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i have a question for you what ruins

your metabolism more

is it dieting

or

stress

today we’re going to find out now this

topic is interesting especially if you

have a problem losing weight or you get

stuck or you have a plateau

the question is what do you focus on

what do you do so you’re not spitting

your wheels and you can get some major

results there are various factors

involved we have

current dieting and past dieting you

have

your stress level you have your sleep

you have your age right which you can’t

really do anything about

you have what you eat carbohydrates for

example proteins fats

you might have this idea that maybe you

need to eat smaller meals frequent meals

to stimulate your metabolism then you

have exercise do you exercise more or

maybe you start eating

healthier what do you do and what has

the

biggest impact on your metabolism well i

have some interesting news for you and

you might want to be sitting down for

this okay

your metabolism is not ruined

your metabolism is not

damaged or destroyed

these things right here do not

ruin your metabolism

they actually make your metabolism more

efficient in fact

if you are overweight you should get a

t-shirt i’m not overweight i’m just more

efficient it sounds a lot better

let me explain what i mean you have some

people that can burn fat very easily

and without much effort really you need

other people that boy they

they have to do extreme things to be

able to burn fat and what’s really

happening at the cellular level is that

their fat cells are very very efficient

at um releasing energy fat cells do not

like to waste energy so what is the

solution well to make your body waste

more fat

and as a little side note what’s

interesting about the ketogenic diet is

that

you’re wasting a lot of fat not only are

you primarily burning fat you’re

peeing out

excessive

ketones and you’re even breathing out

your fat that’s why you can test ketones

through

your breath and your urine

so what is being efficient well your

energy system your fat cells and this is

just a survival

mechanism really what controls this

you guessed it insulin okay the pancreas

makes insulin

insulin’s job is to store

energy store calories

it’s a fat storing hormone when it’s

high when the insulin is low

the body then

can burn fat okay so if the insulin is

high you can’t burn fat

only when it’s low

so the idea is to keep insulin very low

we’ve got the pancreas that makes

insulin

a little cell called the beta cell here

and what happens over time is when the

insulin is too high

repetitively

then your body starts rejecting it and

it starts to become

more efficient by causing a

resistance to that receptor

the problem is we don’t get this return

communication back to the pancreas so we

don’t get the message back to the

pancreas that there’s a problem there’s

a blockage and so the pancreas just goes

okay well i’m just going to produce more

so the pancreas is being ignored so it

just keeps communicating more and more

and more

and we have a situation where we have

both insulin resistance

and too much

insulin okay and

with this message being so high your

body is just like not going to burn fat

and when it holds fat it’s being very

very conservative and very efficient so

really the problem is an alteration in

the endocrine

system okay now

before i get into these

items here i just need to explain

something okay this is interesting

let’s just talk about diabetes for a

second we have diabetes we have

pre-diabetes and then before that you

have insulin resistance so in order to

get pre-diabetes okay you have to first

have insulin resistance

and with insulin resistance we have this

this compensation going on because

think about it the messages aren’t

getting through

so then the body has to make more

insulin to make up for the resistance so

that’s to compensate okay

so with pre-diabetes we’re getting less

compensation

so now this

compensation mechanism is failing to a

certain degree

so now if we have less insulin being

pumped out okay we have less control

of blood sugars so now the blood sugars

have no choice but they’re starting to

go up because one of the functions of

insulin is to take the sugar out of the

blood and turn it into fat right so what

happens is we don’t have as much of that

and so now we’re getting higher sugars

okay so they’re going to diagnose you as

a pre-diabetic and then over time you

become a diabetic now we have even less

compensation we have even less insulin

there so we have higher and higher

levels of blood sugar okay

so that’s really what happens with

diabetes now normally when you get

insulin resistance you don’t have the

symptom of high blood sugar right your

blood sugars are normal regardless of

how much sugar you eat why

because insulin is working like crazy to

remove that

sugar and unfortunately the doctors are

only focused on the blood sugars and not

the insulin levels you don’t go to a

doctor and get your insulin level tested

because if you did it’d be off the

charts you see that test if done right

here

could make you aware of where you are so

you never go into these two things right

here

but with insulin resistance you don’t

have any symptoms of high blood sugar

okay

you do have other symptoms

obesity why because of the relationship

between insulin and your fat right you

also have

high cholesterol hydroglycerides you

might have

low hdl and high ldl and you might have

