Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg

takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Hey guys, I wanted to answer the question, do women need more carbs on a keto and

intermittent fasting plan? This is a common question a lot of women have, because when

they eat carbs, they feel better. So naturally, they need carbs, right? It makes

total logical sense, because when they don't do carbs, they feel like crap. Let's

explain that. When the blood sugars drop down too low, when you do intermittent

fasting, especially, the first place for the body to notice it is in the brain.

Why? Because the brain doesn't store sugar. It gets its feel from the blood. If

there's low sugar in the blood, there's going to be low sugar in the brain, and the

brain is going to suffer. It's going to feel very funky. You're going to get

moody, irritable, and not feel very good. Brain fog, memory issues, all these

symptoms, okay? And then you eat carbs, and wow, man, you just feel so much better.

But look what's happening. Deeper, you have a situation where your cells are

resistant to insulin. That means insulin's not working that well, okay? That's

behind this blood sugar problem, because what happens, if insulin is not

working, it's not being absorbed, the cells send the signal back to the origin,

the pancreas, saying, you know what, we're not getting the message, we're not

getting that hormone. So then the pancreas makes the heck of a lot more. The

pancreas will make five to seven times more insulin than it should, okay? So

now we have a lot of insulin going on. Guess what? That's going to keep your

blood sugars, because insulin lowers blood sugar. It's going to push it down

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