Welcome to the Commune podcast. This is Jeff Krasno. So from time to time, I will record a spontaneously emerging, impromptu video for the Instagram platform on a topic that happens to be knocking around my

noggin, like connecting rods, clanking around under the hood.

What's that sound?

And while I generally touch on the esoteric or the spiritual,

today I'll be sharing my journey from unwitting pre-diabetic

to someone with a much more robust and regulated metabolism.

So over the last eight or nine months, I've lost almost 50 pounds.

And I suspect many of you might be in the same situation that I found myself in a year ago.

So I hope you find this helpful.

Now, you can visit my Instagram at Jeff Krasno to watch the many exhortations that don't make it to the podcast.

The topics range from the dangers of glyphosate to the wonders of sprouting to mental health

and Taoist musings.

But for today, I give you three simple ways to burn fat.

Music to burn fat. Okay, I'm going to give you three simple ways to lose weight and burn fat. And I find this ironic because generally I'm

making videos where I prattle on endlessly about esoteric Eastern religious concepts like Brabibhara

and Samadhi. But people want to know, Jeff, how did you go from 190 pounds to 142?

Now, I don't have any skin in this game.

I'm not trying to impress my wife of 35 years or squunch myself into a summer speedo.

No one's looking at me for that.

But I do want to feel great. I want to upregulate my metabolism such that I am

optimally burning macronutrients for energy. And I want to minimize the deposition of excess

adipose tissue or visceral fat around my organs because that fat is inflammatory

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