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.

So why would you want to take apple cider vinegar before bed?

Well, there's many reasons I'm going to talk about the blood sugar reason acetic acid,

which is the main acid in apple cider vinegar, is very anti glycineic, what does that mean?

It means it reduces your blood sugars after a meal.

Acetic acid also helps you reduce blood sugars in the morning.

There's something that occurs called the dawn phenomena or dawn effect where you wake

up and your blood sugars are higher.

Now normally when you wake up your blood sugars should be low because you didn't eat all

night long and especially if you're in keto and you're not eating carbohydrates, why in

the world would your blood sugars be high?

Well, that's because that high blood sugar is not coming from your diet.

It's coming from your liver.

Your liver is making extra glucose from protein and fat and ketones, okay?

That's called gluconeogenesis.

The formation of new sugar from non-carbohydrate sources and the reason why it's doing that

is because you have insulin resistance, you have a problem with your blood sugars, you

can be pre-diabetic or a diabetic.

If you're not a pre-diabetic or a diabetic, you just have insulin resistance, that's all

that means.

All right, so now why does acetic acid helps with vinegar lower your blood sugars?

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