Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Hey, it's me again.

In this video, we're going to talk about why you really can't lose weight.

This is a very fundamental, important video for those people are struggling, losing stubborn,

resistant weight.

So if you have any problem, if you're menopausal, you can't lose weight, this is very, very

important.

The first thing you to know is that the reason why most people can't lose weight is that

losing weight goes against the basic purpose of the body. The purpose of the body is to survive. Okay. So anytime this

survival purpose is threatened by starvation, that's a low calorie diet, by eating low fats,

that is a threatened survival because fat is necessary to rebuild

your brain, nerves, every cell in the body. So when you start creating scarcity, your body

will hold on the fat tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter until nothing comes off.

So anything that threatens the survival, stress, is going to cause the fat not to leave

because the purpose of the fat, the purpose of the body is to survive and thrive.

So the way to lose weight is not to starve the body or overtrain it or be exhausted.

So that's one thing.

When the body, when you try to lose weight, which I think we should clarify this, I think you want to lose actual fat, right?

So let's just focus on that because there's, the purpose of fat is to prevent

starvation from sugar. Okay. So that's the, this is the primary fuel source. So fat is used as a backup

organ. So in case the sugar runs out, this acts as a backup.

A lot of times, though, when you're in a survival state where your body is threatened,

you're like a stress state, the body will definitely break down protein too for fuel.

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