Reasons for High Blood Sugars in the Morning
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In this video, we’re going to talk about the 4 reasons for high blood sugars in the morning.
This condition is called the dawn phenomenon. It can happen if you are a type 1 or type 2 diabetic, or if you have insulin resistance really bad.
Causes of elevated morning blood sugar:
1. Spike in Cortisol - Normally between 12 and 3 am, you have higher insulin sensitivity in the liver, so the blood sugar works a lot better. But, cortisol which mobilizes glucose for action and stress, peaks between 6 and 9 in the morning.
2. Type 1 diabetes - There’s a growth hormone spike that can mobilize the blood sugar.
3. Type 2 diabetes - The liver is making glucose called gluconeogenesis. Also, glucagon and epinephrine are hormones that can spike blood sugar. If you are a type 2 diabetic for a long period of time, you are eventually going to lose the ability to produce insulin.
4. Consuming a lot of carbs the night before.
What to do if you have high blood sugar in the morning:
• Give it time - Do the healthy ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting
• Exercise
• Avoid carbs - especially the night before
• Take apple cider vinegar diluted with water the night before
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It took several months of IF, but my AM blood sugar was 140 av, now low to mid '90s in early AM and stays upper 70s-mid 80s during day. I was a rather stubborn case. Excellent, Dr. Berg.
thanks dr berg.. type 2 diabetic for years.. off insulin and actually off my meds totally.. fasting sugar average 110 from 280 .. you saved my life ...
What are you doing to keep it down? My fasting is normally between 105-115. I'm trying to get it down to 100.
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If on Keto make sure you eat the proper fats and even then some people can't tolerate a high fat diet because the receptor sites get clogged and they become insulin resistant. There are actually some studies that show fat being a culprit in some insulin resistant people. Remember, we are all different so you need to follow what works for you. If you experience some bad things when going to Keto, then you can either back off or stop IF it continues after a few weeks. No one knows your body more than you do and you should know how you feel.
Also, in the morning you are slightly dehydrated and this can cause an elevated blood sugar as well. Drink 16 ounces of water and wait 30 minutes and then check your blood sugars. If it decreases compared to NOT drinking water then you know the issue stems from dehydration.
I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes about two years ago. My OB wanted to go straight to meds, but I insisted on trying diet first. The ADA meal plan they gave me actually made it WORSE. Carbs are carbs whether whole grain or refined. The ADA plan actually included MORE grains than I typically eat.
I went low carb and my blood glucose reading were great except for mornings. I started taking 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in water after dinner, and that corrected those readings. Other things that were helpful: staying hydrated, and drinking lots of unsweetened green tea. I boiled fresh ginger with cloves, cinnamon, and cardamom pods before adding the green tea. I drank an entire pot of this tea almost every day. I ate most of my carbs in the morning and avoided them later in the day.
I can't emphasize how important it is to stay hydrated. I experimented and found drastic drops in blood glucose within 20- 30 minutes of drinking a huge glass of water or tea, even with fasting blood glucose. On days when I didn't drink water or tea, a half hour or so didn't have much effect on blood glucose readings.
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My blood sugar level was 220 mg/ml in the morning, but after doing IF/Keto + walking my dog a little more for just one week!, my blood sugar level came down to 110 in the morning and before goto bed 90. Thank you Dr. Berg...
Hi, walking means in the night after dinner?
Did you take IF/Keto only for dinner or for all three meal?
91 last night, no carbs. 120 this morning when I got up. 6 weeks on keto and 91 was the lowest yet so I'm on an intermittent fast and doing more exercise.
How are u doing now
So true! Great video. Thank you dr. Berg for making us smarter 👍
Apple cider vinegar, chromium, cinnamon, berberine,B complex helps stabilize the sugar and make insulin more sensitive
How to consume apple cider? How often and what time you usually take it? My mother was recently diagnosed as diabetic, actually just today. Need more information about what can normalise her blood sugar.
Kororo Pocoro, I have Apple cider vinegar (ACV) about 3 times a day with meals. At breakfast I take it in capsule form. Other times I have it in a large glass of soda water with a little cordial. The soda and cordial cover the strong ACV, lemon works best, it also dilutes the acid in the vinegar to minimise harm to teeth. I used to love soft drink, this way I still have a fizzy drink without much sugar. Now soft drink tastes way too sweet.
