Does Losing Weight Reduce Insulin Resistance?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this podcast, I want to answer the question, “will losing weight reduce my insulin resistance?”
Insulin resistance is the thing that comes before diabetes and pre-diabetes. So if you have diabetes or pre-diabetes, you also have insulin resistance.
Insulin resistance is a situation where your cells are no longer absorbing insulin, so your body starts producing way more insulin than it should.
In turn, this causes a lot of problems:
• Prevents your ability to burn fat
• Stores excess amounts of fat
• Causes weight to plateau
So, if you lose weight, can you help improve insulin resistance?
The answer is this:
It all depends on how you lose weight. If you lose weight incorrectly, you are going to gain the weight right back. This is because if you don’t cut back on carbs, you won’t really fix insulin resistance—even if you cut calories and exercise.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. I wanted to create this video and answer a question that keeps coming up over and over |
| 0:48.9 | will losing weight reduce my insulin resistance. |
| 0:52.8 | Okay? |
| 0:53.8 | Now this could be also pre-diabetes or diabetes. |
| 0:58.4 | Insulin resistance is kind of the thing that comes before pre-diabetes. |
| 1:02.0 | But if you have pre-diabetes or you have diabetes, you also |
| 1:06.4 | have insulin resistance. So insulin resistance is a situation where your cells are not |
| 1:12.3 | absorbing insulin anymore. they're rejecting it, and your body is now making |
| 1:17.6 | way more insulin than it should, okay? And insulin, what it does is it blocks the ability to burn fat, so you can't lose weight. |
| 1:26.3 | And also, it caused you to store fat and it will keep you at that certain set point like that plateau so you may lose weight but |
| 1:36.2 | then you plateau at a certain amount like let's say 180 and you just can't seem to |
| 1:39.7 | get past that point that's because you have insulin resistance. |
| 1:43.7 | So now the question is if you lose weight, |
| 1:46.2 | can you improve this? |
| 1:47.9 | And does it put your body in a state |
| 1:49.7 | where you can actually lose weight more easily? |
| 1:52.3 | Here's the answer. It really depends how you go about |
| 1:56.8 | losing weight. Okay? Now let me explain that. If you try to lose weight weight incorrectly let's say you do it with move more |
| 2:06.4 | less calories but you don't change your carbohydrate level so you're like the biggest |
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