Welcome to the Dr Berg Healthy Kito and Intermittent fasting podcast.

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

Dr Eric Berg. In this video we're going to talk about how to burn fat. A very important topic, but a big problem, simply because pretty much all the mainstream recommendations

for burning fat are completely outdated. In fact look at the statistics.

In America, only 2% of the population ever is successful at burning fat in achieving the weight loss

goals.

An average female spent 17 years dieting. So what does that tell you? They're operating off of incorrect information. What I'm going to tell you is based on fact, physiology books, how the body works. There's two main fuel

sources in the body. You have fat and you have stored sugar. There is a third one called muscle, but I'm not going to get into that because you have to be very, very sick for your body to start using muscle protein as a fuel source. We're going to talk about the two main ones, which is fat and

sugar. In other words, your body can store sugar, the name of that's called glycogen in your liver and your muscles and that can release in between times where you're not eating.

Okay? Or it can go after the fat.

So the way it works are fat burning hormones based on what you eat and what you do, trigger the fat, and then

to release certain enzymes to dissolve that fat, they're called lipase enzymes.

They're hormone sensitive fat enzymes that break things down into ketones.

Ketones are the byproduct of fat metabolism and your body can run on these very efficiently way better actually

it's a better fuel source it's cleaner fuel source your body can run on

this even your brain can run on ketones.

Now, fat making hormones trigger the storage of sugar and the conversion of the sugar into fat. So that's how that works. The great

majority of people are only burning sugar, which is glucose.

They're not burning fat.

What occurs is they will lose some temporary water weight

and they hit a plateau, thinking that's actual fat, but they never actually burn fat.

And I can prove that because I have a machine that measures how much fat someone burns and you can very easily see

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