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@@kororopocoro4935 1 tablespoon ACV in at least an 8 ounce glass of water, or lemon water. Has to be organic ACV.
I live on Berberine and Apple Cider Vinegar.😂
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I must be one of these-I had to break a great 36-hour fast at 6am because my blood sugar was low and I felt terrible. I had a nice breakfast and then I saw this. Good to know and thank you so much for all you do for us.
Very timely and helpful info. Fasting Ketone level .9, Glucose 123. Weight down in one week 7.8 lb. will give it more time and do the ACV as well. Thank you very much for this reassurance
I know I was Insulin resistant which is why I started Keto, not weight loss. I noticed a year in I was testing just in or sometimes just out of Keto (0.4-0.7mmol) anywhere up to 10am. After that before I break fast it goes up to 1.1-1.5mmol.
Two weeks ago after your vid on Apple cider vinegar I started taking 2tbsp before bed and have not tested out of Keto in the am once!
elesha burgess I wish I could take ACV but there is a small percentage of us that it causes anxiety. I’ve never had that before. It was really strange!
Thank you for all of these amazing information, Dr. Berg 😊
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Dawn effect used to drive me nuts. At this point, after 18 months on LCHF (not necessarily keto) and a 90lb weight loss, I still tend to have a glucose level near 100 when I first get up in the morning. Within a few hours it is always down in the 80s, all by itself. My A1C is 5.1 at this point and my daily carb intake is typically under 30 grams. I try to just do my program and I no longer concern myself with the dawn effect. These videos are always helpful in understanding how these things work.
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My blood glucose at 9 am is around 74 & is around 85 one hour after I eat. I do Keto, IF, eating window usually 4 hr or 6 hr eating window. I don’t eat past 5 pm. I do resistance training at home. I STILL have 20 lbs to lose! (Lost 30 lbs in last six months). Was always very active with weight training, sports til 10 years ago. My blood pressure good, no meds. (61 yrs old) want 2b healthy.
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I've been T1D for 20 yrs and am now using CGM and have noticed a slight rise in my levels in the morning. Nothing dramatic but enough to make me wonder why. And now I know 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Thank you Dr Berg , I’m working with you . I never had this type of guidance before. You and others have transformed my life. I used to be on a 100 units of insulin and I’m down to 20-30 a day. I now intermittent fasting, keto and Omad. My sugar was 185 this morning! So I looked to you because I didn’t understand. Should I give myself more insulin than usual. I sore will do the apple cider vinegar and get more exercise. Thank you
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Hi Dr Berg I am truly very great full of all your teachings us about ketones diet science March I followed your advice and diet to my happiest day my sugar readings was 85 if people do as you teaching about health they will be successful
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My sister started IF recently and was having this issue, thanks for another awesome video, I knew you would have the answer :)
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Again, and again and again.... Very impressive! This video it comes just on time like many others before.
Dr. Berg, thank you so much for all your amazing effort and passion what you involved several times/day for every one of your millions of viewers from all over the world.
Many blessings to you!
If only my doctor would learn from you......
Mine too!! I did not like the answer he gave me when I asked about the increase in BS in am......
Change your doctor
My MD is very intelligent. He knows what he HAS to treat with,and for what condition. FDA whores and medical regulators would have him fired and or sanctioned. It's the uneducated masses that will swallow every dose prescribed to them. Perfectly obedient blind and deaf to history. Doomed to a slow and expensive chemical death. My MD has told me " I can't tell you that". O Boy........
@@pittsburgh-gal what is the difference between intelligence and wisdom?
@@claytonmoen1221 He also cannot tell you doctors like to make more money from your ignorance. If you have a natural remedy then no more money for the doctor!
Please discuss food preservatives like methyl paraben for instance -- used in my cod liver oil extract -- do these have any negative effects? Many thanks for your excellent surveys over the years that have given us so much essential information on nutrition & body functioning.
What if someone slept during the day and worked at night. Would the spike still happen between 6-8am or rather around the time that person woke up?
