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.

Hey guys, we're going to answer the question, does intermittent fasting damage or ruin

your adrenals?

This keeps coming up over and over and I just want to kind of explain it.

When a person is doing intermittent fasting, a lot of times it becomes very difficult to

go from one meal to the next without creating a crash in your blood sugars, okay?

Because when happens, here you are and all of a sudden you don't eat and then your blood

sugars crash.

Now, certain people don't have that situation.

They don't have a propensity to get hypoglycemia.

And some people do and I want to talk about the people that do what's really going on.

Now, when the blood sugars go low in general, there are two things that will help bring

it up.

They're called counter-regulating hormones, okay?

So like the adrenals, for example, they'll kick in and bring the sugar back up to prevent

hypoglycemia.

So if you have really, really good adrenals, you basically, you don't end up with a low

blood sugar situation and you can do intermittent fasting very easily.

Also the liver is involved, but that's in another video.

So if the adrenals are good, you really won't have too much of a low blood sugar situation.

But if the adrenal glands are weak and they're not working, you're going to have a lot more

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