Welcome to the Dr. Burg's healthy keto and intermittent fasting podcast where Dr. Burg takes

you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

You know, I've talked a lot about the ketogenic diet, fasting, exercise, how to burn fat.

And I haven't really focused on other things that can help you speed up this fat burning

process, specifically phytonutrients.

Now what is it about phytonutrients that can help you lose weight?

Well, there's some pretty serious research on the six herbs I'm going to talk about in

relationship to turning on certain genes that have to do with increasing your metabolism,

activating certain genes that can help you cause more fat oxidation, which is fat burning.

And the primary mechanism of a lot of these herbs has to do with one thing.

It helps make insulin more sensitive in some of the fat storing hormone.

If you have too much insulin, you're not going to lose weight.

I think that the best analogy would be someone that you know that obsessively communicates to you.

They just will not be quiet.

They keep talking and talking and talking, no matter what you do,

they're a terrible listener and all they do is talk, right?

After a while, you're going to lose your sensitivity to their communication.

You're going to phase out.

The same exact thing happens with your cells.

If you have too much communication, too much insulin coming through hormone communication,

your body just becomes insensitive.

It just becomes resistant and it no longer receives that communication.

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