Glucagon Triggers Ketosis, Insulin Blocks It

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Glucagon opposes insulin. Find out more about this interesting, fat-burning hormone.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Doctor Burg healthy keto and intermittent fasting podcast.
0:07.3	Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level, Doctor Eric Burg.
0:14.5	So I've created a lot of videos on insulin and blood sugars and diabetes, but there's
0:19.8	another hormone that works with insulin that I haven't talked about very often.
0:24.6	So I wanted to cover it and make it really simple.
0:26.5	It's called glucagon.
0:28.4	It sounds like glucose, but it's not glucose.
0:30.6	It's a hormone that opposes insulin.
0:33.8	So it kind of works in opposite to insulin.
0:36.8	So let's just take a look at what glucagon does in relationship to ketosis.
0:41.8	Ketosis is a state of fat burning.
0:43.6	Glucagon turns the switch on for ketosis.
0:48.4	Insulin turns it off.
0:50.3	So insulin blocks ketosis.
0:53.1	Glucagon releases stored sugar.
0:57.1	Stored sugars called glycogen.
0:59.1	Okay, and you're delivering your muscles.
1:01.1	So glucagon will release this into glucose as fuel.
1:06.1	Insulin will store glucose as glycogen and as fat.
1:14.1	Whereas glucagon will release the stored sugar glycogen into glucose and it'll turn the fat into ketones.
1:22.1	Okay, so it's just the opposite function.
1:25.1	So insulin lowers the sugar in the blood.
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