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I had another question I wanted to answer it with a quick video they were talking

about having hypoglycemia low blood sugar and every time they consume

protein they feel a lot better okay so they wanted to know why protein helps

with hypoglycemia now when I had low blood sugar issues and by the way what

happens is when the blood sugar comes up insulin will then push the blood sugar

down and you can end up with lower blood sugar and people with low blood sugar a

lot of times have a higher amount of insulin in their body and it’s pushing

it down and we don’t have those counter hormones or counter regulatory hormones

to kind of push it back up so you end up with low blood sugar and the symptoms

are fatigue dizziness irritable nasai dry eyes depression there’s all these

different symptoms I remember having hypoglycemia really

bad and I’d really dry irritated eyes then I started consuming protein and I

felt great for years but getting back to the video some people have this idea

that the fuel that the body uses is either glucose sugar or fat or ketones

but protein can be used as a fuel protein can be broken down in the body

into what’s called carbon skeletons and that can actually be converted into

glucose okay and the term is gluconeogenesis so your body can make

fuel glucose from protein so protein can act as a fuel in addition to replacing

your protein in your body so it’s not just fat and glucose you can get energy

from protein and this is why when you consume protein when you have low blood

sugar you actually start feeling better now if you were to consume a

carbohydrate when you had hypoglycemia you would feel better for maybe a minute

or two but then the insulin is gonna kick it back down here now what’s unique

about consuming protein is that yes you are gonna stimulate some insulin

especially if you’re consuming a lot of protein but you’re also going to

stimulate at the same time glucagon glucagon is the opposing

hormone to insulin it’s made by the pancreas as well and glucagon will raise

the blood sugar and insulin will lower it so it’ll create a nice leveling

effect right here when you consume protein so protein is a glucogenic

precursor so it’s actually a building block that can be turned into glucose if

your body needs to do that now this video is not just to have people start

consuming a lot of protein I recommend doing a moderate amount of protein it’s

just to help you understand why you’re gonna feel better if you consume protein

if you have hypoglycemia the ultimate solution for hypoglycemia is to get on a

healthy ketogenic diet do the whole program and intermittent fasting because

that way you will correct this large amount of insulin that is really behind

this problem the first place and that’s coming from insulin resistance and once

this is corrected you won’t have the highs and lows anymore so the need to

fix anything related to hypoglycemia is not there anymore so your blood Sugar’s

may even come down to 70 or even 60 but you don’t get those symptoms anymore you

feel very very stable so if you have hypoglycemia I put several videos on

this page so you can get more data thanks for watching