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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 want to talk about what's really behind Vericose veins.

Why do certain people get them?

Well, there's a common threat. You'll see them in pregnancy, menopause, obesity. When you take birth control pills, that's one of the side effect.

HRT, hormone replacement therapy.

What is the common thread?

It's estrogen.

I want to show you some interesting research.

High endogenous astrodial, and by the way, endogenous means made within.

In other words, it's estrogen that is coming from within, your body's making it.

Is associated with increased venous distensibility

and clinical evidence of varicose veins

and men are causal women.

The veins actually get distended, they balloon out, they get twisted when you expose them to too much estrogen.

Now let's talk about how your body can make more estrogen.

There's an enzyme called aromatase in your body. It's in the

adrenal glands, it's in the ovary, it's in the breast tissue, and it's also in your fat.

And what this enzyme will do,

it'll take testosterone that's in your body

and convert it to estrogen.

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