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.

Let's talk about your menstrual cycle. You know that you can use the ketogenic diet to get

your period back on track or back to normal. Women who have missed three menstrual cycles in a row

have a condition called amenorrhea and this could stem from many different things. It could be

a nutritional deficiency. It could be that they're losing weight in an unhealthy way. It could be

weight gain because too much fat can actually make too much estrogen. It could be some hormonal

disruption or some endocrine and disruption chemicals in the environment. It could be stress

where you have a higher amount of the sympathetic nervous system and low parasympathetic or it could

be that you have diabetes or pre-diabetes. Now, here's what you need to know. Insulin resistance

is a huge cause of amenorrhea. Now, what happens when you have insulin resistance? You have

too much insulin. Now, what's the connection between high insulin and amenorrhea? Well, high

insulin suppresses something in your liver called SHBG. It stands for sex hormone binding

globulin. That is a compound that helps carry protein to sex organs. When you have high insulin,

you're going to have low SHBG and that's going to suppress your sex hormones causing you not to

have a menstrual cycle. All right, what's the relationship between the ketogenic diet? Well, the

ketogenic diet lowers insulin. It helps fix insulin resistance and you do it through two ways. You

lower your carbohydrates and you do intermittent fasting. There's quite a few other benefits of

running your body on ketones in relationship to your menstrual cycle. Okay, number one, ketones

lower inflammation and directly increase fertility. All right, number two, ketones improve the HPA

axis, hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal. What does that mean? It means that ketones help take you

out of the flatter fight mechanism. They help you lower stress. All right, next one, number three,

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