Very nice said! Thank you for the info! ❤️ Very useful. At least you know somehow how you may control the blood sugar in some cases. I think that this will help a lot of people. 🌼 Do you agree?
What about Balsamic vinegar? I like how it tastes
I was just looking this up!!!. My average fasting glucose is 6.2. Even when long term fasting(88hrs), Omad as well. But if that is with a morning spike then it's not too bad!! It goes down when I eat!!
hit some apple cider vinegar and it will be better
I have the same problem. My doctor said it's my adrenal fatigue causing the blood sugar spikes in the morning. (Can't take apple cider vinegar so that's out for me.)
Could being ill effect my sugars. I had my gall bladder removed in an emergency operation a few weeks ago??
@@jackieheaney6864 Illness adversely affects sugar in diabetics. Surgery can also create problems.
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Doctor, can you please do video on GLP1 agonist(Victoza), salt, dp4 inhibitors
Thanks! My blood sugar is high in the morning then nice all day long. It had me really puzzled.
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Hi Dr Berg, it's about 9:30am. I had coffee and added mct, ashwagandha, cinnamon, mong fruit and butter around 8. About 9am left side neck started tightening and I got very irritable. I already had some electrolyte plus acv. Drank same yesterday eve and during the night as I have drink by bed since I get migraines during the night often. When irritability started this am I ate a little nutritional yeast. Guess I need to exercise early to help w this. I'm very thin about 113 lbs so I imagine I have IR instead of having diabetes yet. I think stress and cortisol is huge issue for me. I started eating keto diet around July 10th.
Hello Dr. Berg, I would just like to ask if there are certain vegetables that should be consumed in your 7-10 cup recommendation. What vegetables shouldn’t be consumed in keto? What vegetables should be consumed more? Thanks for giving interesting information often!
Berg has about a hundred different videos about that. Why not search and pay attention? Some of you people aren't bright enough to do anything....
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Dr. Berg, is it good or bad to eat in the morning when your insulin is already high from having high blood sugar? I could see one thought that it would be good to eat because your insulin is already high to begin with and it would prevent you from eating slightly later in the morning or lunch and increasing your blood sugar/insulin again. On the other hand I could see why you do not want to eat during this time period because your blood sugar would go even higher than the elevated level it is.
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I wonder if cortisol release is happening precisely between 6AM and 9AM or the spike is linked to the time of wake up which is normally stressful for the body (stress = cortisol = glucose)? Would it worth adjust wake up time before training in order to "compliment" fasting for weight loss?
In the past two months I' have been training in a fasting state mornings 8AM-9AM for an hour with first meal/caloric intake after 12PM and got impressive belly fat loss.
Still wondring ...or u have got the idea now about wake up time effect ?
Omg I learn more and more from watching your videos. I had no idea that diabetic medication takes the sugar out of your blood and places it in other parts of the body 😯😯😯.
Thank you for this wonderful video. God bless you. I have a query:
My Mother has diabetes for 23 years and as a result got peripheral neuropathy + urine infection since last 2 months. She is following vegetable diet now. Her glucose fasting is 275+ and post lunch is 162. What is possible solution for this situation
If and a lot of raw fresh green juice
So, I do keto and IF. I eat my meal in the evening, sometime between 4 and 8, but I give myself 1-3 hours to eat it all. Plenty of green, low cheese, natural fats and proteins. I know I need to give it time, but is eating that late in the day hurting my morning numbers? I like it then bc I work better in a fasted state and I like to eat with my family. My net carbs is 20, and it’s mostly veg, some cheese, and occasionally 7 g of 85% dark chocolate - no milk, bread, sweets.
Have to watch this from time to time to remember to be patient lol
Thanks a lot for the information. I have prediabetes 2. I was on metformin for 5 years and my sugar tests showed no difference. Then I stopped and started intermittent fasting for 6 months and then OMAD from July. I have noticed that my morning blood sugar goes to 135 at 8am and then starts to drop by noon 105-110 before I eat. After lunch (Keto) it does not change and shows 110-120. I'm thinking of continuing until my blood sugar drops further from 135 to 110. What do you think? Thanks a lot again!!!!!!!!!!
