I used to look like this…

Are you waking up with a puffy face and don’t know why? In this video, we’ll explore the causes of puffy face syndrome or fat face syndrome, how to identify facial bloating, and the best ways to reduce face puffiness naturally. Whether it’s due to water retention, inflammation, high cortisol, or oth

I want to show you something you see this book right here this is an Endocrinology book on page 84 we have this body type right here and you could see this round face I used to have this I mean my face was round it was swollen I had puffiness underneath my eyes I had no idea it was not normal until I got rid of it and then I’m like oh my gosh that wasn’t normal so today I’m going to show you exactly what this is and how to get rid of it pretty simply but this particular picture is in the chapter on a condition called Cushing syndrome and one of the symptoms is moon phas now Cushing syndrome is basically high levels of cortisol and cortisol is a stress hormone now with cortisol you have your body’s production of cortisol and if it’s too high over a long period of time that could be the problem or you’re taking a medication that’s a synthetic version of cortisol it’s called prazone and in fact if you’ve ever seen a picture of Jerry Lewis when he took prazone his face just swoll up like that and what’s also interesting is I had prazone every single year for probably 10 years straight starting my 20s and my 30s from getting this darn poison ivy every year so whether that contributed to it or something else I’m not exactly 100% sure but I do want to share what I know on this topic now what’s interesting about cortisol is cortisol has the power to redistribute where the fat goes in the body starts going around the face and in this part right here called the midsection so belly fat sometimes over time if you start getting that buffalo hump on the back there and also red cheeks thinner legs weak muscles in the legs especially the thigh muscle you start losing the glutamic Maximus the butt muscle right here other things that happen is your cholesterol and your lipids start going higher you start losing pottassium and retaining sodium so there goes your blood pressure is going to go straight up what’s also interesting is your vitamin D level goes down the immune system usually suffers and they’ve even tested cortisol levels and when people get emotionally upset the cortisol goes straight up in vertical so if someone is always or chronically emotionally upset they’re going to have high levels of cortisol this next part is very interesting because the cortisol itself is not causing the face to to look like a moon face okay it’s indirectly doing it that hormone starts to break down your own proteins starting with your thigh muscles and your butt muscle and it turns that into glucose or sugar and that’s coming from the protein and so your body is making new sugar not out of the dietary sugar I mean this does not just happen in women it happens in men to you can see the adrenal glands are basically flooding the midsection with cortisol and then that turns into sugar and then fat so insulin is a fat storing hormone in the presence of just a little bit too much insulin you’re not going to be able to lose fat and you go to the doctor and they might say well you just need to lose weight right lose weight go on a diet but stress can activate insulin people have high levels of insulin they get something called metabolic syndrome what is that that is a combination of high cholesterol hypertension and high blood glucose all of that comes from too much insulin ere exercising now I had this lady come in my office once and I had her do a little exercise and her pulse rate went up to 150 okay and then had her come back the next day the pulse rate was still at 150 I was like what the heck she her Rec recover y was terrible and that was a situation because typically in a healthy body you’ll raise the pulse rate and it comes down so if someone like that with poor recovery would continue to exercise every day it would just create a tremendous amount of stress and cortisol in the body but also lack of sleep will raise your cortisol think about this when you don’t sleep you’re hungry your appetite goes up but boy when you get a good night’s rest oh my gosh you’re not hungry as much Cravings go away you’re doing great and then you have something like surgery and Trauma and being in pain can also increase cortisol not to mention alcohol and even certain medications all right so those are the triggers but now what about insulin what increases insulin carbohydrates this is a really big confusion with carbohydrates because when you do keto okay ketogenic diet this is basically you’re getting your body to burn fat they will tell you to reduce your carbs below 50 g there’s a lot of confusion with what a carb is a carb makes up several things one is fiber fiber is a carbohydrate sugar is a carbohydrate but if we take something like this right this is a poptart okay and we look at the the total carbs we have 78 carbs and then we have 42 sugars okay so a sugar is a carb and if we deduct the fiber and the sugar from the carb it leaves us with 34 additional G of something what is that something a lot of people don’t know what that is well that something is starch usually when you’re talking about junk food you’re talking about something like this starch corn starch this is why it’s so important to read the ingredients okay not just this other thing right here but the ingredients to see what you’re eating but there’s some other things that can increase insulin that you need to know about frequent eating if you’re snacking a lot you’re raising insulin but what if it’s not carbohydrates doesn’t matter if you’re eating you’re going to raise insulin to a certain degree and so the frequency of eating is a killer seed oils soy corn canola cotton seed safflower sunflower seed those can actually really mess up your insulin as well these next few are very interesting nutrient deficiencies like a B1 deficiency magnesium deficiency and a vitamin D deficiency can all indirectly start elevating insulin because those are the key nutrients that allow insulin to work and when you’re deficient you have more problems with that hormone and of course the last one is medications especially by taking insulin they used to do what’s called insulin shock therapy wow insulin shock therapy what is that they would inject people with tremendous amounts of insulin put them in a coma wake them up a few weeks later as their therapy for mental illness and they would wake up fat incredible they used to do that okay so what do we do to to get the face back to normal okay because it’s not that your bones are round like that your face has layers of fat on it so the first thing to do is to start eating less frequently by cutting out the snacks between the meals that alone will be huge okay and then what you need to do is do intermittent fasting which is you’re going to start reducing the number of meals I would recommend starting out with two meals a day and when you wake up in the morning try to go as long as you can before you eat the first meal okay and then maybe it’s like 11:00 or even 12 have your first meal and then have your dinner now you’re at two meals a day that’s going to be huge because you’re going to allow your body to fast and when you’re fasting you’re forcing your body to reduce insulin and use your own fat as fuel because what we want to do is we want to force our body to use up the fat around our face which will come off first before the belly so it’s not going to take long to reshape the face if you ever look at a diabetic that’s just filled with sugar in their blood they’re just water logged especially in their lower legs so when you do this you’re going to lose a lot of water weight initially probably 11 lbs of water weight in the first week or two and then your weight loss is going