Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I isolated about 13 things that have the potential to slow down your metabolism.

Let's go through them one by one.

Number one, age.

Yes, age slows your metabolism primarily through a decrease in growth hormone now the good

news is there's things that you can do to increase growth hormone the most

powerful thing is fasting and when you do fasting you have the potential to

increase growth hormone by 2,000 percent the second most powerful thing that can increase growth hormone by 2,000%. The second most powerful thing that can increase growth hormone is exercise, but the exercise has to be intense.

One of the best exercises to increase growth hormone out of anything is sprinting.

It's probably the most painful,

but short burst of high intensity with lots of rest,

as in high intensity interval training,

is very, very powerful to increase growth hormone.

Number two, menopause.

If you're female and you're over the age of 50, 51, 52, you know exactly what I'm

talking about. As you go through menopause, something happens. You have a shift. The ovaries go into

retirement and the adrenal glands act as a backup to the ovaries. And so what happens is you get a spike in

cortisol. A lot of times when you go

through menopause, the body tends to fall apart because of this high level of cortisol. That's why it's

very, very important to take care of the adrenals right before you go through menopause and also

during and after, of course. But I have a lot of videos on what to do if you're going through menopause. And I and after of course but i have a lot of videos on on what to do if

you're going through menopause and i'll put those links down below number three history of

pregnancies going through a pregnancy not only creates a lot of trauma on a female body but it raises

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