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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

How To Keep Your Blood Sugars Normal Without Eating Sugar? – Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Dr. Berg answers the question of how to keep blood sugars normal without eating sugar.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, so I had another question, how do you keep your blood sugars normal without eating sugar, right?

0:06.4

Because we don't want to end up with hypoglycemia because that's dangerous and the brain runs on glucose, right?

0:12.3

That's kind of the common thought. Here's the truth. Your brain can run on ketones. Now part of the brain does need glucose

0:19.7

but that glucose can be made from your own fat or the dietary fat. In a triglyceride you have three fatty acids

0:28.8

which the body can run on, not the brain, but the other parts of the body. But it also has one part glycerol, okay?

0:35.5

That glycerol, which is part of the triglycerides, can be converted to glucose and that's what the brain can run on.

0:42.9

So you don't need external glucose. Your body can make it if it needs it.

0:49.2

Your brain runs very well on ketones. In fact, ketones are very beneficial to the brain.

0:54.1

It's like a clean fuel. It's very protective to the nerves. And normal blood sugar of, let's say, 80 is really only one tiny teaspoon of sugar

1:03.2

for your entire blood. So we don't need that much sugar. And if you consume sugar, then there's no reason for your body to take it

1:11.8

from the saddlebag fat on the hips or the sagging belly or the fat on your behind.

1:18.2

So how do you keep your blood sugars normal without eating sugar? Basically you just avoid eating sugar and your body will then convert over to ketones.

1:26.2

And any extra glucose it needs, it can be made from the body fat or gotten from the dietary fat. Thanks for watching.

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