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.

Hey guys, in this video we're going to share why keto and intermittent fasting will decrease

the need for actual sleep. Now, number one, lack of sleep worsens your blood sugar. So if you don't

get enough sleep, if you're diabetic, you're going to find that you're going to need more medication

because the blood sugars are going to be more unstable. Number two, good sleep increases your blood

sugars. If you sleep really good, you don't crave as much junk food, whereas if you don't sleep,

boy, you're just like thinking about food all the time. And number three, high sugars will not only

create brain fog and fatigue, but it prevents the quality of sleep. Diabetics generally need more

sleep. But if you do keto and intermittent fasting and you reduce your carbs, which is the

opposite of a diabetic situation, you're going to have neural protection. So the nerve cells,

the brain cells are protected. And you're going to have something called neurogenesis, which is

basically you can regrow brain cells. Well, guess where all the cellular machinery for sleep

is located in your brain. The circadian rhythms, which control the cycle of sleeping,

called the super chiasmatic nuclei, is located in your brain. And the little tiny neurological

switches that control sleep and awake, located in the brain stem, called the Raffa nuclei and

the locuseruleus, are also supported when you do keto and intermittent fasting. So the more that

the total brain is supported, the more these specific functions are supported and the need for

sleep is reduced. Whereas in a diabetic patient, the entire brain actually shrinks and you get

atrophy of these centers causing the need for more sleep. So just to summarize, we have two

situations. One is, wow, I don't need much sleep and I'm still awake and I'm still, I'm not tired.

And then the other situation is, wow, I started keto and now I can't sleep and I'm tired.

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