Dr Berg, I have learned so much about Diabetes from your videos. Very intresting. You have mentioned so many things that Doctors will never tell you. I'm not sure why Doctors don't want you to ever get well and healthy.
Will the timeframe for the Dawn phenomenon adjust to your sleep schedule if you work midnights (2330-0800) and sleep during the day? Will alternating between IF and OMAD have any further influence on it as well? Thanks.
Lentil soup 🍲 eat in dinner heavy fasting shugar level 138
How does a person get a tear in his aortic value in the heart like John Ritter died from? Does it have anything to do with high blood pressure? I hope you answer my question. Love your videos!
If you do "healthy" keto and IF/OMAD, when is the best time of day to check your blood sugar?
Early morning
Thank you Dr. Berg. Type 2 here, so I went to bed and the blood sugar reading was good, but I woke up and it was raised. Can stress be a big part of this situation as well?
It's called dawn phenomenon, cortisol goes up raising sugars. After doing keto/if mine has finally gone down to normal lvls
hello, DR berg, I just watched your kefir episode. if kefir is so good why I had a slight urination burning problem after consuming it. (when I was a teen) .is it possible that the kefir I used was bad.
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Would undiagnosed sleep apnea result in higher cortisol levels during sleep?
So what do you consider to be normal blood sugar levels in the morning? Not sure I should go by what comes up on the wonderful web when searched as it seems to keep changing.
It’s funny, I’m very familiar with Dawn phenomenon as a type-2. Even when going keto, as blood sugar was slowly going down as I was doing keto, I still had DP every morning.
Fast forward to me starting water fasting, I no longer have DP. I record my morning and evening glucose numbers, and as of now, my fasting glucose and late day glucose is practically the same now, typically within 1-5 points of each other.
My fasting glucose levels last night was 79 and this morning 71.
On day 10 of a planned 40-day water fast. 😊
Can you explain water fasting please
@@aureliemiyalu9268 Hi. Water fasting is not eating food and typically only drinking water with electrolytes.
Me personally, I finished this fast after 40 days and nights of only water, black coffee, and sometimes Powerade Zero.
I drank at least 2 liters a day of water. Glucose went from 299 to 79 in first 5 days of fasting and eventually got as low as 60-65 sometimes, but stabilized at 70 day and night.
I lost 50lbs.
does anyone experience a rise in blood glucose after exercising in the morning? I started keto/IF and i jog 30 min in the morning before work and my insulin spikes after the jog.
Mine after 10 hours no food was 91 n after 2 hours breakfast bcame 108.
Is 92 glucose & 1.5 ketones ok in the morning? I feel like 92 is too high. But what do you think?
whats your opinion on the salt water flush? I saw the vids on increasing salt. I did the SWF for first time, and all off a sudden I have more energy. would you recommend it or would you recommend HSS , lts per day with water in the a.m.? please advise
Mine is high when I wake up,I am on a very low carb diet.goog during the day, bit spikes over night. I do have a fatty liver, trying berberine twice daily.
I’m having so much trouble with this! Starts at 5 AM and lasts until 9 AM at least. How can I ever lose weight if my insulin is so high. I’ve watched all his videos I’m 56 years old I’ve been doing this keto for three years but for some reason the last three or four months I’ve been having the spiking insulin in the morning with bloating. I’m not eating any carbs except for green green and green!
I am a type 1 diabetic. Exercising my blood sugar "off" usually requires me to take a little amount of Insulin. It is a little complicated. Not sure how it works for people with insulin resistance.
What do you consider HBS in am??? And for how long?? Mine is about 120-130. No carbs at night,, doing the intermittent fasting
I eat raw vegetables in the night.and avoid to take carbs in more quantity. And I got prediabetic stage from diabetic stage.
Hi dr berg - I love all your videos so concise and informative - would appreciate it if you could do a video on why I frequently get a low blood glucose reading - it goes down to about 70 and I feel dizzy when I stand up - I stopped doing Omad in order to try and stablise them but it doesn’t make any difference ?
Chrissie.0 , sounds like your blood pressure may fall as well, - possibly orthostatic hypotension, , are you consuming enough salt, water, and other electrolytes.
