Drink This Before Bed — It Could Change Your Life

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about the best drinks for diabetes management and prevention to support healthy blood sugar as you sleep. These 7 drinks help improve sleep quality by preventing troublesome issues like night waking and nighttime urination.

Blood sugar often decreases at night, increasing cortisol, which increases blood sugar levels. Poor sleep can also cause blood sugar issues, and frequent urination at night can contribute to this problem.

Here are 7 nighttime drinks to help stabilize blood sugar levels throughout the night. Try these drinks to support healthy blood sugar levels and improve sleep.

1. Apple cider vinegar with cinnamon

Add one to two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with a pinch of cinnamon to a glass of water for the perfect blood sugar-balancing drink.

2. Chamomile tea

Chamomile tea lowers cortisol and stabilizes blood sugar by directly supporting the cells in the pancreas.

3. Golden milk

Combine turmeric and ginger with milk to make a delicious blood sugar-balancing latte.

4. Aloe vera juice

Aloe vera is known to help with digestion and ulcers and can be applied topically to wounds, but it also potently affects the cells that make insulin.

5. Berberine tea

This herb is close in effectiveness to Metformin, just without the side effects!

6. Electrolyte drinks (without sugar)

Potassium and magnesium are vital for healthy blood sugar levels. Magnesium can significantly decrease cortisol, while potassium can reduce blood sugar and is essential for glucose storage in the liver and the muscles. Most people are not getting enough potassium!

7. Salt in water

Sodium is an important electrolyte that helps reduce blood sugar and cortisol. Add it to water or your electrolyte drinks to help increase hydration. It also supports the adrenal glands, nerves, and muscles.

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:

Dr. Berg, age 59, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0	What you eat and especially drink at night is really important.
0:04.4	There are seven nighttime drinks for diabetes, pre-diabetes,
0:08.4	and for people with insulin resistance, which comes before pre-diabetes,
0:13.0	which usually takes about 15 years, for your blood sugar,
0:16.0	for your quality of sleep to prevent getting up several times a night,
0:19.8	urinating.
0:20.4	If a person has blood sugar issues,
0:22.1	they're not able to go for a long period of time between meals. Their fuel is dependent on the meal
0:27.5	that they just ate. At night, when they have their last meal, now they have to go like 12, 13,
0:34.5	14 hours without food, and a lot of things can happen. The first thing you need to know about
0:40.1	is the blood sugar will go down sometime during the nighttime. The body can't have that. It's constantly
0:46.7	working to stabilize your blood sugar. The way it does that is through cortisol, which is a stress
0:51.6	hormone. That's what the body uses to kind of bring the blood
0:54.7	sugar up. Of course, adrenaline, it's not really a hormone, it's a neurotransmitter, but it's going to be
0:58.5	another thing that can kind of wake you up. If you don't have the quality of sleep that you need,
1:03.9	that's going to put a lot of stress on your blood sugar. Blood sugar issues, prevent a quality of sleep, and then poor sleep causes blood sugar issues.
1:11.4	So it's a never-ending cycle.
1:13.1	Of course, a lot of people are getting up to the night peeing all the time, and you're going to lose water if you have high blood sugar because the body is trying to get rid of it.
1:20.6	And then the person is a little more dehydrated.
1:22.9	And that dehydrated state causes more concentration of blood sugar.
1:26.9	Now we're right back into the same
1:28.3	situation. There's even something that is called the dawn phenomena, which is in the morning cortisol,
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