low blood sugar on Keto even though lowering blood sugar is the purpose of
the ketogenic diet in some people it can get a little bit too low called
hypoglycemia so in this video we'll talk about how all that works coming right up
so the ketogenic diet is all about blood sugar and it's about stabilizing blood
sugar but people react differently and there's a few variables that we want to
look at and understand so if someone has taught their body to depend on
carbohydrate and all of a sudden you withdraw that carbohydrate your body has
basically lost its primary source of fuel and in some people the they just
feel a little bad they get the keto flu they they feel a little irritable for a
few days and then it kicks right back in but some people they're machinery has
crashed a little bit more and they don't have that backup system kick in and they
end up with hypoglycemia so a question on one of my videos was someone had
tried to do hypo glycogen keto diet and their hypoglycemia was so bad that they
had to go to the hospital a couple of times so obviously we want to try to
avoid things like that but most people with hypoglycemia the problem originates
because they were on a high carb diet and through years of eating high carb
and processed foods their blood sugar get into a rollercoaster pattern and
this pattern is very very stressful for the body you start stressing and
depleting various different organs and every time it's high now you have to
release a lot of insulin to lower the blood sugar fast and then when it drops
fast in the beginning the body can compensate and slow down the curve at
the right point and you don't get hypoglycemia but if you really get your
your whole mechanism out of whack and that that dampening mechanism
doesn't work now your blood sugar can come crashing and you get hypoglycemia
now in this state your body doesn't have enough blood sugar it doesn't it's too
low to function and it hasn't learned to develop ketones it doesn't have a
back-up fuel and now what's supposed to happen is your adrenals are supposed to
make cortisol because cortisol is a stress hormone that raises blood sugar
and it does this by mobilizing glycogen it tells the liver to break down some
glycogen but it also tells the body to start breaking down muscle mass because
protein from muscle can be turned into sugar and increase this so cortisol
because it's a stress hormone when you're stressed your body doesn't care
about health it's just survival at any cost do break down whatever is necessary
right now to get the fuel the sugar that I need to survive in this moment
so cortisol is a catabolic it's a breakdown hormone the other hormone is
in the liver it's called glucagon and that does pretty much the same thing but
not on a destructive not on an emergency basis this is a little more subtle that
anytime the blood sugar is a little bit low the glucagon signals to increase the
the breakdown of glycogen and increase gluconeogenesis so both of these
hormones are there to to stabilize the blood sugar in times that we don't have
so much food if this keeps on going longer then we get into ketosis because
the body now on long-term when we don't have the carbs
now the bone has to start burning fat but in some people with this mechanism
just really isn't up to speed they never get into the fat burning because their
bodies crash before they get there and this would be the person that gets
severe hypoglycemia where just totally stopped functioning as soon
as they tried a low-carb diet so what this person needs to do is to change
much much slower and low-carb may not even be or very low carb may not be the
first thing that they want to think about high carb is always destructive
because it also usually involves lots of processed food so you want to go to two
whole healthy foods maybe more like a paleo diet try to avoid inflammatory
foods but you can still probably have some starch some potato and some rice
because your body doesn't know how to burn the fat and how to stabilize your
blood sugar without those carbs and then for the long run though what you need to
do is realize that this is a bigger problem there's many organs involved in
this that are not functioning optimally so what we use in my office to figure
out what's going on is called nutrition response testing it's a system that
allows us to get to the root of the problem to ask the body what is slowing
down the adrenals what's interfering with the liver
what's stressing the pancreas and any other organ and then we can find out
what nutritional support that organ needs which allows the body to heal over
time to restore the organs and the normal function and here we have to
understand that it takes time to heal the body this might be a process of a
year or two or maybe even longer depending on how long this has been
going on we also want to understand what I emphasize in every one of my videos
that don't ever do Kido don't ever do any of this for any other reason than
health the only purpose the only goal is to restore the body to normal function
to establish balance the way the body is supposed to work and don't do it to lose
weight if you get healthy if you get you're in
Selene resistance to a healthy level if you restore your organs your body will
tell you how much you need to eat you will burn the fat you will find balance
so weight loss is just a side effect of getting healthy there the opposite is
not necessarily true and too many people are trying to lose weight to get healthy
and that's not always the case because if you eat unhealthy fats and you eat
processed foods or depleted foods or unnatural food you can still be in
ketosis but you're not going to get healthy so please keeps this keep these
things in mind and not everyone is suited to go right into ketosis I think
a lot of people can do it if they change slowly if they slowly give their their
body a chance to adapt but other people just may have other issues going on and
like I said high carb is never a good idea but medium to moderate might be
okay might be a better option for some people until they can get their body fat
adapted and to give their body time to heal so if you like these kind of
explanations please share this videos with as many people as you can I love to
explain how things work and I love the feedback where you let me know what you
liked and what you didn't like so that I can produce more content to help the
sick and the curious people understand more about how to take care of
themselves if you have any questions let me know and I'll be happy to get to the
answers thanks for watching