*I.F. 20 hours before AM, BS was 410!! Crazy!! Diabetes is horrible!! Thanks, Dr. Berg.* 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Just curious! Did you use insulin to bring the BS levels?
Cause I am going through something like this
Nothing works..fasting or eating!😣
@@gsk2900
Sadly, at this point in my life (very overweight & 60 years old) I'm not able to excercise that number down. I had to use insulin. IF you're in decent shape, please try exercising it down. It would about 40 min. for me & my crazy number.
I started KETO on 6/7. I am feeling a little better, & have reduced a ton of inflammation in my body. 😀 That, alone, helps me tremendously.
I have a goal of losing 75 more pounds. I'll be able to begin excercising in about 2 more weeks. That should be about 15 more pounds off.
I have several health issues. Spine/cervical, & both knees need replaced (should have been replaced 5 years ago) ......However, I've only cheated twice, within one day. I'm ok with that. At the time, however, I kept beating myself up. ☹ Let me know what helps you in the next week, etc.
I'd much rather NOT use insulin, IF I could excercise. Pretty soon, though!!
@@mddell58 , thank you for the details
My endocrinologist doesn't believe in IF n keto, so am back to insulin, twice a day, which makes IF difficult
Readings are better, but am on low carbs..only carbs from vegetables
Will revert to keto n IF once bs stabilizes
@@gsk2900 They have to keep you sick to make money off of you. They have a closer eye on your wallet than your well being.
From where this morning sugar level concept has come? Fasting sugar is fasting for 8 to 12 hours after eating. This can be anytime in day also. Not particularly morning blood sugar.
👏🇧🇷very good
Just to clarify with the last part, by avoiding carbs night before, does that mean no veggies, no fruit? Just meat and fat...just want to clarify, because I dont eat grains and I usually consume a lot of greens for dinner or sometimes a combo of veggies.
how high is to high in the morning ?? will a late fatty meal result in high blood sugars in the morning ??
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This is why people need to do several glucose measurements throughout the day, or better yet, get a continuous glucose monitor, so as to get an overall average of ones glucose. Glucose, much like blood pressure, can fluctuate wildly. Simply taking an isolated measurement is meaningless if one wants to know anything about how healthy one is. It would be like looking at the freeway in the morning, and noticing a traffic jam, and just assuming that this freeway is constantly congested 24 hours a day.
Drake Santiago Good analogy!!
Ik this is old but if you have any answers I’m 21 years old power lifter, I work out a lot, I do intense weight training 5x a week and do cardio usually everyday of 15-30 minutes resulting in 6.5-12.5 miles on my bike, and my diet is really healthy, the only sugar I get is from my very first meal which has a lot of fruit and my fasting glucose was 120 today?
@@gino1605 If you are taking your glucose reading in the morning, upon waking up, your glucose can be abnormally high because your liver is pumping out too much glucose as a result of elevated cortisol in the morning. This is called the "Dawn Effect", and it is a well known phenomenon that is observed in many people. Its nothing to get alarmed by, because blood glucose levels can fluctuate wildly throughout the day. So a single reading is not always a good indication of your overall glycemic control. Check your glucose throughout the day, 4 hours after you have eaten, and see if it has come down. If you can, get a continuous blood glucose monitor which will check your blood glucose throughout the day and give you an average. Secondly, get a HbA1c test, which measures your average blood sugar over three months. This will tell you whether you have a problem with glucose control. If that test reveals high blood glucose, its time to practice a very strict low carb diet (so get rid of the fruit) and increase the periods in which you fast until the blood glucose normalizes. I hope that helps.
@@alphacause thank you for the reply! I just went out and got a monitor to test it because I was a little nervous about, my first reading I did 2 hours after I ate and it came back at 90..... but yes that’s true it’s hard because I’m a powerlifter and also cycling after so 2x a day so I always had a higher carb intake
Do these time frames, such as 8 AM Cortisol spike, hold true for everyone regardless of one's sleep schedule? For example, what if you work the night shift and sleep during the day?
Your cortisol raises to wake you up. So if you are regularly on a sleep schedule and wake up without an alarm, it is your cortisol that helped in awakening.