The #1 Thing that STOPS You From Losing Belly Fat: Not Sugar or Carbs

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let’s talk about the top thing that can stop your ability to lose your midsection your belly fat and you’re probably thinking it’s sugar right or carbs but there’s something else that’s uh of equal magnitude in preventing you from losing your belly fat so let’s say for example you’re at the gym you’re doing exercise you’re doing sit-ups and this midsection just does not come off no matter what and when I go to the gym I do see a lot of people exercising for months without much loss and there’s also people on keto and people doing intermittent fasting that still just cannot lose that belly So today we’re going to talk about this really important barrier in getting your stomach flat but warning you may actually not like what I’m about to tell you in fact you may click off after hearing this but realize I’m going to give you some good news I’m going to give you a solution to this I hate when someone gives you a video of bad news bad things happening in the world but they then don’t give you a solution so what am I talking about I’m talking about alcohol specifically wine A lot of people are drinking wine yet they’re eating healthy and they’re doing keto and they’re doing fasting but they still just cannot lose their midsection a lot of times they’ll hear the concept that you know pure alcohol is not a carb so therefore it’s keto friendly because ketosis is all about lowering your carbohydrates or maybe they’ve heard that there’s such a thing as keto friendly wine because there’s no residual sugars in the wine because a lot of times wine actually has residual sugars you know small amounts but they still have sugar and that also includes a category of mixed drinks with added sugar or beer that has you know hidden sugars but typically if we look at pure alcohol it’s not a carb it’s not a sugar it’s something else it doesn’t even necessarily increase your blood sugars or even insulin directly indirectly it creates very severe insulin resistance but not directly you know I was traveling recently and uh I was at the airport and I needed to get some water and all they had is a bar so I went to the bar and I asked for some water he says you sure you don’t want to drink I said no I’m good come on you you only live once go ahead have a drink you know you work hard you play hard so I think in a social setting it’s a it’s a bit more difficult to say now you know and you see these commercials where people are drinking alcohol and beer and wine and they all look so healthy they should probably show what a heavy drinker looks like when he or she drinks alcohol probably not the picture of health so what is the problem with drinking alcohol like wine for your belly well it all has to do with this thing called the liver the liver cells called hepatocytes treat alcohol like a poison so they have to get rid of it and there’s a couple different things that it does it um initially turns it into a more reactive more poisonous thing which I’m not going to get into the names of it but it actually goes through this process to try to get rid of alcohol and the effect of this toxicity of alcohol on the hepatocyte the liver cell is that it injures the liver cells it creates trauma and it can kill the liver cells and in this process this biochemical breakdown you develop fat on that liver cell the hepatocyte which then starts turning your liver into a fatty liver with that also comes a lot of inflammation and scarring as a byproduct okay and if that keeps going for a period of time you can develop cirrhosis and then that increases your risk of getting liver cancer and all sorts of other issues the other problem with alcohol is it greatly increases your estrogen in men okay and then at the same time it lowers your testosterone and you probably have heard of the benefits of drinking alcohol just in moderation recently they found that was just a marketing thing put out by industry in fact they found no benefits of drinking any amount of alcohol at all the other problem with alcohol is that it’s an empty calorie that’s right alcohol has calories now if you look at the quantity of calories in a gram okay like in a carbohydrate you have like four calories per gram in protein you have four calories per gram and a fat you have nine calories per gram with alcohol you have seven calories per gram so it’s almost as much as fat calories and it’s not nutrient dense calories it’s empty calories which means it actually has to utilize certain nutrients to metabolize it so it’ll use up certain nutrients like B1 folate other B vitamins um zinc copper things like that so alcohol depletes these nutrients especially B1 so the more alcohol or wine that you drink the less B1 you’re going to have and that creates all sorts of other side issues like anxiety worry excessive thinking when you’re trying to go to bed at night nervous tension restless leg syndrome and just Plano fatigue as well as a hangover now fifty percent of the population drinks alcohol okay so chances are you’re in that category and five percent of that fifty percent are heavy Drinkers and so this video is just all about increasing the awareness primarily focusing on your belly because as that liver becomes more fat that that then has to then go somewhere so it spills off into around the organs as what’s called ectopic fat and then in between the organs as visceral fat and that’s why the belly starts expanding and if you’re doing the ketogenic diet or you’re doing intermittent fasting and you’re drinking alcohol on the weekends whatever it’s going to be really hard if not impossible to get rid of this belly fat because of what happens to the liver after you drink alcohol you have this effect where it blocks the ability to oxidize or burn fat for a period of time a lot longer than you might think so let’s say for example you had a couple glasses of wine don’t expect to burn fat for probably 48 to 72 hours after that episode so let’s say for example you don’t drink on a daily basis you just drink every three days that alcohol really affects the brain cognitive wise mood wise if affects the endocrine system the hormone system I already mentioned blurring of testosterone increasing estrogen it also affects your gut okay the gut microbiome which has a whole bunch of other issues connected with that it affects the heart it creates a lot of negative things what should you be doing well realize the effects of alcohol and maybe you just want to stop it all together especially if you want to get rid of this belly okay if you can’t do that because of these Cravings you have take a look at the real reason why you are drinking is it to reduce stress is it more for social situations well just avoid those environments where you keep getting yourself into you know don’t gather where other people are drinking find some friends that are non-drinkers don’t keep alcohol in the house find some other ways to reduce stress there’s a lot of things like certain herbs and like lemon balm tea is a good one ashwagandha herb is another good one B1 is one of the best things for stress reduction try to find a natural one and I found recently that if you take it right before bed boy does it help your sleep as well and you’ll just go right to sleep and then you’ll wake up and you’ll feel really refreshed and especially if you have been drinking alcohol or especially wine you’re going to find that it’s going to fulfill a deficiency and you’re just going to feel a lot better within minutes usually the other thing you can do if you just can’t give up the alcohol is to dilute the alcohol with maybe sparkling water for example in your wine just fill it up with water so you have half and half so now you’re drinking at the amount which has half of the negative effects the other thing you can do is to take milk thistle bef