Lose Arm Fat Fast: Tips from Dr. Berg

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hey guys it’s Dr Berg here I wanted to create a video on how what to do to actually handle this skin problem here and here there are things you can do but there’s some mistakes that people make uh the first thing you need to know is that hormonally at age 38 things start shifting in the body now over a period of a few more years when you hit 50 now things really bottom out so during the menopause time period which is actually 52 but it can happen like 48 it could happen 56 hormonally the ovaries stop working okay so there’s a backup organ and the backup organ is the adrenals on top of the kidney you have two of them and so you have this huge shift from ovarian hormones to adrenal hormones okay if there’s any problem with those adrenals before menopause everything is magnified you get half lashes you have bone loss you have a lot of loose skin things like that but really this is a loss of collagen okay and that comes from a loss of certain hormones so I’m going to explain what hormones um all of these hormones decrease during menopause testosterone which is more lean body mass DHEA that’s a anti-stress hormone that’s kind of like a a prehormone that gives you all the other hormones and it’s made by the adrenal gland and then you have estrogen that goes down and estrogen uh controls the fertility and the menstrual cycle and all that and then Pro progesterone progesterone also goes down that also involved involved in the second half of the menstrual cycle and they estrogen progesterone work together so um when one goes down they should be in certain ratios so when women are after menopause they’re considered estrogen dominant which is kind of weird because it’s it goes down what they mean is the relative ratio of estrogen to Progesterone is off so even though estrogen goes down a little bit progesterone really goes down low so that be create a situation when you’re estrogen dominant very similar to if you were to like take um I don’t know uh sodium and um salt and pottassium they work together so if you have too much salt and not enough potassium you get fluid retention but if you have an what you can do is you can lower salt but you can also raise potassium and get rid of the fluid that way instead of just avoiding the salt so there’s in other words there’s just ratios you have to look at okay and these work together but the big one that really messes people up and that’s responsible for the loose skin is this growth hormone it’s called human growth hormone now in a in a child it’s mainly responsible for the growth of the child okay but when you become an adult it doesn’t make you keep growing it controls other things fat burning tight muscles um energy collagen all the protein synthesis or creation of proteins hair nail skin muscle all that so growth hormone is the really the one that goes down as you age unfortunately so there are people that actually take growth hormone as a supplement it doesn’t work um unless you’re injected by an actual growth hormone a synthetic growth hormone that will work and that will actually help with your weight loss lean body mass and it’s an anti-aging thing but it has some slight minor side effects it’s very expensive it’s like $155,000 for every 6 weeks okay and then number two if you take it over a period of time your own glands shut down and you become dependent on it and then you have to take more and you get side effects like diabetes so there’s a lot of problems with taking hormones and that’s why um I would only recommend taking it if as the last resort and you get people taking HRT hormone placement therapy bioidentical hormones which again if you take those you’re going to create a lot of confusion in the different organs so you’re going to any hormone you hormone you take you indirectly shut down the gland that’s supposed to to produce it so you basically put everything asleep same thing with the thyroid you take it over a period of time and then thyroid doesn’t have to produce anymore okay um so now when we have growth hormone that goes down this is the buffer this is the opposing hormone to cortisol cortisol is the stress hormone from the adrenal that’s the one that’s very destructive on your protein so if that’s too high you get you your body be becomes in a what’s called a catabolic state or a cannibalism it breaks down proteins faster than it’s building back up so you get loss of muscle protein in your thighs and your butt yet you get loose skin here and here not a great sight saggy skin in your belly so really the loose skin is a combination of not enough growth hormone and too much cortisol but remember cortisol might test POS uh normal in your blood but the ratio is very very high cortisol low growth hormone so even though it’s normal it has nothing to oppose it there nothing to buffer it there’s nothing to uh kind of minimize it so it’s just a free cortisol that goes out there and destroys everything so that’s is too much of this and not enough of this so in the next part I’m going to show you what to do about this situation so check this out all right now over here we have things to lower cortisol over here we want to raise growth hormone okay so let’s just kind of go back and forth cortisol is triggered by stress so everything we’re going to do is going to reduce stress number one low intensive ex intensity exercise that would be like walking now over here you have to raise the high intensity because full body high-intensity exercise will increase growth hormone the problem is if you’re an adrenal body type you’re you can’t do this yet so you’re going to have to do walking for a period of time because just because you’re an adrenal body type doesn’t mean you’re always going to be an adrenal type you want to get out of that type and shift over here to be able to increase the growth hormone but we have to get you sleeping first to be able to handle this intensive exercise but ideally we want to work up to more intense exercise so you’re going to walk at first and then as you graduate slowly or gravitate into higher intensity you want to do high-intensity full body short workouts with lots of rest now the P90X is a great workout but I would extend that rest longer if you had an adrenal problem because the key is you could be overtraining especially if you’re doing high intensity every day and you’re not sleeping you’re not going to actually lose weight you’re going to your body’s going to turn to Mush I had a lady that did the boot camp and she was just her whole body turned to atrophy just skin hanging on her body and just no tone at all so that person you she maybe she work out once a week but the whole key is recovery okay so you can overdo it so we started with the low intensity exercise walking long walk every day just get in your space um not sitting in from a treadmill watching TV but getting out there okay so sleep will increase lower this and increase this so sleep is really important there’s a lot of videos I have on sleep there’s nutrition you can take there’s techniques you can do but um that’s for another video but the bottom line is we need to increase sleep I do not recommend um staying up past 12 the optimum time to go to sleep is about 10:30 maybe 11: but don’t watch the news before you go to sleep watch a comedy uh don’t watch a scary movie it’s going to mess up your sleep number number three support the gland again there’s techniques I have ACU pressure nutrition you can support the gland instead of the hormone that would be smart uh avoid stress mainly uh stressful people uh relationships that you’re involved with um you know that always messes someone up I have a gal who’s stuck with this particular individual and she can’t get out of it she’s married she has kids and she has a situation because um he’s not willing to change so it’s a constant battle