How to Tighten that Flabby Arm Fat

hey guys it's dr. Berg here I wanted to create a video on how what to do to actually handle this skin problem here and here there are things you can do but there's some mistakes that people make the first thing you need to know is that hormonal e at age 38 things start shifting in the body now over a period of a few more years when you hit 50 now things really bottomed out so during the menopause it's a time period which is actually 52 but it can happen like 48 it can happen 56 hormonal e the ovaries stop working okay so there's a back up organ and the back of organ is the adrenals on top of the kidney you have two of them and so you have this huge shift from ovarian hormones to adrenal hormones okay if there's any problem with those adrenals before menopause everything is magnified you get hot flashes you have bone loss you have a lot of loose skin things like that but really this is a loss of collagen okay and that comes from a loss of certain hormones so I'm going to explain what hormones all of these hormones decrease during menopause testosterone which is more lean body mass DHEA that's an anti stress hormone that's kind of like a a pre hormone that gives you all the other hormones and it's made by the adrenal gland and then you have estrogen that goes down and estrogen controls the fertility and the menstrual cycle and all that and then progesterone progesterone also goes down that also involved involved in the second half of the menstrual cycle and the estrogen progesterone work together so when one goes down they should be in certain ratios so when women are after menopause are considered estrogen dominant which is kind of weird because it goes down what they mean is the relative ratio of estrogen to progesterone is off so even though estrogen goes down a little bit progesterone really goes down well so that would be create a situation when your estrogen dominant very similar to if you were to like take I don't know sodium and salt and potassium they work together so if you have too much salt and not enough potassium you get fluid or tension but if you have a what you can do is you can lower salt but you can also raise potassium and get rid of the fluid that way instead of just avoiding the salt so there's in other words there's this ratios you have to look at okay and these work together but the big one that really messes people up and that's responsible for the loose skin is this growth hormones called human growth hormone now in a in a child it's mainly responsible for the growth of the child okay but when you become an adult it doesn't make you keep growing it controls other things fat burning tight muscles energy collagen all the protein synthesis or creation of proteins hair nail skin muscle all that so growth hormone is the really the one that goes down as you age unfortunately so there are people that actually take growth hormone as a supplement it doesn't work unless you're injected by an actual growth hormone on a synthetic growth hormone that will work and that will actually help with your weight loss lean body mass and it's an anti-aging thing but it has some slight minor side effects it's very expensive it's like $15,000 for every six weeks okay and then number two if you take it over a period of time your own glands shut down and you become dependent on it and then you take more and you get side effects like diabetes so there's a lot of problems with taking hormones and that's why I would only recommend taking it's the last resort and you get people taking HRT hormone replacement therapy biochemical hormones which again if you take those you're going to create a lot of confusion in the different organs so you're going to any Ormeau new hormone you take you indirectly shut down the gland that's supposed to produce it so you basically put everything asleep same thing with the thyroid you take it over period of time and then thyroid doesn't have to produce anymore okay so now when we have growth hormone that goes down this is the buffer this is the opposing hormone to cortisol cortisol is the stress hormone from the adrenal that's the one that's very destructive on your protein so if that's too high you get your body become what's called a catabolic state or a cannibalistic it breaks down proteins faster than its building back up so you get loss of muscle protein in your thighs and your butt yet you get loose skin here and here not a great site saggy skin in your belly so really the loose skin is a combination of not enough growth hormone and too much cortisol but remember cortisol might test pause but the ratio is very very high cortisol low growth hormone so even though it's normal it has nothing to oppose it it's nothing to buffer it there's nothing to kind of minimize it so it's just a free cortisol that goes out there and destroys everything so that's it's too much of this and not enough of this so the next part I'm going to show you what to do about this situation so check this out all right now over here we have things to lower cortisol over here we want to raise growth hormone okay so let's just kind of go back and forth cortisol is triggered by stress so everything we're going to do is going to reduce stress number one low intensive X intensity exercise that would be like walking now over here you have to raise the high intensity because full body high intensity exercise will increase growth hormone the problem is if you're in adrenal body type you you can't do this yet so you're going to have to do walking for a period of time because just because you're an adrenal body type doesn't mean you're always going to be an adrenal type you want to get out of that type and shift over here to be able to increase the growth hormone but we