Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

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

Doctor Eric Burg.

Today we're going to talk about how to reverse a condition called acanthosis nigric

cancer.

What is that?

That's a situation where you have this gray, brown, hyperpigmentation kind of a darkening

on the back of your neck, on the side of the neck, on the armpits.

It could be in certain other places, but it has a kind of a velvety texture to it,

and it's symmetrical, which means it's on both sides, okay, or both armpits.

Now, it's associated with diabetes, PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome,

cushing syndrome, which is high cortisol and metabolic disease, okay?

Now, if you look it up in Wikipedia, it'll say that the majority of cases are idiopathic.

This is a very fancy word for, I don't know what's causing it, okay?

Unknown cause.

But this condition is primarily caused by excessive amount of insulin, okay?

Hyperinsulinemia, too much insulin in the blood.

And parallel with that, you have insulin resistance, so these go hand in hand.

If you have insulin resistance, your body will then make more insulin,

so you're going to have too much insulin.

And that's what's creating this right here.

And that's why it's associated with diabetes, PCOS, cushings, and metabolic syndrome.

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