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Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast.

Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Dr Eric Berg.

Hey guys, today we're going to talk about what is missing in the calorie theory.

So every so often you'll hear an individual parrot back this concept of weight loss is merely a matter of balancing your calories.

It's a matter of calories in equals calories out.

Taking any more calories than you're using, you're going to gain weight.

If you exercise or add exertion, you'll lose the calories, okay?

But how do you explain this skinny guy that eats like a horse and never gains any weight.

Or the overweight person that goes on a 500 calorie diet is exercising every day

and they're not losing even a one pound.

So what's missing in this concept is this, the hormonal effect over your macros,

over carbohydrates, fats and protein. Different macros respond to hormones differently. And that right there explains

that there is a huge difference in how the body responds to calories. The main hormone that we're going to talk about is insulin.

Okay, insulin is the dominating hormone that determines whether you're going to store or

use your fat, okay, or stored glucose. So if insulin is high you're going to use glucose as your

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