Ultimate Natural Metabolism Booster For Fast Fat Burning

hello health champions today we're going to talk about the ultimate slow metabolism booster how do you fix your metabolism if it's broken if it's crashed if you're burning less and less and less and less energy and you're eating less and less and less you still can't lose weight so in order to lose weight you alternately have to expend more energy than you put in and that's what metabolism is all about today we're going to explain exactly why it breaks in the first place and what to do about it coming right up hey I'm dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete and if you want to truly master health by understanding how the body really works make sure you subscribe and hit that notification bell so you don't miss anything so a healthy metabolism is really the key to weight loss but in order to understand how to fix it we first have to understand the exact mechanics of why it broke why did you crash your metabolism because otherwise we'll be likely to repeat the mistakes and then we'll just do it over and over again and that's what a lot of people have done and that's part of the problem so first of all what is metabolism well meta means change it's when your body is changing so you can eat food and you can change that food into tissue it's a turnover and whatever you eat you can turn it into energy or you can turn it into tissue you can store tissue as fat and then you can retrieve that as energy so it's the exchange of tissue and energy of substrate turning into energy and tissue and the better that your body can use stored resources the better you'll be able to have a healthy metabolism and then we want to ask ourselves why did the metabolism crash in the first place and this is where we want to start taking a different viewpoint of the body we want to understand we want to ask did it crash because the body is just randomly stupid well you know sometimes the body just does crazy things or is the body always intelligent if it lowers the metabolism does it have a good reason for doing that so we can't get the right answers until we ask the right question and we have a intelligent viewpoint to get the answers so the answer here is that the body is always intelligent there is always a reason that the body does what it does in our symptom treatment sick care system in our allopathic model they do lots of good they save lives when there is broken bones and bleeding but in terms of understanding the body in terms of understanding that the body is always intelligent they have failed miserably because they think the body is randomly flawed and that we need to treat symptoms with medication we need to interfere with the symptoms and that's a flawed model you can never heal you can never get true improvement from that model so first of all the body is intelligent and therefore if it lowers metabolism it has a really good reason for doing that and that reason is survival it always wants to survive and it wants to make sure that it has enough energy to survive tomorrow so whenever there is lack then your body will conserve resources whenever there is abundance then your body is willing to spend more resources to make more energy and we have to understand that that is the ultimate reason that the body does what it does it's for survival if we have plenty of fuel or if we have not so much fuel it's going to change what the body does and the result of this principle is that the body has a setpoint think of it as a rubber band if your body believes that your setpoint is 120 and you try to raise it you try to gain weight the body is going to burn more energy to bring you back to the setpoint if you weigh 120 you try to lose weight it's gonna start saving energy it's gonna lower your metabolism to bring you back to the setpoint it has an idea of what is right for you and if you try to deviate from that point then it's gonna try to bring you back by spending more or spending less all right and here's the thing though it doesn't matter if you're skinny or fat it doesn't matter if you're thin or huge it's about your body's perception if you're at 300 and your body thinks if you're 300 pounds and your body thinks that is the correct weight for you that is what it's gotten used to then it's going to do everything in its power to return you to that weight so if you weigh 300 pounds and you try to lose weight it's gonna try to bring you back right that's why it's so hard to lose weight or gain weight because the body has an idea of where it needs to be and now you may say that oh well that doesn't sound so intelligent that sounds rather on the stupid side well it's still intelligent and we have to once we understand that then we can ask ourselves what did we do to make the body believe that it needs to be at that setpoint what gave the body that perception because if we're open to ask those questions then we can get correct answers we can get useful answers so really the goal is not to lose weight or gain weight it's to change the setpoint it's to change the perception of the body and if we think about metabolism now from a different viewpoint from a different perspective if we want to increase the body's metabolism if we want to increase the energy production the burning of fat then we have to increase the body's willingness to spend alright that's what it is metabolism is a willingness to spend and if it's not willing to spend it's because we did something to make it believe that it is unsafe to spend energy so now that we're open to ask intelligent questions then the next question is what crashed the metabolism what lowered it what made the body believe this this set point that we don't agree with well number one is dieting dieting is quite unnatural right eating less than your body wants is unnatural and it's gonna start stretching this rubber band you're moving away from the setpoint you're trying to lose weight and the body is gonna try to bring it back so dieting and especially repeated yo-yo dieting every time that you dyed it you lost a little weight then you stop dieting and you gained it back and then some and you lost a little bit you gained it back and then some and I don't have to tell you how many people have gone through this because that's why we have the problems that we do that's why so many people are overweight because the more you diet the more you teach your body that there's a lack of food you're not addressing the true underlying causes the second thing is too much carbs too much sugar things that change blood sugar quickly along with frequent meals so if you eat something that raises blood sugar now your blood sugar goes up really fast your insulin goes up the blood sugar crashes and you get a blood sugar roller coaster and every time that you're on the low side you give your body a sense of lack