The Book that Turned My Health Around: Dr. Berg

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hey guys I’m back and today I’m gonna do a slightly different video than I normally do I’m gonna talk about the book that turned my health around okay and the name of that book was mastering the zone by Barry Sears PhD his first book was the zone if I’m not mistaken and then he he wrote a book called mastering his own as a second look but don’t quote me on that that’s just my thought and I’m gonna read to you the one line that I had this huge Epiphany okay so first I’m gonna read in Chapter one and then there’s this basically a little paragraph in Chapter one and a little paragraph in Chapter two okay so this is acts I didn’t even read the rest of the book I just read these two paragraphs I scanned okay obviously that was not the enemy if that isn’t the enemy then what is the answer is insulin it’s excess insulin that makes you fat and keeps you fat and your body produces excessive amounts of insulin when you eat either too many fat free carbohydrates or too many calories at a meal now I’m gonna come back to this because this is where the problem is that he didn’t explain this well enough but I’m gonna I’ll come back to that therefore when you talk about the zone it is really the zone of insulin now I didn’t even know that before I read the book I did not know he was talking about the insulin zone not too high not too low a zone of insulin controlled by your diet okay that was in Chapter 1 chapter 2 but more important protein is so vital because it stimulates the hormone glucagon now chapter 1 he’s talking about insulin being the problem and I talked about that a lot but there’s another hormone called glucagon that does the opposite to insulin okay it’ll suppress insulin they both work on a teeter-totter mechanism and protein will stimulate glucagon exercise will stimulate glucagon carbs stimulate insulin so glucagon has the opposite physiological action to in fact and this is the line that blew me away in fact glucagon acts as a major governor of excess insulin production he knows at that time where I was like wow nine understand this in school but it never really connected with what you eat and then he goes into this it is excess insulin that makes you fat makes you hungry makes you mentally foggy decreases your physical performance and increases the likelihood of chronic disease now at the time I was extremely exhausted with brain fog starving all the time I didn’t know why so I replaced my my cereal for breakfast with I think I had a it was a buffalo burger the first time and then I think the second time I had some fish and it was like someone took a helmet off my head I was like oh my gosh I feel so much better so that was when I started telling all my patients oh you need to start having a protein breakfast and it wrote in my book and the whole thing and that went on for a couple years but then I stumbled on some additional information which took me to the next level and it really had to do with what Barry originally said in chapter one with these this eating if you eat in general anything significant with calories this is gonna affect insulin so at the time I didn’t really get it but looking back on it this is just basically eating so eating the frequency of eating and the carbs so when I introduced in a minute fasting and I cut the breakfast right out I eliminated this part of the insulin equation and eliminated this and then I started going my health started going higher and higher and higher so that’s pretty much what I teach right now now the problem with mastering the zone is that he’s recommending 40% fat 30% protein and 30% carbs he’s allowing way too many carbs even in the zone bar that he sells there’s soy protein low quality tapioca starch corn syrup and sugar so I’m not even recommending this book what you should do is healthy keto and in a min fasting so your fat is 70% and your protein is 20% and your overall carbs are really like 10% but you’re not really counting the vegetables but the vegetables would be like 5% because it’s mostly fiber and water and then 5% low glycemic carbs like hummus or the carbs and nuts or the carbs and berries something like that so in summary I do appreciate the data that he has in this book the problem is knowing what the vital data is and what data that might not be vital or might not be true and sometimes you don’t know until you really try it out well I’m gonna tell you that this formula right here healthy keto and in a minute fasting has been thoroughly tested on a large amount of people that I’m working with that are in social media so if you’re new to this I put a link down below of exactly what you should be eating and lastly in the comments I want you to tell me when you came across some information or some concept that turned your health around if it was a book or a video go ahead and put that down below because I’m really curious thanks for watching