Dr. Eric Berg’s Health Tips

For anyone who is having difficulty losing weight, the educational step is the missing link.

For instance, if you were to read only about Liver Enhancement in my book The 7 Principles of Fat Burning and then expect to stick to that, it just wouldn’t work. This is what everyone else and nearly every diet book currently on the market is doing—only telling people what diet to follow. To be successful, you HAVE to educate yourself; you have to shift your way at looking at weight loss; you need to be given the correct information, and you have to get rid of the false information.

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All the fat on your body has to go through the liver to come out. This is why we do the Liver Enhancement as a first action. Very important!

If you just focused on healing your liver, you would lose so much fat it wouldn’t be funny. Do you have a goal to lose weight? Instead, switch your goal to creating a healthy liver—you’ll end up with faster weight loss. Weight is just the symptom.

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There are six fat-burning hormones. Each hormone has the capacity to burn fat. One fat-burning hormone called growth hormone (GH) is triggered by several amino acids (proteins). Arginine, glycine and tryptophan all trigger GH.

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During stress, the body goes after sugar fuel first. Then it goes after protein fuel—but not fat fuel. The protein it goes after is your muscles, specifically the thigh muscles and then the buttocks. Such people have weak knees and a flabby butt. Have you ever met anyone like that?

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Let’s assume you are doing everything right—your eating is perfect and your exercise is consistent and correct for your body type. What else should you look for?

I first check on anything that could be increasing cortisol—lack of sleep, pain in the body, stressful environment, or even hot flashes. I’ll have the person work on these. I will also look at the medication they are on, as this could be the main reason they are not able to lose weight. And by the way, check with your doctor before coming off the meds.

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