Does Looking at Sweets Spike Your Blood Sugar?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 7 December 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Insulin Resistance:
In this podcast, can just looking at sweets and carbs cause a spike in blood sugar?
Or will it trigger an insulin response? That’s exactly what we’re going to cover in this video.
The answer is no – not in a fasting state. Looking at sweets and carbs will not cause an insulin spike.
The primary triggers of blood sugar are glucose and things that turn into glucose. But, anything you eat has the potential to trigger insulin just for the fact that you ate it. If it’s more carbohydrate, it will trigger your blood sugar more. If it’s less carbohydrate and more fat, it will trigger your blood sugar less.
Chronic high insulin can lead to insulin resistance.
Other triggers that can cause a blood sugar spike:
• Cortisol – Stress
• GIP
• Protein – especially if it’s low fat
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I had a question from someone that wanted an album, |
| 0:47.0 | would looking at sweets raise my blood sugar? |
| 0:50.0 | Would it trigger insulin response? |
| 0:52.0 | Just looking at sweets or carbs? |
| 0:53.8 | The answer is, no, not in a fasting state. |
| 0:58.2 | You don't have to worry about looking at carbs, okay? |
| 1:01.5 | I mean, it might be hard to resist carbs, but now walking through a candy store |
| 1:05.6 | is not going to make you fat, even though some people will say, well, I can just look at food and |
| 1:08.8 | gain a pound, right? You actually have to eat certain things. Now there's also this concept of |
| 1:16.3 | consuming Stevia or sugar alcohol that is sweet but it has it's low in the |
| 1:22.2 | glycemic index. |
| 1:23.6 | Well that trigger insulin. |
| 1:24.8 | The primary trigger of blood sugars |
| 1:27.5 | is glucose and those things that turn into glucose, like potato, rice, bread, cereal, crackers, |
| 1:37.8 | biscuits, waffles, pancakes. |
| 1:40.6 | So that's the primary trigger. There's other triggers too. Stress releases cortisol, |
| 1:47.0 | which then eventually will mobilize sugar from the protein that's converted into the sugar and spiked your blood |
| 1:54.7 | sugar that way. You also have something called GIP. This is a hormone-like compound |
| 1:59.5 | and that's released in a small intestine. So anything you eat has the potential to trigger insulin |
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