Berberine Isn’t a Weight Loss Supplement (Here’s What It Does)

What happens if you take berberine for 30 days? Does berberine really mimic Ozempic? Discover the berberine benefits beyond weight loss, the connection between berberine and blood sugar, and why some consider it a natural Metformin.

What would happen if you were to take berberine every single [music] day for 30 days? Maybe you saw this in social media where people are doing the 30-day challenge taking berberine and losing all this weight because apparently berberine mimics Ozempic, right? [music] Well, if you’re wondering if this is for real or it’s just the next trend, I’m going to tell you right up front, berberine does not mimic Ozempic. It mimics something a lot more interesting. It mimics something called metformin.

So, today I’m going to show you exactly what I’m talking about and actually how this could relate to weight loss and many, many other benefits. And you may or may not know this, but metformin is the number one most common drug prescribed to diabetics. And it’s an interesting drug because it’s one of the only drugs that I know about that actually goes after a root cause of something. And it just so happens from 50 clinical trials, berberine mimics the effects of metformin. And metformin addresses a root cause called insulin resistance, which has been linked to over 31 different diseases.

Type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, fatty liver, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, polycystic ovarian syndrome, metabolic syndrome, obesity, heart disease, hardening of the arteries, colon cancer, colorectal polyps, gut infections, H. pylori, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression, stroke, gout, kidney disease, kidney stones, sleep disorders, schizophrenia, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. And berberine has over 54 scientific reviews, okay? And real patients, real results, and we’re going to get into some of them. Why would so much research be done on this one plant compound?

Well, because it mimics the effect of metformin, which addresses this root cause, insulin resistance. Ozempic works through a completely different mechanism. It reduces your appetite. People lose a lot of weight, but it comes with a package. They also lose a lot of muscle mass.

And when they stop Ozempic, they not only regain a lot of the weight back, but they don’t gain back the muscle, okay? And that’s the problem with Ozempic. But I am going to show you how you could potentially lose a good amount of weight with berberine without the side effects. Insulin resistance, it’s a situation where the cells no longer take up insulin like they should. And so we don’t get glucose in the cell, it backs up into the blood.

Now we have high levels of glucose in the blood. And then now because the cell is deficient in insulin because there’s resistance, it sends a feedback loop over to the pancreas. You get this compensating problem where the body is producing way too much insulin, creating other complications. In 2024, researchers tracked 889 people for 1 to 3 months, and they found insulin resistance is connected to at least 31 different diseases. But the point is when you have insulin resistance, your body turns into a sugar machine on steroids.

And this is why people take metformin to deal with that overproduction of glucose. But also realize berberine can match a lot of the effects of metformin. If we compare the research on berberine to metformin, this is the number to represent the average blood sugar for 3 months. Well, the berberine group went down to 7. 5, which is significant, to match the metformin group.

Exactly the same. Lowering A1C. Incredible. They also looked at fasting blood sugar. The berberine brought it down 17%, metformin brought it down 20%.

Pretty close. Then we get into triglycerides, blood fats. The berberine lowered triglycerides by 17. 5%, whereas the metformin group only brought them down by 4. 5% and then they looked at LDL cholesterol.

Berberine brought it down by 21% whereas Metformin only brought it down by 2%. That should be on the front page of the news, but of course you can’t patent this. You don’t need a prescription so it’s not going to be recommended. Does it produce some side effects? Well, there are some side effects especially with your digestion, but if we compare the side effects from this to Metformin Metformin is a lot more.

In fact, Metformin has a black box warning that it can create something called lactic acidosis. But the problem with Metformin too is that it can actually deplete your B12. So anytime you’re on Metformin, make sure you take B12. Now, one of the challenges with berberine is it’s absorption. You don’t really absorb a lot.

People that have gut issues or they’ve taken years of antibiotics they might not experience the full benefit of berberine like other people that have all the microbes in their gut. And also realize that berberine is not something that causes you to lose weight, okay? It’s a repair tool to help you against insulin resistance. So what I’m going to show you next is what would happen if you took berberine for 30 days. I’m just going to go week by week just so you can kind of get a rough idea.

But I’m going to just preface this if you just took berberine and did not change your diet you probably would not see many results. So what I’m going to be showing you is taking berberine and changing your dietary habits especially reducing your carbohydrates. What I’m saying in this video is berberine is something to assist you as you change your lifestyle. So what would happen in week one if you did those two things? You changed your diet and you went on berberine.

You would usually see a really nice change in your fasting glucose level typically lowering it between 15 to 20 points. Now, you might say this is not significant, but it is. You’re reducing blood glucose. You’re going to feel better usually in your head, both in your mood as well as in your cognitive function. I would recommend only taking 500 mg at dinner to start out with, just to slowly go into this, because if you take too much too quick, it can disrupt your digestive system and create some side effects there.

Okay, week two, those blood sugar spikes after you eat are going to be a lot less, and you’re going to have more energy, okay? That’s in week two. In week three, you’re probably going to notice a big drop in inflammation if you had inflammation, and if you had high blood pressure, that could be coming down as well, but you will notice you’re less hungry. Your appetite will go down. You’ll definitely crave less carbohydrates.

You won’t feel the need to snack. You probably won’t even feel the need to have breakfast. Now, at week four, you’re probably going to notice the most change in your weight loss. Obviously, it’s been 4 weeks, because what’s going to happen is as you improve insulin resistance, you’re going to have more ability to burn fat and less storing fat. So, it’s going to help you lose weight.

I’ll be very conservative. You should lose at least 5 lb, but probably 10 lb at the end of 4 weeks. In that range, it could be a lot more because initially you’re going to lose a lot more water weight, but it could be less depending on what’s going on with your body and your age and other factors. You’ll probably also notice your liver is clearing out LDL a lot better, but you’re not necessarily going to feel that, but you could probably test for that, and that should be coming down. I have a free download that I want to give to you.

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