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.

So this video is mainly for diabetics.

As you may know, dietary sugar will raise your blood sugar, right?

But there's something else that can raise your blood sugar.

In fact, it's pretty significant.

And I haven't really came across a lot of information on this one point.

So I wanted to do a video on it.

But it's called glucose neogenesis.

Now what does that mean?

Well, it's a big word that basically means your body is generating new glucose from non sugar

or glucose sources, non carbohydrate sources, okay?

So your body can make new sugar from fat or protein, okay?

So your high blood sugar is not just about your dietary sugar.

It's about your body is actually making sugar from other things.

In fact, the amount of sugar in your blood is significantly coming from gluconeogenesis.

And this is because diabetics have an enhanced gluconeogenesis.

So your liver and your kidneys are just making tons of sugar raising your blood sugar.

It's very important to know that our bodies don't need much sugar, okay?

There's only a very few parts of our body that is dependent on sugar.

Anything else can live on other sources of fuel, like fatty acid and ketones, okay?

But the red blood cell, part of your kidney, number three, T cells, part of the immune system,

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