Intermittent Fasting & Ketosis Before & After (Dr.Berg Interviews Brenner Stiles)

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okay hey guys I have another amazing interview I want to introduce you to brener uh so Hi brener how are you I’m doing great how are you great in fact uh you sent me a before and after I was just uh you know really impressed so I wanted to get to uh know exactly how you achieved that and um can you tell me a little bit about um have you had a weight problem for a long period of time or were you thin and you gain weight what’s your story in a th thumbnail sketch well basically I’ve always been a thin person um my whole life never had any weight issues um was very athletic um I used to serve in the military so I was in the Army very athletic enjoyed a very athletic healthy life um I’m getting ready to be 40 years old oh wow and where did you go to basic training I did it at Fort Jackson in South Carolina oh my gosh what what month did you go in did you go in the summer I went in the summer of 1999 September I was September of 1999 wow I was there at Fort Jackson in 83 in the summer it’s so hot there you actually sweat out of the back of your your hands it’s so hot extreme they’re very mean down there too were they as mean as they were back then I don’t know I think they had the stress cards I don’t know if you came in there when they had the stress cards no they were mean they didn’t have the stress cards I took it personally I was like I was that’s very very rude like oh my God it was terrible so I didn’t know it was a whole game but anyway um getting back to you you went through basic training and then what happened um I went through basic training had a military life got out of the military went back to school got a degree um I had a child um still was thin after matter of fact I um had my baby uh my oldest son who’s 14 lost the weight with no problems quickly and matter of fact people thought I was sick then um so let’s fast forward about 10 years later 10 or yeah about 10 years later um all of a sudden I had a very stressful job um started gaining a lot of weight plus I had quit smoking so I gained like 40 or 50 pounds and then I I quit smoking and then I got pregnant right after I quit smoking which was interesting um and then after I had my baby I was at about 190 PBS 187 190 for a long time uh he was well over a year which I wasn’t used to that um and then I just got to a point to where I was like you know I if I keep letting this go I’m going to end up 200 lbs I’m going to end up 350 pounds it’s just never going to stop so what I started doing was I started changing my diet basically um so finally after I changed my diet I did get back down to 160 which was the pre pregnancy weight then I started working out doing the traditional things lowfat diet working out and guess what I wasn’t losing weight and I was killing myself at the gym um so then I ran into intermittent fasting and it changed my life um I started intermittent fasting I said okay you know what this sounds like it’ll work I’m going to try it first week week was very tough because I was used to eating three four five times a day um then the second week like a breeze I did it like a champ third uh the third week did it like a champ so really initially I did it um truthfully for two weeks and that’s when I started losing the weight I lost like within two weeks about 10 pounds wow so what was your pattern when you did this the first and second week uh the first and second week I basically did the 168 um so I would start I would eat my lunch my first meal of the day would be about noon um sometimes 1:00 in the morning of course you might be a little bit hungry um but you get past that because your body adjusts and you get used to it um but what I started doing is I would have green tea in the morning um it would either it usually matcha green tea and I would put mctt oil in my tea so I use a lot of MCT oil um and then I would take a whole food vitamin and I drank a lot of water and what else I took chromium pills because somebody had told me that that helps with sugar Cravings um yeah so and they really do work um so I started taking those probably two weeks after that but um once I started losing the weight with intermittent fasting I you couldn’t stop me at that point I was like this works so then um I guess by the grace of God I ended up finding out about the ketogenic diet so then I started cutting out sugar um so I basically have been introducing both of those things into my lifestyle um but for sure I try to do hardcore I’m I’m hardcore intermittent faster um and as time went on maybe within a month I started uh cutting my window to about four o’clock and then sometimes 3 o’clock um so other was you wouldn’t eat until 3 or 4 o’clock sometimes I wouldn’t eat till about 3 or 4 o’clock or I would eat at noon and I wouldn’t eat after like 4: okay so basically what’s your window of eating my window of eating on average right now is between 12 and 4 you mean 12 hours and four hours yeah so I’ll eat I’ll eat lunch and then I’ll eat again maybe at about four o’clock so I’ll eat dinner at 4 oh four hours oh 12 and 4 not 12 hours and four hours 12 and four that’s four hours okay good that makes sense yeah so I just eat uh virtually a about two times a day um and I eat like a healthy meal like I eat meat I eat vegetables um just solid stuff I’ll eat cream cheese I love cheeses um I mean I’ll even eat for dinner sometimes if I want to I’ll eat bacon and eggs um I’m huge on avocados um so as you can see I try to do the ketogenic diet as well with my intermittent fasting and that has really worked my energy is through the roof so so so for those of you that are watching that don’t know anything about this the combination of adding ketosis with intermittent fasting is probably one of the most powerful ways to get the weight off simply because it heals insulin and I just want to I want to just say one thing um like the question I always get is how do you get what triggers ketosis what food triggers ketosis um no food it’s the absence of insulin that’s what triggers ketosis so you you can eat too much protein and Trigger insulin you can eat more too many carbs and Trigger insulin fat is basically neutral however it just by the fact of eating it can trigger insulin so that’s why the combination does work if you’re trying to lose weight you have to do it gradually you know for some people because do it too fast if you’re hypoglycemic you can crash and burn but there is a way to do it healthily adding a lot of vegetables and uh making sure your vitamin mineral but I mean you’re just you’re proof that it does work there’s no one that can con you that uh eating five meals a day is a good thing anymore now are you are you also adding any exercise in there too yes um you know what the funny thing is I don’t exercise as much I might exercise three days three days out of the week and that includes maybe a Four Mile Run so and that’s it um I I do want to start weight training um but other than that I don’t I work out three days a week maybe wow and how did you find my videos oh man just Googling searching I I’m a huge fan first of all so anything I want to know I’m like well let’s ask Dr Burke you know so I’m I’m I’m going on your channel looking for help with all kinds of things I actually had a hair issue too um I had a hair issue and a skin issue I mean I had a lot of different issues going on and it all revolved around nutrition um so thank you for um you know enlightening me about that I actually take your essential minerals which has helped a lot with my hair because my hair was thinning and it the plant the plant-based trace minerals the the liquid yes okay those the plant yeah the plant-based trace minerals yeah so I Incorporated that into my diet as well which gives me a lot of energy and um man i’ I’ve just did a complete change in my life and and