have to get you sleeping first to be able to handle this intensive exercise but ideally we want to work up to more intense exercise so you're going to walk it first and then as you graduate slowly or gravitate into higher intensity you want to do high-intensity full body short workouts with lots of rest now the p90x is a great workout but I would extend that rest longer if you had an adrenal problem because the key is you could be overtraining especially if you're doing high-intensity every day and you're not sleeping you're not going to to lose weight you're going to your body's going to turn to mush I had a lady that did the boot camp and she was just her whole body turned to atrophy just skin hanging on her body and just no tone at all so that person you maybe should workout once a week but the whole key is recovery okay so you can overdo it so we started with the low intensity exercise walking long walks every day just get in your space not sitting in from a treadmill watching TV but getting out there okay so sleep will increase lower this and increase this so sleep is really important there's a lot of videos I have on sleep there's nutrition you can take there's techniques you can do but that's for another video but the bottom line is we need to increase sleep I do not recommend staying up past 12 the optimum time to go to sleep is about 10:30 maybe 11 but don't watch the news before you go to sleep watch a comedy don't watch a scary movie it's going to mess up your sleep number number three support the gland again there's techniques I have acupressure nutrition you can support the clan instead of the hormone that would be smart avoid stress mainly stressful people relationships that you're involved with you know that always messes someone up I have a gal who's stuck with this particular individual and she can't get out of it she's married she has kids and she has a situation because he's not willing to change so it's a constant battle that messes everything up then you compound that with menopause not a pretty sight okay but we want to try to do things to avoid stressful people and situations potassium foods important that's the leafy greens huge salads not bananas or sugar B vitamins nutritional yeast is the best B vitamins I would highly recommend that these two actually lower stress and then avoid sugar because that will raise this as well okay now over here intense exercise sleeping protein does trigger growth from them but not a lot if you have too much it'll increase insulin which will inhibit this so we want just a little bit maybe three to four bounces each meal and but we need some proteges terian and you don't have the density of protein it's very difficult to stimulate growth on them okay animal meat or animal products is the best for this but just small amounts okay intermittent fasting now with this one it's not necessarily you have to fast for days but you don't if you actually eat all these snacks between the meals that's messing up the liver and that keeps the liver overworking all the time if you did three meals a day and no snacks that will be intermittent fasting okay that's what I consider intimate and fasting even if you did breakfast and then a good lunch and you didn't eat anything after that that would be intermittent fasting that will increase growth hormone but if you're snacking and grazing yeah why because the liver is where the growth hormone works through so that liver is the hub and that's connected to the digestion so anything that is a strain on the digestion will slow the liver and slow this hormone so if you have a constipation for example or bloatedness or a gallbladder problem it's going to be hard to raise this because growth hormone comes through in the brain goes right through there and doesn't always work and then the next one is the decreased cortisol fixing this and avoiding sugar again will also improve these so these are kind of the basic things that I look at if a person wants to tighten up their skin and lose weight I'm going to look at all these things I'm going to find out which one can we implement that they're not already doing I'm going to look for ways that I can prove things you're doing but make it better and these are a kind of a good flowchart that you can use to tighten things up and you'll see over the next months the skin will start coming back and the collagen will start coming back one last thing and that has to do with digestion if your stomach is not strong enough as far as the acidity and the way you know that it's not strong enough is you get indigestion bloating acid reflux GERD that means you don't have enough acid watch my videos on that then you can't break down the collagen or the protein to be able to assimilate and pull it into your skin that could be a reason why you have loose key - because you're just not digesting it so if that's the situation you can take something to certify the stomach and really pull in that collagen into the cells to allow your skin nails hair collagen and come back and a really acidic stomach will allow you to absorb the minerals - especially the trace minerals and there's other videos I have that show about what trace minerals do but trace minerals are basically minerals needed in small amounts that allow the protein to work better in your body and that would be one supplement that might be very helpful if you have also hair loss and brittle nails things like that so it's not the big thing but it'll actually kind of assist in that area okay so go ahead and try these things in comment below and I will see you in the next video

Channel: Dr. Eric Berg DC

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Length: 11min 56sec (716 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 26 2016