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today we’re going to talk about hypoglycemia  there’s several different types of hypoglycemia  

so let’s talk about all of them let’s start  with discussing hypoglycemia without symptoms  

so let’s say for example you notice your blood  sugars very low but you feel fine there’s no  

symptoms this usually occurs when you’re doing  the ketogenic diet or you’re doing fasting  

now the way they define hypoglycemia if you’re a  diabetic is blood sugars less than 70. that would  

be milligrams per deciliter not that you need  to know that but that’s what it is if you’re  

not a diabetic if you have blood sugars less  than 54 they consider you having hypoglycemia  

but when you start a ketogenic plan and you’re  not consuming large amounts of carbs anymore  

your body is going to burn ketones and fat and  no longer depend on glucose the amount of glucose  

that you need your liver makes and so your blood  sugars are going to go pretty low they can go  

below 54. they can even go 45 and so the question  is is that dangerous well it really depends on if  

you truly have hypoglycemia and one simple way  to figure that out is just do you have these  

symptoms do you have trouble talking confusion  irritable are you hungry you crave carbs do you  

have sweating shaking weakness fainting you have  vision problems like difficulty seeing when you  

notice that your blood sugars are low do you get a  headache so many people have low blood glucose and  

they have absolutely none of these symptoms like  they did before before they started the ketogenic  

plan so the reason why the blood sugar is low is  because you’re not consuming any more sugar so  

the body’s running off of a different fuel and the  amount of sugar in the blood is low because you’re  

not using that much sugar anymore now let’s take  another scenario let’s say you have hypoglycemic  

symptoms but without having low blood sugars okay  so now you have all these symptoms right here  

but you check your blood sugars and they’re  normal what’s up with that well that’s not a  

true hypoglycemic condition they call it either  pseudohypoglycemia which is kind of like a false  

hypoglycemia or they another word for it would be  idiopathic postprandial syndrome which is a fancy  

term for having your blood sugars drop after  you eat about two to four hours after you eat  

and they don’t know what caused it so they call  it idiopathic which means unknown cause so you  

do have some of these symptoms but your blood  sugars are normal and the reason why this occurs  

is because there is a problem with your insulin  receptors something called insulin resistance  

so over the years when you consume a lot of carbs  and you constantly have a stimulation of insulin  

over and over and over again the receptors for  insulin start to become downgraded so they don’t  

work anymore so then your body makes more insulin  more insulin so we have a situation where we have  

hyper insulin anemia that means too much insulin  in the blood which normally is supposed to push  

the blood sugars down but the receptor is  blocking it so it’s not really connecting  

into the cell so we have a situation we have  dysfunctional insulin so we have the symptoms  

yet we have normal blood glucose so in one part  of the body we might have high levels of insulin  

another part it might be low so it can really give  you a false picture of what’s really happening  

with insulin in general now just as a side note  when you get insulin resistance you can either  

have two things happen you can have symptoms of  low blood sugar without having your blood sugars  

drop or you could have your blood sugars drop  because there’s too much insulin and it’s pushing  

it down with these associated symptoms so it is a  little bit confusing and you have to look at the  

whole picture of what’s happening but the cool  thing is the solution is is just the same which  

i’m going to get to in a second now there’s  also something called reactive hypoglycemia  

now the difference between this and regular  hypoglycemia which is actually called spontaneous  

hypoglycemia really has to do with this is related  to after you eat and the other one relates to  

when you’re fasting and again just to make this  complex topic very very simple if you just got off  

your carbs by doing healthy keto and you included  intermittent fasting very gradually getting your  

body to adapt to fat so it’s no longer dependent  on blood sugars so your insulin levels come down  

and you’re correcting insulin resistance  you will no longer have hypoglycemia  

now if you look up what to do for hypoglycemia  in a medical textbook it may tell you  

different things based on if you’re not a diabetic  or you’re diabetic in merck’s manual it actually  

suggested to consume more protein and a low-carb  diet which i agree that would be a good solution  

it may not fully resolve unless you continue this  and you maybe have moderate protein low carb and  

then you also do fasting but it’s going to greatly  help you because part of the breakdown of protein  

does turn into glucose so it can greatly help your  blood sugars but if you’re diabetic one of the  

most common causes of hypoglycemia is when you’re  taking too much insulin or other medications that  

increase insulin because insulin will push your  blood sugars low so basically you just took too  

much insulin it drops you down into a hypoglycemic  reaction and so the medical recommendation would  

be frequent eating or keep some candy in your  pocket to quickly raise your blood sugars  

my suggestion for both of these situations which  again check with your doctor before doing this  

in addition to these other types of hypoglycemia  is simply to get on a ketogenic diet because the  

main problem with hypoglycemia which is low blood  glucose is the high insulin that’s pushing it  

down and if you can connect the dots that the  biggest trigger for this insulin is consuming  

carbs then it makes obvious sense to go in a low  carb diet why would you do anything else than that  

the other thing to do is eat less frequent  meals it’s called intermittent fasting because  

eating will also stimulate insulin but if you  actually can get your insulin into a healthy level  

you won’t have hypoglycemia and  when you start the ketogenic plan  

just realize that your blood glucose will come  down because you’re no longer living on sugar but  

the cool thing is you won’t have these symptoms  if you do it tells me you’re not out of the woods  

yet and you need to do this more gradually but  eventually your body will adapt it’ll burn more  

fat fuel and less sugar fuel and you won’t have  these symptoms but you will have low blood glucose  

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