Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the

journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights.

Now, I've done several videos related to why someone might have a loss of smell, the underlying cause, whether it's related to a virus or some other cause.

I have some new information I want to share with you on restoring your sense of smell.

Now, in some recent research that I've been looking at, there's some interesting data on insulin.

Insulin is needed to repair the olfactory neurons.

Now, what you need to know is the olfactory neurons have everything to do with your receptors

for smell, which, if damaged, can majorly

affect your ability to taste by like a factor of 80%. So if you can't smell, you're not going to be

able to taste too well. And the interesting data about this, which I'll put a link down below,

is this. The highest density and the highest concentration of insulin receptors in the brain

are in the olfactory region of the brain. Now, this probably relates to the link between insulin

and the storage of food like fat and smell and taste related to appetite. And so insulin has a huge role in the recovery of neurons

after an injury. Okay, so it has everything to do with regenerating the olfactory neurons. And so if

there is not enough insulin available, you're going to have a hard time recovering from any type of injury

to these neurons. And this is why a diabetic and a pre-diabetic are hit a lot harder with the

sense of smell after damaging those neurons than someone that doesn't have a problem with insulin.

I mean, if you even think about diabetics, they also have a problem with losing their eyesight, right? Well, they can also lose their sense of smell.

Now, you might be saying, well, I'm not a diabetic. I'm not pre-diabetic. Well, chances are you may have

insulin resistance, which is a lot more common. In fact, probably 70% of the population has insulin resistance,

which means you may have an insulin deficiency on certain parts of your body, as well as an insulin

excess. But as far as the neurons in the olfactory area in your sinuses, chances are you could be

...