In this video, I’ll uncover whether or not you can actually fast if you have low blood
sugar. Hi, Ladies and gentleman. I’m Dr. Zyrowski and welcome back to the channel.
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Now in this video we are going to uncover can I fast with low blood sugar? I have people
all the time, they see my fasting videos they see my all material I put out there on intermittent
fasting and three day fast and water fasting. And they say well I would really love this
information but I can’t do it because I have low blood sugar. I go from the place
of hyperglycemia where I have too much blood sugar to hypoglycemia where i’m crashing
and this isn't for me. Well the truth is this is for you but you have to know how to approach
it. Because one of the great things for actually balancing blood sugar is actually doing fasting.
Let’s go ahead in this video put some practical thought to this whole topic and then create
a plan as to how to move forward.
So, first of all when we look at this topic we’re talking about pre-diabetes and also
diabetes type 2 okay. This is where people are going from high blood sugar to low blood
sugar. And they have this huge blood sugar instability in the case of pre diabetes a
lot of people have this unknowingly.
It’s estimated that 84 million people have pre-diabetes and they don’t even know that
they have it and so this is something that is a big problem because you’re going to
have those big states of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia if you have prediabetes now of
course if you have full blown diabetes this is a whole nother problem. When we look at
diabetes it essentially means that you have too much sugar in the blood and you have too
much sugar in the cell and what insulin is trying to do is take that sugar out of the
blood and pack into the cell but the cell is already full so you end up with this toxic
overload of glucose in the body and then you have this diabetes issue. Now typically when
you go to the doctor they go well let’s go ahead and raise insulin levels up so they
give you a medication that just pushes more insulin in and it doesn’t solve the issue
because the issue is the high blood sugar, the issue is not enough insulin.
So when we do it actually does great things for us because it brings that sugar down it
brings that blood sugar down, the cellular sugar down and as a result you become so much
healthier for it. A lot of people say well what happens is I go into that hypoglycemia
state and as a result you know I just think that you know it could potentially kill me
which you know hypoglycemia in many ways is very bad but when we look at hypoglycemia
and fasting essentially what’s gonna happen is gluconeogenesis is gonna occur. This basically
means that because you have run out of blood sugar your body turns to the fat stores and
starts breaking down the glycerol and turning it into the energy that it needs to survive
and so this is happening at night when you sleep. This is happening all the time and
this is something that is going to happen when you fast. Now conventional wisdom is
almost always wrong. Okay. When we look at this issue of low blood sugar and hypoglycemia
and the idea that you cant fast because of it well it is wrong. It is just like cholesterol
causes heart disease well you know I recently had a patient that was told by their doctor
when your blood sugar drops low eat a candy bar okay, this is not a solution to the problem
because what’s happening is the reason that the blood sugar is dropping in the first place
in the case that i’m talking about is because people are going and their having high carb,
high sugar meals. They’re having these huge insulin spikes because insulin is so high
what it does is after it deals with the blood sugar the blood sugar drops super low. So
it’s this massive problem with instability blood sugar goes high insulin spikes up it
drops it to low hyper hypoglycemia and what happens is if you’re going and you’re
just adding a candy bar in you’re adding a big dose of sugar everytime you go and have
hypoglycemia, you are putting fuel on the fire. You are creating more of a problem than
what is already existing and of course you know you’re going to suffer in your future
for it. So we want to make sure you are not doing that.
When we look at fasting in general the healthy diet is key here and the reason that it’s
key is because when people try to get into fasting a lot of times they’re not following
a healthy diet. I see all the time even with young kids who are implementing fasting or
healthy people who are implementing fasting. They’re using fasting as a crutch to follow
a very horrible diet and that of course is terrible because you are going to create a
pre-diabetic or diabetic condition within your body, creating blood sugar instability.
What you’re doing is you’re just jamming insulin and blood sugar through the roof and
then you’re going into that very low blood sugar state when you’re fasting. Now people
who are healthy they can get away with this you know while they’re healthy of course
but people who have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes and they’re getting huge swings
in their blood sugar they can not get away with.
So following this healthy diet is so key, so critical during this time and the reason
for that is because when you’re actually eating when you’re let's say if you’re
practicing intermittent fasting in your eating window what you want to not be doing is raising
your blood sugar high. So following a low carb diet, following a ketogenic diet is all
going to be very beneficial and I teach very in-depth on both those topics. I’ll put
links in the description below to where you can learn more on it and so we want to make
sure that we’re following the healthy diet it is so critical, so important. Now the next
plan of action is this so first of all when we look at someone who has a lot of blood
sugar instability a lot of times fasting can be uncomfortable. So what we have to look
at doing is first of all get into that healthy diet. That’s very important now when we
look at going into fasting we want to go slowly right. Now just people in general tend to
have the problem with going from 0 to 100 like that. Okay like for people who go to
the gym and want to start losing weight they haven’t been to the gym in you know two
years and they go there and start sprinting on the treadmill, not a good idea. You want
to ease into it and the same goes for fasting. Now, what you essentially want to do is if
you’re someone who's eating like let’s say you’re eating four meals a day what
you can do is you can start by just reducing down to three meals a day. Here is even a
better start so once you get on that healthy diet first of all stop snacking. So stop snacking
between meals so even if you are eating five meals a day stop snacking between each meal.
Then after you accomplish that goal go down to four meals a day, then three meals a day,
then two meals a day and you’re doing intermittent fasting. And then you can even go down to
one meal a day if you’d like and your doing the one meal a day plan OMAD plan. So that
is how you can go in and tackle this. Another thing you want to do too during this time
is typically people who have these issues also want to be adding in sufficient amounts
of electrolytes during this process because their body has more instability and within
it they tend to shed more electrolytes because their insulin high and low and things of that
nature. So adding in electrolytes is very powerful i’ll put a link to the electrolyte
powder in the description below that we use. Now the other thing is that if you want to
go and learn more about blood sugar instability, I did a video on it check that out. It teaches
you like pre-diabetes, diabetes, when to know, how to test it. That sort of thing. Now the
last thing I want to mention here is when to work with your doctor so if you’re someone
who already has diabetes and you want to go in and start doing fasting you need to work
with your doctor on it because what is happening is that if you have diabetes and you’re
on a medication you will drive blood sugar far too low to a dangerous level low and that
is not healthy either. Now when you are on a medication work with a doctor because when
you start implementing the healthy diet blood sugar is going to drop when you start implementing
fasting, blood sugar is going to drop. If you’re on a medication it’s going to just
drive your blood sugar down and that’s not good. So you want to work with a doctor if
you have diabetes, if you’re on a medication and you want to implement fasting. So be sure
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