Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor, Eric Burg.

Are you finding that when you're cutting your carbs, you're still not able to lose weight?

And a lot of videos, if you hit a plateau, I tell you to cut your carbs down, right?

I also will tell you to eat less frequently, do more fasting.

Both of these should work, but if they don't, there's usually two reasons for this.

One is there's a problem with your sleep.

And another one is that there's a problem with this right here, too much stress.

And so I'm going to talk about the relationship between the sleep hormone melatonin

as well as the stress hormone cortisol in relationship to why you're not losing weight.

So sleep produces a hormone called melatonin.

Melatonin comes in when it gets dark out and it helps induce a deep, wonderful, restful sleep, right?

And that's when all the magic happens with weight loss because you're going to spike growth hormone

and you're going to wake up with less weight.

But melatonin, it inhibits insulin.

I don't know if you know this, but insulin is the key hormone that blocks your ability to lose weight.

Okay, so if you take a look at melatonin inhibiting insulin, that would be a good thing, right?

Lowering insulin. The body is saying, hey, it's time to sleep.

We don't need to release insulin now, right?

So you can start losing weight.

But if you're exposed to a blue light about, I don't know, two or three hours before you go into sleep

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