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hey guys Dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about why people actually plateau with  

their weight loss okay so what I want to  differentiate I want to differentiate cause  

versus effect some people come up to me and they  say oh dr. Burke I’m not losing weight what do I  

do well first of all I don’t know I have to find  out what’s causing that so I’m going to talk about  

some mistakes that people make and then we’ll  talk about what really people should do but you  

have to differentiate what’s the symptom versus  the actual problem or the cause of the problem if  

we talk about people that plateau they’ll say  well it’s a slow metabolism right well that’s  

really a symptom because like what causes a slow  metabolism now sometimes people jump to well it’s  

just old age I’m getting older well then that  doesn’t explain the people that do get older  

and they still can lose weight and I have other  people that are younger that plateau as well so  

I think the biggest problem the biggest air is  jumping to a conclusion before you evaluate or  

investigate okay so when you go from symptom  to cause you have to do an evaluation and this  

is really the weakness within the medical  profession it’s the weakness with a lot of  

people so you can’t really figure anything out  unless you have data you have information so you  

have to find out number one what is the person  eating are they on the correct program do they  

have any body problems that relate to this why  because sleeping could cause it a solid issue  

can cause it constipation can be a problem all  these other things right you want to know when  

did the problem start what happened just before  it started was there a change autoimmune diseases  

Kapp and after stress events a lot of issues  happen after a change in something and change  

in your diet you’re doing fine and you change  the diet then you start gaining weight well okay  

that’s important data so evaluation is finding  out associated symptoms history what happened  

just before anything that might be connected so  you don’t always want to jump to conclusion to  

determine that’s it that’s the lazy way of doing  it well let’s take a lazy person says well why  

can’t you lose weight I’m just lazy well are  you sure that’s what it is I mean it could  

be that you’re tired you know or let’s say you’re  procrastinate well maybe you crave too many foods  

because your diet is so messed up so you want to  go deeper you want to start pulling a string and  

find out what is really causing it the why behind  it guys let’s talk about what all the potential  

things that could cause a plateau in your diet  that I see number one the person is not sleeping  

I see that often the person is overtraining  they’re doing too much that can stop I had a  

lady she lifted was at six two and a half million  pounds over Corsa V a year that’s a lot of weight  

she’s lifted working out every other day for a  whole year and she lost like one or two pounds  

why because she’s overtraining and she wasn’t  sleeping so we look at that another reason what  

can cause Plateau or even a slow metabolism would  be a thyroid condition okay so that’s something  

to look at but then you want to find out if that  if you person has a thyroid problem what’s what’s  

behind that so it could be either a high estrogen  coming from an overactive ovary or come from a bad  

liver or maybe gall bladder problem or Missy your  gallbladder removed and now you can’t convert t4  

to t3 so you got to just keep pulling the string  to find find out what’s going on so in order to  

evaluate you have to have some understanding  about the problem as well so maybe you haven’t  

had any anatomy and physiology classes so you  can’t really evaluate correctly so you’re going  

to depend on the doctor which and that’s where  the problem is because here’s what the doctors  

do it we’re going to take a blood test okay that’s  as far as they go do a blood test everything shows  

normal so you must be faking it well a blood test  even for the adrenal we’ll only show up maybe 10%  

of time or even a liver problem shows up when the  liver is almost completely destroyed so you can’t  

always go by that one piece of information another  thing that I find that’s probably one of the most  

common things is high levels of insulin in the  body it’s called insulin resistance maybe not  

even a diabetic state but a pre-diabetic State now  if you do a blood test all the common blood tests  

you check the a1c which is an average of blood  sugars for three months that might be normal or  

you might check glucose fasting glucose that may  be normal why because it’s high insulin or insulin  

resistance could be a pre-diabetic it hasn’t its  subclinical doesn’t show up until later stages  

so if the person if requested from your doctor a  fasting insulin test that we pick it up but you’re  

going to know about that but if that insulin is  five to seven times higher like it is for insulin  

resistance they’re not losing weight because in  the presence of insulin the all the fat burning  

hormones are nullified so this is just all great  information so when you’re pulling a string and  

you’re finding out why the questions that I’m  going to ask to evaluate someone is I’m going  

to ask all the symptoms of insulin resistance you  find like you’re not satisfied after you eat do  

you get tired after eating do you crave sweets do  you find you can’t go between meals without being  

hungry do you find that you you have a history of  eating a lot of sugar like all these key questions  

and then I’ll know pretty pretty closely what it  is and let’s say for example I’m still confused  

I kind of think it could be insulin resistance  but it could be this other thing over here well  

you can always just start doing the diet or the  remedy or the handling for instant resistance and  

see if you got losing weight and then we know that  was it so that’s just I want to just go deeper of  

why someone might be plateauing but and know the  pitfalls the pitfalls are jumping to conclusion  

before you evaluate it to find a real cause  and all the videos that I’ve done and what I’m  

currently doing kind of gives you a lot of data  on experience evaluating a lot of people so you  

can kind of spot things for yourself okay I have  a quiz down in the description box that does some  

evaluation it basically analyzes a hundred and  four questions and if you want to do that go ahead  

and do that and we’ll send you the results but it  actually assesses all the deeper root causes and  

then I give you a little printout of showing  it what is behind all your symptoms if you’re  

interested take it but I want to just thank you  for watching and I’ll see you in the next video