DRINK 1 CUP Before Bed for a Smaller Waist
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Struggling with weight loss and stubborn belly fat despite a healthy diet and exercise? Discover the best bedtime drink for weight loss to help break a weight loss plateau and lose belly fat faster.
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0:00 Introduction: Weight loss drinks
0:26 Hormones and weight loss
3:08 Insulin and belly fat
5:19 Lemon balm tea
7:21 The best slim waist tips
If you’re on a low-carb diet, exercising regularly, yet still struggling with waist size, this is for you.
There are 7 fat-burning hormones that are triggered by factors such as exercise and diet. These hormones are countered by 2 other dominant hormones, cortisol and insulin. In the presence of these two hormones, fat-burning hormones will not work!
Cortisol isn’t just a stress hormone! It’s also a fat-storing hormone, specifically at night. If your cortisol is too high at night, you will not burn fat while you’re sleeping.
Insulin is a fat-storing hormone that stops fat-burning hormones from working. High cortisol can cause your body to produce glucose, consequently spiking insulin.
If you’re struggling with weight loss, especially belly fat, discipline and willpower aren’t the problem. You can’t lose weight while under stress!
Lemon balm tea is one of the best weight loss drinks! It contains rosmarinic acid, which increases GABA. To improve the benefits, consume lemon balm tea with 1 scoop of magnesium glycinate powder, 60 minutes before bed. Magnesium glycinate helps lower cortisol levels and also increases GABA and insulin sensitivity.
Here are a few other tips to help you lose belly fat:
•No snacking
•No liquids 90 minutes before bed
•Lower carbohydrate intake
•Daily walks in the sun
•Write down problems before bed to avoid problem-solving/overthinking while trying to sleep
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
Disclaimer:
Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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| 0:00.0 | Drink one cup of this before bed to have a smaller waste. Now, if you're noticing that your |
| 0:04.6 | midsection is not getting smaller, despite going on a low carb diet or exercising or doing whatever, |
| 0:11.5 | okay, this video is for you. A lot of people are focusing on the food aspect to lose weight, right? |
| 0:18.0 | They're on a diet. They start lowering calories or carbs and then |
| 0:21.6 | sometimes it doesn't work. So I'm going to share something with you. That's very interesting. |
| 0:26.0 | You have seven fat-burning hormones and they're triggered by all these different things, |
| 0:33.0 | exercise, diet, et cetera. But there are two other hormones that are countering it. These two other |
| 0:40.2 | hormones are dominant. And in the presence of these two other hormones, all of these fat burning |
| 0:45.4 | hormones will not work. Because these two hormones are way more significant and they have way more |
| 0:51.3 | influence over these hormones. The first one is called cortisol. People think |
| 0:58.4 | cortisol is just a stress hormone, right? Cortisol is also a fat storing hormone, specifically at night. |
| 1:08.3 | That's right. When you go to sleep at night, normally you go through four waves of sleep. |
| 1:14.1 | It's called a circadian wave. And so you start going to sleep and you have these superficial waves |
| 1:18.4 | and then the deep delta wave. This is where most people burn the fat in the deeper sleep. And by the way, |
| 1:25.1 | the lowest circadian wave of cortisol, the stress hormone, |
| 1:29.4 | is at 2 a.m. in the middle of the night. So that gives the body the opportunity to actually |
| 1:35.7 | burn all this fat, repair and heal. If cortisol is too high at night, regardless of how many |
| 1:43.0 | fat-burning hormones that you're triggering, these will not work. |
| 1:49.3 | In other words, cortisol cancels out the effect of all the good things that you're doing to |
| 1:54.6 | help you lose weight, especially in your midsection. Today I'm going to show you a very simple |
| 1:59.4 | thing you can do. It's a drink before bed. |
| 2:02.5 | So that way when you're stressed during the day, you don't have to go into sleep with high cortisol. |
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