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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Good afternoon, Happy Saturday. You're listening to the Ask Doctor
earned Show. Hey, It's a show where pounds of shed
disease is dead, where you get to be set free
from your health problems. Hey, I'm doctor Aaron Ernst, your host,
and today we are talking about turning on your fat
burning switch. How to make weight loss effortless and easy
using functional medicine and sorry if I'm coming at you

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a little hot and exciting today. This morning, we had
our Thyroid Heel they self masterclass seven hundred and fifty
local people online this morning learning how to balance their thyroid,
boost their energy and listen to this. It does have
a lot to do with weight loss. Active thyroid hormone
T three physically binds to the cells of your receptors

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and says burn fat. It's one of the many approaches
with functional medicine where we look to the root reason
of why why are you not burning fat? Why are
you not energized? Why is your hair not thick and lustrous?
Why does your skin not look amazing? Why do you
feel like you're falling apart? Let yet your labs look
perfect according to medicine. If you're someone today tuning in

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and you're going like, oh man, that's what I want.
Not only is today's show going to help you achieve that,
but you could take an opportunity right now to tech
the word replay with your name and email to seven
oh four nine zero six two zero nine four. I
am gifting away free access to the master class that
was live this morning. It's going to show you the

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top three steps to turning on your thyroid, and you
might be thinking it's yourself. I don't have a thyroid problem.
Like my doctor said, everything is perfect. That's the whole
point of the master Class. Conventional medicine has skewed the
numbers to make it look like everything is generally fine,
which is why most people say, my labs look good,
yet I still feel like I'm falling apart. We break

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down the functional methods of what the lab should be
so that you can take a peek at the tests
your doctors have run and find out do you actually
have a thyroid issue, and then use the Masterclass techniques
to turn on that power that you have inside of you.
There's even some discounts on testing. If you've never had
the right tests, you can get all of it through

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the Masterclass. Replay right now. Just text the word replay
with your name and phone number to seven oh four
nine zero six two zer nine four. It was amazing
this morning, and even my throat is a little bit
hoarse from all the speaking I did this morning. So
today I pray that God lets my voice hold up
because I have some information on to you today on

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why weight loss is so hard, and why diet and
exercise are not the answer, and why there is internally
I'm pointing for those of you on our live stream,
there is a switch inside of you that says store
fat or burn fat. And most of you, just because
I've been doing this long enough, are stuck in that

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store fat mode. And I know what you want. God
dr arsty. If I could just flip that switch, that
would make my body burn fat. That's what we're talking
about today, how to turn on that fat burning switch.
And this isn't going to be just you guys know
another burn more calories pep talk or a lecture about
eating less than exercising more. You've heard that, and chances

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are you've even tried it. And what I have seen
is many people get very little, limited amounts of success
with that, maybe five or ten or even fifteen pounds,
But then you hit the plateau. You're closed up getting looser,
the scale doesn't budge, sound familiar, you feel like you're
doing everything right, and then no matter what you do,

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you hit this wall and it can be very discouraging.
So the truth is the way that most people are
told to lose weight will set you up for failure
before you even begin. And that's because again, the conventional
model of weight loss focuses on the wrong thing. It
treats your body like a simple bank account, calories in,

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calories out. And if weight loss was a mechanical process
or math alone, then we would be doing really well
with our weight. But your body's not a calculator. Literally,
it's a biochemical lab. And inside of that lab what
calls the majority of the shots for your ability to
lose weight your hormones. And here's a big secret. I

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have a new ebook, Functional Approach to Weight Loss. Everything
you need, and when I say everything, diet recipes, the
steps to turn on the fat burning switch. You're going
to find inside this ebook something fascinating. We call it
chapter two the Magic Pill for weight Loss, which isn't
a pill. It's a technique that you need to turn on.

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Four week done, few meal plans, four week done for
your shopping lists, supportive recipes for the entire four weeks.
My secret to losing ten to fifteen pounds in just
four weeks. All of this is inside the Functional Approach
to Weight Loss ebook. We're shifting gears now for the
next four weeks. I'm going to be teaching you how
to burn fat, how to literally melt it off while

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you sleep. This is the ebook guide to get you started.
Text the word weight loss plus your name in email
to seven O four nine zero six two zero nine four.
And as you know, if you've been a local listener
or even an online podcaster or a streamer, or somebody
who checks us out out in whatever method, you're listening
to us. Every single month, I host what are called

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master classes seven hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred people online.
My next one is on Saturday, the thirteenth of September.
It's literally four weeks from today. And what are we
gonna do. We're gonna bust through weight loss. We don't
have to wait till the end of this year or
until twenty twenty six January resolutions. If you do this properly,
I can take you from September into October and even

