Testing Glucose or Ketones: Which is More Important?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Hypoglycemia:
Dawn Phenomenon:
In this podcast, we're going to talk about testing glucose and ketone levels. Which one is more important to do?
When you test your glucose:
• The lower the glucose, the higher the ketones
• The higher the glucose, the lower the ketones
When you start out, you might have a blood sugar of around 80, but as you do ketosis, you'll find it goes lower and lower. If you're feeling great, you probably aren't developing hypoglycemia.
But, there is something called the dawn phenomenon that happens for a few reasons. It may happen because of gluconeogenesis, you're prediabetic, you have insulin resistance, or you get a spike in cortisol.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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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. Had another interesting question that I want to talk about. |
| 0:47.0 | What's more important testing your ketones or glucose? |
| 0:51.0 | Very good question. |
| 0:53.0 | So let's first take a look at glucose. |
| 0:55.0 | When you test your glucose, |
| 0:57.0 | realize this, the lower the blood glucose, |
| 1:00.0 | the higher the |
| 1:05.0 | the glucose, the lower amount of ketones |
| 1:08.5 | that your body can produce. |
| 1:10.2 | So really what controls ketones and the amount of ketones is this glucose level. |
| 1:15.6 | So if you just had glucose as one way to monitor this and everything was low, |
| 1:20.8 | then you're pretty much going to be in ketosis. |
| 1:24.0 | Now, when you start out, you might have a blood sugar of 80. |
| 1:29.0 | Some people have higher, some people have lower. |
| 1:32.2 | But as you do ketosis, you're going to find that it goes lower and lower. |
| 1:37.0 | Okay, so you might think that, oh my gosh, am I developing hypoglycemia? |
| 1:42.0 | No. Especially if... gosh am I developing hypoglycemia? |
| 1:43.0 | No, especially if you're feeling great. |
| 1:46.0 | Now if you have low blood sugars and you feel kind of funky |
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