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Hey guys, Doctor Berg here. In this video, I’m going to talk about the best snacks

for low blood sugar, okay? I used to have low blood sugar and I used to have like,

protein snacks and protein bars and apples with peanut butter. Well, I don’t

recommend that any more, because every time you snack,

you’re going to worsen the problem. You’re going to worsen the low blood sugar. You’re

going to become a real hypoglycemic, which is almost a pre-diabetes situation. So

continuing the snack always makes it worse over time, okay? We’re going to talk

about why. So normal blood sugars: 100. But it’s usually between I’d say, 80

to 90, but you don’t want it higher than 100, okay? And what that means is one

teaspoon of sugar diluted to your all of your blood in your body like, a gallon

and a half of blood roughly, okay? So that’s not that much sugar. So what

happens when you eat a snack, no matter what you snack on, it doesn’t matter but

protein will do this as well. You actually elevate your sugars. You’re

bringing your sugar back up, okay? So the sugar comes high and then that triggers

a hormone called insulin and the purpose of insulin is to drive this sugar down.

So you end up with a low blood sugar situation. So here you are, eat a snack

wait a couple hours, boom, it’s down again. You got to eat again. It’s high, boom, down.

It keeps coming up and down, up and down, up and down and this is what’s happening

to a lot of people and it happens to me as well. And it just worsens the problem

because they really don’t understand the background, what’s behind the scene. They

don’t realize that they’re continuing the problem. So you have to, number one,

realize that snacking worsens the problem, okay? Number two, we have to

change what you eat at the meal. So you really want to do this where you have

three meals a day starting out – no snacks. To do that, and to stabilize your sugar,

you need certain things. One of the most important things to help insulin be

stabilized and not go too high, or too low, would be potassium. Potassium and

insulin work together, okay? So yes, you can take it as a supplement, but I would

rather you get it from the foods. And you guessed it, vegetables give you

the most potassium. So but, here’s the thing, you need between about seven to

10 cups of vegetable — or even more salad, if you’re going to do salad, because

vegetables are a little bit more dense, every single day to get this potassium

requirement. No one is doing that, so they’re going to have a hard time fixing

this blood sugar situation. So potassium, so you, if you, eat a meal the first

thing you do is you have your, your vegetable, your salad, okay? So if I’m gonna do that,

like I might do a kale shake, well, a huge salad. I’ll eat that first before

anything else, okay? That’s number one, so I have vegetables. I have a moderate

amount of protein for with each meal. Okay, that’s like three to six ounces.

Don’t want too much, because that could spike insulin as well. Just a moderate

amount. But here’s the thing that is missing, too. If you do a lean piece of

meat or a protein shake with vegetables, you’re going to be starving because if you

already have a blood sugar problem, it’s only going to last like an hour or two. What you

need to add to make this transition smooth, you need to add fat, okay? Like

nuts, enough nuts, or almond butter, or nut butters, or avocado, or brie cheese, or

more olive (oil) in your salad dressing, or, or butter, to the point where you feel so

satisfied, you can go from one meal to the next comfortably, okay? So you have to

make those adjustments. If you have too much, you might aggravate the gallbladder

and cause right shoulder pain and headaches because the gallbladder has

nerves that run up there. Or too little, you’re just going to be hungry. Now the

thing is that, if someone has low blood sugar, to make this transition, takes

about three weeks to two weeks sometimes, okay? So until your body starts to get

used to it. But once you do it, you will actually go

from one meal to next without much hunger, okay? And so, I put a video down

below of more details of how to do this. But even for kids, you do not want kids

to snack between the meals, don’t get them used to that because you’re just

setting them up for a spiked insulin, where they’re constantly going to do

this. And, and the problem with the snacks is their so-called protein bars, but they

always come with sugar. I mean there, I looked at the protein

bars at the grocery store. It’s like all over the place. Everything is hidden

sugars — everywhere you go. What does that tell you? It tells you that people are

not aware of the amount of sugar that’s in the food that’s causing this blood

sugar thing. Because if you snack on a Snickers bar or something sweet between

the meal or even an apple, you’re really going to make this thing a lot worse in

propel it into the future, okay? So a protein would be the next best thing but

then just to cut it out completely. That would be the best thing to do. And the

last thing I want to talk about is there are certain things that will trigger

insulin, okay? Sugar will do it, excessive protein will do it, but the other

thing, if you combine protein with sugar, you get an exaggerated spike of insulin

versus eating them separately. So that would be the protein bar with, with the

added sugar to it and that’s what everyone’s doing. So again, I’m just kind

of giving you some food for thought and to give you enough information so you

can get out of this blood sugar trap. Thanks for watching.

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