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.

You know, here you are.

You give up sugar and you're doing all the right things, but you're still craving carbs

late at night.

What's up with that?

Well, I stumbled on a research paper that is very interesting because sweet cravings

could come from something other than your diet.

And I've done a lot of videos on this, but I have never made the link between your cell

phone, specifically the blue light from your cell phone, but not just the smartphone.

You have the tablet, your computer, TV, anything that emits blue light.

So blue light apparently goes into the retina of your eye, which is the extension of your

brain, goes into the brain into the hypothalamus, and starts to affect your circadian rhythms,

the pineal gland, which then interacts with your adrenal gland and the liver and many other

organs.

So what is the relationship between blue light and your blood sugars?

Well, it's two things.

One, it interferes with melatonin, number one, and number two, it spikes cortisol, which

then affects your blood sugars due to stress.

So both of those actions can actually release more sugar and cause your body to make more

sugar, even though you're not eating sugar.

And so the sugar comes up, insulin comes in after, pushes the blood sugar down, you end

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