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

But 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. Insulin is a 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. So what does that cause your body to do?

Make more communication, make more insulin. And that is behind a slow metabolism. That is behind

excessive weight accumulation and also your inability to lose weight. If you take someone that can

lose weight easily, no matter what they eat,

they usually have insulin sensitivity. They don't have insulin resistance versus someone else that,

boy, they just look at food making weight. They have major insulin resistance and their body is

making more insulin. So anything that improves insulin resistance will lower insulin and you're

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