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.

Do you ever wonder why people snack when they get stressed out?

We're going to answer the question today.

The hormone that is triggered by stress is called cortisol.

Cortisol is a glucose corticoid.

What that means is that it's a hormone that has a function of regulating blood sugars

to a certain degree.

And specifically when your blood sugars drop down and you get low blood sugar, cortisol

is released and then cortisol helps your body turn or convert protein, fat or ketones

in the sugar.

This is called gluconeogenesis, glucose meaning sugar, neo meaning new and genesis, meaning

making something or creating something.

So your body is making new sugar, not out of carbohydrates, but by non-carbohydrate sources.

This happens in the liver.

Alright, let's look at this chart right up here.

You go through stress, you raise cortisol.

Cortisol releases sugar.

Now we have a spike in blood sugar, right?

It becomes higher.

Insulin kicks in, it gets triggered by the glucose and it pushes your blood sugar downward

into the lower range, hypoglycemia, which is low blood sugar.

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