Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

I want to mention something that is a very important point about staying in a ketosis.

And when you plateau or you're not progressing like you should,

people tend to look at carbohydrate levels.

They look at, in my fasting long enough, they may look at their fats.

Maybe they're doing too much fat or even too much protein.

But I want to put your attention on something that is very, very significant.

And it's stress.

Your stress could be preventing you from getting into a full ketosis.

Very interesting article I read.

I'm going to post it down below by PF Sloss in 1963,

out of the Journal of American Medical Association.

Check this out.

This is what he said when he was evaluating a group of diabetic patients.

80% of adult diabetic patients gave a history of pre-existing stress mainly in terms of losses

one to 48 months prior to the onset of diabetes type two.

Now, this is fascinating because when I was in my practice, I noticed the same thing.

People that developed diabetes usually had some history of some stress event

or they were under massive stress.

Now, back then, I didn't really make the connection, but now it's very obvious.

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