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hey dr. Berg here in this video we’re

going to talk about what to do when

you’ve tried everything and nothing is

working I’m going to create a series of

videos in the next couple of weeks that

will cover and address all the other

factors that go beyond just losing

weight okay so when you tried everything

and nothing’s work nothing has worked

you want to look outside the box okay so

the concept we’re going to talk about in

this video has to do with the dominating

hormones that make fat see there are

various things that the majority of

people focus on with trying to boost

their metabolism or increase the fat

burning hormones and there’s six of them

and that’s really cool you know exercise

eating certain foods but what about the

three dominating hormones there are

hormones that make fat that will nullify

any chance of you losing weight because

they cancel out that fat-burning effect

of the good hormones or the fat burning

hormones yeah I’m sorry to tell you that

but yeah the first one we’re talking

about is cortisol so in the presence of

just a little bit of cortisol it cancel

out a lot of good stuff it’s kind of

like if you had a really great day and

everything went well and then that one

little negative thing happened that just

ruined the whole day the same thing in

the body so this explains why portion

control doesn’t work or everything in

moderation because just a little bit of

the bad stuff can wipe out all the good

stuff and I’ll have people that will say

well I’m just going to eat what I want

and exercise more well

sorry that may work if you’re 18 but not

when you get close to 40s and 50s

because these hormones are involved so

there’s six fat burning hormones there’s

three hormones that actually dominate

and make fat first we’re going to talk

about is cortisol cortisol is a stress

hormone it’s made by the gland on top of

your kidney you got two of them right

here and it’s activated by all forms of

stress emotional stress physical stress

and other types of stress food stress so

cortisol is a stress hormone in the

presence of cortisol it’s going to be

really hard to lose your belly fat in

the presence of sustained cortisol over

many many years it will literally

make you age very very fast and it even

will keep it’ll turn your muscle into

sugar so if your diet is good your body

is actually being converted to sugar as

fuel even if you’re not eating sugar so

it’s a very deadly hormone so what we

want to do is two main things to focus

on number one we want to reduce stress

all right let’s just go a little bit

deeper and how to do that

number one exercise obviously will

decrease stress especially if you’re

sitting me on a computer all day you

need to get out there and exercise you

get it off but you want to exercise

based on your fitness level your

physiology don’t overtrain

in the next couple of videos we’ll get

more into like how to exercise but in

this little video I’m just going to be

make you aware that you need to exercise

walking would be good if you’re not

sleeping that well so I would exercise

to the degree that you’re sleeping so if

you’re not sleeping in your fatigue you

want to exercise lower lower intensity

like walking if you’re sleeping of

energy you can increase the intensity so

go based on how you feel if you don’t

feel like exercising then do it very

light but walking is very very important

when reducing stress and you can do yoga

and stretching and things like that

secondly the sleep the sleep is very

important because sleep is where you

extract stress as well but you want to

get in bed by 10:30 because that’s the

first wave of sleep and ideally we want

to sleep for seven hours if you have a

problem with sleep and you’re not able

to sleep because you’re stressed out I

recommend taking adrenal support formula

because one of those before bed will

help you get into the deep sleep that

says as a little solution to that number

three nutrition there’s three main key

nutrients that help people sleep number

one the B vitamins and I like to get my

B vitamins through nutritional yeast and

not brewers yeast but nutritional yeast

from the health of store take a

tablespoon and put it into your food you

could put it on a little plain yogurt

and then consume that once a day that

will help that internal anxiety stress

build up and it actually will help vivid

very vivid dreams and very active dreams

and nightmares if you have that we know

your deficiency you’re deficient in B

vitamins second one is calcium calcium

do not take calcium carbonate get a

calcium citrate or calcium lactate and

take that before bed because calcium

will help wine you down so calcium and D

vitamins and then potassium I like to

take my potassium from the vegetable

source you need seven cups because not

only we get the potassium from the

vegetables you’ll get a lot of other

nutrients as well from those vegetables

so we need that potassium very high if

potassium goes down then stress goes up

because potassium is a physiological

relaxer that helps you sleep okay so we

got that next one decrease stress from

people I would say that out of all the

things that stress people out other

people that are on the top of the list

here you have a situation between you’re

stuck between a rock and a hard place

you’re working in a place where your

boss is a jerk and you can’t control the

situation so any situation that you’re

in out of control you can’t you can’t

quit you stuck in a sit in such

situation let’s say you’re married to

someone who you’re not really happy with

