August 23, 2025 • 49 mins
Struggling to lose weight no matter how hard you try? The problem isn’t you—it’s your nutrients. In this episode, Dr. Aaron Ernst exposes the 10 hidden nutrient deficiencies that shut down metabolism, block fat burning, and make diets backfire.Discover the foods, supplements, and strategies that flip your fat-burning switch back on—naturally.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Good afternoon, Happy Saturday. You're listening to the Asks Doctor
Earned Show. Hey, my name is doctor Aaron Ernst, and
this is the show where pounds are shed, disease is Dead,
and where you get to be set free from your
health promise. We are here today to uncover the truth
of healing, of health, and of weight loss from a
functional perspective. Today I'm tackling a question that I hear
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almost every single week, which is why, doctor Ernst, can
I not lose weight despite me doing everything right. I'm dieting,
I'm fasting, I'm exercising, and I'm not losing the weight
that I want to lose. It is the most common
frustration today in health, and most people will blame themselves
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and assume that they're somehow defective or broken. The truth is,
weight loss resistance is not a character flaw. It is chemistry.
It is your body not withholding the results out of spite,
but instead because your metabolism is not responding to what's missing,
what's depleted, what's been stripped away from years of restrictive diets,
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process foods, over exercising, and just misbelief, misunderstanding. We've been
taught to believe that weight loss is something as simple
as calories in versus calories out. But the reality is this,
fat burning is a highly sophisticated biochemical process. It requires
enzymes and cofactors and metabolic pathways that need nutrients at
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optimal levels. No nutrients, no fat burning, period. So today's
show topic is the top ten nutrients you need to
turn on your fat burning engine. What happens when you
restrict calories, or cut out food groups or train excessively.
In the gems, you don't just burn calories, but you
burn through your nutrient reserves. Magnesium can be depleted through sweat,
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vitamin D drops because of lack of healthy fats. Zinc
levels get lost when you cut out animal proteins because
you think I have to eat less to lose weight,
and over time the nutrients that you need to burn
fat are gone. Imagine trying to run your car without
oil or spark plugs or gas. You can have a
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full tank, but the engine's not going to fire. That's
exactly what happens when weight loss resistance kicks in. You
eat less and move more, but without the engine having
the nutrients it needs, your metabolism doesn't get sparked. So
all during the show today, guys, I'm giving away our
functional Approach to weight loss. It teaches you how to
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look at weight loss not as an equation work out, harder,
eat less, but how to go through a hormonal revolution,
a detoxification, and to feed you the proper nutrients you need.
Inside this ebook, listen to this chapter four, A four
week done for you highly nutrient dense meal plan with
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method to lose ten to fifteen pounds in four weeks.
It is yours free right now. Text your name your
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you get the ebook for free, but on Saturday, September thirteenth,
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of weight loss and start literally melting fat while you sleep,
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literally ten twenty thirty forty fifty pounds in a matter
of two to three months. You have a fat burning
engine in your body. You have a fat burning switch
that we talked about last week. Turn on the switch
now today is feed that fat burning engine. In today's show,
we're going to uncover the top ten nutrients that if
your deficient den will make it nearly impossible to lose weight.
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So again, if you want to get the ebook with
the diet and the guidelines, it's free, text the word
weight loss plus your name and your email to seven
oh four nine zero six two zero nine four. You know,
like I talked about this last week I mentioned weight
loss and twenty thirty pounds man the text fly in.
We just got fourteen texts in the last couple minutes.
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Just remember your name, your email, and the word weight loss.
And the masterclass on the thirteenth of September is yours
free and the ebook is yours free. What are the
top ten nutrients We're gonna talk about that all during
the show today, the deficiencies that are epidemic in the
United States and why conventional doctors never test for these.
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In the beginning first half the show, magnesium, vitamin D, zinc,
iron iodine. I know what you were thinking, right, You're like,
oh god, doctors. I thought you were going to talk
about like some super specific nutrient that if I take
this herb or this extract or this weight loss pill,
I'll start burning fat fast. Nah. It's real, basic, guys.
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You have an engine that burns fat and it requires
key nutrients magnesium, vitamin, D, zinc, iron iodine. I'm gonna
show you how each of these, if they're deficient, directly
affect your fat burning. I'm gonna teach you the foods
you need to eat that are loaded with them, and
if you want to supplement evan, you direct recommendations on
what to take to turn on the fuel of your engine,
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and then during the second half of the show, I'll
show you the other five. So let's begin magnesium. If
we were to think of it, I want you to
think of magnesium as a master mineral. It is involved,
listen to this in more than three hundred enzymatic reactions
within your body. Many of these reactions regulate how you
burn fat produce energy. And watch this how you manage
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your blood sugars. If you don't have enough magnesium, your
metabolism is like a car just stuck in first gear,
sputters along without ever really gaining true momentum. One of
magnesium's most important jobs is to regulate what's called ATP production.
It is your body's universal energy currency. Your mitochondria, which
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are the powerhouses of your cells, need magnesium to turn
food into energy. So if you're low in magnesium ATP
or energy productivity slows down. And if ATP slows down,
fat burning cannot happen, and even if it does, it's
very sluggish. Magnesium is also crucial for insulin sensitivity. Remember,
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insulin is the hormone that tells your cells absorbs sugar
from the blood, and when you're deficient to magnesium, insulin
cannot do its job well, which means the excess sugar
rises outside of the cell, which signals fat storage and
weight loss becomes very difficult because when you're hormonally being
told to store fat, you physically can't burn it. This
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is why magnesium deficiency is almost always directly linked to
type two diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and even obesity. So how
is it that we get so magnesium deficient? I'm gonna
be blunt and honest with you. Almost nearly one hundred
percent of people we work with are deficient to magnesium.
It's lost through your sweat. So watch this. The harder
you work out to lose weight, the more magnesium you lose.
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It's depleted by stress. Even caffeine can deplete magnesium. Low
carb dieters especially become magnesium deficient because they often avoid
things that are high with magnesium that tend to have
higher carbohydrate sources like nuts and seeds. In other words,
the harder you push your body with diet exercise, the
more magnesium you lose. So symptoms of magnesium deficiency. How
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would I know if my magnesium is low. Well, first,
muscle cramps, Charlie horses aches, you're not sleeping very well,
you're craving sugars, and you're tired all the time. Ding
y ding ding ding, Like come on, doctor Ernest, that's
me right there. Many people don't realize that the signs
of deficiency are that, and they assume that it just
means that you need to work harder or be more
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disciplined with your diet. But what you really need is
more magnesium. The good news is restoring magnesium levels can
increase your energy, calm your ravings, and restore your body's
natural ability to burn fat sources. How can I eat
more magnesium? Great question. Pumpkin seeds, almonds, spinach, avocados, and
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my favorite raw dark chocolate. No matter how much we try,
when we become restrictive with our diets, we often lead
to creating a nutrient deficiency. Supplementation for most people for
magnesium is almost necessary because the average person is severely
magnesium deficient. The best forms of magnesium, because there's a
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lot of them, magnesium glycinate, magnesium citrate, magnesium malleate. They're
well absorbed, easy on the stomach, stay away from the
magnesium oxides. Those are usually laxatives. A safe range on
a daily basis is between four hundred to five hundred milligrams,
generally taken at nights, since magnesium helps to relax your
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nervous system, promote sleep, and it is again essential for
weight loss. Think of magnesium as like a fuel additive.
It allows the fat burning engine to run cleanly and efficiently,
and without it it sputters and you can't engage weight loss. Okay.
Number two vitamin D. It is one of the most
misunderstood nutrients because technically it's a hormone, and remember, hormones
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are involved in fat burning. Vitamin D is again often
labeled as a vitamin, but it functions as a hormone
precursor and it affects your genetics. It directly controls fat storage.
It's responsible for insulin sensitivity and even thyroid functionality. So
when vitamin D is low, weight loss becomes a very
difficult uphill battle. One of vitamin d's primary roles, again
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is hormone regulation, So ready lots of vitamin D really
good leptin sensitivity, andleptin is the hormone that your brain
releases to tell you I'm full, turn on fat burning.
