Before You Eat Breakfast - The Truth About Oatmeal, Eggs, Bacon & Dairy: Dr Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

What you eat for breakfast affects your ability to focus, your creative ability to solve problems, and how well you sleep at night.

A carb-heavy breakfast promotes insulin resistance, which inhibits your ability to absorb fuel. The first place you’ll notice this is in your brain.

Ketones are a much better fuel for your brain than sugar. To make ketones, you need to lower your carbs and sugar. You can also produce ketones by fasting. While fasting, your body must convert to making ketones for energy.

Carbohydrate breakfast foods leave you hungry within an hour-and-a-half of eating. Sugary cereal is a poor choice for breakfast. Magic Spoon or keto-friendly granola without added sugar is a better option.

Oatmeal is generally one of the most ultra-processed foods. If you want to eat oatmeal for breakfast, look for regular oatmeal without sugar. The best option for oatmeal is steel-cut oats, although they take longer to cook.

Oatmeal and wheat are heavily sprayed with glyphosate, which has been shown to cause cancer and problems with your gut. Choose organic to avoid this problem.

Replacing your breakfast food with protein such as meat, bacon, and eggs can significantly change your energy levels and cognitive function. Eggs and bacon are the perfect healthy morning breakfast. You can also add avocado or cheese. Cheese is very nutritious, a good source of protein, and has good bacteria due to the fermentation process.

Yogurt is a great breakfast option. Choose organic Greek or Bulgarian yogurt without added sugar, or make your own yogurt. Instead of giving your kids Wonder bread, try a sprouted bread like Ezekiel bread. Add peanut butter for extra protein. Red meat and pork sausage are also great breakfast foods.

It’s important to prioritize sleep! Losing just one hour of sleep can significantly affect your blood sugar and cognitive state.

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0:00.0	I want to share some important insights on breakfast foods, eggs, oatmeal, toast, pancakes, meat,
0:06.2	all sorts of foods that people eat for breakfast. What you eat as your first meal is going to
0:10.3	totally affect how you feel through the rest of the day. It will also affect your ability to focus,
0:14.9	your creative ability to solve problems. Also, how you sleep at night. I also want to get into
0:20.2	fasting and just share some insights
0:21.9	with breakfast because there are levels of good and bad. My typical breakfast that I had for years was
0:28.1	this right here. Saw this before life cereal. Sometimes, believe it or not, I would do Pop-Tarts.
0:34.9	I did that for many, many years. What I did not know is I didn't have any concept of
0:41.4	insulin resistance. Insulin is not working like it should in the cells. Insulin helps you absorb
0:47.5	fuel, but it also helps you absorb sugar in the cells. And if you have resistance to insulin,
0:52.7	you can't really absorb fuel. And of course, the first place to notice it is in your brain. The actual cells in my brain
0:58.0	just weren't absorbing sugar that well. I needed more and more sugar to fuel the brain.
1:04.4	I also didn't know how to make ketones. The way that you make ketones is you have to lower
1:08.7	your carbs and sugar. And also, you can do it with
1:11.3	fasting. The body has no choice, but then then convert over to making ketones. Ketones are a wonderful
1:17.8	thing for the brain. Ketones bring your mood up and you're burning your own fat. When I was eating
1:22.8	the carbohydrate breakfast, I was hungry in about an hour and a half. Once I got my body into ketosis, I can go for a long
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