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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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In this podcast, I’m going to tell you how to reshape your face naturally and get rid of a moon face.

One of the most common symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome is a “moon face.” Cushing’s syndrome is characterized by high levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

Chronic high cortisol over a period of time can cause fat face syndrome. It can also be caused by the drug Prednisone.

Cortisol can redistribute fat to different parts of the body, causing you to store fat in the face and the midsection. Over time, it can cause a hump on the back, red cheeks, thinner legs, and weak muscles in the legs and buttocks.

Your cholesterol and lipids may rise, and you’ll start losing potassium and retaining sodium. This sends your blood pressure straight up, vitamin D levels decrease, and your immune system suffers.

Cortisol indirectly causes a puffy face by breaking down protein and turning it into glucose. This spikes insulin, a fat-storing hormone. In the presence of too much insulin, you won't be able to lose fat.

Carbohydrates, frequent eating, seed oils, nutrient deficiencies, stress, overexercising, and certain medications also trigger insulin.

Try these 5 tips to reshape your face.

1. Eat less frequently

Cut out the snacks between the meals and do intermittent fasting. This forces your body to use body fat as fuel between meals.

2. Change your diet

Cut down your carb intake, specifically avoiding sugar and starch. Print my card cutout that shows you the ingredients to avoid!

3. Increase protein

Look for high-quality grass-fed meat such as beef, lamb, or goat.

4. Lower stress levels

Go for long walks, exercise, and do physical work. Avoid excessive phone use.

5. Try to get extra sleep

Make sure you’re getting enough sleep. Even if you wake up early, try to go back to sleep if possible!

Transcript

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0:00.0	I want to show you something. You see this book right here? This is an endocrinology book.
0:04.0	On page 84, we have this body type right here and you can see this round face.
0:10.0	I used to have this. I mean my face was round it was swollen I had puffiness underneath my eyes.
0:15.1	I had no idea it was not normal until I got rid of it and then I'm like oh my gosh that wasn't normal.
0:20.8	So today I'm going to show you exactly what this is and how to get rid of it pretty simply. But this particular
0:26.8	picture is in the chapter on a condition called Cushing Syndrome And one of the symptoms is moon phase.
0:35.7	Now Cushing Syndrome is basically high levels of cortisol.
0:39.2	And cortisol is a stress hormone.
0:40.7	Now with cortisol, you have your body's production of cortisol and if
0:44.3	it's too high over a long period of time that could be the problem or you're
0:47.8	taking a medication that's a synthetic version of cortisol it's called
0:51.0	prednisone and in fact if you've ever seen a picture of
0:53.7	Jerry Lewis when he took prednisone his face just swole up like that and what's
0:57.8	also interesting is I had prednisone every single year for probably 10 years straight starting my 20s and my 30s from getting this
1:06.1	darned poison ivy every year. So whether that contributed to it or something else
1:10.6	I'm not exactly 100% sure but I do want to share what I know on this topic.
1:14.3	Now what's interesting about cortisol is cortisol has the power to redistribute where the fat goes in the body.
1:20.4	It starts going around the face and in this part right here called the midsection so
1:25.7	belly fat sometimes over time if you start getting that buffalo hump on the back
1:30.0	there and also red cheeks, thinner legs, weak muscles in the legs, especially the thigh muscle.
1:37.2	You start losing the glutamous maximus, the butt muscle right here.
1:41.2	Other things that happen is your cholesterol and your lipids
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