So when vitamin D is deficientleptin and resistance develops, you'll
be hungry all the time, you won't lose fat, and
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you'll store it instead. So, in other words, think of
vitamin D as like a truly fat burning hormone. So
without it, your body becomes deaf to the signals of
burn fat. Now we know vitamin D also regulates your metabolism.
Low levels of vitamin D are strongly connected with hypothyroidism,
insulin sensitivity, type two diabetes, and there's even new studies
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showing that fat burning shuts off when vitamin D is
below thirty And why is vitamin D so rampant? Most
people are scared to death of the sun. We slather
on vitamin sorry, we slather on sunscreens which block vitamin
D production in the skin cells, and a lot of
us are taking statins pushing our cholesterol levels down, and
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you can't make vitamin D in your skin in the
presence of sun without adequate levels of healthy cholesterol. Also,
restrictive diets usually lead to vitamin D deficiency because people
think that fatty fish and eggs and butter are often
bad when you want to burn fat. But if you're
trying to lose weight, most people, instead of avoiding these foods,
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these are the very foods you need to consume to
replenish your vitamin D levels. One way to do this
boost your body's vitamin D production naturally twenty minutes in
the sun. No sunscreen, ideally in that twelve to one
o'clock two o'clock range. Twenty minutes. Guys, you're not going
to burn if you just do twenty minutes. Food sources
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wild caught salmon, sardines, mackerel, egg yolks. Truthfully, the sunlight
is a great source of it, but you can also
get it from your food. Most people need to supplement,
and without knowing where your direct vitamin D levels are,
I can only give you a basic recommendation for adults
five to ten thousand international units a day. And if
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you're taking a bioavailable active what'd all call liquid. Remember
D three is fat soluble, so you want it to
be in a liquid suspension. If you're doing it sublingually,
you don't need the K two that everybody talks about.
Oh it doesn't fight a D need K two, Well,
it needs K two to help with absorption, but once
it's in your blood directly from going sublingual, it's a
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much better method. If you're taking a capsular form, make
sure it has K two. If you're taking a liquid
form or sublingual, make sure you're doing between five to
ten thousand units per day. This should help you get
to the fifty to eighty zone that it needs to
be in. So I want you to think of vitamin
D as the light switch for your metabolism. If it's off,
fat burning doesn't happen. If it's on, now your body's engaging.
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And if you have the magnesium that we just talked about,
it's like the fuel source. Zinc is another big one.
Zinc is a trace mineral, and I don't want you
to let the word trace fool you. The impact on
your metabolism for fat burning is profound. Zinc is required
for over two hundred ins amounter reactions within the human body,
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many of which directly affect hormone production, appetite regulation, and
fat burning. One of zinc's most important roles is in
thyroid functionality. It is essential that we have zinc to
turn T four thyroid hormone inactive into active thyroid hormone
T three, So without zinc, the conversion slows down, your
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thyroid becomes sluggish, and you can even have normal thyroid
numbers if zinc is low. Zinc also plays a major
role in regulating appetite hormones, including leptin and grellin. Leptin
signals your brain to say I am full. Grellin, on
the other hand, signals your brain to say I am hungry.
So when zinc is deficient, leptin goes down, meaning I
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don't feel full, and grellin goes up like crazy, and
so I feel hungry all the time. On top of that,
zinc is essential for testosterone production, which is both men
and women. Adequate levels of testosterone increases muscle mass, boost
your metabolism, and can promote fat burning. So low zinc
equals low testosterone, which means a slower metabolism and increase
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fat storage. Why are we so deficient in zinc Because
if we eat a heavily plant based or grain based diet,
the phaelates that are found in grains will bind to
zinc and prevent the absorption. So if you eat a
lot of breads and cookies and crackers and rice and corn,
you're physically blocking the absorption of zinc from the nutrients
you eat. What would be the symptoms of having a
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zinc deficiency well weakened immune system? Hair loss is a
big one, Fatigue and guess what I can't lose? Weight
is a number one symptom of zinc deficiency. Natural sources
of zinc grass fed beef, pumpkin seeds, cashewes, even chickpeas.
A handful of pumpkin seeds can completely restore your zinc
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levels within one day. But for those struggling with weight
loss resistance, we often need to supplement with zinc. So
the forms of therapeutic ranges are between twenty and forty milligrams.
It's important not to overdose it and to make sure
that you're balancing with the other nutrients you need. What
is zinc for fat burning? It is the spark plug,
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So vitamin D was the switch. The D three helps
to turn your fat burning on. Zinc is the spark plugs,
so we're actually firing in the engines and now we
have iron. It's another nutrient that plays a crucial role
in fat metabolism. Again, if you're wondering, like gosh, like
this is a lot like how do I get this
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In addition to giving you this free ebook that will
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Iron is a nutrient that is crucial for fat burning
because its main job is to carry oxygen throughout your
blood on hemoglobin, which delivers oxygen to the mitochondria in
your cells. So without oxygen, fat cannot be burned. So
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when iron is deficient, oxygen delivery goes down and the
fat burning drastically slows down. This is why, just so
you guys know, people with anemias are always fatigued and
weak and tired, and they physically can't lose weight simply
because they can't generate energy from lack of oxygen. Restrictive
diets again amplify this problems, especially if you're in the
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zone of like I'm going to avoid red meat in
animal proteins and go vegetarian or vegan, thinking I'll lose
weight by doing that. You can eat all the spinach
in the world, but without vitamin C you very rarely
absorb the iron. Symptoms of iron deficiency fatigue, brittle nails, dizziness.
On a metabolic level, your body shifts into a survival
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mode so you conserve energy and weight loss. Resistance is
a key component behind iron deficiencies. Natural sources of iron.
Where can I get really good healthy irons? Grass, finished
red meats, lamb, buffalo liver, organ meats. Can we get
it from some vegetables like leafy greens and lentils and beans. Yes,
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but you have to pair that with vitamin C like
vegetable and or fruits citrus or bell peppers to absorb
the iron that you need from the vegetables that you eat.
Caution on supplementing iron because too much iron can cause
oxidative stress and boost ferotin, which is a toxin. You
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really need to know your iron levels before you start
to supplement. One of the easiest most bioavailables is called
iron bisclycinate, and if you take somewhere between eighteen to
twenty milligrams on a daily basis, it's usually considered within
the acceptable range. Restoring iron gives you more energy, It
increases your oxygen. It helps with exercise tolerance, so if
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you're tired when you work out, iron can help with that,
and it ultimately helps with fat burning. Okay, Number five iodine.
This is probably the fifth and the last one I'm
gonna be able to talk about before the commercial break
comes up, but I still have five more for you.
Iodine is unique because it's the raw materials needed for
thyroid hormone production. Remember, your thyroid gland combines io with
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an amino acid called tyrosine to make thyroid hormone, so
without iodine, your body can't make thyroid hormone. And remember
thyroid hormone says burn fat, feel great. Even a slight
iodine deficiency can cause metabolic symptoms. It lowers energy, it
increases fatigue, and it promotes weight gain. This is why
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iodine deficiencies used to cause goiters and would cause slow metabolisms,
and today it's still an epidemic issue because modern diets
are surprisingly very low in iodine. Most people are told
to avoid salts, which is typically iodonized, and when we
shift over into healthy foods, often they're not containing iodine.
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So heavy salt users may not be getting iodine if
you're using hemalin and celtic salts to the right amounts
plus fluorine. Chlorine and bromine compete directly with iodine, so
if we're drinking conventional tap water or a lot of
bait goods, or even medications that have fluoring chlorinimbromin inside
of them, we block iodine absorption. Food's highest in iodine seafood, eggs, kelps,
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a lot of the seaweed, vegetables, and remember you can
be iodine deficient, even if your thyroid says it's working perfectly.
