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0:00You could have all the hormones in the
0:02human body and tens of thousands of
0:04calories coming in every day and if you
0:06simply remove one single hormone, it is
0:09impossible for that person to get fat.
0:12Totally and completely impossible. You
0:14simply wipe out a person's insulin, it
0:17is completely impossible for them to get
0:19fat.
0:20>> In this video, Dr. Ben Bickman, the
0:22world's leading insulin expert, reveals
0:25four things about weight loss most
0:27people never find out. Why insulin, not
0:30calories, is the only real switch for
0:33fat loss. The morning effect sabotaging
0:36your fat burning [music] before
0:37breakfast even begins.
0:39The one simple change you can make
0:41tomorrow to lose weight faster.
0:43And the hidden reason most people do
0:45everything right and still can't lose
0:47weight.
0:48Most people have no idea their insulin
0:50is chronically elevated because their
0:53doctor has never tested [music] for it
0:55and never will.
0:56That means the person next to you,
0:59the person you ate lunch with today,
1:01probably you.
1:03Normal blood sugar. Normal blood
1:05pressure.
1:06>> [music]
1:06>> People who think they're fine. All of
1:08them silently storing fat they can't
1:11explain. Insulin resistance has been
1:13controlling your weight, your hunger,
1:15and your [music] fat storage possibly
1:17for decades.
1:19And the reason almost nobody escapes it
1:21is because [music] everything we've been
1:23told about how to fix it is completely
1:25wrong.
1:26Dr. Bickman has spent his entire career
1:29studying exactly one thing.
1:31Insulin and what it does [music] to the
1:33human body.
1:34What he's found will change everything
1:36you think you know about weight loss.
1:38Now here's something that will stop you
1:40mid-thought.
1:41It is physically impossible for a fat
1:44[music] cell to grow unless insulin is
1:46elevated. Not difficult, impossible.
1:48[music]
1:49And that's not an opinion. That's what
1:52happens in Dr. Bickman's own lab every
1:54single day. Insulin as a hormone is the
1:57one metabolic hormone to rule them all.
2:00It will determine what the body does
2:01with energy at every single cell. This
2:03is a principle even many very educated
2:06clinicians don't understand. And insulin
2:08is so determined to store energy that it
2:11will slow the metabolic engine of the
2:13body down in order to store more.
2:16>> [music]
2:16>> Fat cells sitting in a sea of calories
2:19and they don't grow.
2:20Not until insulin shows up. If insulin
2:23is high, your body stores fat. [music]
2:25If insulin is low, your body burns it.
2:28That's the entire equation.
2:30But Dr. Bickman says the most powerful
2:32proof isn't in a lab dish.
2:34>> [music]
2:34>> It's in a human case study so striking
2:37most doctors refuse to talk about it.
2:39>> You have people with type 1 diabetes.
2:41Imagine the temptation.
2:43Let's say you're a young woman who faces
2:45more pressure than her than her young
2:47men counterparts. She just gets
2:49diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and she
2:51has become used to eating whatever she
2:53wants and being very very skinny. That
2:56is one of the cardinal signs of type 1
2:57diabetes. The person is just losing
2:59weight. In fact, the early the ancients
3:02thought that as they were making so much
3:05urine cuz another feature of type 1
3:06diabetes in an in an untreated state is
3:09they urinate a lot. That's what the word
3:10diabetes means. It means polyuria or a
3:13lot of urine for formation. They thought
3:15that their flesh, their fat, their
3:17substance was turning into liquid and
3:19excreting from their bodies. And so the
3:21person this this Imagine this young
3:23woman, she's say 13 years old. She is
3:26super super skinny, which she likes
3:28because there's such a pressure to be
3:30skinny. And she can also at the same
3:32time eat whatever she wants.
3:34And then, but of course she feels
3:36miserable. And indeed it will kill her.
3:38So, she gets diagnosed with type 1
3:40diabetes and she's put on insulin
3:42therapy and two things happen.
3:44She starts eating less
3:46and getting fat. In fact, they gain
3:49people will gain so much weight that if
3:51they're in the hospital for a few days,
3:53they can't leave the hospital with the
3:55same clothes they came in. That's not to
3:56say they're leaving and then and they're
3:58obese, but they can have easily gained
4:0010 lb, 15 lb of fat.
4:03So, this phenomenon is known and you
4:05have people with type 1 diabetes who
4:06abuse that fact and will deliberately
4:09underdose their insulin so they can eat
4:11whatever they want. They could go to a
4:13Thanksgiving or a Christmas dinner and
4:16indulge in all the sweets and just
4:19simply underdose their insulin and be as
4:21skinny as they want to be. Now, there's
4:23disastrous metabolic consequences,
4:26but it's just a testament to the power
4:27of insulin.
