Why Protein Helps Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar)

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

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In this podcast, we're going to talk about protein and hypoglycemia, and I'm going to cover how protein affects blood sugar.

With hypoglycemia, what happens, is when the blood sugar goes up, insulin pushes it down, leaving you with low blood sugar. People with low blood sugar typically have a higher amount of insulin pushing blood sugar down, and there are no counter hormones to push the blood sugar back up.

Hypoglycemia symptoms:

• Fatigue

• Dizziness

• Irritableness

• Grouchiness

• Dry eyes

• Depression

Some people have this idea that the fuel that the body uses is either glucose, fat, or ketones. But, protein can be used as fuel too. Protein can be converted into glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis. Protein can act as a fuel in addition to replacing the protein in your body. This is why when you consume protein when you have low blood sugar, you start feeling better.

If you have hypoglycemia and you were to consume carbohydrates, you might feel better for a minute, but then the insulin will kick the blood sugar back down. When you consume protein, you will stimulate some insulin, but at the same time, you will stimulate glucagon. Glucagon is the opposing hormone to insulin. Glucagon will raise the blood sugar, and insulin will lower it, creating a leveling effect.

I actually recommend a moderate amount of protein. I believe what may be best for those with hypoglycemia is to get on the healthy ketogenic diet combined with intermittent fasting.

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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. Head into the question. I wanted to answer it with a quick video. They were talking
0:49.2	about having hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, and every time they consume protein, they feel a lot better.
0:57.0	Okay? So they wanted to know why protein helps with hypoglycemia.
1:02.0	Now when I had low blood sugar issues and by the way what
1:06.2	happens is when the blood sugar comes up insulin will then push the blood
1:10.6	sugar down and you can end up with lower blood sugar.
1:14.2	And people with low blood sugar a lot of times have a higher amount of insulin in their
1:19.1	body and it's pushing it down and we don't have those counter-hormelons or counter-regulatory
1:25.3	hormones to kind of push it back up.
1:27.4	So you end up with low blood sugar and the symptoms are fatigue, dizziness, irritableness, grouchy, dry eyes, depression, there's all these different symptoms.
1:39.1	I remember having hypoglycemia really bad and I had really dry irritated eyes. Then I started
1:45.7	consuming protein and I felt great for years. But getting back to the video, some
1:51.1	people have this idea that the fuel that the body uses is either glucose, sugar, or fat or ketones.
2:00.0	But protein can be used as a fuel.
2:05.0	Protein can be broken down in the body
2:09.0	into what's called carbon skeletons
2:18.5	and what's called carbon skeletons and that can actually be converted into glucose. Okay and the term is gluconeogenesis so your body can make fuel glucose from protein so
2:26.5	protein can act as a fuel in addition to replacing your protein in your body so
2:32.1	it's not just fat and glucose. You can get energy
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