Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

So recently I was talking to a lady who told me she went to a doctor and the doctor said,

you have visceral fat and it's dangerous and you need to go on a diet.

But he didn't really tell her exactly what diet to go on.

So let's just talk about the dangerous fat, it's called visceral fat.

But let me just show you the mechanism of how you get there in the first place.

So you have this high insulin, insulin is a fat making hormone, it's a fat storing

hormone.

In the presence of just a little bit of insulin, you will not burn fat because it prevents

the burning and the utilization of fat.

And what triggers this is dietary sugars and carbs, frequent eating, omega-6 fatty acids

like corn oil, sore oil, GMO, stress.

And there's a whole list of other things as well, but these are really important things

to know about.

Sixty-five percent of the population is pre-diabetic.

So they may not have high sugars yet, like excessively high, but their sugars are starting

going higher.

But I think even a greater percentage of people have a higher amounts of insulin because

this is what comes right before the pre-diabetes.

So you have high insulin and you can have a whole chain of effects from belly fat to

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