Welcome to the Cabral Concept, where board certified naturopath and integrative health practitioner

Dr. Stephen Cabral shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life altering illness

and given no hope for recovery.

He was only after studying and traveling all over the world, did he discover how to combine

ancient Ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional medicine

to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life.

It's time to discover how to get well, lose weight, and finally feel alive again.

And now here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.

Welcome back everyone to the show, great to have you here today, love being able to talk

about all things, whether it be intermittent fasting, whether it be exercise, looking

at the physiology of the body and how we perform better as human beings.

And one of the things that are on a lot of people's minds, or at least there's a lot

of talk about it on social media, and a lot of expert-based articles is how to become

more fat-adapted or how to tap into burning more body fat.

And I don't think that there's anything wrong per se with the want of burning more

fat as fuel, but what the problem is that there's been a lot of miseducation out there.

So people are saying, well, if you fast, you're going to tap into more fat as fuel.

And that is actually not necessarily the case.

I just simply want to share with you the physiology behind how our bodies work.

And then you get to decide if you're actually tapping into more body fat or not, because

you have the knowledge, not just because someone out there said it, but actually you have

the knowledge as to how much we burn as fat as a percent of fuel during any given day's

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