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November and crush some goals. I've had clients lose forty
to fifty, even sixty pounds doing this technique that I'm
gonna teach you today. So if you're even slightly interested
in losing weight and feeling great and boosting your energy,
text the word weight loss plus your name and email
to seven O four nine zero six Tuesday nine four
ebook sent straight to you registered for the master class,

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so you can hop on. It's all yours free today.
And here's the big secret that conventional weight loss programs
are not telling you. The reason that you can't lose weight,
or that you can't get past those fifteen pounds that
you lost isn't because you're weak or lazy or you
have a bad diet per se. It's because your body

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is hormonally programmed with that switch right there on my
screen in the store fat mode, and instead of being
in burn fat, it's in store fat. And until you
recognize that it's hormonal programming, no amount of diet or
exercise will give you last ting results. I'll give you

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an example. If your insulin is high, you could be
a raw vegan and work out a CrossFit every day
and you're not gonna lose weight. Insulin says store fat.
If your cortisol is high, which it is for like
ninety nine percent of Americans today, you can do everything
you want. You could interment in fast, you could keto,
you could even carnivore. You'll lose a little bit but

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you're not gonna lose a lot because cortisol says burn
fat if your thyroid hormone instead of being active T
three is high levels of reverse T three. We talked
about this all during the master class this morning. A
lot of individuals have what's called reverse T three dominance.
It's a hormone imbalance caused by liver congestion, which makes

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your thyroid hormone go inactive and become a metabolic break
that slows everything down. It makes it till you physically
can't burn vat. So it's about hormonal reprogramming. And listen
right now. The CDC says a staggering seventy three percent
of Americans are overweight. Guys, that's a lot seven out

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of ten. So what does this mean. It means if
you're listening to me right now, you're going like, yep,
I could lose weight. I could benefit from this. And
it's free, literally free seven oh four nine zero six
two zero nine four. Text the word weight loss, your name,
your email, ebooks yours, masterclass as yours. Let's start planning
as we shift into fall soon, so that you can

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let all the weight fall off your body. This isn't
just a few people that are making poor choices with
their diet. It means that the average American seven ninut
of ten chance is struggling with the same issue that
you might be dealing with. And is weight loss a
big industry in the US? You bet. It's estimated that

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people spend upwards in the neighborhood of seventy billion dollars
seventy b with a billion alone in the United States.
This is diets being sold, books, supplements, recipe packs, workouts,
quick fixes, and again, if these things worked, we should
be seeing that number in the last five or if

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not ten years, go from seventy three to sixty three
to fifty three, et cetera, which means that we're spending
more money, but we're not getting any results. So the
deeper truth, if you really want to know what it is,
and I'm talking about this today, is that you're stuck
in this mode that says store fat hormonally. You could

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also call it sugar burning mode. It's where your body
has to choose do I burn fat for energy? That's
what you want, right, I want to lose weight. If
I could just get all this stubborn belly fat off,
I want to lose weight. But your body's like light
switches off for fat burning, light switches on for sugar burning.
And we're really designed to burn two fuels for energy.

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We can burn sugar or we can burn fat. But
years of process carbohybrate consumptions, refined sugars being added snacking
throughout the day, all of this reprograms are metabolism to
rely on sugar for energy. And if you're stuck in
sugar burning mode, the fat stores that you have, you
might as well think of them as being locked behind

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some massive steel door or like a cauldron vault within
a bank. Your body will not touch that fat until
the hormonal signals change and until the toxins come out
of it. There it is, I let it out of
the bag. It's real simple, guys. Hormones have to say
burn fat for energy, and there can't be any toxins

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inside the fat, because if there were toxins in the
fat and you burned it, you'd get sick. Your body
is not stupid, it's smart. It's innately designed. It's created
to say, I got all this fat, there's a lot
of toxins in it. Sugar burn instead. Now, if you
do this switch properly, you get your hormones balanced, and
you get your toxins taken care of. Then your brain says,

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look at all this fat, I would prefer to burn
that for energy because I get more society, I get
more power. You get more energy out of fat than
I do out of sugar. There's less metabolic waste. Fat
is a clean burning fuel source when it's non toxic,
and then you start losing weight like crazy. So today
I'm going to show you why do so many people
struggle with weight, why diet exercise is only going to

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get you ten or fifteen pounds. And then watch this.
I'm going to introduce you to the functional medicine approach,
the top five steps you can do to ignite your
metabolism now and turn on the flabbery switch. If you're
going like, just give it to me now, doctor Ernest.
Seven oh four nine zero six two zero nine four,
Your name, your email, the word weight loss, Text it