you teach your body that there is no stability in the fuel supply and because it's so unstable and so unreliable I'd better store some I better make sure that I have some extra some saved up but the thing that happens when you eat frequent meals and you eat a lot of carbohydrates is that you teach your body to become carbohydrate dependent carbohydrates are difficult to store but they're also dangerous in terms of blood sugar it's very unsafe it's an emergency whenever your blood sugar goes really high or really low the body has mechanisms in place to bring it back into a more narrow range because the narrow range is safe the really high and really low or unsafe that's why the body has to burn carbohydrates first and if you put in a lot of carbohydrates and your body has to burn them first then it's gonna forget how to burn fat so now you become carb dependent you change your whole metabolism to carbohydrates and now you can't burn fat then this whole thing is made worse by the fact that every time that you eat something an especially high carb your insulin goes up every time your insulin goes up you give your body a message to store the excess and over time as your stuff your cells full they eventually had enough and now they become resistant to the action of insulin so you become insulin resistant the more foods you eat that raise blood sugar and the more frequently you eat the quicker you become insulin resistant and once you are insulin resistant now you've got the double whammy of not being able to burn fat so first of all your carbohydrate dependent but now because your insulin resistant that insulin is a storage hormone as long as insulin is high you cannot burn fat because with insulin hi the message the direction in your body is that you're in storage mode you're not going to retrieve and store at the same time you're going to burn off the carbs but then while insulin is still high you can't get the stored energy back and what this does now in effect is it changes the setpoint because you're in a place where you can't burn fat because insulin is high and it constantly stores more fat insulin and insulin resistance is the strongest factor in raising the setpoint and why is that because your setpoint as a result of the perception of lack and when you have the perception that there is no fuel you're going to try to raise the setpoint so here you are weighing 300 pounds you have a half a million calories you have a veritable fortune of energy stored on the body but the perception is that there is no fuel the body can't see the fuel it's blind to all that energy in the presence of insulin so what's happened here is that you have taught your body that food is scarce even though you have all that energy stored on your body through the yo-yo dieting you repeatedly taught your body that food is scarce there's a lack of food you ate a bunch of carbs you had unstable blood sugar you became insulin resistant so the body is blind to all the energy reserves you have so now you have a very high setpoint but you have the perception that in the midst of a fortune you have no fuel and the further that goes the more your body is going to try to preserve fuel it says I don't have any I'd better preserve it I better save it so your metabolism goes lower and lower and lower so you go from eating 2,000 calories to 1800 fifteen hundred to twelve hundred to a thousand and eventually you weigh 300 pounds you eat a thousand calories and you still can't lose any weight because your body has a set point it wants to get back to that so now let's talk about how to fix it so we got ten steps ten thinks that you can do and I've listed these in reverse order of importance so we start with the least important and end with the most important and now that you understand the basic mechanics if you stick with me through all these ten steps we're gonna finish up with a bonus that you're really gonna enjoy the first thing you can do is to take some apple cider vinegar right I've done some videos on that in the past it won't do much by itself but if you start doing many of these steps if you start moving toward more insulin sensitivity then apple cider vinegar is a great tool to add to that effect number two fermented food things like sauerkraut and tofu and pickled vegetables and things like that anytime you ferment something you're making more vinegar so you're adding a little bit of the acidic benefit but more than that the fermentation process the bacteria uses the sugar in the food so if something has this much carbohydrate to start with then the bacteria in the process of fermenting they're gonna consume some of that sugar so now there's less carbohydrate left in the food so sauerkraut has less sugar than cabbage and then in addition to that you get the benefits from the acid and the probiotics in the food number three eat foods with lots of fiber why is that because fiber slows down the absorption of nutrients so just like fat and protein are absorbed slower if you eat carbohydrate foods with fiber especially leafy greens that have very little carbohydrate to start with then the sugars in those foods are absorbed very very slowly and it helps you maintain a stable blood sugar it minimizes the blood sugar fluctuations another benefit is that both fiber and fermented food can improve your gut flora and a healthy gut flora can have a positive impact on your metabolism number four eat more fat you want to cut back on sugar and carbs but you don't want to give your body the sense of starvation you want to give your body the sense that there's plenty of energy rich foods around so you cut back on sugar and carbs but you've eat until you're satisfied when you eat and you fill up the difference with fat fat helps stabilize the blood sugar because it has virtually zero impact on insulin and it creates a long-term stability for your blood sugar number five make sure you get enough sleep lack of sleep is a form of stress that can really start unbalancing your hormones and make it harder to improve your metabolism and lose some weight number six exercise exercise is fantastic not necessarily to raise your metabolism but it does a million different things that are beneficial for your body in terms of circulation it does use up some excess energy and it helps balance your hormones as well now the key is that you keep it slow okay it needs to be aerobic exercise don't fall into the trap that burning calories is the purpose of exercise and that exercising harder doing aerobics or spin classes and getting your heart rate up and huffing and puffing that that would be good for your metabolism it is not it is one of the worst things that you can do because when you exercise at a high intensity and you huff and puff now you make cortisol which is the stress hormone that raises blood sugar and drives insulin so