Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

I had a question from someone that wanted to know,

can a diabetic type one do prolonged fasting?

Let's answer that question.

There's been a huge focus if you're a type one diabetic

on keeping your glucose corrected in your blood, okay?

So, that's important, but there's been very little emphasis on how much insulin a person takes.

If you just compare levels of importance, okay, keeping your glucose normal

or making sure you don't take enough insulin, there's been a lot more focus on just keeping your glucose normal.

I mean, what you may already know if you're type one diabetic is the amount of carbohydrates you eat.

The term in the amount of insulin you're going to have to inject in your body.

More carbs, more insulin.

Type one diabetic doesn't make insulin.

So, if they eat food, raise glucose, they're going to have to take insulin to lower it because high amounts of glucose is very dangerous.

The question is this, where is this glucose going when you take the insulin?

Is it magically evaporating?

Now, insulin takes this excess glucose and starts to hide it throughout the body.

It starts to convert it into fat around the liver, around the organs, in your belly.

So, that's the problem.

Here's what you need to know.

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