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.

Hello, in this video we're going to talk about how fat gets burned, okay?

Now when you think about fat burning, there's no real burning going on.

It's basically the release of fat from the fat cell that gets turned into energy, okay?

And I'm going to just talk about the mechanics of actually what happens.

Your fat cell is primarily stored with triglycerides, okay?

Those are fats and they're in a liquid state.

So your fat is basically liquid.

It's not a solid.

And what happens is that there's an enzyme called hormone-sensitive lipase, it's an enzyme.

Now enzymes are proteins that help chemical changes occur in the body.

They're like the workhorse, they're like the worker bee that does the work in the body.

They're kind of magical because they can go in there and change and break down proteins

and build them back up, break down fat and build them back up into body tissue.

So lipase is the primary enzyme that releases the stored fat in the fat cell.

And it's a hormone-sensitive, which means it's triggered by certain hormones.

Okay, so now that we know that lipase is the enzyme, now the real question is what triggers

lipase, okay?

There's certain things that trigger it.

And number one, we're going to use this little book right here, Guidance Physiology,

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