Kelp and norri and eggs are probably the best sources
of iodine across the board. Supplementation can be effective, but
it has to be done very carefully because you need
to have a bioavailable organic I'll call it food grade
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iodine that you can consume. So typically we don't recommend
supplementing directly with iodine. We'd rather see you eat more
seaweed and kelp and norri and eggs to get your
iodine levels up. One quick test you can do to
find out if you're iodine deficient. Run off to the
local pharmacy, buy a usp iodine tincture. Take that tincture
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and paint a good two to three inch square on
your arm. It'll turn a dark orangeish color because it's
the iodine in your skin. And then set a timer
and find out how long does it take for that
patch to disappear. Here's the golden rule. If that patch
is gone in less than three hours, severe iodine deficiency
if it's gone within less than six hours, A moderate
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iron dyine deficiency if it's gone within twelve hours. A
slight iodine deficiency if you still see it the next day,
your iodine levels are good. This is not a direct
like immediate, I'll call it scientific method, but it's a quick,
easy way for you to find out where are my
iodine levels at. You would hope to God that you
wake up the next day and you can still see
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that patch on your skin, because it tells you you
have a decent amount of iodine. So let's recap this
first half of our journey. Today we covered magnesium, We
covered vitamin D, we covered zinc. We covered iron and iodine,
the five foundational nutrients that form the building blocks of
your metabolism. Magnesium again is essential for energy productivity, insulin sensitivity.
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Vitamin D regulates your hormones like leptin and thyroid. Zinc
is the spark plug for the conversion of your thyroid
hormones and appetite control. If you're going like man, I
wish I could feel fuller, faster and not be so hungry.
Rather than appetite suppressants, just lift your zinc levels. Iron
carries oxygen that makes it available to burn fat, and
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iodine gives you the raw materials you need for your
thyroid hormone. So do you see a pattern here. These
nutrients are not optional, they're not a nice thing to have.
They are essential for life and essential for fat burning,
and yet they're the first things to be stripped away
when we do heavily restrictive diets and we exercise harder.
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So this explains why so many people struggle on a
low calorie, highly restrictive, exercise based weight loss plan. What's
the solution. It's not starving yourself, it's nourishing yourself. Download
the Weight Loss Functional Guide the ebook. It has a
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don't go away. When we come back. The next five
fat burning nutrients that if you don't have them, it's
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going to stall your ability to lose weight fast. Seas
Doctor ourn Show, don't go way, We'll be right back.
Welcome back. You're listening to the Ask Doctor Earns Show.
My name is doctor Aaron Ernst. Hey, it's the show
where pounds are shed, thees is dead, and where you
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get to be said free for your health problems. Hey.
In the first half of today's program, we uncovered five
foundational nutrients that will make weight loss resistance nearly impossible.
What I mean by that is you will burn fat
tremendously fast when you address the top five foundational nutrients.
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What are they? Magnesium, vitamin D, zinc, iron, and iodine.
What Doctor arnestethought you were going to talk about some
sort of special herb or some new fan dangled, some
sort of supplement that's like if you take it, you're
guaranteed to lose weight. No, we're talking about the basic
foundation of you have an engine inside your body that
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is designed to burn fat. And a lot of you
the switch is off. We talked about this last week.
If you didn't hear the podcast or they listen to
the episode, it's called Turn On your Fat Burning Switch.
It's available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, even WBT dot com.
Just literally go back and listen to how to turn
on the fat Burning Switch. And today's topic is once
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that switches on, how do you get the engine revd
and going. But those first five guys are only half
the story, because these foundational nutrients are like the fine
tuning gears of your metabolism. There are the compounds that
regulate your thyroid hormones, activate your fat burning power, stabilize
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your blood sugars, turn on your mitochondria, and as we discussed,
zinc is the number one nutrient that cuts down cravings
and makes you feel foot. Look at this being live,
feel full faster, rather than taking appetite suppressants or drugs
to make yourself not want to eat. If you get
your zinc levels in the right ranges, your body will
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say no thank you to excess foods. I'm hungry when
i need to be, I'm full when i need to be,
and I'm going to burn fat efficiently. Conventional medicine rarely
talks about these nutrients. Your doctor may run some basic
panels and if you're lucky, you'll find vitamin D and iron,
but they almost rarely ever check the newer nutrients we're
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going to talk about selenium, COQ ten, chromium, B vitamins.
These deficiencies are extremely rampant, mostly because of soil depletion,
process diets, chronic stress of modern life. And what makes
matters worse is that if you cut calories because you're
only eating chicken and broccoli, or you follow a strict
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vegetarian vegan, low fat regimen, you eliminate foods that give
you these nutrients that you need to burn fat. So
this means that the longer you diet, the deeper your
deficiency and the more resistant your body becomes at burning fat.
So in the second segment, I'm going to walk you
through the next five critical nutrients. Selenium the garter of
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your thyroid, B vitamins your energy components, your energy vitamin,
the omega three fatty acids, your anti inflammatories, and coq
ten your mitochondrial powerhouse with chromium, a sugar balancing mineral.
Each of these play a very unique role in fat burning.
So miss just one and your metabolism starts to slow down.
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Restore them, however, and your body remembers how to burn
fat by itself. So again I'm gonna show you how
do we come deficient in them? What are the foods
we need to eat to load them up, and how
do we supplement them properly? And again, remember this isn't
like a quick fix or some sort of a fat diet.
It's truly just about getting back to the basics. Given
your body the raw materials it needs to rev the
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engine for fat burning. And again, I'm gonna say this
over and over again. The patients that I work with
and when I test these nutrients, eighty to ninety percent
of them come back deficient. And I look at them
and I'm like, well, no, wonder, you're not burning fat,
And they're usually going, well, what's the secret diet to
fix my fat? Just you need to get these nutrients
back on track. Again. Hey, if you want a diet
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that is loaded with these top ten nutrients, download the
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name and email to seven O four nine zero six
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two zero nine four. Chapter one of the e books
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You're gonna have to get the e book to figure
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fifteen pounds in as little as four weeks. Chapter four
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nine four. So hey, let's dive right into the remaining
five nutrients, because this could very well be the missing
piece you need to turn on your fat burning ability.
Selenium again a trace mineral. It plays an outstanding role
in metabolism. It is essential for the conversion of inactive
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thyroid hormone into active thyroid hormone. We talked about how
a lot of the other nutrients we discussed earlier do that,
zinc being one of them. Remember T four, the thyroid
hormone that comes out of your thyroid is inactive. T
three active, however, ignites your metabolism and turns on fat burning,
So if selenium levels are low, the conversion process stalls
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and you're left with a very sluggish metabolism. Selenium also
is protective against oxidative stress and damage to your thyroid.
Selenium dependent enzymes act like shields, protecting thyroid cells from damage,
specifically if there's an autoimmunity called hashimotos where the thyroid
itself is being attacked. So without selenium, your thyroid becomes
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more vulnerable, leading to dysfunctions and autommunity. Deficiencies in Selenium
is quite common today because again, foods today are grown
in soil very much depleted with nutrients and minerals. In
most regions the soil is very selenium deficient and zinc
and iodine and iron, so therefore the foods we eat
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today are generally lower in these nutrients than they were ten, fifteen,
twenty thirty years ago. Plus if you have a restrictive
diet that's removing animal proteins. If you're thinking I'll just
go vegetarian to lose more weight, you can run very
low in selenium quickly. Weight loss is tied directly to
selenium because it connects to thyroid function. So fatigue and
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hair loss and brain fog and difficulty shedding pounds despite
eating the perfect diet is the classic symptoms of a
selenium deficiency, and these symptoms are frequently misdiagnosed as being
some sort of hypothyroid. The best source of selenium are
brazil nuts. Did you know that just two brazil nuts
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a day gives you all the selenium your body needs
to make sure that you're burning fat like crazy. So
notice I'm giving you guys these kind of key ingredients.
The diet in the ebook is full of this. If
you want to get it again, text your name, your
email and the word weight loss to seven oh four
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just implement what I'm talking to about today and watch
as you lose five ten to fifteen pounds in a
couple weeks. Another good source of selenium is salmon, turkey,
and eggs. Supplementation has been very effective, especially if you're
pairing with the other nutrients we discussed vitamin D and
zinc and magnesium. A daily dose of two hundred micrograms
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of selenium is the ideal method. Now, remember there's several
types of seleniums, so the celeno mathianine is usually the
best form. It ensures that you're going to be absorbing
iodine properly, and it helps with thyroid functionality. In fact,
research shows that if you supplement with selenium without using
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the magnesium and the iodine and the zinc that we
discussed before, it can actually change thyroid functionality for the worst.