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straight over to us. Ebook is yours. It's all summarized
inside of there, and you'll get the masterclass so we
can physically take you hand by hand through this journey
and show you how to do this right. Okay, why
do so many people struggle with weight loss. First, if
you've ever felt like you're doing everything right and you
still can't lose weight, I know, I know, right, it's
what we've been told. Pick a better diet, work out harder,

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start getting up in the morning, run, do all these
kind of things. If you want to hear me right,
it is not your fault. You've been told that weight
loss is an issue, but it's about i'll call it.
What you've been told is really incomplete. In many cases,

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everything you've been told is one hundred percent wrong. You've
been given a hammer to build a how yes, but
nobody gave you the nails or the lumber or the blueprint.
You've been told what to do, but not how to
do it. So here's the step by step process. Number one,
most people think they're overweight because their metabolism has been hijacked.

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And the hijacker of this, of course, is years and
years of dietary advice that's been misconstrued by conventional big food,
big pharm of big government. Whatever you want to talk about.
High carbohydrate intake, hidden stressors, toxins, disrupted sleep. All of
these are factors that will disrupt your hormones, and it's

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not going to disrupt willpower per se, but it disrupts hormones.
And it's really the hormones that determine if your body
stores fat or burns fat. So again, remember you are
a chemical messenging lab on the inside. If a hormone
says do this, and you have lots of it, your
body's going to just respond and do it. One of
the primary hormones is insulin, and you might be thinking

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to yourself, well, I thought insulin was like for diabetics.
I don't have diabetes. I just have twenty five pounds
I want to lose. Well gut check, insulin is supposed
to be on a fasting blood lab less than five,
and most people who are struggling to lose weight ten, fifteen, twenty,
twenty five, et cetera. You won't be diagnosed as a

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diabetic till it's north of thirty because it means there's
severe insulin resistance. But watch this. When you eat carbohydrates,
your body breaks them down into glucose, and when sugar
enters your bloodstream, immediately pancreas is secreted with an intense
so that hormone says move the sugar into your cells
for energy. But here's the catch. When you eat too

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many carbohydrates like the classic, if you want to lose
weight properly, you need to keep carbs way down ten fifteen,
twenty thirty grams per day. When you eat too many
carbohydrates too often, insulin signaling happens all the time. Insulin
level start to rise and your body gets a very
specific construction store fat, don't burn it. Store fat. This

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is why insulin is not just a diabetic hormone. It could,
it should, in my opinion, be relabeled fat storage hormone.
So if you want to know why you're not losing weight,
the first thing you should do is ask your primary
physician or your functional physician, or whoever's managing your blood,
and guys, you do need someone to be looking at
your blood regularly. Find out what your fasting insulin is.

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If it's seventy nine, eleven, fourteen twenty, the higher it is,
the more difficult it is going to be to lose weight.
And guess what we have to now recognize that high
insulin starts to turn on what's called leptin resistance. Leptin
is a hormone inside the fat cells of your body,

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and the purpose of them is to tell your brain, hey,
you should stop eating right now, we have enough fat stored. Good,
no more hunger. But when your diet and lifestyle are
highly inflammatory, which almost everybody has, your brain stops listening
to leptin. And the result is what you probably recognized.

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Even after you eat, you're still hungry. Even though you
have enough energy stored as body fat. Your body still
craves food thinking it doesn't have enough stored fat. I
know this is nuts. Your brain actually goes I don't
see a lot of fat because I don't hear Leptinleptin
is a hormone that's designed by God to have your
brain say too much fat on this body. Stop eating foods.

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Let the body naturally burn this fat. So when you
develop leptin resistance, you can't physically burn fat. Add another
layer to the equation, which is cortisol. Cortisol is a
stress hormone. It's supposed to give you these quick bursts
of energy, like in an emergency. So if something were
to yay, you've probably experienced this. When you're driving, it's

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late at night, you're kind of tired, and you sort
of doze and all of a sudden, you're like, oh,
oh my god, I almost died while driving. That bump
of energy is cortisol. But when that kind of stress
is chronic, it could be a job, it could be finances,
it could be a relationship, it could be that you're
working out too hard. Actually, cortisol stays elevated, and again

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it triggers your liver to release more sugar. That sugar
bumps insulin. Insulin creates leptin resistance. Do you see how
it's this huge catch twenty two? So we have insulin,
we have leptin, we have cortisol, and then watch this,
we have thybroid hormone. So just this morning I did
an entire masterclass seven hundred plus people online, learning that

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one of the primary reasons they're so tired and so
not burning fat is a process known as reverse T
three dominance. Think of your thyroid as a thermostat for
your metabolism. If your thyroid is underactive, then your metabolism
slows down, your energy drops, and even subtle changes in
this can cause you to start storing fat. Conventional medicine

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will often look at just a few markers TSHT four,
and because their range is so wide, many times what
happens is you actually have a thyroid hormone imbalance, but
your lab says you don't because they're following standard conventional testing.
So in functional medicine, what we do is we go
way deep. We want to look at these hormones physically.