high blood pressure and there’s a whole

series of other symptoms you might have

now when things get worse okay and let’s

say you’re in this mode you might get

really thirsty you might have frequent

urination you might get really tired

after you eat

you can have more of a fatty liver now

the way they diagnose this

is they use an a1c what is an a1c test

it basically measures how much sugar

that is stuck to

your blood cells you know the protein in

your blood okay

so that’s really what it what it tells

us and it kind of gives you a

measurement of how much sugar is in your

bloodstream okay because if you look up

obesity diabetes this is what they’re

going to say they’re going to say yes

what causes this problem is is

definitely related to lifestyle and

genetics but it’s still unclear what is

the actual causative factor right i mean

now to me i’m like are these people just

completely ignorant

or

are they

trying to

cover something up or what it just

doesn’t make sense because basically a

test to tell us how much sugar is in

your bloodstream so obviously this

relates to diet right

or other things that can affect the

sugar in the blood i mean it’s just

bizarre to me if we look at what they

say about this relationship between

cause and effect they will tell you that

there are risk factors involved okay and

that’s you know they might say like a

sleep stress carbohydrates things like

that but they won’t come out and say the

actual causative factor okay

so that’s interesting now

let’s

just talk about these

factors that can ruin your metabolism or

shall i say make your metabolism

efficient

well we have poor sleep right we have

stress level we have dieting we have

frequent meals inactivity all these

different things here let’s start with

sleep

so if you’re not sleeping

you’ll notice that you will be hungry

the next day right your appetite will go

up you will want to snack now

there’s a couple reasons why one is

there’s some there’s alteration hormones

you might be tired and you’re trying to

eat to get energy

there’s also a spike in cortisol there’s

also a spike in insulin

and all these hormones can not just make

you fat but can make you hungry all the

time as well so they found in one study

that just one night of poor sleep

can

increase the problem of insulin

resistance okay to a significant degree

and the risk factors of becoming a

diabetic

if you’re sleeping five hours or less

is by 3x okay you’re 3x more likely to

get diabetes if your sleep is less than

five hours okay so that’s

that’s significant

all right let’s talk about stress what

does stress do

well you have the stress hormone called

cortisol another name for that is

glucocorticoids okay

so stress

increases

not just glucocorticoids but also

adrenaline and both of these

will increase insulin resistance as well

as creating a redistribution of your fat

more in the belly

versus another place

so

stress

makes you fat in the midsection and less

fat in other places

it also increases hunger if you’re

trying to lose weight and you have this

appetite and you’re always hungry

good luck

and of course lack of sleep

stress spike insulin so this is at the

heart of the problem and i’m just

showing you the relationship between

what’s what could be triggering these

two things now if you notice i didn’t

even mention carbohydrates yet okay but

carbs definitely will increase your

insulin but stress will do it and also a

lack of sleep will do it all right now

what about this

dieting okay these repetitive cycles of

trying to lose weight

and then going off your program and

gaining it back and then trying to lose

weight and going back in the program so

many people

go on a diet to lose weight and i don’t

know for some reason they might think

that that’s going to be then maintained

once they lose the weight but

i would highly suggest you search out

something that is more of a

long-term lifestyle

change rather than some diet you go on

because the more times you’re doing this

dieting on and off on off on off boy

you’re training your fat cells to be

very very conservative you’re training

your insulin to be very efficient as

well you’re training your endocrine

system to really go at a snail’s pace as

far as releasing energy but of course a

lot of this depends

on what this diet is

is it a low calorie high carb diet is it

this or where is it that’s

that’s a big factor

let’s talk about frequent meals um there

are some some diets out there that that

will focus on

have smaller portions okay

and have frequent snacks to prevent

hunger so that way you won’t over eat

because they’re thinking the calories

are causing the weight gain right

so this frequent meal thing

wow this

right here um

not only do carbs increase insulin but

it’s the eating that also increases

insulin so what you’re really doing

is you’re spiking insulin not

repetitively now you might not be

spiking it

at a very very large

amount

but it’s a repetitive chronic

stimulation of insulin

that will just keep you hungry all the

time and keep you from ever being able

to tap into your fat

i mean this right here is just going to

train your system to become so efficient

at holding energy right and not burning

fat then we have inactivity okay not

exercising

so of course you’re burning less

calories right

but

it’s been found that exercise only is

responsible for about 15 of your weight

loss and so that’s not the majority

that’s just a small portion

