Low Blood Sugar On Keto (Hypoglycemia On Ketogenic Diet)

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