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We want to check their balances and help you to
reestablish them using these five steps I'm gonna reveal to
you in a moment. But remember we have to just
go a little deeper, Like I got to crack into
your skull and help you to realize, like diet and
exercise is gonna maybe get you ten pounds, but if
you want to have that mountain move, that needle move
fifteen thirty fifty, you have to engage your fat burning switch.

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You have to get in there and say, hormones move
Insulin down, lept and down, cortisol down thigh. I write
hormone T three active up reverse TEE three down. But
the only way to know this is you got to
get some tests done and have somebody coach you and
guide you through what to do. So let's talk about why.
Usually we start and we get some good results when

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we diet and exercise, but then you know it plateaus
out and most of us get stuck. So yes, when
you first stuck cutting, if you will calories and carbohydrates
and you add some exercise, your body will respond. Usually
the first five or so pounds is basically water because
what's happening is you're depleting the storage sugar. You haven't

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actually hit fat burning yet, so because most of us
have been in such high sugar burning states, your liver
will say, well, you know what, I'm going to store
some sugar as well. It's called glycogen and many of
us have large glycogen stores in our liver. And your
body's always watching, it's adapting to try to figure out
what's going on. So if you continue to calorically restrict

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without a dressing your hormones, your body's gonna see that
as like you going into a famine. It's going to
lower your metabolic rate, conserve energy, increase your hunger hormones,
and make fat stories more efficient. This is where it
gets tricky. You can't work your way out of a
hormonal imbalance. You can't diet your way out of a
hormone imbalance. But it's the exact opposite of what you want. Okay,

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so your body's way of protecting you from starvation is
to say turn to switch off, start storing fats. This
is why crash diets almost always fail. Same thing with exercise.
Movement is great, and I'm a big fan of exercise
and working out, but you can't outtrain a bad metabolism.
A study published in the Current Biology Journal showed that

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bodies that adapt to high volumes of exercise will usually
demand energy expenditures in other areas. In other words, extra
calories you think you're burning during workouts don't give you
a net gain. On top of that, if you're I'm
or a fuel source is sugar, exercise can actually make
you crave more sugar, so you'll finish a workout, you'll

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feel ravenous, and then it often leads you to overeat,
usually with foods that will get you stuck into the
sugar burning modes in the first place. So this is
why I often say diet and exercise is important, but
it's not the actual step. Step number one is fix
the hormone environment so that your body's ready to burn fat.
And step number two is let your body do it

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by itself. Yes, we can work out and things of
that effect, but you don't have to push real hard.
Functional medicine takes a massively different approach instead of just
focusing on calories and workouts. Again, we're gonna ask a
question like this, what is your body's hormonal environment doing
right now? Are your hormones telling you to store fat
or burn fat? If you're in sugar burning fat storage mode,

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then guess what the answer is. Flip the switch. This
means lowering insulin, restoring leptin, calming down cortisol, which usually
means stop working out so hard, and optimizing your thyroid.
One of the hormones in the groundbreaking studies have been
done is to show that if you lower insulin, lower cortisol,

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reactivate thyroid hormones, your body will innately start burning fat.
And here's the best part. When you do it right,
weight loss is not the primary focus. Your health becomes
the focus, and the side effect is you lose weight.
Patients often tell me, I'm eating satisfying meals, I'm not
hungry all the time anymore. My weight's flying off. I

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went to sleep, I woke up, I was two pounds
lighter like I slept the fat off. This is the
power of your hormones working with you instead of against you.
And you can get the steps directly how to kickstart
this by downloading the weight Loss Heeled by Self ebook.
It's free to simply text the word weight loss plus
your name and email to seven O four nine zero
six two zero nine four will zip it over to today.

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You'll get access to the masterclass we're doing on weight
loss on the thirteenth of September. And in this next segment,
I'm gonna show you. Now that we've learned what the
issue is, I can remember you have to learn first
then apply. So segment one learn everything we just talked about.
Segment two hit the ground running. Five steps to functionally

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ignite your metabolism. This is why you should not tune
out as this commercial break comes up. Literally pen and
paper in hand, it's about four or five minutes. We're
gonna come in, hot and heavy the top five functional
steps to ignite your metabolism. And when you do that,
guess what happens. Your body starts burning fat, your energy
starts going up, you start feeling great, your health starts improving.

