Intermittent Fasting & Hypoglycemia Symptoms – Dr.Berg

This is why intermittent fasting is a powerful tool for hypoglycemia.

hey guys in this video we’re going to talk about intermittent fasting and hypoglycemia okay now I know there’s certain conditions of hypoglycemia where uh you need to consume some glucose or you’re going to die because your blood sugars are below 50 I’m not talking about that situation I’m talking about the situation where your blood sugar is low let’s say it’s like 70 or it’s or it’s even normal and you have the symptoms of hypoglycemia which is kind of called subclinical hypoglycemia where you don’t really fit the mold but you definitely um have a lot of the symptoms okay let’s just cover the symptoms first you have eating food makes you feel better okay headaches excessive hunger can’t go from one meal to the next without feeling shaky or moody or fainting fatigue weak irritable nervous Li headedness those are all symptoms of hypoglycemia um you know this blows me away like the the medical treatment for this if you look it up basically they tell you to consume 14 to 25 grams of sugar okay that’s kind of like uh recommending or giving an alcoholic who’s on the rebound uh some alcohol some tequila right that’s the same order of magnitude because you’re basically guy’s going to feel good but then he’s going to get worse right the same thing with this if you cannot fix hypoglycemia with giving the person sugar you’re going to just keep them going keep because about as soon as the insulin spikes then this the sugar crashes so what happens what causes hypoglycemia is an overreaction of insulin where the insulin goes too high maybe you consumed a lot of sugar in one meal you’re going to create a real big spike in that insulin and then the sugars are going to come crashing down okay there’s other I mean there’s other causes too like let’s say you’re a diabetic and you’re taking insulin you can create hypo glycemia because you took too much or you’re type two and you’re taking a a metformin which you’re taking too much and it ends up too low if that’s the situation if you are doing a ketogenic diet or not doing a ketogenic diet or you’re doing intermittent fasting and you end up you’re on medication you’re a diabetic and it ends up going low what that means is you are taking too much you have to back off that medication get with your doctor because you don’t want it to go too low typically um a lot of times doctors will ignore the fact and they’ll send you home with a little thing of glucose pills where you can keep raising it that worsens the situation you want to kind of adjust it so you don’t it doesn’t go too low so the need what the goal over time is to decrease the need for medication to keep your sugars around normal so it’s not too low not too high just perfect so what causes hypoglycemia is basically too much insulin okay that’s usually High insulin that comes from sugars refined carbs hidden sugars is breads pasta cereal crackers biscuits waffles pancakes muffins and then we got the juice we got the alcohol hidden MSG all these other things that’s one cause number two is low glycogen what does that mean your body stores glucose as glycogen they’re a little bunch of glucose molecules strung together uh with potassium you need potassium to store glycogen by the way so in your liver for example in the muscles when you store the sugar if you don’t have enough potassium you could end up with a hypoglycemic reaction low blood sugar because you’re not holding or you’re not storing the sugar properly or let’s say for example you work out uh intensely you do a marathon whatever and you didn’t cons eat anything you can end up with low blood sugars because you just tapped out all your glycogen Reserve or let’s say your liver is damaged fatty liver curosis of the liver hepatitis and you don’t have the capacity to store Sugar you might wake up in the middle of the night just completely low blood sugar sugar headache starving whatnot okay and then the other cause is insulin resistance whereby your body has symptoms of low insulin because it’s resisting it yet High insulin because the body if it senses low it starts making more an average person with insulin resistance makes seven to 5 to seven times more insulin than a normal person so again it comes to high insulin so here you have a situation where um it’s sub clinical doesn’t test always on a blood test and you have all these symptoms but it’s coming from an insulin problem and you keep getting tested they say your blood sugars are normal but you have all the symptoms that was my situation um of course I was eating every 3 hours um and eat the wrong food so every time you eat you spike insulin okay every time you eat so that’s again that’s what can create insulin resistance is too frequent of an eating schedule six meals a day bad advice now if the adrenals are burnt out if you have adrenal fatigue and you don’t have enough cortisol that can also affect uh the sugar because cortisol turns protein and turns things into sugar very quickly so again if you don’t have enough cortisol you can end up with low blood sugars just from that so there’s different causes okay now how do we correct that I mean it’s almost almost like how you going to do intermittent fasting if you’re hypoglycemic you can’t go for many hours without feeling all these symptoms so the first thing you have to do is you have to give up sugar you have to get rid of the sugar and refined carbs okay number one that will greatly help you if you consume protein by the way that will also increase your blood sugars and you’ll feel a little better from that um but you have to cut out the sugar number one number two you don’t go to in minute fasting um right away you have to do it it on a gradient slowly okay so the first thing you do is if you’re at six meals a day go to 5 meals a day okay then go to four meals a day and then don’t eat any sugar and then three meals a day no snacking add more fat at the meal to go longer make sure your potassium is high a lot of vegetables will also are necessary to fix this okay and then you eventually go uh when you wake up in the morning you can go longer and longer before you you’re hungry okay that means it’s all healing up it’s improving you’re becoming less hypoglycemic to the point where now you can get up in uh just like myself I didn’t eat until it was 12 okay 12:00 at noon so basically the first meal 8 and then I I won’t eat until it’s like 4:30 and then I’m done for the day but that is in a minute fasting that will actually correct hypoglycemia now again if you start to do this too fast you can end up with symptoms if you’re hyp if you’re a true hypoglycemic if you don’t have blood sugar problems you can do it faster but the point is we need to do this to correct this and we need to give up the sugar all right thanks for watching you I just wanted to take a moment out to thank you for your amazing feedback that you guys are giving me it’s just mind-blowing the successes the wins I created a link down below so 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