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.

If you are losing inches, but the scale is not budging, this video is for you.

There is nothing more frustrating than getting on the keto plan, doing intermittent fasting,

staying clean, eating healthy foods, and not losing any weight.

Your spouse might be losing weight, your friends are losing weight, but you're not.

And it's extremely irritating, and you may feel like giving up.

But hear me out, if you're losing inches, if your hunger is going away, if you're

not craving anymore, and you have more energy, it is working.

Let me show you something.

A slow metabolism really is insulin resistance.

And insulin resistance is this scenario right here.

Insulin is a key that opens up the cell to allow certain things to go into the cell.

It's a tool and amino acids and certain vitamins.

So if insulin is not connecting to the cell because there's insulin resistance, it's not

going into the receptor, then you are not going to absorb protein amino acids.

So your body is going to be in a state where you have atrophy.

This is why diabetics, prediabetics, and especially people that have insulin resistance, usually

have atrophy, a loss of muscle mass, and decreased protein absorption.

Because insulin is an anabolic hormone, it builds up muscle protein and other proteins.

So if insulin is not working, guess what, you're not going to have the anabolic effect.

As soon as you do keto and intermittent fasting, you are going to fix insulin resistance,

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