is exercise important absolutely because

not only can it help you burn some

calories but that’s a minor thing it can

greatly help you with insulin resistance

okay we’ll get to that in a minute

i already mentioned the carbs carbs are

the biggest thing that will increase

insulin of course in sugar and of course

junk food right that has chemicals like

msg

refined carbohydrates can all increase

insulin and keep you

thoroughly hungry all the time causing

you to have a need for more of this all

right now let’s just

finally answer the question

what’s worse for your metabolism stress

or

dieting or let’s just say pass dieting

okay

well

it’s going to be stressed let me explain

being in practice for about three

decades

i always would ask a person when did you

start developing

a slow metabolism when did you start to

find out that

man it’s becoming more difficult to lose

weight

it was nearly always after a stress

event

okay

always

so it could be a loss of a loved one

loss of a job

and it could have started after a

pregnancy which is a major stress

or it could have happened after some

sustained stress a chronic stress

situation going through a divorce

going through relationship problems

dealing with kids

dealing with money dealing with some

other health problem and i’d really like

you to comment down below just to tell

me

if your weight situation or

your weight becoming more stubborn

occurred after a stress event and what

that stress event

was

all right so stress is really number one

now of course

i’m not talking about current stress i’m

talking about path stress but current

stress could also be a huge huge factor

that could be something that you’re not

really focused on as much number two

past dieting this is another one

you take someone who

has been

told that they’re overweight as a small

child but maybe by the parents too and

they they start you on a diet you know

when you’re a kid you know or you start

dieting in your teenage years

i found that really slows down your

metabolism especially the type of

dieting that they’re doing they’re not

trying to get the person healthy they’re

just putting them on a diet and usually

a physician

supervised diet and hopefully it’s not

some drug that they’re giving this child

but the point is that

past dieting really trains your uh

system to become so efficient that now

you’re stuck with the situation

that you need to

bend the physical universe

to make things go right and go way

beyond what an average person will have

to do

frequent eating that’s number three

that’s really that’s huge

frequent eating does not stimulate your

metabolism it stimulates insulin which

then will slow down your metabolism to a

snail’s pace in fact

if we just

you know differentiate between number

three number four carbs and frequent

eating i’m gonna say that it’s frequent

eating that’s worse than even the carbs

okay because

and i’m not telling you to do this but

if you had carbs and you you did

intermittent fasting you’d probably lose

more weight than if you just

ate healthy foods and

had frequent meals okay i mean it’d be a

good experiment to do

so that’s my theory i could be wrong but

you know these are close but i think

it’s the frequent eating that’s worse so

then of course we have going on a

low-carb diet and

eating healthier quality foods and of

course getting off the junk food all

right number five is asleep okay so

that’s important

but not as important as some of these

other things now of course

if you handle

your stress which you need to figure

that out

then that’s going to help your sleep all

right number six is inactivity

or

exercising so if you’re trying to think

of what to do first second third or

fourth um it wouldn’t necessarily be

exercised at the very first thing why

because it only contributes to 15

however that being said

if you start exercising you’re gonna

immediately help reduce insulin but what

i’m trying to do is just give you some

relative importances right what’s more

important than something else and i

think

this will help you

so what do you do number one do whatever

you can do to reduce stress now i have

many many videos on this and i’m going

to put some down below okay but this has

to come down

and then you’re going to sleep better

and just right there that’s going to

help you greatly number two

intermittent fasting that is a must and

what’s really cool about doing

intermittent fasting and of course at

the same time low carb but if you feel

like you can’t do both if you start with

intermittent fasting you’ll get further

okay but check this out when you do

fasting

and get on a low carb diet your mood

automatically increases so in other

words you can take someone from

depression or anxiety and bring them up

okay and guess what that’s going to do

to your stress

it’s going to reduce your stress because

your mood is better your outlook your

viewpoint is better

you take two people that experience the

same stressful event and one person just

has a different way of looking at it

because their mood is higher versus

someone else

you’re going to have much less impact on

your body

if you just are in a better state of

mind and then of course number three add

the exercise in there that’s going to

help you with your insulin resistance

but what we’re trying to do ultimately

is fix

this efficiency problem and get your

body to waste more

energy

so on that note since stress is number

one

you should check out this video on

stress right here

you