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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 in this video we're going to talk about protein. There is so many confusions about protein and also should I have this amount or that amount or

should I be a vegetarian. So I'm going to clear up some common misconceptions about protein.

One of the principles behind any diet is you want to trigger

fat burning, right? You want to lose weight. If we look at the viewpoint of

what hormones trigger fat burning and what foods trigger those hormones,

protein comes up very at the top of the list. So protein does trigger the fat burning hormones,

okay? But you have to understand what is a protein

because in nature, very few things come in pure proteins. There are always a combination

of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. And if you're basing your

diet on a calorie counting model, which by the way is incorrect, you're going to be

looking more at the fat calories and

avoiding those since they have the most calories. You're not going to be looking at

the protein part of this. Okay, so that's a misconception and your entire diet is going to be wrong.

Or if you're looking at maybe the Atkins diet and you're only focused on protein

and realize there's six other types of foods that trigger

fat-burning process but they're focused just on the protein then you're going

to ignore some of the other pieces of the puzzle

especially as it relates to the liver function,

because the more the liver is damaged,

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