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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Reverse Fatigue When Fasting (Intermittent Fasting) - Dr. Berg's Chronic Fatigue Treatment

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about how to kill fatigue while doing intermittent fasting.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, in this video, we're going to talk about how to kill fatigue while doing intermittent fasting.

0:04.8

So many people are tired while they're fasting, so we're going to talk about exactly why

0:09.0

that is and how to get rid of fatigue, so you have a lot of energy.

0:13.3

Now, the most obvious thing is when you first start this, and you're doing a ketogenic

0:17.9

diet, hopefully, and you're going through with something called keto adaptation, okay?

0:22.4

And that's when your body is adapting from sugar fuel to fat fuel.

0:27.6

Now, most people are going to be tired in a situation because they're tapping out their

0:32.0

sugar reserves, their glycogen stores, but they're not quite able to tap into the fat

0:37.6

yet because they haven't built up the cellular machinery or the enzymes to really tap

0:42.3

into that fat.

0:43.3

So that comes with a little time, sometimes it takes three days, sometimes it takes up

0:47.1

to a week to be able to tap into your reserves, and you have a lot of reserves.

0:50.9

You have like 100,000 calories of fat sitting there, unused, and you're running off

0:57.3

this small little tank of 1,700 calories of sugar fuel every day, up and down, up and

1:02.0

down.

1:03.0

So when you start this and you're not able to tap into the fat, that's when you're going

1:06.3

to feel fatigued, okay?

1:08.1

And with time, that will go away, but what I want to focus on is what happens when you've

1:12.6

already adapted, you've done it for a period of time, and you're still tired.

1:17.3

What's behind that?

1:18.8

That's usually a nutritional deficiency, okay?

1:21.6

So when you're doing it a bit of fasting, you're actually running off your reserves, okay?

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