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And this is the exact strategy that we use in
our clinic every day. It's the exact strategy that's worked
for thousands of patients. In fact, over the last six
months of a year, we have this tracker of all
of our patients sick. Thousand, eight hundred pounds has flown
off people in the local Charlotte area through the Cornerstone

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Health Center ASTOCS Gurrants network in just the last twelve months,
six thousand plus pounds. And how does that happen. We're
not a diet clinic, We're not an exercise clinic. We're
a functional medicine, integrative, holistic health center that will connect
the dots between why your brain isn't signaling to your
body burn fat, why your hormones are not signaling to

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your body to burn fat, and why the toxins found
inside your fat cells are preventing the fat from burning
even if that switch gets turned onto fat burning. So
don't go away. We'll be right back as we discuss
those five steps and again. Seven oh four nine zero
six Tuesday, nine four. Your name, your email, The word
weight Loss ebook is yours. Masterclass on thirteenth, the Asstocs

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Charron Show will be right back afternoon, Happy Saturday. Welcome.
You're listening to the astocs earned show. Hey, it's the
show where pounds are shed. We're talking about all that today,
turning on your fat burning switch so you can lose
a tremendous amount of weight. It's a show where disease

(25:11):
is dead. And it's the show where you can be
set free from your health problems when you become your
own doctor. We are deep into a conversation, Staf. You're
just tuning in on why is it that so many
of us struggle to lose weight? Why is it that
according to the CDC and the government and the powers
to be that seventy three percent of Americans Since you
hear that's seventy three at seven point three people out

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of every ten, like seventy three percent of us need
to lose north of twenty five pounds in order to
have healthy functional weight. And we discussed the concept that
it's not the fact that you're doing the wrong diet.
In fact, technically you can pick any diet you want.
As long as you balance your hormones, you turn on

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your fat burning switch, and you get the toxins out
of your fat cells, any diet you do will work.
We also discuss this concept that many people are thinking,
if I could just exercise harder, I would lose more weight.
But the research shows that sometimes the harder you work out,
the more cortisol, stress hormone you release, which impacts the

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amount of sugar that your liver releases, which impacts the
amount of insulin you secrete, which impacts your leptin, which
is a hormone that regulates the amount of fat you store. So, guys,
there is what's known as leptin resistance. It's legitimate, you
can google it. It's probably the number one reason you're
struggling to lose weight right Nowleptin is a hormone that

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should be secreted by fat cells that tells your brain,
we have enough fat on us. Stop eating foods that
will turn into fat. Stop hormonally shifting my metabolism to
store fat. What happens, however, is because of chronic inflammation,
usually elevations in insulin and cortisol and everything else we
just discussed, our brain stops listening to leptin. We become

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resistant to it, in a similar fashion of type two diabetes,
where insulin becomes resistant. If your brain becomes resistant to leptin,
your brain doesn't see all the fat. It thinks that
you're actually starving, so it makes you hungry all the time,
craving foods that will easily turn into fat, because again,

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your body is this massive biochemical communicating system. And if
this is happening, if you have high levels of leptin,
high levels of insulin, high levels of cortisol, no amount
of cardio long distance running, sit ups, push ups, no
amount of your special gym workouts that you do, and
no amount of crazy dietine even if you do massively

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restrictive diets will make you lose the weight that you need.
So we discussed that the real roadblock is not laziness
or lack of willpower, it is your hormones. And we've
been giving away this e book my god, like we
had probably a world record one hundred and forty six
texts within the last twenty five minutes. That's impressive. Guys,

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take a moment right now and text your name, your email,
and the word weight loss to seven O four nine
zero six two zero nine four. I have for you
the polished, newish edition of A Functional Approach to Weight Loss.
It's an ebook that has everything you need inside of it.
I'll give it to you like this chapter one, why
their way isn't the way. We talked about that during

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the first episode. If you missed it, wait till the
podcast hits download it. You can go to iTunes, Spotify, Amazon,
just type in as doctor Ernest. Chapter two the Magic
Pill for weight loss, which isn't a pill, it's a process.
Step number three my secret methods to losing ten to
fifteen pounds in just four weeks. Chapter four, a four

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week done for you meal plan. Now this isn't a diet.
This is a food system that encourages that switch to
be turned on by balancing your hormones. A four week
done for you shopping list so you know exactly what
you need to get, and supportive recipes for those meal
plans for those four weeks, so you have an entire
month's worth of do this and you should lose north

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of fifteen pounds without doing the crazy exercise. I mean,
how cool is that? It's absolutely free. The text are
flying in again. So it's seven oh four five nine seven.
I'm sorry, that's my clinic line. Seven O four nine
zero six two zero nine four. That's the text line again.
We just need your name, your email, the word weight loss,

