How Low Calorie Diets & Intermittent Fasting Affect Metabolism – Dr.Berg

Here’s what you need to know about low-calorie diets vs. intermittent fasting and how they each affect metabolism.

hey guys dr. berg here in this video I want to  talk about low-calorie diets versus intermittent fasting the confusion that people have is they  think that it’s the same exact thing no it’s completely the opposite thing so low-calorie  diets actually slow your metabolism actually it ruins your metabolism it’s it takes  the setpoint and it raises it so before you could get your weight down to this way now  it keeps rising and it was just like your body gets comfortable at a certain weight like say  185 pounds and you can’t seem to get below that in a minute fasting if done correctly speeds up  your metabolism it lowers as a setpoint it allows your weight to go down it’s the only thing that  I know them as a tool that you can fix and heal your metabolism okay so low calorie diets create  a breakdown of muscle tissue it makes you weaker over time intermittent fasting causes improvement  in muscle and it retains protein and muscle tissue and that’s because of the hormone called growth  hormone that’s triggered when you do in a minute fasting okay low calorie diets caused cravings  to carbs and sweets it also keeps you hungry because it’s depriving you intermittent fasting  you have no cravings you have no hunger so the way that you know that you’re in intermittent you’re actually doing this correctly is when your cravings go away if you’re going to do a  program then your craving you’re not doing it correctly and you’re not really in fat-burning  when you’re doing this low calorie diets do not put a person in fat-burning intermittent fasting  does put a person in fat burning because it influences hormones low-calorie diets ignores  the hormone aspects of what calories influenced so they don’t look at how food triggers hormones  insulin cortisol estrogen the basically saying all calories are the same just eat in moderation  just reduce your overall calorie bad advice intermittent fasting done correctly looks at the hormone  aspects like specifically insulin because when you do intermittent fasting you’re eating and then  you’re not eating and then you’re eating and you’re not eating so you when you don’t eat you  don’t trigger insulin when you do low calorie diets a lot of times you’re grazing and you’re  snacking but you’re having just little amounts of that thing low calorie diets typically ignore  the nutrients in the calories these kind of look at again a calorie is a calorie but there’s  certain calories that are more nutrient-dense than others right so that’s the difference so  this is basically reduction of calorie this is a reduction of frequency of eating this is  not lowering your your calories when you eat so when you do intermittent fasting correctly you  want a meal of course that doesn’t have sugar you want a meal that has healthy fat you want a  meal that has a moderate amount of protein and you want a meal that is nutrient-dense a lot of  vegetables but you’re never going to be cutting calories you’re going to have a nice big meal  menu that’s suppose to get you to switch over to fat burn when you’re not eating going for a  long period of time we’re really talking like if you did three meals a day or even twice a  day and then not eating between them that’s the form of intermittent fasting but I just want  to clarify the difference so you really get this this is really bad this is really good alright  thanks for watching put your comments below hey guys thank you so much for watching please click the subscribe button and  I will see you in the next video