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 weight. You know, some people just, they just don't like this belly fat thing.

They want it gone.

So today we're going to talk about the 10 foods that can help a person lose belly fat.

So let's dive right in.

What is belly fat?

It's visceral fat.

Okay.

And here's a book. I want to show you right here.

Sibba, the Sibba collection, Frank Nitter. And this one is on the endocrine system. And we have this

little chapter right here, which talks about cortisol. Okay, you see this picture right here.

That's belly fat, and that's too much cortisol.

So first let's talk about the relationship between cortisol and belly fat.

Cortisol turns protein into sugar.

Okay, so it causes your liver to make new sugar out of non-carbohydrate things

like fat, ketones, protein. So if your cortisol is really high, that's a stress hormone,

you're going to need quick sugar being created.

So your body is going to be making a lot of sugar. So people that have high cortisol, a lot of times are not eating sugar. It's their body's making sugar out of other things. And that

increase in sugar elevates insulin. Okay. People can even become a diabetic if they have too much

cortisol. And this is why one of the

side effects of prednisone, where someone's taking a synthetic cortisol, is diabetes. So the reason why

someone has belly fat or visceral fat from cortisol has to do with that hormone, which is making

sugar, which is then increasing insulin.

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