This is why iodine and zinc and magnesium and selenium
are usually paired together because they partner together. Think of
selenium as like the ignition key for your thyroid. Without it,
your thyroids raw materials are just sitting there because it
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doesn't have an engine that's running. So if you struggle
to lose weight despite doing everything right, selenium may be
the hidden key for you. The next one are b vitamins.
Specifically B twelve, B six, and folate. These are your
body's energy vitamins. They're essential for methylation, which is a
process that helps you get rid of a toxin known
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as homocystine. Homocystin can cause damage to your blood vessels
create inflammation, so if you're not methylating properly, homocystine levels
start to climb. B vitamins are essential for neurotransmitter production serotonin, dopemine, nouropinephrin, epinephrine,
and most importantly, watch this for converting your food into
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usable fuel. Without B vitamins, you can eat all the
proteins and fats and restrict the carbs all you want,
but your body doesn't physically metabolize them effectively. B twelve
is a super powerful nutrient. It works directly with folate
to help you produce more red blood cells and to
protect against DNA damage. It also is the powerhouse behind
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feeding your mitochondria, so you produce ATP or cellular energy.
Deficiencies in B twelve you probably know them fatigue, weakness,
brain fog, and watch this the inability to lose weight.
B six plays a huge role in amino acid metabolism,
so protein digestion, neurotransmitter production, and again the reduction of
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homocysteine fold eate is required for methylation. Methylation is the
process of activating certain vitamins and minerals in your body
and getting rid of the toxin called homocysteine, so it
helps with detoxification together. B six and B twelve are
your body's energy metabolizers. Who's usually deficient in this well.
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First of all, if you've been doing vegan or vegetarian diets,
you guys are especially vulnerable to B twelve deficiency because
B twelve is primarily found in animal based foods, grass
fed beef, liver, organs, et cetera, fish, chicken, turkey. The
result is going to be fatigue, depression, very difficult times
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concentrating and watch this the inability to lose weight without
beat of vitamins. Your mitochondria physically cannot burn fat at
a molecular level. Thus we start to burn sugars, we
start craving sweets, and we start shifting over into sugar
metabolism supplementation. You know, here's the idea. You generally want
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to take a fully complex B vitamin, make sure it's methylated,
so the folate in B twelve should say methyl folate
and methyl cobolamine because it's best for absorption B twelve
usually around one thousand micrograms a day. Restoring B vitamins
will help to increase your energy, improve your mood, enhance
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your cognition, and again it helps with your body's ability
to metabolize your fuel instead of storing it. So I
want you to think of B vitamins as like a
spark plug. So we have the ignition, remember selenium, the ignition,
We have the energy with magnesium and zinc and everything
we discussed in the first segment, and then we have
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the spark that comes from the B vitamins. Without them,
your fat burning engine physically doesn't run. But with them
we get a sustained, easy fat burning power that makes
it possible for you to lose weight. Okay, Number eight
in the top ten list of nutrients that you need
in order to get your body burning fat and if
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you're deficient in the mid will explain why you're not
losing weight. Omega three fatty acids. These are unique because
they don't just support metabolism, but they regulate inflammation, which
is a hidden driver often of weight loss. Resistance. Chronic
inflammation blocks insulen's ability to push sugar into the cell
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to burn properly. It disrupts leptin signaling, it slows down
fatty acid oxidations, and omega three oils can reverse this
process and help you to start burning fat. Specifically, EPA
and DHA. These are the omega threes that you find
in things like fish oils. They've been shown directly to
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improve insulin sensitivity. What this means is that sugar can
be absorbed into your cells easier, and they reduce leptin resistance.
We talked about that earlier at the top of the hour.
Leptin resistance makes you feel hungry all the time and
you don't get the signal in your brain to burn fat.
It's a hormone that should be burning fat. So if
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you want to help to fix leptin resistance, take more
omega three fatty acids. Why are we so deficient these
days in omega threes. Well, our standard American modernized diet
is overloaded with the omega six fatty acids. Seed oil
specifically are destroying this. Horn and saff flour and sunflower
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and canola, these are all loaded with omega three fatty acids.
The average American is doing somewhere between twenty to thirty
times the amount of omega six is then they need
the perfect consumption in the ratio should be two omega
sixes for every one omega three. See the problem today
is if you're eating conventional diets, you're doing on average
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twenty or thirty omega sixes for only one omega three.
It promotes inflammation, which is going to make you not
lose weight. Restrictive diets often make this worse because people
think if I cut out fat right, if I go
low fat, I can lose weight. But in reality most
people end up cutting out the fats they need to
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physically burn fat. How would you know if your omega
three fatty acid deficient. Well, number one, your joints are
going to hurt, they ache, your brain gets foggy, there's
often times depression, and again can't lose weight despite doing
everything right. Why chronic inflammation is the result of having
low omega oils. Where can we get this from? Well?
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Natural sources include wild caught salmon, sardines, anchovis, mackerel, and
to a lesser extent, you can even get them from
things like flax, seeds and chia seeds, but plant sources
provide what's called ALA. It is an omega three fatty acid,
but it's not as efficient as EPA and DHA, which
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is why the CA foods right, salmon's sardines an Chov's
mackerel are usually the preferred source of your omega oils.
What if we need to dose this, What if we
need to help you start losing weights, Well, we generally
say three thousand milligrams of a DP sorry an EPA,
DHA omega oil be taken with your meals. So you
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do three thousand with lunch, you can do three thousand
with dinner, and if you have high levels of inflammation,
you could even go as high as four or five
or six thousand with lunch and with dinner. High doses
can help you to restore the balance of the omegas
in your body, improve enslom sensitivity, and best of all,
increase fat burning. And most people will notice as they
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start to supplement properly with the omega oils that their
cravings also disappear and their energy starts to come back quickly.
So I want you to think of an omega oil
as the oil of your metabolic engine. It's what's helping
it to burn efficiently and easily. Without it, everything gets inflamed.
Imagine like running on a car that's been having the
same oil in it for twenty years. It's just grinding
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its thick sludge. So if we get your oil changed
in your body by upp in your omegas, your fat
BURNI engine will run efficiently and smoothly, and fat BURNI
becomes possible again. Okay, Number nine. Co Q ten or
what should be called co enzyme because it's ten an
enzyme an assistance to it, coenzyme Q ten. It is
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an overlooked essential nutrient for fat metabolism. Its primary role,
ready for this is to shuttle electrons into the mitochondria
to turn on the process that takes fat and burns
it into energy. So, in very simple terms, if you
don't have enough co Q ten, your mitochondria is not
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producing energy and fat is not burning. And here's the kicker.
Co Q ten levels naturally go down as we age,
which is one of the reasons why when you get
to forty forty five or fifty most people are like, oh,
I'm just not losing weight, So ready for this. It's
not your genetics. It's not your age, it's the fact
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that you have not been supplementing a very essential nutrient
needed for fat burning. One of the biggest culprits also
behind deficiency is if you take a statin medication, which
are usually prescribed to lower cholesterol, it blocks the very
pathway in your body that produces COQ ten. This is why, unfortunately,
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one of the major side effects of taking a statin
is weight gain, and if you do it for long
periods of time, it leads to insulin sensitivity, which leads
to diabetes, which leads to things like fatty liver and
other issues, and then obesity starts to kick in. This
is why, again so many people will complain that, well,
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you know, like my metaboism slowed down when I got
to be in my mid forties. I guess it's just natural. No,
it's an indication you're not boosting your COQ ten. If
you want a meal plan, a recipe, pack, a guide
that shows you how to boost these nutrients naturally, I've
done all the hard work for you. We have a
Functional Approach to Weight Loss ebook. It has a four
week meal plan, a four week shopping list, a four
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week recipe, pack and all the resources that you need
to turn your metabolic engine for fat burning on. My
question is this, do you want to lose ten, twenty
or thirty pounds effortlessly? Download the Functional Approach to Weight
Loss ebook. Simply text your name, your email and the
word weight loss right now to seven oh four nine
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I'm going to show you exactly the steps you can
implement at home to figure out am I deficient in
my nutrients? To come up with the plan of action
and make it effective. Seven oh four nine zero six
to zero nine four. Where can we get co Q
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ten from through our diet? Well, typically the source is
going to be things that you might not eat on
a regular basis, like organs, so liver or heart, as
well as the oily fatty fish. But the amounts are
usually relatively low, So for almost all adults, it's recommended
that you dose yourself with a co Q ten supplement
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every day. Ubic one all the ol is more bioavailable
than ubiq one known, so there's two types of coq
tens available on the markets. You want to look for
the ubik one NOLL. A daily dose of somewhere between
two hundred to three hundred milligrams will help to support
your metabolism. And watch this. The moment you start activating
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your coq ten levels, energy productivity goes up, fat burning
becomes possible again. I want you to think of COQ
ten as like the battery charger of your metabolic engine.
