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 weights.

You know, there's nothing worse than having someone give you the wrong diagnosis.

They'll say, you have a slow metabolism, right? Because you can't lose weight fast.

So when you're given this false diagnosis, then you're very susceptible to doing the wrong thing, then you're going to be focused on trying to find something to boost your metabolism. Well, that doesn't work. In reality,

the problem is not a slow metabolism. Let me explain. So what is metabolism? You have all these chemical reactions going in your body,

whether you're breaking down food into energy or building things back up into body tissue,

like repairing things like maintaining temperature and eliminating waste. All that is part of metabolism.

Some people will tell you to create a negative caloric condition

where you're consuming less calories than you're eating, okay, eat less, and then you need to

exercise more. And then after about six months of doing this, you haven't really lost a pound.

They basically heat up these calories and burn them, okay, in a lab to determine how much energy is in a carbohydrate, fat, and protein.

But in the body, in a biological system, things work completely different. You have a lot more

complex who's going on. Number one, you have hormones. And that's really the missing

factor is the hormone influence over your specific calories. So hormones are basically the

communications in your body. And the very important hormone that relates to whether you burn

fat or store fat is insulin. So the insulin message is store fat. If insulin goes up,

you store fat. If insulin goes down, it's a different message. It's burn fat. So in reality,

if insulin is too high, that is going to mimic a slow metabolism because as soon as you lower it, you start

to burn fat. But if that hormone is just a little too high, not only will you not be able to burn

fat, but the body is going to enhance the storage of calories into fat. You see, this video is all about focusing in on the real

problem, so then you can have an actual solution to fix it. If we know what triggers insulin

and how to inhibit it, then you will know how to lose weight. And you're about to find out why

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