How Diet Affects Sleep
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
So many people can’t sleep. Could a change in diet help? Learn how diet affects sleep!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. |
| 0:07.7 | Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:22.3 | All right, I have another question for you. Does diet regulate your sleep or the |
| 0:29.0 | sleep regulate your diet? Let's first take a look at diet. There was a very interesting study |
| 0:35.9 | I'll put the link down below that compares going on a high carb low fat diet versus going on a low |
| 0:44.0 | carb high fat diet that's called the ketogenic diet. This is what they found. The group that was |
| 0:49.7 | on a low carb high fat diet had a significant increase in N-REM sleep. What does N-REM mean? |
| 0:58.0 | That is non-REM sleep. That is the deep delta wave sleep. That's the type of sleep where you burn |
| 1:04.8 | most of your fat. It's the type of sleep that you wake up and you feel rejuvenated physically. |
| 1:10.0 | Now with a high carb low fat diet, you're going to be more deficient in zinc. If you haven't seen |
| 1:16.7 | my recent video on zinc and sleep, I put that down below. Very interesting because zinc can greatly |
| 1:23.0 | influence certain parts of the brain that control sleep. If you have a sleeping problem taking the |
| 1:28.9 | zinc before you go to bed, very, very, very good idea. With a low carb high fat diet, you're not |
| 1:35.2 | going to be as deficient in zinc and that's going to help you sleep as well as decrease your |
| 1:41.6 | hunger. With a high carb low fat diet, you're going to be hungry all the time. Now let's ship down |
| 1:47.9 | to sleep. If you have a poor sleep both in quality and quantity, you will definitely notice an |
| 1:55.4 | increase in the desire to eat. That means if you don't sleep, you're going to be hungerier. So |
| 2:01.1 | repeat after me. Poor sleep equals more hunger. There's also one study on poor REM sleep. That usually |
| 2:09.0 | happens in the second half of the night, whether you have this superficial sleep. What happens when |
| 2:13.1 | you have poor REM sleep is you increase the absorption of glucose, which is going to spike your |
| 2:18.5 | blood sugars, which is going to affect your insulin, and that's going to make you hungry too. Not |
| 2:23.5 | to mention when you're not sleeping well, your cortisol is going to go up. In cortisol, |
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