a teaspoon, which is a serving size
• That has 125mg of Sodium, 44mg of Magnesium, 130mg of Potassium and 390mg of Chloride
• It’s purified from the water of the Great Salt Lake
• This product is a lot like using pink Himalayan salt, except it does not taste like dirt and it does not leave sand at the bottom of your glass
• All of the magnesium and everything in it is highly bio available
• If I am doing a long fast and if I am using diet soda or anything that has flavor in it, for me personally, that triggers hunger
• When I do a fast, I just want the electrolytes without anything else
• Most people I talk to have a similar reaction
• I like not to raise my insulin
• Most of the product that we have at Keto Chow are, “Christ wanted something so he made something”
• The Magnesium that we have was, “Miriam told Chris I want this, you are going to get it”
• When your magnesium is not as high as it should be, you tend to get cramps
• And Miriam wanted that magnesium supplement and that’s what that’s what the Mag drops like
• The Mag Drops, for the most part, it is just magnesium
• I personally need more magnesium than most people, it runs in my family
• Even though Keto Chow is designed nutritionally complete for most people, I still have to supplement with magnesium
• If I don’t supplement magnesium, I would get really bad cramps in my quadriceps
• And sometimes, I even get cramps in my abdominal muscles
• The magnesium chloride is already dissolve in water, so it’s all going to be absorber
• Some of the forms of magnesium like magnesium citrate, has some laxative effects
• There is a warning on the Mag Drops not to take full days dose because you can have laxative effects
• The very best one is magnesium chloride, then you have magnesium malate and glycinate and magnesium citrate
• The worst one is magnesium oxide
• Epsom salt which is magnesium sulfate, you don’t take it internally, but it makes a fantastic bath
• We finally decided to bite the bullet and we are doing Keto conference locally
• That’s coming up in April
• Miriam wanted to do something for the New Year, and it was between working out on a treadmill or lifting weights
• My preference is lifting weights, but the problem is the time that we have to do that is in the morning when we are trying to get the kids off the school
• We finally ended up trying to do p90
• It is just a 90-day program
• We started it on the 31^stand planning to do it for the next 90 days

Miriam:

• Every time you eat anything even eggs or anything that is small, you’re still going to have a glucose respond
• It’s not going to be a huge spike if it’s not a carb
• If you keep eating and eating, you are going to have a glucose and insulin response
• And so, if you keep your window shorter, you are going to be able to utilize your fat storage if you are losing weight
• With ketones, you are going to be much more efficient because you are not having that glucose or insulin response
• Your brain just has this cognitive function, because your brain is so clear when you are fasting
• I just love the way I feel when I am fasting
• I haven’t done a lot of 36-hour fast
• It is interesting how people are sensitive with dairy
• I never really have a problem with dairy, but when I did the Whole30 and cut dairy out, it was a lot easier to lose weight
• It’s just so interesting how dairy affects different people
• If you cut it out, it helps for weight loss for sure

Chris:

• Personally, I am doing a 100 day of Keto Chow only
• In the first part, I was just trying to lose weight to win a City contest for weight loss
• When I get down to the 2^ndportion, I am going to do with just Keto Chow with different fat on it
• For about 4 weeks, I am going to be doing avocado oil with some MCT, with no dairy
• The 36-hour fasting is because of Megan Ramos
• She said it tend to give people best results
• Even people that’s not on Keto can see a lot of positive benefits of the Ketogenic diet just because they are fasting for 46 hours. 2 or 3 times a week

Miriam:

• We are really excited about the Keto conference we are having
• We just contacted a bunch of people that we heard speak in other conferences
• And I was just really impress that so many people want to do it
• We are excited to have some Utah people over and some other people
• And the people that are coming to speak are going to give us the real knowledge to help people to improve their lives
• If they can come and listen to us, and give Keto a chance and it’s going to help them become healthier, then it’s totally worth the work to me

Chris:

• We have been running a Keto meet-up here in Utah for about a year now
• Just trying to grow the community
• We have people who are signing up to attend the Keto conference
• A bunch of speakers comes from different parts of United States
• Locally, we have Dr. Ben Bikman, Dr. Peter Ballerstedt, who taught us that if you want to save the planet, we need to have more cows
• Amy Berger from Tuit Nutrtion will be coming, and probably will talk about Alzheimer’s
• We got Dr. Adam Nally, Ivor Cummins, Brian Williamson – The Ketovangelist, Dr. Ken Berry and we have some other people that says they might be coming
• We are going to do it 2 days
• It’s April 26 and 17
• The best way to find it is on ketosaltlake.com or lowcarbevents.com

WORDS OF WISDOM

• Do what’s best for you and take care of your body
• Keep calm and Keto on

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