Is Intermittent Fasting Safe for Your Adrenals?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Dr. Berg talks about if intermittent fasting is safe for your adrenals. It's a normal process and function for cortisol to counter a low blood sugar level. So when you do intermittent fasting, your blood sugars drop and cortisol, the adrenal hormone kicks in to prevent this. So it's a normal function for cortisol to do this just as cortisol also increases your WBCs and inflammation during infection and injury. So it's not that these things stress the adrenal, it's just a part of the normal process of the purpose of cortisol. You may need to fix your insulin resistance AS WELL AS your adrenal separately.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. they'll be able to help you.
0:13.4	Call 540991557.
0:17.4	That's 540299-1557.
0:21.0	That's 54099-155.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast.
0:29.0	Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.
0:34.0	Dr Eric Berg.
0:36.0	Hey guys, I had another question,
0:38.0	is intermittent fasting, stressful to your adrenals, okay? Someone was concerned about doing it a minute fasting because they didn't want to stress
0:46.4	their adrenals out because they heard that doing it a minute fasting will spike cortisol which is one of the
0:51.7	adrenal hormones.
0:53.0	So let me just sort this out because you have to look at the big picture of what's happening.
0:57.0	Now when you fast, you could end up with a low blood sugar situation.
1:00.0	And cortisol normally comes in there to raise the blood sugar to counter hypoglycemia or low blood sugar.
1:08.0	It's not an abnormal thing. That's what the adrenals are supposed to do, counter low blood sugar.
1:13.2	It's kind of like saying, would inflammation be stressful to the adrenals?
1:17.7	Well, no, because the adrenals are the anti-inflammatory to help you recover.
1:22.2	Or would an infection be stressful to the adrenals?
1:25.0	Now if you're doing intimate fasting and you end up with a low blood sugar that needs the help from cortisol
1:31.0	and it's not working that well and you notice symptoms.
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