Fat Burning Foods – Dr. Berg

What are the absolute best fat burning foods? Watch this video to find out.

all right so we’re going to talk about fat burning foods so there are actually two sets of hormones there’s are hormones that trigger fat burning and then there are hormones that trigger fat storing and this principle really comes into play as you age uh because when you’re young you have a good metabolis and you can pretty much get away with anything but as you age you have to consider the hormones so we want to go away from the calorie counting and focus more on how Foods influence the hormone effects so I’m going to just cover some really key points here number one protein all right if you have the right amount of protein which is 3 to four ounces per meal okay you will trigger the fat burning process that’s why skipping a meal especially for breakfast is not a good thing because you’re not triggering any fat burning you’re actually starving your body you’re you’re creating a starvation reflex and it will actually cause more fat storing so one of the triggering effects of fat storing hormones is starvation or going on a diet or being hungry CU you’re not eating correctly that’s why I think people will say sometimes like oh yeah you have to eat like seven meals a day or you have to keep eating more I’m G I’m actually gaining weight because I’m not eating enough well that may or may not be true it really has to do with are you eating enough nutrients in the calories because but we don’t want to go basically be starving your body all right so want you want a small amount of protein anything excess like let’s say uh 10 uh even maybe sometimes even 9 10 11 12 13 up to 17 ounces of protein per meal you go to this restaurant and they have all this this protein that can trigger the fat storing hormones and prevent any chance for weight loss so just because protein trigger operating doesn’t mean you can have a lot of it now the quality is important too because if you start doing like the soy protein isolate powders or which is in a lot of the diet prepackaged Foods that’s not high quality it may trigger the fat storing but it comes with a package it has a lot of side effects it might create tumors in the liver it might make you look old as you lose weight it’s not the best quality to replace your body tissue so I don’t recommend it in fact I don’t recommend a lot of protein powders that are with the Whey or the soy egg protein pea protein any of the vegetarian protein powders are better but I’d prefer if you have actual food and then we’re going to get into this thing called fats here fat fat believe it or not even though it has more calories it’s neutral when it comes down to the fat storing or fat burning another words having butter for example won’t necessarily just turn into your hips or stomach weight um it’s neutral however when you have certain fats like uh greasy deep fried foods that grease can affect your liver and block the fat burning of process because all the fat burning hor hormones work through the liver so even though it’s an indirect effect you need a healthy liver to burn fat okay so we don’t want to clog up deliver with too much fat but some neutral healthy fats are totally fine coconut oil and I’m not saying go out of your way to eat them but don’t worry about avoiding them butter is not a bad thing safflower oil sunflower oil peanut oil all that is totally fine but the problem is like doing the fast food fats that they would do and the big Vats where you have hydrogenated oils and all this corn oil and things like that okay so now we got the carbs all right now this is interesting because in one of the Premier um physiology books in all uh medical schools and uh Chiropractic colleges is called gens physiology and this book is like the Bible of physiology and it states that one of the most powerful triggers of fat burning hormones is the absence of carbohydrates so it’s not something you do it’s something that you avoid which is kind of like something you’re doing you’re avoiding it but you’re not really eating anything you’re just not eating something and that would be the carbs and I’m talking about the sugar refined carbohydrates and refined grains so let’s just talk about that like the hidden things like like juice or flavored yogurt um that would be hidden or alcohol those are hidden carbs and the philosophy of everything in moderation or portion control doesn’t play into this because all it takes is a tiny amount of a carbohydrate to block fat burning and you might not know this now but you unless you watch my videos but let’s pretend that you had a cookie okay it’s 80 calories you can walk it off in about one mile of walking but the insulin response in that one cookie if your metabolism is slow and you’re getting older could inhibit fat burning hormones by up to 72 hours so all it takes is tiny amounts and the reason I’m mentioning that is because sometimes I’ll help people will say well boy I can’t I don’t I don’t understand all these fat people they’re so big it’s so simple all you have to eat all you have to do is portion control and exercise more and they would lose weight they’re just lazy that’s absolutely not true they don’t know this little piece of information right here so and when you take a carb and you add protein it really spikes the fat storing hormon so like if you had a hamburger or a a sweetened sour pork at the Chinese restaurant or or uh like some type of protein with bread or sugar that is worse combined than having them separate so it creates a more of a effect on the fat storing hormones um that usually comes to play when you’re going out to dinner now MSG monosodium glutamate that would be hidden as modified food starch that’s a flavor enhancer that also will Spike insulin by 300% it’s h in a lot of uh junk foods to make the food taste better than it really is this is a deadly fat storing uh substance because it acts like sugar almost I mean even worse than sugar because it creates a a spike about three 300% more than sugar so MSG is pretty deadly if you’re trying to lose weight now fruits fruit doesn’t necessarily cause you to gain weight because of the fiber buffering effect but if if your metabolism is slow and really slow the less fruit that you can eat what I would recommend is try not to eat a lot of it but hit your goal and then add the fruit in to maintain your weight so fiber does buffer the insulin response so that means instead of juicing blend food so you have all the fiber it’s very very important okay so then we have stress stress does trigger the fat during hormones now if you’re metabolism is slow and you’re burnt out and you’re not sleeping you should not be doing High intense exercise because you’re not going to be able to recover from it so low recovery No Sleep High exercise you’re going to get fat all right now the best sleep best exercise to do when you’re under stress or you’re not sleeping is low intense exercise because you will burn more fat than high intensity depending on your recovery and your sleep but sleep in general does help you trigger the fat burning effects okay so sleep is one of the triggers and intense exercise is also one of the triggers if you’re sleeping if you are recovering okay so the exercise thing is dependent on your overall health and your metabolism so what I did is I actually combined I actually combined all the hormone triggers for the fat burning and all the fat sto triggers hormone triggers for the fat storing effects right here and one piece of paper I summarize everything to make it simple so you can download this form in the link below and then read it study it apply it memorize it um and then send me your success stories because this really does work if you follow it hope you enjoy this I will see you in the next video