The Real Reason Why You Are TIRED All the Time

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about fatigue—the root cause and how to fix it.

It all starts with your mitochondria. The mitochondria are the energy factories deep inside your cells that make ATP. ATP is the energy of the body.

Certain foods contribute to the energy-making process of the body more than other foods. It’s almost impossible to extract energy from ultra-processed foods.

Important nutrients to support energy include:

• Vitamin B1

• Vitamin B2

• Vitamin B3

• Folic acid

• Vitamin B12

• Magnesium

• Manganese

• Selenium

• Vitamin C

• Coenzyme Q10

A healthy person makes a massive amount of ATP. You generate more ATP when you exercise, but ATP doesn’t get stored. Your body can either store sugar or fat as fuel. Fat is a much more efficient fuel source than sugar.

When you go on a low-carb diet and get into ketosis, you become fat-adapted. Once you’re fat-adapted, you can burn fat as fuel a lot easier. This is why the keto diet, with a lot of nutrient-dense foods, is the best diet to increase energy.

Exercise is the number one way to produce more mitochondria and boost your energy. This is just one more reason to exercise consistently.

Other things to add to increase your energy and get rid of fatigue:

• Intermittent fasting

• Cold therapy

• Phytonutrients

Things to avoid to help support healthy energy levels:

• Refined sugar and carbohydrates

• Stress

• Heavy metals

• Smoking

• Alcohol

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about that.
0:02.0	Oh, my goodness.
0:04.0	The deeper source of your fatigue.
0:07.0	Now I will say this, I am an expert in this area simply because I've been tired,
0:11.0	a good portion of my life, and I overcame it.
0:15.4	So I have something very important I want to share.
0:18.1	I remember driving down the street with my wife in my late 20s, being completely exhausted, trying to find a healthy store to find some
0:25.1	vitamin to give me energy. It never worked. I had tons and tons of vitamins and
0:29.7	didn't know what was going on. So if I can teleport this video back in time and show it to myself,
0:36.0	this video would have solved my problem if I really understood how the body makes energy.
0:41.1	And also this is going to be very motivating to you, especially because you're
0:43.7	going to finally understand what really is behind fatigue in general, because you can take
0:49.3	various vitamins and energy drinks and try to boost your energy and more coffee, but that doesn't fix the real problem.
0:58.0	And if you go to any of these 7-Elevens, you'll see right at the front counter this huge section, five-hour energy drinks.
1:04.0	Everything starts with this mitochondria.
1:07.1	What is the mitochondria?
1:08.8	It's an energy factory deep inside your cells
1:11.3	that produces energy. If you have any aspects of fatigue, even if you exercise
1:16.4	and you run out of gas really fast, or even if you have many of the different problems, the health problems
1:21.4	that most people have, This mitochondria is at the
1:24.4	root of it. In fact, most diseases come directly from this mitochondria.
1:28.8	So what is the mitochondria? It's a battery-making machine because food directly can't give you energy. It has to be
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