4:28>> They can eat as much as they want and
4:30they [music] stay thin
4:31because insulin is low.
4:33That's not a diet tip. That's proof of a
4:36biological law.
4:38So, the question isn't how do I eat
4:40less?
4:41The real question is, how do I keep
4:43insulin low?
4:45But before we get to the fix, there's
4:47something happening to your body right
4:49now that most people never find out
4:51about [music]
4:52and it's been quietly working against
4:54you every single morning.
4:56Because when insulin stops working
4:58properly, it doesn't just affect one
5:00system. It affects every system.
5:03And the diseases that follow look
5:05completely unrelated until you
5:07understand the one thing they all have
5:09in common. Within the US, there's has
5:11been this game show over the years
5:12called The Biggest Loser.
5:14These people one lose a fantastic amount
5:16of weight and yet you never see them
5:18again
5:19because they gain it all back.
5:21So, if your weight loss strategy is
5:23based on cutting calories without
5:25addressing insulin, which is the other
5:27of the two variables,
5:29then you're going to be hungry. Dr.
5:31David Ludwig at Harvard, a friend and
5:33colleague and collaborator,
5:35he published a report looking at the
5:36same kind of dynamic that I outlined a
5:38moment ago
5:39two isocaloric or equal calorie meals
5:42and he found that when they ate the meal
5:45that spiked insulin, the what he called
5:48I think he called it total energy
5:49availability. So, they measured every
5:52calorie molecule in the blood. So,
5:54ketones, you know, BHB, they measured
5:57lactate, they measured fats, they
5:59measured glucose, and they found that
6:01with the insulin spiking meal, the total
6:04energy availability went down. What does
6:06that mean? Yeah, so in other words, with
6:07the increase in insulin, as I noted a
6:09moment ago, insulin is so determined to
6:11store energy that it is directing
6:14calories to go from the blood to be
6:16stored in tissues like fat or in the
6:18liver. To make you fat. Yeah, and indeed
6:21it would, but the problem is the brain
6:23doesn't have that storage capacity. You
6:25know, you could have big fat cells with
6:26lots of energy. You could have a liver
6:28with tons of fat and glycogen, which is
6:31a stored form of glucose, ready to go.
6:34But the brain doesn't have a big storage
6:36reservoir, and yet it has a high
6:38metabolic rate. And so, the brain is
6:40constantly relying on the energy in the
6:43blood that it can use, especially
6:45glucose and ketones, the two primary
6:47fuels for the brain. And so, when you
6:49spike insulin,
6:51you lower your glucose,
6:52and you stop your liver from making
6:54ketones. So, the two main brain fuels
6:57have gone down. Which is why you get
6:59brain fog. This is not a weight problem.
7:02This is a hormonal crisis.
7:04And the good news is fixing the hormone
7:06fixes [music] everything downstream,
7:09which is exactly what the rest of this
7:10video is going to show you how to do.
7:12>> [music]
7:13>> Starting with the one morning mistake
7:15that's making all of it worse.
7:17Every morning, [music] a few hours
7:19before you wake up, your body releases
7:21cortisol.
7:22This is normal. [music] It's your body
7:24preparing for the day, raising blood
7:26sugar, bringing your brain online.
7:29But here's the problem.
7:31Cortisol [music] raises insulin.
7:33An elevated insulin in the morning means
7:36your body is already primed to [music]
7:37store fat before breakfast even begins.
7:41Dr. Bikman calls this the dawn effect.
7:44And what it means for your first meal is
7:46something most nutritionists will never
7:48tell you. You wake up in the morning,
7:51anyone who's wearing a continuous
7:52glucose monitor will find that their
7:54glucose levels naturally rise in the
7:56morning and that coincides with a mild
7:58state of insulin resistance every
8:00morning because of changes in cortisol
8:02and other hormones. So, my view is don't
8:05doubly load to the glucose that's
8:07already happening by eating in the
8:08morning with starchy sugary stuff.
8:11So, be very strict with all of your
8:12meals up until dinner. I think that the
8:15CG a CGM is one of the best ways for a
8:18person to make their own changes. So, if
8:21you put a CGM on your body, you're able
8:23to look at your phone and see what's
8:24happening in your blood. A CGM being a
8:26continuous glucose monitor.
8:27>> glucose monitor. So, you're getting a
8:29continuous measurement of your glucose
8:30levels. I have seen more people make
8:33changes of their own volition when they
8:35just are wearing a CGM and they don't
8:38need someone to be nagging them. You
8:39know, you're you have that internal
8:41motivation because you see what's
8:42happening in your own body. For anyone
8:43that's never tried it, I highly
8:44recommend it. Morning is a time of
8:46insulin resistance. [music]
8:48Any food you eat in those first couple
8:50of hours is far more likely to be stored
8:53as fat than burned as [music] energy.
