Does Keto and Fasting Increase Stress Hormones?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions, what's over about keto or intermittent fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person, or just need to debug your program, |
| 0:09.0 | or you have a question about a product, call one of our keto consultants. |
| 0:12.2 | They'll be able to help you. |
| 0:13.2 | Call 540-299-1557. |
| 0:17.3 | That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | Where Dr. Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:44.4 | So is it possible when you start the keto plan or you start intermittent fasting |
| 0:49.7 | that you're going to start spiking your adrenal hormones and creating more stress in the body? |
| 0:54.7 | The answer is, no. Some people have the viewpoint that, yeah, it appears to be stressful because |
| 1:00.4 | you're starving the body, you're starving the body of glucose. |
| 1:04.6 | I mean, what about the fat on our body? |
| 1:07.5 | An average thin person is walking around with about 100,000 calories of fat on their body, |
| 1:14.7 | and it's there to be used as a backup for fuel. |
| 1:17.6 | We only actually have 1,700 calories of stored glucose. |
| 1:22.6 | So it's very logical that our bodies were designed to run off fat between meals. |
| 1:27.2 | And so when your body starts adapting from glucose to fat, which takes about three days, |
| 1:33.4 | it's not a pathological problem. It's a normal response to just shifting your body from glucose to |
| 1:41.1 | fat fuel. Now the stress hormone called cortisol has another name. |
| 1:46.6 | It's called glucocorticoid, and you can see that glucose is part of that name |
| 1:51.8 | because one of the big functions of cortisol or a glucocorticoid is to keep your blood sugars |
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