that could be an ongoing stress and even

let’s say you’re stuck taking care of a

sick parent who’s slightly irritable and

you’re taking care of a child at the

same time and you’re right in the middle

so that is a situation there’s basically

two types of people people that bring

you up and people that bring you down

and I really kind of regardless of what

people say I pretty much go by how they

make me feel when I’m around them and

not necessarily I’m instigating

something but there’s certain people

that you around them that you feel like

crap and they’re usually invalidating

you and they might do it covertly they

might say something like oh yeah you’re

kind of a cute chubby person or you if

you lost a little weight you’d be really

cute like these little critical comments

those people you just need to avoid them

because these are stressful

personalities and then

you have the physical stress physical

that’s the body problems you have maybe

diabetes you have pain you have sleeping

problems you have menstrual problems

that will keep the stress high as well

so that will also increase quarto so

let’s some things that I work with on

the physical level but now we get to the

next thing you want to do two things you

want to decrease stress and you want to

increase pleasure that’s right

pleasure will decrease cortisol but very

few people are really focusing on

getting more pleasure in their life

they’re focusing on eliminating or

avoiding stress so that’s cool but I’ll

see this like with a female single mom

pushes themselves take care of the kids

a husband you know going to school

working and pushing pushing pushing but

there’s no time for her or any pleasure

at all I see this on a daily basis and

they’re stressed out to the max so you

want to find things that you enjoy doing

and start doing them and in acts of

therapy increase the pleasure of your

life whatever that might mean to you one

way people get pleasures through eating

but what we want to do is we want to

replace those sweet carbs with fat the

reason why people don’t do that is that

they don’t realize that the sweet carbs

will spike insulin but the fat doesn’t

but we’re taught that most diets you

need to stay away from the fats but

believe it or not the fat burning

hormones actually the fat making

hormones none of these actually are

influenced by fat so fat is a neutral

food it’s something you can consume as a

pleasure source so people do get

pleasure from bacon and eggs fattier

butter cream so any of those foul to

your recipes deep fried chicken or

shrimp in maybe some coconut oil with

some almond flour right with spices not

a problem with that at all so we want to

replace the carb with more fattier foods

okay so those are some of the tips to

lower cortisol

okay so the next dominating fat making

hormone is called insulin and now

insulin is a hormone that regulates the

sugar in your blood so when you lose the

ability to regulate sugar it tends to go

high okay and that’s called diabetes low

sugar is called hypoglycemia but high

would be diabetes okay so what triggers

insulin is sugar and you may already

know that okay so you know you need to

avoid sugar but what I want to talk

about is an interesting fact that I want

to put more emphasis on because it’s

very very very important in the presence

of just a little bit of insulin I’m

talking about a little bit of tiny bit

especially as you age and your

metabolism slows down a little bit of

insulin will cancel a lot of good work

that you’re doing in fact for some

people all it will take is about 80

calories that’s like one cookie half a

glass of juice I have a glass of wine

which basically is sugar to block that

burning up to 72 hours yeah I know so

this is this is the problem is that the

philosophy of everything in moderation

or portion control does not work when

you’re talking about hormones so insulin

is a very powerful blocker and and I’m

just I’m not just talking about actual

sugar in handy I’m talking about all the

hidden sugars like breads pastas cereal

crackers biscuits waffles pancakes

muffin soda and then you have juice you

have what else you have MSG monosodium

glutamate it’s in a lot of foods it’s

hidden now as modified food starch I

created a whole video on that in in

somewhere on this blog so you can check

it out but insulin we need to avoid that

okay now lastly the last one is called

estrogen now estrogen is also dominating

hormone it’s not as important is insulin

but it’s a factor that can keep you from

losing weight number one

if your menstrual cycle is too heavy if

it’s too long if it’s too painful if

it’s irregular chances are your estrogen

dominant too much estrogen will make you

get fat in the hips in the butt and

lower pooch below the belly button and

it will eventually cause a fibroid which

then will make more estrogen yeah so

it’s just kind of a never-ending cycle

and of course there’s there’s

environmental estrogens like you would

take birth control pills or hormone

replacement therapy or even a pregnancy

could spike the estrogen environmentally

it could be also the hormones in the

food supply that you’re consuming and it

also could be soy soy is very estrogenic

so these are just some common things

that you have to be aware of when you’re

trying to do lose weight and nothing’s

working you want to look at anything

that’s triggering these counter hormones

not just these right here so I hope I

increase the awareness of to take to

look at other things outside the box

because you have to be able to look very

lateral to see what’s causing your

situation I’ll see you the next video