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.

I would say out of all the things that I'm expert in, I think the number one thing is in fatigue.

That's definitely a certification that you can't get from any university.

You have to get it from the school of hard knocks.

But I personally have been so tired for so many years and then overcame that fatigue and then helped tens of thousands of people. So I'm going to tell you

right now, I am going to show you how to get your energy back. I was doing all the wrong things.

I was trying to take all these pills and vitamins, but there was something else

underneath my fatigue that I was missing. And until years later, when I finally figured it out,

it was like I took a helmet off my head and I finally woke up. So let's talk about the seven

reasons why you're tired. The first reason is adrenal fatigue. You have too much cortisol.

What's interesting about cortisol, it's a stress hormone that adapts your body to stress.

And under stress, your body switches to running on glucose. Despite what your diet is, if you have too much stress,

your body is going to basically run on glucose. This is why there's another name for cortisol.

Glucocorticoid, okay? It's a glucose-type hormone meant for short-term energy. It's supposed to give you energy, but it ends up making

you tired because it's going to mobilize a lot of glucose that's stored in your liver. And it's also

going to make glucose out of protein and fat. That's called gluconeogenesis. So here you are

having all this glucose flowing through your bloodstream,

and then your blood sugar is going to increase, and then insulin's going to come in there and

push it down. So when you go through chronic stress, that's when things start to go downhill,

and all that glucose will just make you thoroughly exhausted. All right, so the more stress you

have, the more your body runs on sugar.

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