Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Some people have them. They don't know what causes them. Basically, it's a real tiny little benign tumor,

and it's triggered by a growth factor, which actually is triggered by the hormone insulin.

That's why diabetics or prediabetics start getting these skin tags around their neck or their armpits.

There's other things that will happen too, but I just want to give you that cause-effect relationship.

Then, of course, insulin is the hormone that regulates blood sugars. What happens is that

it will actually first cause the food that you eat to be stored as sugar. That's the first step

up to about 400 grams. The liver, you eat some sugar. It might not instantly turn into fat,

but it will start to store the sugar as stored sugar or glycogen in your liver.

So, and then when it hits 400 grams, that's when it starts to convert to cholesterol and actual fat.

But the problem is if you continually eat sugar or eat too frequently, like you're snacking through

the day too much or grazing at night, you're going to raise insulin to the point where all the

sudden you develop like a prediabetic state, which is insulin resistance, and you start having

higher and higher amounts of insulin. An average person as insulin resistance has five to seven

times more insulin than a normal person. And because insulin is anabolic, it makes things

grow just like estrogen. It's a growth factor. It starts producing these islands right here.

So, you need to watch some of my videos on how to lower insulin to actually completely get rid of

these right here. Thanks for watching.