Dr.Berg explains 3 Hormones that Affect your Body Shape & Weight Loss

If you don’t do something about these hormones that affect your body shape, you may not be able to lose stubborn weight.

hey dr. Berg here in this short video I’m going to talk about what is really behind the stubborn weight issue if you’re struggling with losing weight you need to know this if you look around most people fall into one of four body types now sometimes they’ll hold it in the hips what that is it’s an estrogen problem it’s too much estrogen some people hold their weight in the stomach as the protruding belly that is a liver problem some people have a sagging belly that is an adrenal problem but it’s too much cortisol that’s that stress hormone and then some people hold the weight all over and not in any one location that is a thyroid problem but it’s usually secondary to higher estrogen or a liver so that’s why I didn’t put it on there because that’s usually secondary now what you have to realize is this weight is a symptom of something else so why can’t you lose weight because you’re treating the weight directly there’s always an underlying cause let me show you okay so now weight especially stubborn weight is a symptom of something so the question is why well your metabolism is slow right you maybe you thought your metabolism is slow and it probably is but then what causes this because what we don’t want to do is we do not want to treat the slow metabolism directly with some pill or some berry or stimulant because there’s an underlying reason why it’s slow and it has to do with hormones okay so we don’t want to treat the weight directly because that’s gonna just treat the symptom it’s not going to work you probably already tried that we don’t want to treat the metabolism we want to strengthen the hormones but now let me explain what I mean by that so let me erase this and I’ll show you what I mean okay so now there are six there are six fat burning hormones that are triggered by various things that you’re going to actually do eating exercise and things like that and this has been a huge focus probably on a lot of people they’re focusing in to stimulate fat-burning but what they don’t know is this there are three hormones that are dominating they’re fat making hormones so these are the burning hormones of fat burning and these are the fat making hormones so there’s hormones that make fat this one is called insulin now this is what explained all the low carb diets low glycemic this is low sugar diets right you probably know sugars bad for you and you might have cravings if you have cravings all that means is that you’re burning sugar you’re not burning fat so insulin is one of them in the presence of a little bit of insulin these will be blocked cancelled out it takes just a little bit of bad thing to destroy a lot of good stuff okay so we have insulin and the next one is called cortisol cortisol is a fat making hormone so in the presence of too much cortisol and that would be stress these again are nullified cancelled out and lastly estrogen so in the presence of too much estrogen these are canceled out so what I want to do is expand your concept of not just focusing on what to do but eliminating these three counter hormones and there’s various ways that we can do that using eating plans certain techniques and even nutritional techniques okay so that would be an interesting concept because if this is too high you’re going to gain weight in the hip and this is too high you’ll gain weight in the belly I don’t care how many sit-ups you do I don’t care how many hours of exercise you do it’s not going to work