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and boom, it's sent. To you and in roughly about
a month or so from today, Saturday, September thirteenth, I'm
hosting the Masterclass on weight loss. It's going to show
you how to accomplish everything you want if you're looking
to do twenty thirty forty. We're gonna go deep into
how do you balance all the hormones? How do you

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get everything back on track again? What are the tests
you need to get so you can figure out the
answers and know exactly the next steps. We also talked
recently on this show about the fact that insulin, leptin,
and cortisol and thyroid hormones are the gatekeepers. I'm gonna
list them again. You must know insulin, leptin, cortisol, and

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thyroid if you really want to truly lose weight. If
these hormones are out of balance, your metabolism is going
to default to the store fat switch, no matter how
many salads you eat, or how many miles you run
or walk or swim, or however you do it. We
talked about the fact that most Americans are stuck in
what's called sugar burning mode. You're constantly feeding your body

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even healthy carbohydrates, but the hormones are gonna say turn
it into fat, store it and keep it locked and untouched.
And until you reprogram your metabolism, burning fat is almost impossible.
You'll be dependent upon frequent meals and constant snackings just

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to keep your energy up. So now, as I mentioned,
it's time to get practical. This is where functional medicine
starts to shine. Instead of just telling you, hey, like
eat less and work out more, I'm gonna show you
how to change the entire playing field of your metabolism.
I'm going to walk you through five functional steps to

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ignite the metabolic fire inside your body. These steps are
the difference between fighting and finally working. And it begins
with step number zero. Step number zero. Download the Functional
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take it the rest of the way. So step zero,
download the Functional Heal I selfie book. Step number one,
we have to get your insulin levels down, and one
of the easiest ways to do this for free is
to begin fasting. The first and most powerful step in
lowering insulin because insulin will shift you into fat storage

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if it's high. My insulin keeps fat locked away, So
if you want to burn fat, you have to bring
your insulin levels down, and the most effective way to
start it is with levels of fasting. You could do
intermittent fasting, you could do a longer term block fast,
a two or three or four day fast. Intermittent fasting

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is not about starvation. It simply creates a window of
time where you're not eating certain foods so that your
body can burn fat and rely on it instead of
storing it for energy. And if you think about it,
this is how a lot of our ancestors lived for
thousands of years before the convenience of a refrigeration B.

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Thank you for texting and whoever that was b the
twenty four to seven storage access of foods. Do you
guys realize that at any moment, at any time, you
can go out and get food. And we can even
buy things today that wouldn't be available during this season

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because we import food from other countries so that we
can have blueberries twenty four to seven, strawberries whenever you want,
peaches and pairs and nectarines, even certain vegetables. We can
get whatever we want whenever we want it, and refrigeration
allows us to store it so that we don't just
have to eat it when we got it. So think back, like,

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I don't know, fourteen hundred years ago, you would eat
something if you were lucky enough to have caught it,
cleaned it, and cooked it, and you didn't have the
ability to store it, so you just ate all of
it and you waited periods of time until you got
your next meal. People back five hundred, seven hundred, one

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thousand years ago didn't have six meals a day. They
ate when things were available. Listen to this research in
the New English Journal of Medicine shows that intimitted fasting
not only lowers insulin, but it can also improve your
blood sugars, lower inflammation, decrease cortisol, activate your thyroid hormones,
help to improve leptin resistance, and trigger something called autophagy,

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which is a biochemical state. It's where your body says,
I'm going to clean out damage cells and regenerate new
healthy cells. In its place, the bonus switch gets turned
to fat burning modes as long as you stay within
the eating windows and it works. So we usually recommend

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that most people start light sixteen hours of fasting. Eight
when you sleep easy, you've been doing it since the
day you're born, eight when you're awake, little harder for
some of you, and then eight to eat. So, for example,
you might finish dinner at seven pm, skip breakfast the

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next morning, and starts your first meal at eleven am,
and that gives you the entirety of those sixteen hours
of fasting and eight hours of eating. This gives your
time your body sorry time to process previous meals, lower insulin,
and start tapping into fat storages. The magic of intermittent
fasting is that this style is not technically a diet.

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It's more a when you eat your foods, so you
don't even technically it would be better if you eat real, good,
healthy foods, but you could stick with whatever your current
diet is and just intermnt it fast. The magic of it,
again is that it works with your hormones. When insulin drops,
your body will start to switch into a fat burning

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stage because it uses fat for fuel. At the same time,
studies have shown that human growth hormone starts to rise,
which will help you build muscles and not lose bone
and muscle. This is why people lose who use intimatet
and fasting often tend to lose fat and tone their body.