Without it, batteries run flat and nothing works with it.
Systems power up, weight loss becomes available, and it becomes
active again. And here we go, guys, number ten. Not
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that it's like in the lowest on the list, it's
just these are the top ten that help you to
burn fat. Is chromium. It is an essential nutrient. Again,
a trace mineral is very powerful though in your role
of sugar metabolism. Chromium inenhances the activation of the insult receptor.
It physically helps to move sugar into the cells where
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your cells can burn them for energy. So, without adequate
levels of chromium, blood sugar levels swing out of control,
Insulin resistance can become a active and you stop burning fat.
Chromium deficiencies will usually show up like this, I just
need something sweet. Like if you ever feel like you
can't resist something sweet. I've had people to say, oh,
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I'm just a carboholic. No, you're chromium deficient. Your body's
crying out for chromium because without it, blood sugar spike
and crash and spike and crash, which drives hunger and
drives fat storage. Most diets today are extremely low in chromium.
Stress aging and high sugar intakes will also complete or
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deplete chromium. Restrictive diets again usually avoid foods that are
high in chromium. So what are those well? Number one, broccoli,
green beans, Turkey huge amounts of chromium in turkey. If
you're going to supplement, look for something called chromium picanolate.
It's the most effective form. Anywhere between two hundred to
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four hundred micrograms a day can restore some your balance
of chromium quickly. And when chromium levels are restored, watch
this guy's insolin levels start to get better, cravings for
sweets start to disappear, and what happens, fat burning kicks on.
It is a massive missing link for people who struggle
with carbs. If you're constantly saying like, oh, I just
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crave sweets, chromium. If you're constantly thinking, man, if I
could just shut off this desire to eat food, I'm
just hungry all the time. Zinc. Do you guys see this?
The nutrients I'm going through today will help you to
turn your body into a fat burning engine. And so
there you have it. We did it. The top ten
nutrients that are secretly blocking weight loss. This segment, we
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talked about selenium, B vitamins, omega three, fatty acids, coq ten,
and chromium. Selenium turns on your thyroid. B vitamins ignate, ignite,
ignite your energy. Omega three's calm down inflammation and they
restore insulin sensitivity, and coq ten recharges your mitochondria, while
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chromium helps you to balance your blood sugars. You pair
that with the other top five magnesium, vitamin D, zinc, iron,
and iodine, and these ten nutrients are now a blueprint
for your metabolism to burn fat fast. Because remember, weight
loss resistance is not laziness or willpower. It's chemistry. It's
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hormone balancing, and it's nutrients. Restrictive diets and all this
like difficultly punishing exercises. You know, what they do, they
can make it so that you don't lose weight. This
is why most people feel so frustrated with conventional weight
loss plans. Your starving yourself when in fact you should
be feeding yourself nutrients. This is why, again, the functional
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approach is different. We're not gonna punish your body, We're
gonna nourish it. We're gonna say if you can find
out your levels and re establish them. Your body was
designed to burn fat for energy, so you should be
burning fat, and the question should be why am I not?
And so now you know, maybe you're deficient in the
top ten nutrients. Download the Functional Approach to Weight Loss
ebook now. It has all the resources for you seven
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Good afternoon, Happy Saturday. You're listening to the Asks Doctor
Earned Show. Hey, my name is doctor Aaron Ernst, and
this is the show where pounds are shed, disease is Dead,
and where you get to be set free from your
health promise. We are here today to uncover the truth
of healing, of health, and of weight loss from a
functional perspective. Today I'm tackling a question that I hear
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almost every single week, which is why, doctor Ernst, can
I not lose weight despite me doing everything right. I'm dieting,
I'm fasting, I'm exercising, and I'm not losing the weight
that I want to lose. It is the most common
frustration today in health, and most people will blame themselves
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and assume that they're somehow defective or broken. The truth is,
weight loss resistance is not a character flaw. It is chemistry.
It is your body not withholding the results out of spite,
but instead because your metabolism is not responding to what's missing,
what's depleted, what's been stripped away from years of restrictive diets,
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process foods, over exercising, and just misbelief, misunderstanding. We've been
taught to believe that weight loss is something as simple
as calories in versus calories out. But the reality is this,
fat burning is a highly sophisticated biochemical process. It requires
enzymes and cofactors and metabolic pathways that need nutrients at
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optimal levels. No nutrients, no fat burning, period. So today's
show topic is the top ten nutrients you need to
turn on your fat burning engine. What happens when you
restrict calories, or cut out food groups or train excessively.
In the gems, you don't just burn calories, but you
burn through your nutrient reserves. Magnesium can be depleted through sweat,
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vitamin D drops because of lack of healthy fats. Zinc
levels get lost when you cut out animal proteins because
you think I have to eat less to lose weight,
and over time the nutrients that you need to burn
fat are gone. Imagine trying to run your car without
oil or spark plugs or gas. You can have a
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full tank, but the engine's not going to fire. That's
exactly what happens when weight loss resistance kicks in. You
eat less and move more, but without the engine having
the nutrients it needs, your metabolism doesn't get sparked. So
all during the show today, guys, I'm giving away our
functional Approach to weight loss. It teaches you how to
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look at weight loss not as an equation work out, harder,
eat less, but how to go through a hormonal revolution,
a detoxification, and to feed you the proper nutrients you need.
Inside this ebook, listen to this chapter four, A four
week done for you highly nutrient dense meal plan with
a shopping list and supportive recipes, along with my secret
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It is yours free right now. Text your name your
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of weight loss and start literally melting fat while you sleep,
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literally ten twenty thirty forty fifty pounds in a matter
of two to three months. You have a fat burning
engine in your body. You have a fat burning switch
that we talked about last week. Turn on the switch
now today is feed that fat burning engine. In today's show,
we're going to uncover the top ten nutrients that if
your deficient den will make it nearly impossible to lose weight.
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So again, if you want to get the ebook with
the diet and the guidelines, it's free, text the word
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Just remember your name, your email, and the word weight loss.
And the masterclass on the thirteenth of September is yours
free and the ebook is yours free. What are the
top ten nutrients We're gonna talk about that all during
the show today, the deficiencies that are epidemic in the
United States and why conventional doctors never test for these.
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In the beginning first half the show, magnesium, vitamin D, zinc,
iron iodine. I know what you were thinking, right, You're like,
oh god, doctors. I thought you were going to talk
about like some super specific nutrient that if I take
this herb or this extract or this weight loss pill,
I'll start burning fat fast. Nah. It's real, basic, guys.
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You have an engine that burns fat and it requires
key nutrients magnesium, vitamin, D, zinc, iron iodine. I'm gonna
show you how each of these, if they're deficient, directly
affect your fat burning. I'm gonna teach you the foods
you need to eat that are loaded with them, and
if you want to supplement evan, you direct recommendations on
what to take to turn on the fuel of your engine,
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and then during the second half of the show, I'll
show you the other five. So let's begin magnesium. If
we were to think of it, I want you to
think of magnesium as a master mineral. It is involved,
listen to this in more than three hundred enzymatic reactions
within your body. Many of these reactions regulate how you
burn fat produce energy. And watch this how you manage
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your blood sugars. If you don't have enough magnesium, your
metabolism is like a car just stuck in first gear,
sputters along without ever really gaining true momentum. One of
magnesium's most important jobs is to regulate what's called ATP production.
