Reasons for High Blood Sugars in the Morning

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the 4 reasons for high blood sugars in the morning.

This condition is called the dawn phenomenon. It can happen if you are a type 1 or type 2 diabetic, or if you have insulin resistance really bad.

Causes of elevated morning blood sugar:

1. Spike in Cortisol - Normally between 12 and 3 am, you have higher insulin sensitivity in the liver, so the blood sugar works a lot better. But, cortisol which mobilizes glucose for action and stress, peaks between 6 and 9 in the morning.

2. Type 1 diabetes – There’s a growth hormone spike that can mobilize the blood sugar.

3. Type 2 diabetes – The liver is making glucose called gluconeogenesis. Also, glucagon and epinephrine are hormones that can spike blood sugar. If you are a type 2 diabetic for a long period of time, you are eventually going to lose the ability to produce insulin.

4. Consuming a lot of carbs the night before.

What to do if you have high blood sugar in the morning:

• Give it time – Do the healthy ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting

• Exercise

• Avoid carbs – especially the night before

• Take apple cider vinegar diluted with water the night before

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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. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So let's talk about the four reasons why your blood sugars might go up in the
0:49.1	morning when you wake up. All right, so this is called the dawn phenomenon.
0:53.4	And this can happen if you're a type 1 diabetic,
0:56.3	type 2 diabetic, or you have insulin resistance really bad,
0:59.6	and you're like a pre-diabetic.
1:01.6	Okay, so the first reason would be you have a spike in cortisol.
1:06.2	Normally what happens between 12 and 3 a.m. okay, you have higher insulin sensitivity in your liver,
1:15.0	so your blood sugars usually are going to be a lot better.
1:19.0	But in the early morning, this can change,
1:21.0	especially if there's higher cortisol.
1:23.0	Cortisol mobilizes glucose for action, for stress,
1:30.0	okay?
1:31.0	And cortisol peaks out at 8 o'clock in the morning.
1:34.0	Now it could be like 6 o'clock.
1:36.0	So between 6 and 8, maybe even 9 o'clock in the morning.
1:40.0	So you have this higher spike of cortisol,
1:42.0	if you look at the circadian wave of cortisol.
1:45.2	So cortisol by itself if it's overly active can just mobilize more glucose from your
1:51.6	liver or from your muscles or actually from protein, okay, or even
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