Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Alright, so I'm going to answer another question.

Can Keto actually raise your cortisol levels?

Let's talk about that.

But first I have to talk about an existing situation so you understand what's happening.

Most people, when they're not in Keto, have a condition called insulin resistance.

And what's happening is the body's creating insulin resistance is a way to compensate

for the excess carb or sugar in the diet.

It's protecting itself against the excess.

The problem now is the pancreas still needs to be sending insulin into the cells.

But because you have resistance, it has to then pump out more insulin.

And this right here is rarely tested when you go to the doctors.

They measure the blood glucose levels, but they don't measure the fasting insulin levels,

okay, in the blood.

So what's happening is like this is compensating.

So now when you go in Keto and you eat less sugar, what's going to happen is you're going

to take a layer of this problem away.

But it's not insulin going to cure insulin resistance.

That's going to take some time.

So you're still going to have insulin resistance, which means you're still going to have a bit

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