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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When you overeat carbohydrates, your blood sugar rises, and insulin removes the sugar from the blood. Insulin also allows sugar to be used as fuel in the cell. Due to insulin resistance, many high blood sugar symptoms are related to low blood sugar and low sugar inside the cell.

Here are 7 high blood sugar warning signs.

1. Excessive urination

Waking up to urinate at night signifies a blood sugar problem and even a prediabetic situation. When you have too much sugar in the blood, it’s filtered by the kidneys and excreted in the urine.

2. Excessive thirst

Excessive urination leads to water loss and excessive thirst. High blood sugar causes sodium retention, which your body tries to dilute. High blood glucose also contributes to potassium deficiency, which also increases thirst.

3. Skin changes

Skin folds will often become darker due to excess glucose.

4. Brain fog and fatigue

Many people have no idea this is a symptom of high blood sugar! High blood sugar starves the neurons.

5. Mood swings

Irritability is often caused when your blood sugar that’s too high goes too low. A ketogenic diet can significantly improve mood issues.

6. Cravings

Cravings will typically be for sugar and salty carbs.

7. Blurry eyes

The lens of the eye becomes swollen, and the inside of the eye becomes reddened.

Fixing the diet and lowering carbohydrates could help eliminate symptoms of high blood sugar within weeks. You’ll also want to increase glucagon to decrease insulin by consuming high-quality protein like red meat, fish, or eggs.

An A1C test measures your blood sugar over 120 days. The higher the percentage of glycated hemoglobin you have, the more severe your diabetes is. If you’re on keto or the carnivore diet, you may notice that your A1C test is still high. This is because these diets extend the life of the red blood cells.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the seven surprising signs that your blood sugar is way too high.
0:06.7	The first question is, can you actually feel high blood sugar?
0:10.2	Normally, you can't feel too much unless it's really, really high.
0:13.7	You might feel a little fatigued, but where the symptoms come in is when the blood sugars go down.
0:19.0	Take a look at this little graph.
0:20.4	Right here, we have this little red line that goes up, and blood sugars go down. Take a look at this little graph. Right here, we have this little
0:21.6	red line that goes up and then it comes down past this level line where I wrote 80 on the left
0:28.6	side. And that basically is normal blood sugar. You're not supposed to have a lot. When people
0:33.0	overeat carbohydrates, the blood sugar goes up. And insulin is going to do two things. It's going to remove
0:37.9	the sugar from the blood, okay, to help bring down the blood sugar, but it's also going to open the
0:42.6	door in all of your cells to allow this sugar to go in the cell so you can use it as fuel. A lot of
0:49.9	the symptoms I'm going to talk about are related to a problem with low blood sugar and low blood
0:56.3	sugar in the actual cell because insulin is not working very well anymore. You develop something
1:01.8	called resistance. And I'm talking about insulin resistance in the cell. And that's represented
1:06.0	in this other image where you have this little key being insulin and in the cell you have this little lock
1:11.7	in there right that's the receptor for insulin that key is not fitting into the lock anymore then you get
1:17.3	all these symptoms that i'm going to describe next now that you understand what insulin and insulin
1:22.4	resistance really is the first one is super common and this is excessive urination. If you have to get up through the
1:29.2	night to urinate, suspect you have a blood sugar problem. Now, I'm not talking about diabetes.
1:34.9	It could be a pre-diabetes. The problem is when you have too much sugar in the blood, it gets
1:39.8	filtered by the kidneys into urine. And wherever the sugar goes, the water goes. You're basically
1:46.5	losing fluid when you eat sugar. The kidney is dumping sugar and water because sugar is too
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