How Ketones Affect Hormones and the Endocrine System

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 3 May 2020

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In this podcast, we're going to talk about how ketones affect hormones and the endocrine system.

1. Insulin

Lowered insulin triggers the production of ketones. When you have high insulin, you can't get into ketosis. Carbohydrates and frequent eating are what mainly trigger insulin. Lowering your insulin and running your body on ketones can have a lot of health benefits.

2. Glucagon

Glucagon is a hormone that helps mobilize and burn fat. Glucagon is stimulated by a moderate amount of protein, intense exercise, and reduced insulin.

3. IGF-1

This is a hormone that works very similar to growth hormone. IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor 1) mobilizes fat fuel when you're not eating or when you're keeping your insulin low. When you eat, IGF-1 goes down, and insulin goes up.

4. Growth hormone

Growth hormone is an anti-aging hormone, it helps make proteins in the body, and it's a fat-burning hormone.

5. Cortisol

This is an adrenal hormone. If you go through a lot of stress, typically, your cortisol levels will be elevated. This elevated cortisol can eventually lead to a spike in insulin.

6. Thyroid hormones

When you're on keto, and you start to make ketones, you might see a drop in T3 (the active form of thyroid hormone). This is not a problem because ketones are a much more efficient fuel than glucose, so the thyroid does not have to work as hard. Even though your T3 might be down, you should feel just fine and have lots of energy.

7. Estrogen

Estrogen can increase the sensitivity to insulin. If you have low estrogen levels, you may find that you have more symptoms of insulin resistance. Some women with extra weight after menopause may actually be more estrogen dominant because fat makes estrogen. The healthy keto diet may help.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting
0:05.3	keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product,
0:10.6	call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about the relationship between ketones and your hormones. How do ketones
0:49.9	actually affect your hormones? Well, let's take a look at the number one hormone first that's
0:55.8	involved with ketones. Insulin. In fact, what controls the production of ketones is when insulin
1:03.5	is lowered. When insulin is too high, you cannot get into ketosis. Your body is forced to run on glucose. And if you don't
1:13.5	have any, it'll tap into glucose from your stored sugar as glycogen, or it'll start making sugar
1:21.4	as this term called gluconeogenesis. And it could make it even from muscle protein. So what triggers insulin is mainly the
1:29.6	carbohydrates and frequency of eating. So when you go in a low carb diet and you lower insulin,
1:36.7	you have all these ketones, it's very, very, very therapeutic for your body in many ways.
1:41.5	Also, when you go on a low-carb diet
1:44.6	and you run your body on ketones and you lower insulin,
1:48.4	you're giving the pancreas a chance to breathe
1:51.6	and relax and recover.
1:53.8	Now, there's this opposing hormone in the pancreas.
1:57.8	Okay, there's actually two different hormones.
2:00.0	One is insulin. One is glucagon. This is different
2:03.2	than glycogen. Glucigone is a hormone that helps mobilize and burn fat. It's stimulated by a
2:12.1	moderate amount of protein or intense exercise or the reduction of carbs as well as the reduction of insulin. So they kind of
2:22.3	work back and forth. All right. Next one is something called IGF. Insulin-like growth factor number
2:28.5	one. Now, what is that? That is a hormone that's made by your liver that works very similar to growth hormone.
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