Dr. Eric Berg DC
The Ultimate Hormone Balancing Solution: The #1 Absolute Best Way to Balance Your Hormones
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Learn more about the #1 way to balance your hormones and why it works.
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0:00 Introduction: The best way to balance hormones
0:30 Fasting to support your hormones
9:15 Fasting and your circadian rhythms
9:42 Fasting and your microbiome
9:55 Learn how to do fasting correctly!
Let’s talk about the #1 way to balance your hormones: fasting.
There are various methods of fasting. I think the most beneficial methods of fasting are intermittent fasting and prolonged fasting.
Fasting especially targets the hormone insulin—reducing insulin and improving insulin sensitivity. Reducing insulin has incredible benefits for your health.
Reducing insulin can potentially help:
• Decrease inflammation
• Improve diabetes
• Improve insulin resistance
• Decrease fat in the liver
• Decrease your risk for obesity
• Improve metabolic syndrome
• Support the autonomic nervous system
Fasting is fantastic for many other hormones as well, including:
1. Leptin
2. Thyroid stimulating hormone
3. Androgens
4. Estrogen
5. Testosterone
6. Cortisol
7. Growth hormone
8. Prolactin
Fasting can help support your circadian rhythms. By supporting your circadian rhythms, you’re also supporting and helping to balance certain hormones. Fasting also helps support your gut microbiome, which again may help improve your hormones.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 57, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Thanks for watching! I hope this helps explain the #1 way to balance your hormones. I’ll see you in the next video.
let's discuss the best way to balance your hormones now this method is pretty expensive i don't know if you're gonna be able to afford it it's actually free okay because you are fasting and you're actually saving money while you're doing this but believe it or not fasting is probably one of the best things you can do for your endocrine system all the different hormones as well as a lot of other systems including your autonomic nervous system which i will cover in another video now when they did the research with fasting sometimes they used alternative day fasting where you're pretty much eating what you want one day and then you're not eating anything the next day right i don't like that at all because you never really get into any type of adaptation so it's probably pretty painful and hard to do because you never get rid of your appetite and then you have the five and two which i also don't like where five days a week you're eating what you want and then two days of the week probably on a saturday and sunday you're doing 500 calories again you're not going to be able to adapt into fat burning too well and you're probably going to suffer through those two days okay then you have time restricted eating which is intermittent fasting where you have a certain window where you eat and then you don't eat for another window so it could be for example 18 hours of fasting and six hour eating window or maybe 20 hours of fasting in a four hour eating window so i'm going to cover all the main hormones but this right here this hormone right here this is where you're going to see most the benefits okay insulin insulin reduction insulin sensitivity all that is improved when you do fasting and if we look at the magnitude or the influence of reducing insulin on your entire body as far as health goes i mean it's just off the charts as far as benefits you decrease inflammation well guess what that's going to do to your thyroid which by the way 90 of all thyroid problems when we're dealing with autoimmune is hashimoto's and you're going to have a lot of inflammation so just by reducing inflammation you automatically improve the thyroid gland okay diabetes this is involving a gland called the pancreas right it's part of the endocrine system and then you have insulin resistance which is behind so many problems including developing a fatty liver and gaining weight and metabolic syndrome which includes high cholesterol and high blood pressure and like i said before the autonomic nervous system see when you have high insulin and high glucose your autonomic nervous system which involves the flight or fight mechanism the digestive system the cardiovascular system all of that is improved greatly when you normalize insulin one side effect from a diabetic is autonomic nervous system dysfunction especially in the digestive system and in many other systems since the autonomic nervous system crosses over into a lot of different body systems okay let's where do we start well let's start with leptin leptin decreases when you're fasting and leptin has everything to do with your appetite so your appetite is going to go down it's going to make it really easy to fast when you have no appetite you hear rumors that fasting will negatively affect the thyroid really well how do you diagnose a hypothyroid condition or even a hyperthyroid condition by thyroid stimulating hormone which is a pituitary hormone okay you don't diagnose it with t4 you diagnose it with this pituitary hormone and by the way when you do fasting there is no change with the thyroid stimulating hormone there is a decrease in t3 which is the active form of thyroid hormone but that is occurring because you're either losing weight or your ability to burn fat is increasing decreasing the need for energy see before you did fasting the metabolism seemed to be slow because you're only burning glucose you're not tapping into your fat reserves so your whole energy system is off it requires a lot more t3 to run this body machine well now it doesn't so it goes down it's just adapting so the thyroid does not suffer when you do healthy fasting and i'm talking about fasting with nutrients because of all the complications that occur when someone fasts it mainly has to do with the electrolyte losses okay and compounded by b vitamin deficiencies so as long as you have the sea salt electrolytes and b vitamins you're going to definitely avoid a lot of issues all right the next one i'm going to talk about is androgens for females but guess what if you're a female you don't want a lot of androgens because that's a condition called pcos you have too many androgens so you get facial hair you get alopecia you lose your hair you start having a deeper voice you start gaining weight so that condition actually is improved with fasting in fact what's really behind this spike in androgens is insulin so when you do fasting you lower insulin and you normalize androgens and things start coming back in the balance with females when you do fasting there hasn't been any major change with follicle stimulating hormone or luteinizing hormone the