8:55Oatmeal, cereal, toast, fruit juice.
8:59You're pouring sugar into a system
9:01already in fat [music] storage mode.
9:03Even coffee makes this worse when paired
9:05with carbs. So, what do you do instead?
9:09That's where the insulin trick comes in.
9:11And it's the simplest change of them
9:13all.
9:14Fasting is powerful, [music] but Dr.
9:16Bikman knows it isn't for everyone. So,
9:18he recommends something simpler.
9:21One decision about breakfast [music]
9:22that costs nothing and requires no
9:25willpower. So, first of all, zero to
9:28little to no carbs for um breakfast and
9:32lunch. So, any if a person wants to, as
9:34much protein and fat as they'd like. And
9:36I would especially for lunch, let lunch
9:39be your biggest meal. Change breakfast
9:41tomorrow. Not your whole diet, just
9:43breakfast tomorrow.
9:46Your body has [music] been fasting
9:47overnight. Insulin has come down.
9:50The single worst thing you can do at
9:52that moment is spike insulin immediately
9:55with sugar and starch.
9:56Wait. Use your morning energy. Walk.
10:00Plan your day.
10:02Push your first meal to late morning.
10:04Keep it protein-focused.
10:06Eggs, meat, fish. Nothing that [music]
10:09spikes insulin.
10:11But here's the thing most people miss.
10:13You can do all of this perfectly [music]
10:15and still fail. Because there's a hidden
10:18force working against you [music] every
10:20single night. And it explains why so
10:22many people do everything right and
10:24still can't lose weight. When you don't
10:27sleep enough, your body [music]
10:28interprets it as stress. Cortisol
10:30spikes, insulin follows, and cortisol
10:34doesn't just raise insulin. It goes
10:36directly to your brain and rewires your
10:39hunger signals. This is not a lack of
10:41willpower. This is chemistry.
10:44Dr. Bickman explains exactly what
10:46happens inside your brain when cortisol
10:49takes over. Cortisol's metabolic effects
10:52do affect the brain, and there it
10:55influences appetite and food cravings.
10:57And wouldn't you know it, it
10:58particularly increases cravings for
11:01carbohydrates.
11:02Cortisol crosses the blood-brain
11:04barrier, and once again binds to
11:06glucocorticoid receptors in the
11:08hypothalamus and the amygdala. These are
11:10both regions involved in hunger and
11:13reward. So, people feeling good about
11:16what they're doing. Now, in the
11:17hypothalamus, cortisol upregulates a
11:21protein called NPY, neuropeptide Y, and
11:24another one called agouti-related
11:27protein, AGRP. And these are increased
11:30in response to the
11:32the glucocorticoid the glucocorticoid
11:34response elements. And when they're
11:36activated, they stimulate appetite. At
11:39the same time, cortisol inhibits leptin
11:42signaling reducing satiety potentially.
11:45But separate from that regulation of
11:48appetite in the amygdala, cortisol
11:50enhances dopamine release. So increasing
11:53cravings for very palatable energy-dense
11:57foods. Your brain is chemically wired by
11:59cortisol to crave sugar. Not because
12:02you're weak, because one bad night of
12:05sleep triggers a cascade that kills
12:06satiety, spikes appetite, and makes junk
12:10food feel like a reward.
12:12Sleep isn't rest. Sleep [music] is
12:14metabolic maintenance. It's just as
12:17important as anything you eat. So here's
12:19what you now know that most adults
12:21don't.
12:22>> [music]
12:22>> Insulin resistance isn't just a weight
12:24problem. It's connected to Alzheimer's,
12:27infertility, heart disease,
12:29>> [music]
12:30>> and cancer. All from the same root.
12:33Fat cells cannot grow without insulin.
12:36Calories aren't the gatekeeper. Insulin
12:38is.
12:39And poor sleep chemically drives you
12:41toward the exact [music] foods that keep
12:43it elevated all day.
12:45The fix isn't another diet.
12:47It's understanding the one lever that
12:49controls everything and finally working
12:51with it.
12:52One change. Tomorrow morning, don't eat
12:55the moment you wake up. Let your
12:57overnight fast run longer. Skip the
13:00starchy breakfast. Give your body the
13:03window it needs to [music] finish what
13:04it started while you slept. Struggling
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13:14method, the one that resets your
13:16hormones and unlocks natural fat burning
13:19without starving yourself or spending an
13:22hour at the gym.

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