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

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

In this video, I'm going to talk about the other reasons why your blood sugar might be

high, you know, other than you consuming carbohydrates.

As you might know, when you consume carbs, your blood sugar will go higher, okay?

So I think most people know that.

And if you want to reduce it, you need to reduce your carbs.

And that should normally bring it down.

However, what if it goes up, especially in the morning, what could it be?

Well, at about eight o'clock in the morning, you have this hormone shift, okay?

You have this spike of this hormone called cortisol.

That's the stress hormone.

That will mobilize sugar from the body and spike blood sugars.

So it's coming from cortisol, especially if there's an adrenal problem and there's

insulin resistance.

Number two, you have low blood sugar for some reason, it's hypoglycemia.

And you have these counter regulatory hormones, including cortisol is one of them, okay?

So, but this is for a different reason.

This could happen anywhere during the day, okay?

We're not talking about right after a meal, we're talking about when you're not eating.

You have these three hormones, cortisol, glucagon, and adrenaline that kicks in if your

blood sugars get too low and that can raise your blood sugars.

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