How to Reverse Acanthosis Nigricans
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
What is the real cause of acanthosis nigricans? Take a look!
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about a condition called acanthosis nigricans.
This condition is characterized by symmetrical hyperpigmentation on the back of the neck, sides of the neck, armpits, and certain other places on the body. The affected areas often have a velvety texture.
Acanthosis nigricans is associated with diabetes, PCOS, Cushing’s syndrome, and metabolic disease. The majority of cases are considered idiopathic—meaning the cause is unknown.
What this condition is really caused by is an excessive amount of insulin—or hyperinsulinemia. This is often a byproduct of unmanaged insulin resistance.
On the web, you will find that the “causes” of increased insulin are related to:
• Tumors
• Carb malabsorption
• Pancreatic cancer
• PCOS
• Trans fats
What are they missing? They are missing the primary cause: eating too many carbs.
The best remedy for acanthosis nigricans is to lower your intake of carbohydrates.
Healthy keto and intermittent fasting are great ways to help get your insulin levels under control.
Give this remedy a try, and let me know how it works for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you |
| 0:08.4 | on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:26.6 | Today we're to talk about how to reverse a condition called acanthosis nigracants. |
| 0:28.6 | What is that? |
| 0:29.6 | That's a situation where you have this gray-brown hyperpigmentation, it's kind of a darkening, |
| 0:35.6 | on the back of your neck, on the side of the neck, on the armpits. |
| 0:39.5 | It could be in certain other places, but it has a kind of a velvety texture to it, and it's symmetrical, |
| 0:45.5 | which means it's on both sides, okay, or both armpits. Now, it's associated with diabetes, |
| 0:53.5 | PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome, Cushing syndrome, |
| 0:57.2 | which is high cortisol and metabolic disease. |
| 1:02.2 | Now if you look it up in Wikipedia, it'll say that the majority of cases are idiopathic. |
| 1:08.9 | This is a very fancy word for, I don't know what's causing it, okay? Unknown cause. |
| 1:14.9 | But this condition is primarily caused by excessive amount of insulin, okay? Hyper insulin anemia. |
| 1:24.0 | Too much insulin in the blood. parallel with that you have insulin resistance so |
| 1:29.8 | these go hand in hand if you have insulin resistance your body will then make more |
| 1:34.1 | insulin so you're going to have too much insulin and that's what's creating this right here |
| 1:38.5 | and that's why it's associated with diabetes PCOS cushings metabolic syndrome. You can call it disease if you want, |
| 1:46.7 | but this is what's behind all these right here. Now, if you look at what Wikipedia says about |
| 1:53.3 | hyperinsinemia, what causes that, it lists tumor, carb malabsorption, which I'm not sure |
| 2:00.0 | exactly what that means, pancreatic cancer, |
| 2:03.2 | PCOS, trans fats. What are they missing? They're missing the primary cause. |
| 2:10.5 | Eating too many carbs. I find it very, very interesting that the actual root cause of hyperinsulinia |
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