It is your body's universal energy currency. Your mitochondria, which
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are the powerhouses of your cells, need magnesium to turn
food into energy. So if you're low in magnesium ATP
or energy productivity slows down. And if ATP slows down,
fat burning cannot happen, and even if it does, it's
very sluggish. Magnesium is also crucial for insulin sensitivity. Remember,
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insulin is the hormone that tells your cells absorbs sugar
from the blood, and when you're deficient to magnesium, insulin
cannot do its job well, which means the excess sugar
rises outside of the cell, which signals fat storage and
weight loss becomes very difficult because when you're hormonally being
told to store fat, you physically can't burn it. This
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is why magnesium deficiency is almost always directly linked to
type two diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and even obesity. So how
is it that we get so magnesium deficient? I'm gonna
be blunt and honest with you. Almost nearly one hundred
percent of people we work with are deficient to magnesium.
It's lost through your sweat. So watch this. The harder
you work out to lose weight, the more magnesium you lose.
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It's depleted by stress. Even caffeine can deplete magnesium. Low
carb dieters especially become magnesium deficient because they often avoid
things that are high with magnesium that tend to have
higher carbohydrate sources like nuts and seeds. In other words,
the harder you push your body with diet exercise, the
more magnesium you lose. So symptoms of magnesium deficiency. How
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would I know if my magnesium is low. Well, first,
muscle cramps, Charlie horses aches, you're not sleeping very well,
you're craving sugars, and you're tired all the time. Ding
y ding ding ding, Like come on, doctor Ernest, that's
me right there. Many people don't realize that the signs
of deficiency are that, and they assume that it just
means that you need to work harder or be more
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disciplined with your diet. But what you really need is
more magnesium. The good news is restoring magnesium levels can
increase your energy, calm your ravings, and restore your body's
natural ability to burn fat sources. How can I eat
more magnesium? Great question. Pumpkin seeds, almonds, spinach, avocados, and
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my favorite raw dark chocolate. No matter how much we try,
when we become restrictive with our diets, we often lead
to creating a nutrient deficiency. Supplementation for most people for
magnesium is almost necessary because the average person is severely
magnesium deficient. The best forms of magnesium, because there's a
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lot of them, magnesium glycinate, magnesium citrate, magnesium malleate. They're
well absorbed, easy on the stomach, stay away from the
magnesium oxides. Those are usually laxatives. A safe range on
a daily basis is between four hundred to five hundred milligrams,
generally taken at nights, since magnesium helps to relax your
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nervous system, promote sleep, and it is again essential for
weight loss. Think of magnesium as like a fuel additive.
It allows the fat burning engine to run cleanly and efficiently,
and without it it sputters and you can't engage weight loss. Okay.
Number two vitamin D. It is one of the most
misunderstood nutrients because technically it's a hormone, and remember, hormones
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are involved in fat burning. Vitamin D is again often
labeled as a vitamin, but it functions as a hormone
precursor and it affects your genetics. It directly controls fat storage.
It's responsible for insulin sensitivity and even thyroid functionality. So
when vitamin D is low, weight loss becomes a very
difficult uphill battle. One of vitamin d's primary roles, again
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is hormone regulation, So ready lots of vitamin D really
good leptin sensitivity, andleptin is the hormone that your brain
releases to tell you I'm full, turn on fat burning.
So when vitamin D is deficientleptin and resistance develops, you'll
be hungry all the time, you won't lose fat, and
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you'll store it instead. So, in other words, think of
vitamin D as like a truly fat burning hormone. So
without it, your body becomes deaf to the signals of
burn fat. Now we know vitamin D also regulates your metabolism.
Low levels of vitamin D are strongly connected with hypothyroidism,
insulin sensitivity, type two diabetes, and there's even new studies
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showing that fat burning shuts off when vitamin D is
below thirty And why is vitamin D so rampant? Most
people are scared to death of the sun. We slather
on vitamin sorry, we slather on sunscreens which block vitamin
D production in the skin cells, and a lot of
us are taking statins pushing our cholesterol levels down, and
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you can't make vitamin D in your skin in the
presence of sun without adequate levels of healthy cholesterol. Also,
restrictive diets usually lead to vitamin D deficiency because people
think that fatty fish and eggs and butter are often
bad when you want to burn fat. But if you're
trying to lose weight, most people, instead of avoiding these foods,
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these are the very foods you need to consume to
replenish your vitamin D levels. One way to do this
boost your body's vitamin D production naturally twenty minutes in
the sun. No sunscreen, ideally in that twelve to one
o'clock two o'clock range. Twenty minutes. Guys, you're not going
to burn if you just do twenty minutes. Food sources
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wild caught salmon, sardines, mackerel, egg yolks. Truthfully, the sunlight
is a great source of it, but you can also
get it from your food. Most people need to supplement,
and without knowing where your direct vitamin D levels are,
I can only give you a basic recommendation for adults
five to ten thousand international units a day. And if
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you're taking a bioavailable active what'd all call liquid. Remember
D three is fat soluble, so you want it to
be in a liquid suspension. If you're doing it sublingually,
you don't need the K two that everybody talks about.
Oh it doesn't fight a D need K two, Well,
it needs K two to help with absorption, but once
it's in your blood directly from going sublingual, it's a
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much better method. If you're taking a capsular form, make
sure it has K two. If you're taking a liquid
form or sublingual, make sure you're doing between five to
ten thousand units per day. This should help you get
to the fifty to eighty zone that it needs to
be in. So I want you to think of vitamin
D as the light switch for your metabolism. If it's off,
fat burning doesn't happen. If it's on, now your body's engaging.
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And if you have the magnesium that we just talked about,
it's like the fuel source. Zinc is another big one.
Zinc is a trace mineral, and I don't want you
to let the word trace fool you. The impact on
your metabolism for fat burning is profound. Zinc is required
for over two hundred ins amounter reactions within the human body,
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many of which directly affect hormone production, appetite regulation, and
fat burning. One of zinc's most important roles is in
thyroid functionality. It is essential that we have zinc to
turn T four thyroid hormone inactive into active thyroid hormone
T three, So without zinc, the conversion slows down, your
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thyroid becomes sluggish, and you can even have normal thyroid
numbers if zinc is low. Zinc also plays a major
role in regulating appetite hormones, including leptin and grellin. Leptin
signals your brain to say I am full. Grellin, on
the other hand, signals your brain to say I am hungry.
So when zinc is deficient, leptin goes down, meaning I
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don't feel full, and grellin goes up like crazy, and
so I feel hungry all the time. On top of that,
zinc is essential for testosterone production, which is both men
and women. Adequate levels of testosterone increases muscle mass, boost
your metabolism, and can promote fat burning. So low zinc
equals low testosterone, which means a slower metabolism and increase
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fat storage. Why are we so deficient in zinc Because
if we eat a heavily plant based or grain based diet,
the phaelates that are found in grains will bind to
zinc and prevent the absorption. So if you eat a
lot of breads and cookies and crackers and rice and corn,
you're physically blocking the absorption of zinc from the nutrients
you eat. What would be the symptoms of having a
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zinc deficiency well weakened immune system? Hair loss is a
big one, Fatigue and guess what I can't lose? Weight
is a number one symptom of zinc deficiency. Natural sources
of zinc grass fed beef, pumpkin seeds, cashewes, even chickpeas.
A handful of pumpkin seeds can completely restore your zinc
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levels within one day. But for those struggling with weight
loss resistance, we often need to supplement with zinc. So
the forms of therapeutic ranges are between twenty and forty milligrams.
It's important not to overdose it and to make sure
that you're balancing with the other nutrients you need. What
is zinc for fat burning? It is the spark plug,
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So vitamin D was the switch. The D three helps
to turn your fat burning on. Zinc is the spark plugs,
so we're actually firing in the engines and now we
have iron. It's another nutrient that plays a crucial role
in fat metabolism. Again, if you're wondering, like gosh, like
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Iron is a nutrient that is crucial for fat burning
because its main job is to carry oxygen throughout your
blood on hemoglobin, which delivers oxygen to the mitochondria in
your cells. So without oxygen, fat cannot be burned. So
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when iron is deficient, oxygen delivery goes down and the
fat burning drastically slows down. This is why, just so
you guys know, people with anemias are always fatigued and
weak and tired, and they physically can't lose weight simply
because they can't generate energy from lack of oxygen. Restrictive
diets again amplify this problems, especially if you're in the
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zone of like I'm going to avoid red meat in
animal proteins and go vegetarian or vegan, thinking I'll lose
weight by doing that. You can eat all the spinach
in the world, but without vitamin C you very rarely
absorb the iron. Symptoms of iron deficiency fatigue, brittle nails, dizziness.
