Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights. 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 diagnose this is if you're

a diabetic and you have blood sugars less than 70 milligrams per decilator, 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 decilator, you can have hypoglycemia. Now, one type of hypoglycemia is called

idiopathic hypoglycemia. Okay. Now, idiopathic means unknown cause. So basically, 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 post-pranio 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 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

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