Welcome to the Dr. Berg healthy ketone intermittent fasting podcast now your host the man taking

your health to a whole new level Dr Eric Berg the most common cause of hypoglycemia

what is hypoglycemia low blood sugar okay what are the symptoms dizziness cravings

for sugar lightheadedness sweating lethargy and being irritable now the simple version

of how they diagnosis is if you're a diabetic and you have blood sugars less than 70 milligrams per

desolate or you can have hypoglycemia now if you're not a diabetic and you're an adult

if your blood sugars are less than 50 milligrams per desolate or you can have hypoglycemia now one

type of hypoglycemia is called idiopathic hypoglycemia okay now idiopathic means unknown cause

so basically they're they're labeling this hypoglycemia we don't know what causes it so it's a nice

descriptive term another form of hypoglycemia is called idiopathic postpranial syndrome okay now

that's a fancy word for describing low blood sugar symptoms without actually having low blood sugar

okay and of course the word idiopathic they don't know what causes it and then the other

diagnosis that sometimes people get is that it's hypoglycemia caused from a adrenal fatigue okay

because the adrenal hormones specifically cortisol and adrenaline are counter regulatory hormones

so if your blood sugars are too low they will raise your blood sugars up so they kind of protect you

against hypoglycemia but you know I've done videos on this and I've talked about how the

adrenals can cause hypoglycemia but I really don't think that's the main cause because if you were

to have hypoglycemia and you were to focus on fixing your adrenals you're usually not going to

see improvement in your blood sugars okay they're not going to actually come up to normal so I think

it can happen but you would have to really have an adrenal gland problem where it's completely like

shut down when you might have a condition called addison disease where the adrenal this doesn't

work anymore the number one cause of hypoglycemia is hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia it's a fancy

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