Can the Ketogenic Diet Spike Cortisol?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Dr. Berg answers the question can the ketogenic diet raise cortisol levels. Insulin resistance is a situation where the body compensates the excess carb and sugar in the diet and it is protecting itself against it. When you have higher insulin, it is going to push the blood sugars on the lower side.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. Dr. Eric Berg. |
| 0:36.1 | All right, so I'm going to answer another question. Can |
| 0:38.6 | Keto actually raise your cortisol levels? Let's talk about that. But first, I have to talk |
| 0:43.7 | about an existing situation so you understand what's happening. Most people, when they're not |
| 0:50.8 | in keto, have a condition called insulin resistance. |
| 0:55.0 | And what's happening is the body is creating insulin resistance |
| 0:59.0 | as a way to compensate for the excess carb or sugar in the diet. |
| 1:05.0 | It's protecting itself against the excess. |
| 1:09.0 | The problem now is that pancreas still needs to be sending insulin into the cells, |
| 1:14.9 | but because you have resistance, it has to then pump out more insulin. And this right here is rarely |
| 1:22.1 | tested when you go to the doctors. They measure the blood glucose levels, but they don't measure |
| 1:27.4 | the fasting insulin levels, okay, in the blood. |
| 1:31.6 | So what's happening is like this is compensating. So now when you go in keto and you eat less |
| 1:38.2 | sugar, what's going to happen is you're going to take a layer of this problem away. But it's not |
| 1:44.0 | instantly going to cure insulin resistance. That's going to take some time. So you're going to take a layer of this problem away, but it's not insulin going to cure insulin resistance. |
| 1:46.0 | That's going to take some time. |
| 1:47.0 | So you're still going to have insulin resistance, |
| 1:50.0 | which means you're still going to have a bit of higher insulin |
| 1:54.0 | until you fully adjust. |
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