The Best and Worst Weight Loss Diets

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hi Dr Berg here in this video I want to I want to show you what’s behind all these diets I have pretty much every diet book on the planet this is a list this is the stack all goes all the way down and I have another Warehouse or a library filled with these books and I’ve studied these extensively and this is what I found they’re very incomplete they work when you’re on them they don’t work when you stop and you gain the weight back now in your 20s chances are you can pretty much do any diet and lose weight but as you age something happens 30s 40s 50s something shifts and what shifts is your hormones so the hormones start going lower and lower and lower and you actually have hormones that burn fat okay there’s six of them that burn fat and you have three of them that make fat all right now let’s just take the evolution of a diet it started out low fat okay just then the assumption that if you actually ate less fat you would be less fat right makes logical sense but it didn’t work like that especially in relationship between these hormones because fat is neutral it doesn’t increase these or it doesn’t decrease it does no has no effect on them the effect it does have is it messes with your liver so if you have too much fat it blocks a liver that’s then would block the ability to burn fat because all the fat goes through the liver so but a on fat is totally fine butter is totally fine but just don’t do the deep fried catfish now I wanted to gain weight in high school so I started eating more fat thinking I would gain more weight but I started losing more weight so the point is that fat is neutral okay and they found that it didn’t really work lowfat diets don’t really work and then the next step was the low calorie diet okay the problem with low calories is it actually creates a little bit of a starvation in your body and one of the fat making hormones is a stress hormone called cortisol the belly fat hormone so low calorie diets actually increase belly fat and they starve you of the nutrients they create nutritional deficiencies because you’re cutting the calories and you’re cutting the nutrients you see the problem So Cal low calores might work when you’re 20 but not when you get older in fact they ruin your metabolism and some of you already know that you’ve already done that and because your body adapts the whole hormones compensate I developed a program um several years ago I spent $150,000 to create this software to do this one thing and that is to evaluate diets and Foods based on nutrients I wanted to know what diets have the most nutrients and you can fill it out and find out what what you ate and then it’ll evaluate compare what you should eat uh to get your nutrients versus what you’re eating now and it it graphs all these things and I found that most people are not even close to getting their basic nutrients and which are the rdas you can go to the usk website and look up rdas which is basically the basic requirement of nutrients that you need to eat every single day and um the top three diets on the planet Jenny Craig Weight Watchers and neutr system all have very low nutrients which is shocking because those diets are very popular but I find a lot of people um don’t do well with them because they don’t they you crave you crave so many foods and some of the prepackaged Foods um have a lot of cheap soy in them and soy increases one of the fat making hormones called estrogen so again we’re actually contributed to more problems with the hormones because cellulite is made from estrogen all right so we have a problem with that and then we went to the high protein diets right the Ain diet and now that’s the first the start of trying to influence the hormones because it does influence one of the fat burning hormones called glucagon the problem is that it only stimulates one what about the other five okay they’re ignored and the thing is too is if you actually eat too much protein it could increase insulin so there’s there’s a lot of other information about this that’s incomplete so high protein diets may work if your liver is really really healthy but it’s not a long-term solution because who’s going to eat what about the other uh other parts of the other uh foods that you’re supposed to eat because our whole philosophy is to get healthy and at the heart of getting healthy is nutrients in the calories in the food well protein has some and has amino acids but it doesn’t have a lot of vitamins and minerals so you’re going to end up creating deficiencies on this over a period of time I had a lady she lost her hair after she did a high protein diet and she was wearing a wig and the problem is she was getting married and her future husband had no idea she was completely bald and by the way we did help her so now the fourth diet and the current diet that’s being promoted now is called the um low carb diet now low carbs basically uh do influence hormones uh you’re decreasing insulin okay so that’s good but again very incomplete because it’s only affecting one of the fat burning or the one the fat making hormones it decreases insulin and then it caus your body to burn fat but the challenge is is this there’s more to the story let’s say you had just you ate perfect for breakfast okay and then lunch you ate a great meal you exercise perfectly and then for dinner you ate great and then right before bed you have 1 o of the wrong thing 1 oz of carb will actually completely and utterly nullify and cancel out every single one of those fat burning hormones that are triggered by those Foods you ate just previously and that’s why this whole concept of everything moderation doesn’t work or um um you know portion control doesn’t work with this I mean you look at some of the foods that these people are recommending in these diets it’s a total scam because they’re they says oh yeah you can have anything you want just a smaller amount it’s low glycemic it’s it’s too much sugar it’s too much carbohydrate to really lose weight especially if you get into your 30s 40s and 50s I’m telling you the only time it works is probably if you’re very very young because just because your metabolism is that much better and the hormone are that much better so low low carb diets have some workability but what you want to do is you want to influence all of the hormones I wrote a book okay seven principles of fat burning this is not a diet book this is an educational book and most of you already have it and if you already have it I want you to study chapter nine I go through all the triggers because here’s the thing we want you to be able to differentiate what’s going to work what’s not going to work based on your knowledge your lifestyle changes lifestyle change involves an educational step so you want to be able to look at foods and know in advance if it’s going to work based on these principles of the hormones that’s why I wrote a principal book Because unless you’re educated you’re susceptible to the wrong thing over and over and over again and it’s amazing how many people they’ll go for the uh B12 shots or they’ll go to the fenine which is a a booster well I’ll tell you one thing the old you get the more burnt out your hormones are the more burnt out your metabolism is and the more you do those stimulants you’re just going to destroy your metabolism even more a lot of the exercise programs on TV for example are really good again if you’re younger but as you get older they’re basically going to overtrain you because they’re not looking at the recovery too so I’m just here to tell you that you can lose the weight but by doing it correctly you have to understand this and you have have to focus on the hormones so thank you very much and I will see you in the next video