False Hunger Pangs When Doing Intermittent Fasting
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 10 December 2018
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Dr. Berg talks about false hunger pangs when doing intermittent fasting, This is higher levels of cortisol, the adrenal hormone. This spikes at 8 am because of the circadian rhythm of this hormone. This is not because of a lack of food, but simply a hormonal temporary shift, which raises and then lowers the blood sugars. This hunger pain will go away within 30-60 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
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| 0:17.4 | That's 540299-1557. |
| 0:21.0 | That's 54099-155. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. |
| 0:34.0 | Dr Eric Berg. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi guys, I want to talk about something called false hunger |
| 0:39.0 | when you're doing it in a minute fasting, |
| 0:41.0 | which basically is not that you're deprived of nutrients, your stomach is just growling and your blood sugars might have dipped down a little bit. |
| 0:49.0 | Now this relates to the adrenal gland. There's a whole circadian wave or rhythm of cortisol. And cortisol |
| 0:57.0 | is the main adrenal hormone and it spikes if it's normal around 8 o'clock in the morning. So a lot of people when they do intimate fasting |
| 1:04.4 | right around the morning, they might get hunger pains for about an hour, okay? That's because |
| 1:10.3 | the spike of cortisol will then lower your blood sugars because it's it'll |
| 1:15.1 | spike insulin a little bit and it drops down and then you're going to be a |
| 1:19.1 | little hungry. What you have to realize is that it's cortisol, it's not a lack of a nutrient. |
| 1:24.4 | And so you just have to push through that and then it gets better. |
| 1:27.6 | Some of the things you can do to help that is keep improving your adrenal function and also nutritional yeast will also help keep |
| 1:36.1 | this in check. This usually happens when your cortisol is maybe too spiked, but if it's normal |
| 1:41.6 | it shouldn't do that. All right? Thanks for watching. |
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