The Hormones That Affect Weight Loss
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 February 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So the adrenal, when the adrenal gets stressed, you can't tolerate stress and you start increasing hormones that are going to cause belly fat. |
| 0:57.0 | All right? So this is an adrenal body type shape right here. The weight is right there. |
| 1:01.0 | Now why is it in the belly primarily? |
| 1:05.0 | Because your body's in survival and as a stress mechanism you're going to hold it around the most important organs which happen to be in your midsection. |
| 1:12.0 | Your body is trying to survive, it's trying to help you. important organs which happen to be in your midsection. |
| 1:12.6 | Your body is trying to survive, it's trying to help you. |
| 1:14.8 | It's protecting you against starvation, that low calorie diet that you're going to go on. |
| 1:18.8 | Yeah, so it's like, I'm going to put it right here. |
| 1:20.7 | How many sit-ups will it take to flatten that belly? It's not going to happen. Why? Because |
| 1:26.2 | it's coming from a hormone. Your problem is not your weight, it's your hormones. You have to reduce that cortisol. The things that people |
| 1:35.6 | do to lose weight end up destroying their metabolism and their hormones. We don't want to jack |
| 1:40.4 | that up anymore. So people take stimulants. You're already stimulated. You don't want to jack that up anymore. So people take stimulants. You're already stimulated. You don't |
| 1:44.9 | want to jack it up more. So it goes there. Now over time, instead of burning the belly |
| 1:50.6 | fat off as energy, it's going to burn off your leg muscles before it even touches |
| 1:56.3 | that fat. |
| 1:57.3 | In other words, your body is going to use up your proteins and your thighs. |
| 2:01.2 | So guess what that's connected to? Your knees. That's why you have a lot of knee problems with |
| 2:05.0 | adrenal and you have a lot of collagen because all the glue that holds about it together falls apart. |
| 2:10.0 | So you have loose skin, it's called pendulous abdomen. |
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