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In my clinic, specifically, I've seen patients lose stubborn belly
fat that they've carried around for years. Once your body
adapts and this fasting starts to feel more normal, what
you'll find is you won't be hungry in your fasting windows.
We've heard this over and over and over again from patients.
I didn't think I could do this, but I'm a

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month to two into it now it's a lot easier.
In fact, I don't feel hungry in the morning. When
you stop feeling hungry, your energy goes up because you're
no longer controlled by cravings. And if you've ever done
intimate it fasting, you've seen the power of it. Push
your breakfast back. Pair it with a clean nutrient dense meal,

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increase your fasting windows, decrease your eating windows over time,
and you'll be amazed at how fast your body starts
to burn fat. It works and again. Intermitted fasting with
diet supported recipes, meal plans, and packs are in the
Functional Approach to Weight Loss ebook that I'm giving away
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weight loss seven oh four nine zero six two zero
nine four. That's it. It's that simple, guys. Okay, Step
number two start eating and sync with your hormones. This
is going to be unique when for some of you.
The second step means to align what you eat with
the natural rhythm of your hormones. Your body operates on

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what's called a circadian rhythm. Think of it as like
a built in twenty four hour clock that influences everything
from the ability of you to sleep, to your digestion
and even your fat storage. When you eat in harmony
with your circadian rhythm, you will optimize hormone balances and
enhance your metabolic function. This is something relatively new. I

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haven't taught this that much before, So now's the time.
Is so of like start taking vorocious notes. Cortisol normally
peaks in the morning to help you wake up. So
if you flood your body with sugar and refined carbohydrates
as your first morning meal, which again is crazy to
think of because Big food says to do that cereals

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and toasts and juice and yogurts and fruit for breakfast,
right your classic breakfasts. Well, then what you're doing is
you're now doubling your cortisol spike and you're triggering a
huge release of insulin. That right there, just you know,
is the perfect recipe for a mid morning crash and
an increase in fat storage. So instead, give your body

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the time it needs in the morning to ride the
natural cortisol wave. It's normal everybody's corsol goes up when
they wake up in the morning. The reason that intermittent
fasting pairs so well with circadian eating is it lets
the those cortisol levels kind of drop down until the
latter part of the morning and then we can start eating.

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So listen to this research in the journal Appetite. This
is a fun one found that eating earlier in the
day makes weight loss outcomes difficult, especially for overweight individuals.
Eating late at night, on the other hand, so if
you do it like after dinner, that disrupts leptin signaling
and increases fat storage. So the perfect time to eat

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is based on your hormonal cycle. Everyone secretes cortisol at
high levels when we wake up in the morning, and
it usually takes until about eleven o'clock to twelve o'clock
before cortisol starts coming down. So this is why we
typically say your first meal of the day should be
at eleven or twelve am. Waiting eleven am or twelve pm. Okay.

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Another hormone player in result of your weight loss is melatonin,
which is your sleep hormone. Melatonin starts to rise in
the evening to help your body get ready for sleep,
so eating during that after ten o'clock block can disrupt
your sleep cycles and also interfere with insolent sensitivity. This

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is why late night snacking is like a double hit.
Not only does it mess up your sleep, but it
messes up your sugars, which will make your cortisol worse,
which will cause other issues. So we encourage our patients
to have their last meals no later than three hours
before you go to bed. So if you're somebody who
likes to go to bed at eleven, you can do

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it ten, nine to eight. You have to stop by eight.
Why why is this important? Well, it helps insulin to
drop before you go to bed, which sets you up
for fat burning when you sleep. So if you combine
what we just mentioned this hormonal style of eating, recognizing
cortisol is high in the morning, don't eat carbohydrate laden

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foods for breakfast. If you're somebody who you're like, but
I have to eat something like I just can't survive
going till eleven or twelve o'clock, proteins and fats only
for your first meal of the day. Keep your carbohydrates
to almost zero. And again remember eating and sync with
your hormones isn't necessarily about eating less, It's about eating smarter.

