Can the Ketogenic Diet Spike Cortisol? Keto & Cortisol Function – Dr. Berg

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all right so I’m going to answer another question can keto actually raise your cortisol levels let’s talk about that but first I have to talk about an existing situation so you understand what’s happening most people when they’re not in keto have a condition called insulin resistance and what’s happening is the body is creating insulin resistance as a way to compensate for the excess carb or sugar in the diet it’s protecting itself against the excess the problem now is the pancreas still needs to be sending insulin into the cells but because you have resistance it has to then pump out more insulin and this right here is rarely tested when you go to the doctors they they measure the um blood glucose levels but they don’t measure the fasting insulin levels okay in the blood so what’s happening is like this is compensating so now we you go on keto and you eat less sugar what’s going to happen is you’re going to take a layer of this problem away but it’s not instantly going to cure insulin resistance that’s going to take some time so you’re still going to have insulin resistance which means you’re still going to have a bit of higher insulin until you fully adjust what that means is that if you have higher insulin it’s going to push your blood suggars on the lower side so cortisol has many functions one is the protection against hypoglycemia or low blood sugar in fact another name for cortisol is glucocorticoid okay gluco meaning sugar and and so what cortisol does is it stimulates something called gluco glucose Neo new genesis the creation of so cortisol actually makes sugar in the liver to help raise this a bit but realize that it can make it from protein and fat so that’s what it’s doing now it’s a bad thing no it’s not it’s just a part of the normal process of cortisol this is going to actually get better and better and better if you stay on keto because your sugars will come down because this is going to heal why because you no longer have the need to resist that receptor because there’s not significant amounts of carbs and there’s really no sugar in the system to do that so this is going to heal you’re going to get better this is going to come down to the point where it’s eventually normal and then this does doesn’t have to overcompensate so it’s not a stressful thing for the adrenals it’s just something that’s necessary to go through to eventually get you to a place where this then does doesn’t have to do that job all right so you don’t have to be concerned about your adrenals you want to do healthy keto you want to do intermitted fasting and realize it just this is just a normal process that happens hey if you’re liking this content Please Subscribe now and I will actually keep you updated on future videos