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the most common cause of hypoglycemia what is  hypoglycemia low blood sugar okay what are the  

symptoms dizziness cravings for sugar  lightheadedness sweating lethargy and  

being irritable now the simple version of how they  diagnose this is if you’re a diabetic and you have  

blood sugars less than 70 milligrams per deciliter  you can have hypoglycemia now if you’re not a  

diabetic and you’re an adult if your blood sugars  are less than 50 milligrams per deciliter you can  

have hypoglycemia now one type of hypoglycemia is  called idiopathic hypoglycemia okay now idiopathic  

means unknown cause so basically they’re  labeling this hypoglycemia we don’t know  

what causes it so it’s a nice descriptive term  another form of hypoglycemia is called idiopathic  

postpranial syndrome okay now that’s a fancy word  for describing low blood sugar symptoms without  

actually having low blood sugar okay and of course  the word idiopathic they don’t know what causes it  

and then the other um diagnosis that sometimes  people get is that it’s hypoglycemia caused from  

adrenal fatigue okay because the adrenal hormones  specifically cortisol and adrenaline are counter  

regulatory hormones so if your blood sugars are  too low they will raise your blood sugars up so  

they kind of protect you against hypoglycemia but  you know i’ve done videos on this and i’ve talked  

about how the adrenals can cause hypoglycemia but  i really don’t think that’s the main cause because  

if you were to have hypoglycemia and you were  to focus on fixing your adrenals you’re usually  

not going to see improvement in your blood  sugars okay they’re not going to actually  

come up to normal so i think it can happen but you  would have to really have an adrenal gland problem  

where it’s completely like shut down where you  might have a condition called addison’s disease  

where the adrenal just doesn’t work anymore the  number one cause of hypoglycemia is hyper insulin  

anemic hypoglycemia it’s a fancy term for you  have high insulin and low blood sugar now if  

you look up the cause of this it’ll say insulin  injections okay if you’re a diabetic type one  

tumors okay autoimmune certain drugs especially  diabetic drugs and prednisone too and genetics  

but what they’re missing is the big reason why you  have hyper insulin okay and that’s excessive carbs  

it’s amazing the number one cause for high  insulin is not even mentioned okay hardly anywhere  

when you look this up here’s what happens large  quantities of carbohydrates will then elevate your  

blood sugars at a certain level and your body’s  going to then require large amounts of insulin  

to come in there to push your blood sugars down  and if it’s too much force you’re going to end  

up with low blood sugars hypoglycemia all right  now we give this more time and we keep eating a  

large amount of carbohydrates an average person in  america consumes like 65 of their calories in the  

form of carbohydrates so a lot of people are doing  this so if you do this over a long period of time  

the body is going to protect itself by developing  insulin resistance so now we have a situation  

where the cells are not taking in insulin  okay that alone is gonna jack up insulin more  

at the same time you’re consuming the same amount  of carbohydrates you’re getting so much insulin  

coming in and the body is compensating for there  is this resistance so you may have normal blood  

sugars but you may have lower blood sugars because  of all this insulin pushing things down and what  

is the main treatment for hypoglycemia dextrose  pills okay sugar pills so you’re basically going  

to add more carbohydrates to fix your low blood  sugar wow whoever is doing that doesn’t understand  

this mechanism at all now with more time the  pancreas is going to go you know what i can’t keep  

making all this insulin and the beta cells that  make insulin are just going to get exhausted  

they’re going to get tired and they’re going to  retire and go to sleep and not work that much so  

now we have less insulin and now the blood sugars  go up because there’s nothing to push it down  

and this is called pre-diabetes and actual  diabetes so that’s the different phases of  

what happens when you start doing more carbs end  up with hypoglycemia and end up with hyperglycemia  

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