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The right times. By respecting your body's natural rhythms, you
create an environment where fat loss can happen more easily
and more consistently. So that's step number two. Now step
number three switch to higher quality fats and good quality proteins.
So if you really want to burn fat, you have

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to give your body the fats that it needs to burn.
So step three is about changing your oil. Like do
an oil change on your body, the oils and the
fats that you eat. Most people fear fat because as
they think it's gonna clog their arteries and make you fat.
By the way, that is outdated science. The real culprits

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and heart disease and obesity is processed carbohydrates, sugars, inflammatory
seed oils, not necessarily clean healthy fats. So when you
eat really high quality fats like those found in avocados
and grass finished beef, wild caught salmon, pasture raised eggs,

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extravergin olive oils and coconut oils, and beef tallows like
you guys, we can just go down the list grass
fed butter. Like, there's so many healthy fats. You're given
your body the raw materials it needs to make keytones
and here's the new thing about keytones. Keytones are the
energy molecule that your body uses from burning fat. Keytones

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themselves are clean, they're a very stable fuel. Your brain
can use them, your muscles can use them, your cells
can use them. But most people, if you to prick
your finger and find out how many ketones are in
your blood, are at zero. And so guess what happens.
If you're not producing ketones, you're not burning fat. That
tells us you're stuck in the store fat mode. Burning

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carbohydrates for energy. Protein and fat intake is important. Too
little protein can slow down your metabolism, and this is
what most people do. They're not eating enough. Too much
protein can also swing you the other way. A twoenty
twenty study published in the British Medical Journal compared low

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carb high fat diets watch this to low fat diets
for weight loss and the result. Low carb high fat
consistently lead to greater fat loss, better trechlystrides, better cholesterols,
and overall better metabolic health. Cause that's twenty twenty. They're saying,
eat lots of healthy fats and not a lot of carbohydrates.

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Step number four detox your mitochondria. This is a huge
which one. Your mitochondria are the physical power plants of
your cells. They convert fuel into energy. If they're gummed
up with toxins, usually because of pesticides or plastics, or
heavy metals or processed food additives, your engine runs very

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slow and inefficient. Think of it as like your miles
per glucose is dropping. When you bought your car, it
got fifty miles to the gallon you have it. Now
today it's getting ten and you got to go. I
gotta clean out the engine. Toxins create oxidative stress, which
damages the mitochondria and makes them less effective. That means

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that if you're eating right, your body could still struggle
to burn fat because you need to detox. And we're
not talking about juice cleanses. We're talking about targeted support
to your organs that eliminate waste your liver, your kidneys,
your lymphatic system, even your gut. There are specific nutrients
that can help you to enhance this. In acetyl cysteine,

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or what's known as nack it upregulates glutithione and it
helps to flush toxins from your liver. Alpha, a poic acid,
can flush toxins from your brain glue to thione directly.
Is what we need is a master antioxidant for detoxification,
and co Q ten supports mitochondrial function and repair. And
guess what, the majority of people we work with are

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deficient in all of those. Research from the Journal Cell
Metabolism shows that if you improve mitochondrial function, you can
increase metabolic flexibility, which means you can easily go in
and out of fat burning fat storage. Fat burning fat storage,
you don't get stuck. This is why detox is so
crucial for weight loss. Step number five we need to

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move intentionally. Our exercise has to be with intention. It
is about exercise, but not the way you've been taught.
Most people think that you have to do a tremendous
amount of cardio to lose more weight. The truth is
lots of cardio can actually raise your cortisol, make you hungry,
and lead to muscle loss. So the key is intentional

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strategic workouts. This is where this wave of like hit
or high intensity interval training workouts are very effective. Short
bursts of intense effort with periods of low activity. And
listen to this. The Journal Obesity shows that high intensity
workouts burn more fat in less time than steady state

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cardiovascular exercise. What does that mean, Well, thirty minutes of
hit equals three hours plus of cardiovascular workouts. Resistance training
is equally as important. Muscles will metabolically become active and
they burn fat. The more muscle you have, the higher
you're resting metabolic rate. So doing simple things like lifting

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weights using resistance bans, or doing body exercise weights that
are basically free pushups and squats and jumping jacks can
help you to build muscle while losing fat. So movement
throughout the day is also important. If we sit for
long periods of time, then it slows your metabolism, so

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set an alarm on your phone or your watch. Just
get up and stretch and bend and move. Even light
exercises like just simply tapping your calves up and down
bouncing like I am on this video to create lymphatic
movement keep your metabolism engaged. So if you combine intentional
strength training with the occasional hit workout with regular low

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intensity exercise, you will get the effect of these five powerhouses.
So again, remember functional medicine says it's not about laziness.
It's not about the fact you're not eating right. It's
about the fact that you need to engage Number one
your hormones. Lower your insulin. Number two, eat and sync
with your hormones. No high sugary carbohydrate. Breakfast in the

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morning and stop eating three hours before you go to sleep.
Number three. Switch to high quality of fats and good
clean proteins. Number four. Detox your mitochondria. Number five Move
with intention, not just exercise. They're all laid out for
you in the Weight Loss Healed by Self ebook with
steps and guides and recipes and meal plants and shopping

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