This Fat Is SUPER DANGEROUS

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I’m going to share some weight loss tips to help you achieve a flat stomach. Fat storage is a survival mechanism, but there is a limitation to how much fuel can be stored. Once your body is out of storage, fat is placed around the organs. This type of fat is called visceral fat.

If visceral fat is stored for too long, it spills into your organs. This is called ectopic fat. The good news is that when you burn fat, this is the first to go.

It’s not the number of calories that causes this excess fat storage; it’s the type of calories. Alcohol and ultra-processed foods like high fructose corn syrup cause visceral fat and liver fat.

Chronic stress can even cause your body to turn things into sugar. Poor sleep can increase cortisol and visceral fat. Certain medications, such as steroids, antibiotics, antidepressants, and anti-anxiety drugs, can also increase visceral fat.

Seed oils, refined sugars, and starches in the diet directly contribute to mitochondrial damage and visceral fat. To lose visceral fat, you need to eliminate ultra-processed calories. Instead, consume nutrient-dense foods like red meat, eggs, and fish.

HIIT exercise is the best exercise for burning fat. HIIT involves short bursts of high-intensity exercise with rest. Weight training can help reduce belly fat by increasing muscle mass. Long walks can help reduce belly fat by burning fat and reducing stress.

Vitamin B1 helps reduce stress and improve sleep. Nutritional yeast is one of the best sources of B1. Vitamin D can also help you lose weight. If you can’t go out in the sun, take at least 10,000 IU of vitamin D3. Make sure to take magnesium with vitamin D3 because it allows for vitamin D's proper function and helps improve sleep. Fasting also helps to burn fat fast by reducing insulin spikes.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about how to get rid of your belly fat, but if we just kind of step back for a second and just
0:06.7	look at the purpose of fat, it's a survival mechanism. It helps to store fuel, but it has a limitation to how much it can store.
0:17.2	So once it gets to a certain point, then we have a backup system.
0:22.0	It's a plan B where you start storing fat around the organs and that type
0:27.7	of fat is called visceral fat. Now when visceral fat goes on too long and you don't use up that energy, then that type of fat
0:36.8	becomes sick, becomes damaged, and it can no longer readily take in fats for storage or even sugar in its conversion into fat.
0:48.0	So we have a third type of fat situation.
0:51.0	Okay, this is the fat that then spills over inside your organs. It's the
0:56.6	fat inside your liver. It's the fat inside your pancreas. It's the fat inside your
1:02.0	muscle. So by the time you have ectopic fat your But on a positive note, it's the fastest thing to fix because when we reverse the process,
1:16.1	we can get rid of the ectopic fat first, then the visceral fat, then the subcutaneous fat. And so is it just a matter of too many calories that
1:26.2	destroys the machine? Not necessarily. It's the type of calories that destroy
1:30.0	this machine. Number one, alcohol will destroy the machine for sure. This is why chronic
1:34.7	alcoholics have a pot belly and they have a lot of visceral fat and they definitely have a lot of
1:39.6	liver fat. Now the next thing you need to know about is fructose. Now there's a big difference
1:45.0	between the fructose in fruit versus the fructose in high fructose corn syrup that
1:52.1	goes into the body and just creates serious damage
1:55.0	to your metabolism, including liver,
1:56.8	because it's a refined product.
1:58.3	It's an ultra-process food that doesn't have the protection. So when you eat these carbohydrates without those
2:04.5	cofactors, as in the ultra processed food calories, you really starve off this
2:09.9	biochemical machine and this is really what causes the system to break down because
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