Can't Sleep Without Carbs? – Try These Sleep Remedies by Dr. Berg
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 25 September 2022
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Find out why you can't sleep without carbs, and what to do about it.
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| 0:00.0 | So I had someone comment on a YouTube video that they just couldn't sleep without carbs. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm going to explain what that means and what to do. So if you've had insulin resistance in the |
| 0:32.0 | past and you go on a ketogenic plan and you start cutting back your carbs, |
| 0:37.0 | realize that if that insulin resistance has been there for a long time, |
| 0:41.1 | it's going to take a long time to get it corrected. It could take months, could take up to a year |
| 0:45.9 | to fully get that stabilized. And what happens with insulin resistance is you have higher amounts |
| 0:51.8 | of insulin. But when you're keto, you have lower amounts of carbs. So the ratio of insulin |
| 0:57.6 | to carbs are like this. You're still going to have high insulin, despite cutting the carbs out |
| 1:01.9 | because of that resistance problem that's been there a long time and it does take some time. So |
| 1:07.5 | that higher amounts of insulin could actually push the blood sugars down to low in the middle of the |
| 1:13.6 | night. Now with low blood sugars, you have counter hormones that keep your blood sugars from going down |
| 1:20.4 | to low. And the two main ones are cortisol and adrenaline and these are for the adrenal. |
| 1:26.3 | And try to sleep when you have adrenaline flowing through your bloodstream or even cortisol. |
| 1:31.4 | If you look at the cortisol circadian rhythm, it's the lowest at 2 a.m. in the morning. |
| 1:40.1 | It's the highest at 8 o'clock in the morning when you're supposed to wake up. And just |
| 1:44.3 | realize that adrenaline is the hormone that will wake you up. So that's usually behind the |
| 1:48.8 | situation, but what can you do about it? Well, realize that with time, this problem is going to |
| 1:54.8 | get better. If you stick with it, but you can do things to improve it, you could take electrolytes |
| 2:00.1 | like potassium, magnesium, and calcium. These are very calming for the adrenal gland, cortisol, |
| 2:07.0 | and adrenaline. And also realize when you consume more vegetables, like at least seven cups, |
| 2:12.0 | you're going to be getting a lot of potassium, magnesium, vitamin C, things like that. Now, |
| 2:17.1 | apple cider vinegar before bed is really good because this can help stabilize not just blood sugars, |
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