high-intensity exercise is a stress that will interfere with the recovery from insulin resistance so there's a balance we talked about in some other videos between aerobics and hid you want to do just a tiny bit of high-intensity exercise but you want to do the majority of your exercise as aerobic if you're trying to reduce insulin resistance if you're trying to break the world record in something that's a different story but if your goal with exercise is to reverse insulin resistance you want to minimize stress and keep almost all of it at a low intensity aerobic level number seven stress cortisol cortisol is a stress hormone people who get corticosteroids they become insulin resistant they gain weight they get bloated because cortisol raises blood sugar and stimulates insulin it makes you insulin resistant and you can inject it like they do with people who have inflammation and they try to help them with that which isn't a good idea but emotional stress physical stress in your life will also raise cortisol and for some people it's a tiny little bit of impact and for other people it makes all the difference for some people they've tried everything but when they start meditating or breathing exercises or some organized form of relaxing and their cortisol goes down their stress levels go down all of a sudden their insulin resistant releases so everyone's different that's why you want to learn as much as possible about a lot of different things because it's never going to be a single quick fix for for anything so to reduce cortisol you want to learn to relax through meditation and yoga and breathing exercises and whatever else that you like that helps you to relax number eight carbohydrates if you have a lot of these issues if you've done the yo-yo dieting if you have insulin resistance you probably will not be able to change your metabolism unless you cut the carbs right everyone is different some people can do stiffer --nt into the really critical areas that you cannot burn fat in the presence of insulin and your metabolism can't go up to burn that fat and the presence of insulin and carbs Drive insulin now if you become very insulin resistant if you have a stubborn body then this is going to be more important for you than someone who has never really been very very stuck right so it's different for different people some people can cut carbs down to a hundred grams and that's low carbon that gets the result other people are gonna have to get down to the ketogenic level where they eat 5 or 10 or 15 20 grams of net carbs per day number 9 reduce the frequency of meals because every time that you eat if you eat carbs it's worse but every time you eat you're stimulating a little bit of insulin you're stimulating a message to store food and if you want to reduce insulin resistance then you want to reduce the carbs and then the frequency of the meals so a lot of people are eating three meals a day plus snacks so six times a day they're telling their body they're triggering insulin and they're hiding the fat stores from their body they can't raise the metabolism and use those fat stores when they tell their body six times a day that it's time to store more number 10 the most powerful thing you can do is fasting now this is kind of a two-edged sword but for some people it's necessary so when you're fast your body is perceiving lack all right but for some people it's the only way that you're gonna teach your body to burn fat for some people you can go ketogenic you can do one meal a day you can do 36 hours maybe even and their bodies are still so stubborn it's refusing to burn that fat so it depends on the person but if your body is really stubborn and refuses to burn that fat then longer fasts are the way to go and even though short term you're putting your body into a sense of lack of a perception of lack you're teaching it to burn fat again and that is the key you can't get back into balance unless your body learns how to burn all that fat that you have stored on your body and for some people if they eat keto they increase the fat and they decrease the carbs the body still can't see the fat on the body but with a longer fast it has no choice it's got to go find that fat thanks for staying with me all the way through now you understand the principles of setpoint and perception and all that good stuff you understand the ten steps that we can do now in the bonus I want to talk about the Biggest Loser that was a show that went for many many years where people lost dramatic amounts of weight they lost they went from 400 pounds to 180 pounds sometimes in a six to nine month period and they ate very low fat they ate low calories and they exercised at a very high intensity so a lot of people say we'll look at Biggest Loser they lost all that weight that must be the way to go that's that's a success story but what they don't know a lot of times is that the contestants at The Biggest Loser all but one as far as a research paper that was published all one gained all the weight back and why did that happen because they didn't change the setpoint they didn't change the underlying mechanism even though they forced the body into a state of reduced insulin resistance because they worked the body so hard the body had to burn off the fat stores they also crashed the metabolism completely they changed this that didn't change the setpoint so the people who weighed 300 pounds it's like a rubberband they just stretched it longer and harder than ever before so these people they would eat a low-calorie diet they would exercise enough to get a three four five thousand calorie deficit per day so the body was in a state of shock the body was in a state of emergency they had an extreme lack of food they were pushing the body with cortisol but in that extreme circumstance with the three four five thousand calorie deficit the body will lose weight but it's also gonna try harder than ever to get back to the setpoint and that's exactly what happened these people mean when they went from maybe a normal diet of 2,000 calories now their metabolism went down to maybe 1,200 and they would eat 1200 calories and not be able to lose weight they would even gain weight back at that level because the body would do anything to get back to the setpoint so the key is that you've got to follow these rules you can't do it with stress you can't do it with cortisol and you have to reduce the insulin resistance and the setpoint you have to put the body in a place where it's willing where it has the perception that it's safe to spend the energy if you enjoyed this video make sure that you check out that one thank you so much for watching else you in the next video

Channel: Dr. Sten Ekberg

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Length: 26min 41sec (1601 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 09 2020