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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. So I had this question come up that I wanted to answer, will eating too little

damage my metabolism? So let's say you're doing fasting or then when you eat, you're having a

certain amount of calories and it's maybe you feel that it's then when you eat, you're having a certain amount of calories

and maybe you feel that it's not enough. Is that going to slow your metabolism down?

And this person also mentioned that they were told that small frequent meals will stoke the metabolism.

It'll keep the flame going. You need to eat every three hours, okay? Which is completely

not true at all. If you're doing a low calorie diet, it really depends on what's happening with

insulin. Because what's behind a slow metabolism or a stuck set point where you can lose weight but you can't

seem to get below a certain point is higher levels of insulin specifically what's creating that

is insulin resistance and that's created by years of consuming a lot of refined carbohydrates

or just eating too frequently if you have have insulin resistance, you have higher amounts

of insulin. Okay, in the background, the doctor never checks it. They're looking at the blood sugars

who it's not going to show up necessarily right off the bat, but the high insulin is the hormone

that prevents your weight loss. So if we want to fix the metabolism, we need to fix this right

here. We need to fix this right here. And guess what? Fasting corrects insulin resistance.

Now, does a low calorie diet correct insulin resistance? It depends what you eat. Are you doing carbs?

Yes or no? If you're doing yes,

then this low calorie diet is going to not correct this. It's going to not fix your metabolism.

And then the other point, too, is your nutrients, like even when you're doing fasting, when you

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