two hormones that come from the pituitary that come down to the ovary those two hormones are not affected by fasting and then we have estrogen there's doesn't seem to be a lot of change with estrogen when you're doing fasting now what about in some of the mice studies okay they have they show infertility well there's really a lack of evidence of infertility there has been a loss of the menstrual cycle for a period of time but what's interesting about these rodent studies is that the total menstrual cycles of the lifespan of a rat don't seem to decrease it's only when they're doing fasting so apparently that menstrual cycle just continues a little bit longer in their life there hasn't been any evidence to show that fasting causes infertility in human bodies all right now what about testosterone in men some studies show that it does decrease but with no loss in strength but in other studies it does show that it will increase luteinizing hormone by 67 percent and increase testosterone by a hundred and eighty percent from my knowledge working with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people worldwide i have not seen a negative problem with testosterone in men at all when they're doing fasting let's now get into cortisol okay here's another misconception um you'll see little articles that we'll talk about the negative aspects of fasting because it's going to increase your cortisol and you're going to be stressed out the first thing you need to know is that if cortisol does increase you're not going to then be stressed out because cortisol is a hormone that responds to stress it doesn't cause stress it just causes the body to adapt to stress states and cortisol is a counter regulatory hormone so in other words when you stop eating sugar and your blood sugar goes down cortisol is mobilized to increase your sugar to a certain level but if you're increasing your cortisol temporarily from fasting okay and not chronic stress what is interesting is that there's two different receptors for cortisol okay one receptor that's involved with stress and another receptor involved with other things that might trigger cortisol and so apparently when you're doing fasting and you have an increase of cortisol the effects are not bad the effects are not the same as a stress response and that has everything to do with what that cortisol does with the receptor and the different effects that that receptor will then create but if you want more information on that topic there is a real interesting dialogue by dr uh mark madison okay and i put that link down below where he talked about that he's a researcher in this area in the topic of fasting now what about growth hormone well guess what growth hormone will increase and that's a good thing because growth hormone is all about repair it's about muscle it's about increasing your endurance it's about healing it's an anti-aging hormone and it's also a fat burning hormone it's going to help mobilize fat as fuel what about prolactin okay well there's apparently no change with prolactin and the two other things i want to mention in this video is number one fasting greatly improves your circadian rhythms it improves certain timing flows in your body and with that comes along a lot of different hormone flows that are set up on a timing mechanism so just by the fact of improving your circadian rhythms you're going to improve your hormones overall or at least balance these hormones that have been out of balance probably because of this too much insulin last point i want to bring up is your gut microbiome greatly improves when you do fasting and from that comes a lot of improvements with your hormones as well which i will have to do another video on that now i think the next most appropriate video to show you is the one on fasting how to do it correctly check it out i 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I want to know more on high LH and high Testosterone at the same time and balancing for men I eat one time a day already but I did just get off a 21 watermelon fast when I went I did my blood work but I do got a hop back pain that might be inflammation which I’m not sure if this can play a part the stress factor help Dr ?!
My omad got yoyo my eating hour is over eating 😂! Pray ranting and fasting so helped m god!🤮🤪😍🙏
Excellent Information fasting works I go on a ground flaxseed fast cortisol is removed😊😊😊
I did 16 hrs fast every day… but felt like I was starving by the time I could eat and end up eating too much .. gained weight.. I’m 67.. I think seniors need to listen to their bodies
Does anyone know if you should continue taking supplements while fasting?
I'm already thin with hormonal imbalance. Should I do intermittent fasting?
Thank you, Dr.Berg ❤
Amazing ❤❤❤
Why then are women being told by experts to eat 30 g of protein within 30 minutes of rising?
I have to make myself eat because I have Addison’s disease and I’m never hungry. I wished I would get hungry.😩
How about people with no thyroid gland?
Dr. berg can I do a 40 day water fast, without messing up my hormones, I have completed a 21 day fast already and keep doing fasts on regular basis..but Dr. Mindy says you should not be doing water fast in your last 10 days of mensuration cycle…so I am bit confused…( Already lost 20 lbs …all thanks to you ..still on my weight loss journey)
Dr Berg, do you have any video about high prolactin? Thank you!
Thank you, Dr. Berg for always caring about humans.
Whats the best way to reverse endometriosis uterus Dr Eric Berg. If you read this query kindly respond 🙏
The problem is, some of us are skinny and wants to gain weight. I personally have lost so much weight, but I still wanna balance my hormones, from weaning off prednisone 😢
I’m glad I found this video. My 7 Year old daughter is experiencing precocious puberty and I don’t want to put her into medication or injection to slow it down until reaches the right age. Thank you Dr. Berg.
What to do to avoid overeating after fasting/intermittent fasting? I just overeat 😢
Love w man telling me as a biological woman telling me how "the science wirks" 👎
In Islam, its considered extra reward to fast Mondays and Thursdays and the three full moon days of the month. So I do this in combination of keto and feel great thank God!
I have been doing IF for a few years but Upto 18-20 hours, but for the past few months I’ve got cystic acne? Any recommendations??
Gest water no
Whats happens when u dont pat it but apply with fingers blending?
I have dry ugly skin and live in dry colorado and winter ia coming kn…im kinda leaning towards trying it. But all the scarring and pits i have from childhood are the enemy of my love of glow products…
What about for guys?
How much we can cosume fruits per day? Please @dr.Berg reply
Please someone brief it in easy words. I will be so greatful.