On a metabolic level, your body shifts into a survival
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mode so you conserve energy and weight loss. Resistance is
a key component behind iron deficiencies. Natural sources of iron.
Where can I get really good healthy irons? Grass, finished
red meats, lamb, buffalo liver, organ meats. Can we get
it from some vegetables like leafy greens and lentils and beans. Yes,
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but you have to pair that with vitamin C like
vegetable and or fruits citrus or bell peppers to absorb
the iron that you need from the vegetables that you eat.
Caution on supplementing iron because too much iron can cause
oxidative stress and boost ferotin, which is a toxin. You
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really need to know your iron levels before you start
to supplement. One of the easiest most bioavailables is called
iron bisclycinate, and if you take somewhere between eighteen to
twenty milligrams on a daily basis, it's usually considered within
the acceptable range. Restoring iron gives you more energy, It
increases your oxygen. It helps with exercise tolerance, so if
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you're tired when you work out, iron can help with that,
and it ultimately helps with fat burning. Okay, Number five iodine.
This is probably the fifth and the last one I'm
gonna be able to talk about before the commercial break
comes up, but I still have five more for you.
Iodine is unique because it's the raw materials needed for
thyroid hormone production. Remember, your thyroid gland combines io with
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an amino acid called tyrosine to make thyroid hormone, so
without iodine, your body can't make thyroid hormone. And remember
thyroid hormone says burn fat, feel great. Even a slight
iodine deficiency can cause metabolic symptoms. It lowers energy, it
increases fatigue, and it promotes weight gain. This is why
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iodine deficiencies used to cause goiters and would cause slow metabolisms,
and today it's still an epidemic issue because modern diets
are surprisingly very low in iodine. Most people are told
to avoid salts, which is typically iodonized, and when we
shift over into healthy foods, often they're not containing iodine.
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So heavy salt users may not be getting iodine if
you're using hemalin and celtic salts to the right amounts
plus fluorine. Chlorine and bromine compete directly with iodine, so
if we're drinking conventional tap water or a lot of
bait goods, or even medications that have fluoring chlorinimbromin inside
of them, we block iodine absorption. Food's highest in iodine seafood, eggs, kelps,
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a lot of the seaweed, vegetables, and remember you can
be iodine deficient, even if your thyroid says it's working perfectly.
Kelp and norri and eggs are probably the best sources
of iodine across the board. Supplementation can be effective, but
it has to be done very carefully because you need
to have a bioavailable organic I'll call it food grade
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iodine that you can consume. So typically we don't recommend
supplementing directly with iodine. We'd rather see you eat more
seaweed and kelp and norri and eggs to get your
iodine levels up. One quick test you can do to
find out if you're iodine deficient. Run off to the
local pharmacy, buy a usp iodine tincture. Take that tincture
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and paint a good two to three inch square on
your arm. It'll turn a dark orangeish color because it's
the iodine in your skin. And then set a timer
and find out how long does it take for that
patch to disappear. Here's the golden rule. If that patch
is gone in less than three hours, severe iodine deficiency
if it's gone within less than six hours, A moderate
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iron dyine deficiency if it's gone within twelve hours. A
slight iodine deficiency if you still see it the next day,
your iodine levels are good. This is not a direct
like immediate, I'll call it scientific method, but it's a quick,
easy way for you to find out where are my
iodine levels at. You would hope to God that you
wake up the next day and you can still see
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that patch on your skin, because it tells you you
have a decent amount of iodine. So let's recap this
first half of our journey. Today we covered magnesium, We
covered vitamin D, we covered zinc. We covered iron and iodine,
the five foundational nutrients that form the building blocks of
your metabolism. Magnesium again is essential for energy productivity, insulin sensitivity.
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Vitamin D regulates your hormones like leptin and thyroid. Zinc
is the spark plug for the conversion of your thyroid
hormones and appetite control. If you're going like man, I
wish I could feel fuller, faster and not be so hungry.
Rather than appetite suppressants, just lift your zinc levels. Iron
carries oxygen that makes it available to burn fat, and
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iodine gives you the raw materials you need for your
thyroid hormone. So do you see a pattern here. These
nutrients are not optional, they're not a nice thing to have.
They are essential for life and essential for fat burning,
and yet they're the first things to be stripped away
when we do heavily restrictive diets and we exercise harder.
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So this explains why so many people struggle on a
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don't go away. When we come back. The next five
fat burning nutrients that if you don't have them, it's
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going to stall your ability to lose weight fast. Seas
Doctor ourn Show, don't go way, We'll be right back.
Welcome back. You're listening to the Ask Doctor Earns Show.
My name is doctor Aaron Ernst. Hey, it's the show
where pounds are shed, thees is dead, and where you
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get to be said free for your health problems. Hey.
In the first half of today's program, we uncovered five
foundational nutrients that will make weight loss resistance nearly impossible.
What I mean by that is you will burn fat
tremendously fast when you address the top five foundational nutrients.
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What are they? Magnesium, vitamin D, zinc, iron, and iodine.
What Doctor arnestethought you were going to talk about some
sort of special herb or some new fan dangled, some
sort of supplement that's like if you take it, you're
guaranteed to lose weight. No, we're talking about the basic
foundation of you have an engine inside your body that
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is designed to burn fat. And a lot of you
the switch is off. We talked about this last week.
If you didn't hear the podcast or they listen to
the episode, it's called Turn On your Fat Burning Switch.
It's available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, even WBT dot com.
Just literally go back and listen to how to turn
on the fat Burning Switch. And today's topic is once
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that switches on, how do you get the engine revd
and going. But those first five guys are only half
the story, because these foundational nutrients are like the fine
tuning gears of your metabolism. There are the compounds that
regulate your thyroid hormones, activate your fat burning power, stabilize
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your blood sugars, turn on your mitochondria, and as we discussed,
zinc is the number one nutrient that cuts down cravings
and makes you feel foot. Look at this being live,
feel full faster, rather than taking appetite suppressants or drugs
to make yourself not want to eat. If you get
your zinc levels in the right ranges, your body will
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say no thank you to excess foods. I'm hungry when
i need to be, I'm full when i need to be,
and I'm going to burn fat efficiently. Conventional medicine rarely
talks about these nutrients. Your doctor may run some basic
panels and if you're lucky, you'll find vitamin D and iron,
but they almost rarely ever check the newer nutrients we're
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going to talk about selenium, COQ ten, chromium, B vitamins.
These deficiencies are extremely rampant, mostly because of soil depletion,
process diets, chronic stress of modern life. And what makes
matters worse is that if you cut calories because you're
only eating chicken and broccoli, or you follow a strict
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vegetarian vegan, low fat regimen, you eliminate foods that give
you these nutrients that you need to burn fat. So
this means that the longer you diet, the deeper your
deficiency and the more resistant your body becomes at burning fat.
So in the second segment, I'm going to walk you
through the next five critical nutrients. Selenium the garter of
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your thyroid, B vitamins your energy components, your energy vitamin,
the omega three fatty acids, your anti inflammatories, and coq
ten your mitochondrial powerhouse with chromium, a sugar balancing mineral.
Each of these play a very unique role in fat burning.
So miss just one and your metabolism starts to slow down.
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Restore them, however, and your body remembers how to burn
fat by itself. So again I'm gonna show you how
do we come deficient in them? What are the foods
we need to eat to load them up, and how
do we supplement them properly? And again, remember this isn't
like a quick fix or some sort of a fat diet.
It's truly just about getting back to the basics. Given
your body the raw materials it needs to rev the
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engine for fat burning. And again, I'm gonna say this
over and over again. The patients that I work with
and when I test these nutrients, eighty to ninety percent
of them come back deficient. And I look at them
and I'm like, well, no, wonder, you're not burning fat,
And they're usually going, well, what's the secret diet to
fix my fat? Just you need to get these nutrients
back on track. Again. Hey, if you want a diet
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nine four. So hey, let's dive right into the remaining
five nutrients, because this could very well be the missing
piece you need to turn on your fat burning ability.
