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Dr Eric Berg. Hi Dr. Eric Berg.

Hi, Dr. Berg here.

In this video, I want to show you what's behind all these diets.

I have pretty much every dive book on the planet.

This is a list, this is a stack all it goes all the way down and I have

another warehouse or a library filled with these books and I've studied these extensively.

This is what I found. They're very incomplete. They work when you're on them. They don't work when you stop and you gain the way back. Now in your 20s, chances are you can pretty much do any diet and lose weight, but as you age, something happens, 30, 40s, 50s, something shifts.

And what shifts is your hormones. So the hormones start going lower and lower and you actually have hormones

that burn fat. There's six of them, that burn fat. And you have three of them that burn fat and you have three of them that make fat. All right? Now let's just

take the evolution of a diet. It started out low fat. Okay, just then in the assumption that if you

actually ate less fat you would be less fat, right? Makes logical sense, but

it didn't work like that, especially in relationship between these hormones,

because fat is neutral. It doesn't increase these or it doesn't decrease. It has no effect on it. The effect it does have is it messes with your liver.

So if you have too much fat, it blocks the liver, but then would block the ability to

burn fat because all the fat goes through the liver. So but a small my fat is totally fine.

Butter is totally fine, but just don't do the deep fried catfish. Now I wanted to gain weight

in high school so I started eating more fat thinking I would gain more weight

but I started losing more weight. So the point is that fat is neutral and they

found that it didn't really work low Low-fat diets don't really work.

And then the next step was the low calorie diet.

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