Slow Metabolism Is a Myth (Not Kidding) - Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about why it’s so difficult for some people to lose weight and keep it off.

Dieting is similar to famine. If you have difficulty losing weight because you’ve dieted for many years, your body is likely compensating for survival purposes.

You don’t have a slow metabolism—you have an enhanced metabolic efficiency. Once you understand the right problem, you can attack it with a better solution.

People who restrict calories are more susceptible to nutrient deficiencies, which can affect their hormones. Your body can also adapt to lower amounts of calories, causing it to burn less fat, making it harder to lose weight.

Intermittent fasting differs from calorie restriction for a few reasons. When done correctly, you have less hunger and fewer cravings with intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting also has unique health benefits that you can't get with a calorie-restrictive diet.

It’s important to do the Healthy Keto® diet along with intermittent fasting so you don’t create imbalances in the body.

You also adapt your body to run on ketones when you do intermittent fasting. This is a situation where you’re burning your own fat. Even though you might indirectly reduce your calories by consuming fewer meals, your body still burns fat fuel.

If you do calorie restriction without going low-carb, you could easily find yourself in a situation where you can't tap into your fat. Instead, you may tap into your muscles because your carbs and insulin are too high. If you have high insulin, you can’t burn fat.

I don’t consider the Healthy Keto plan and intermittent fasting a diet because you can easily do this long-term. This is a lifestyle change that doesn’t even feel like a diet.

Healthy Keto and intermittent fasting have incredible benefits to support your health and weight loss. But, if you find it difficult to do the Healthy Keto diet, you may want to try the metabolic confusion diet for a little while until you feel ready to take on the Healthy Keto diet with intermittent fasting.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the mind-blowing benefits of a lemon. I think most people know that lemons are
0:06.8	high in vitamin C. So if you buy lemon juice that's bottled, it's pasteurized. So you're not going
0:13.0	to get a lot of vitamin C. I'm talking about fresh, squeezed, lemon juice. Okay, so you have vitamin C.
0:19.1	You also have citrate, which can help lower the risk of getting kidney stones.
0:24.4	Lemons are good for the skin, good for digestion. But today I'm going to talk about this other
0:30.1	group of nutrients and lemons called flavonoids. Okay, there are over 6,000 different flavonoids.
0:39.6	And no, we're not going to cover each one of them today. But we are going to cover one flavonoid.
0:44.6	Okay, just one. So the one I want to cover is called aerositrin. Aerositrin is a flavonoid
0:51.2	in lemons. And lemons have the most aerositrates. And these are the facts. Removing fat from your liver,
0:58.0	helping you balance out your lipids like cholesterol in your liver, reversal of diabetes on a
1:05.6	double-blinded randomized study. Aerositrin has similar effects to the main antioxidant in green tea.
1:14.1	So it's a very, very powerful antioxidant. Aerositrin also has a lot to do with protecting the
1:20.7	integrity of your capillaries. So how is that going to relate to what problems you might have? Well,
1:25.6	bleeding gums, if your gum tissue is like red or swollen, wow, you need lemons. It's not just
1:31.3	the vitamin C. It's these flavonoids. And that can also give you a lot of benefits in your
1:35.8	circulation, the peripheral circulation. The circulation that happens in the extremities,
1:40.2	like on the bottom of your feet or ankles or your hands are discolored or you have
1:47.0	circulation problems. Or maybe you have spider veins. Aerositrin can greatly help that.
1:52.4	Some of these other phytonutrients have huge profound effect against hyperglycemia,
1:59.5	high blood glucose, which is diabetes. So let's say you are a diabetic or you have sugar or let's
2:04.0	say you just ate a bunch of sugar and you had a lemon. The phytonutrient, the flavonoids in that
2:08.9	lemon are going to counteract all this oxidative stress going on. They're going to also improve
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