Selenium again a trace mineral. It plays an outstanding role
in metabolism. It is essential for the conversion of inactive
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thyroid hormone into active thyroid hormone. We talked about how
a lot of the other nutrients we discussed earlier do that,
zinc being one of them. Remember T four, the thyroid
hormone that comes out of your thyroid is inactive. T
three active, however, ignites your metabolism and turns on fat burning,
So if selenium levels are low, the conversion process stalls
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and you're left with a very sluggish metabolism. Selenium also
is protective against oxidative stress and damage to your thyroid.
Selenium dependent enzymes act like shields, protecting thyroid cells from damage,
specifically if there's an autoimmunity called hashimotos where the thyroid
itself is being attacked. So without selenium, your thyroid becomes
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more vulnerable, leading to dysfunctions and autommunity. Deficiencies in Selenium
is quite common today because again, foods today are grown
in soil very much depleted with nutrients and minerals. In
most regions the soil is very selenium deficient and zinc
and iodine and iron, so therefore the foods we eat
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today are generally lower in these nutrients than they were ten, fifteen,
twenty thirty years ago. Plus if you have a restrictive
diet that's removing animal proteins. If you're thinking I'll just
go vegetarian to lose more weight, you can run very
low in selenium quickly. Weight loss is tied directly to
selenium because it connects to thyroid function. So fatigue and
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hair loss and brain fog and difficulty shedding pounds despite
eating the perfect diet is the classic symptoms of a
selenium deficiency, and these symptoms are frequently misdiagnosed as being
some sort of hypothyroid. The best source of selenium are
brazil nuts. Did you know that just two brazil nuts
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a day gives you all the selenium your body needs
to make sure that you're burning fat like crazy. So
notice I'm giving you guys these kind of key ingredients.
The diet in the ebook is full of this. If
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just implement what I'm talking to about today and watch
as you lose five ten to fifteen pounds in a
couple weeks. Another good source of selenium is salmon, turkey,
and eggs. Supplementation has been very effective, especially if you're
pairing with the other nutrients we discussed vitamin D and
zinc and magnesium. A daily dose of two hundred micrograms
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of selenium is the ideal method. Now, remember there's several
types of seleniums, so the celeno mathianine is usually the
best form. It ensures that you're going to be absorbing
iodine properly, and it helps with thyroid functionality. In fact,
research shows that if you supplement with selenium without using
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the magnesium and the iodine and the zinc that we
discussed before, it can actually change thyroid functionality for the worst.
This is why iodine and zinc and magnesium and selenium
are usually paired together because they partner together. Think of
selenium as like the ignition key for your thyroid. Without it,
your thyroids raw materials are just sitting there because it
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doesn't have an engine that's running. So if you struggle
to lose weight despite doing everything right, selenium may be
the hidden key for you. The next one are b vitamins.
Specifically B twelve, B six, and folate. These are your
body's energy vitamins. They're essential for methylation, which is a
process that helps you get rid of a toxin known
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as homocystine. Homocystin can cause damage to your blood vessels
create inflammation, so if you're not methylating properly, homocystine levels
start to climb. B vitamins are essential for neurotransmitter production serotonin, dopemine, nouropinephrin, epinephrine,
and most importantly, watch this for converting your food into
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usable fuel. Without B vitamins, you can eat all the
proteins and fats and restrict the carbs all you want,
but your body doesn't physically metabolize them effectively. B twelve
is a super powerful nutrient. It works directly with folate
to help you produce more red blood cells and to
protect against DNA damage. It also is the powerhouse behind
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feeding your mitochondria, so you produce ATP or cellular energy.
Deficiencies in B twelve you probably know them fatigue, weakness,
brain fog, and watch this the inability to lose weight.
B six plays a huge role in amino acid metabolism,
so protein digestion, neurotransmitter production, and again the reduction of
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homocysteine fold eate is required for methylation. Methylation is the
process of activating certain vitamins and minerals in your body
and getting rid of the toxin called homocysteine, so it
helps with detoxification together. B six and B twelve are
your body's energy metabolizers. Who's usually deficient in this well.
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First of all, if you've been doing vegan or vegetarian diets,
you guys are especially vulnerable to B twelve deficiency because
B twelve is primarily found in animal based foods, grass
fed beef, liver, organs, et cetera, fish, chicken, turkey. The
result is going to be fatigue, depression, very difficult times
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concentrating and watch this the inability to lose weight without
beat of vitamins. Your mitochondria physically cannot burn fat at
a molecular level. Thus we start to burn sugars, we
start craving sweets, and we start shifting over into sugar
metabolism supplementation. You know, here's the idea. You generally want
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to take a fully complex B vitamin, make sure it's methylated,
so the folate in B twelve should say methyl folate
and methyl cobolamine because it's best for absorption B twelve
usually around one thousand micrograms a day. Restoring B vitamins
will help to increase your energy, improve your mood, enhance
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your cognition, and again it helps with your body's ability
to metabolize your fuel instead of storing it. So I
want you to think of B vitamins as like a
spark plug. So we have the ignition, remember selenium, the ignition,
We have the energy with magnesium and zinc and everything
we discussed in the first segment, and then we have
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the spark that comes from the B vitamins. Without them,
your fat burning engine physically doesn't run. But with them
we get a sustained, easy fat burning power that makes
it possible for you to lose weight. Okay, Number eight
in the top ten list of nutrients that you need
in order to get your body burning fat and if
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you're deficient in the mid will explain why you're not
losing weight. Omega three fatty acids. These are unique because
they don't just support metabolism, but they regulate inflammation, which
is a hidden driver often of weight loss. Resistance. Chronic
inflammation blocks insulen's ability to push sugar into the cell
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to burn properly. It disrupts leptin signaling, it slows down
fatty acid oxidations, and omega three oils can reverse this
process and help you to start burning fat. Specifically, EPA
and DHA. These are the omega threes that you find
in things like fish oils. They've been shown directly to
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improve insulin sensitivity. What this means is that sugar can
be absorbed into your cells easier, and they reduce leptin resistance.
We talked about that earlier at the top of the hour.
Leptin resistance makes you feel hungry all the time and
you don't get the signal in your brain to burn fat.
It's a hormone that should be burning fat. So if
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you want to help to fix leptin resistance, take more
omega three fatty acids. Why are we so deficient these
days in omega threes. Well, our standard American modernized diet
is overloaded with the omega six fatty acids. Seed oil
specifically are destroying this. Horn and saff flour and sunflower
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and canola, these are all loaded with omega three fatty acids.
The average American is doing somewhere between twenty to thirty
times the amount of omega six is then they need
the perfect consumption in the ratio should be two omega
sixes for every one omega three. See the problem today
is if you're eating conventional diets, you're doing on average
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twenty or thirty omega sixes for only one omega three.
It promotes inflammation, which is going to make you not
lose weight. Restrictive diets often make this worse because people
think if I cut out fat right, if I go
low fat, I can lose weight. But in reality most
people end up cutting out the fats they need to
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physically burn fat. How would you know if your omega
three fatty acid deficient. Well, number one, your joints are
going to hurt, they ache, your brain gets foggy, there's
often times depression, and again can't lose weight despite doing
everything right. Why chronic inflammation is the result of having
low omega oils. Where can we get this from? Well?
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Natural sources include wild caught salmon, sardines, anchovis, mackerel, and
to a lesser extent, you can even get them from
things like flax, seeds and chia seeds, but plant sources
provide what's called ALA. It is an omega three fatty acid,
but it's not as efficient as EPA and DHA, which
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is why the CA foods right, salmon's sardines an Chov's
mackerel are usually the preferred source of your omega oils.
What if we need to dose this, What if we
need to help you start losing weights, Well, we generally
say three thousand milligrams of a DP sorry an EPA,
DHA omega oil be taken with your meals. So you
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do three thousand with lunch, you can do three thousand
with dinner, and if you have high levels of inflammation,
you could even go as high as four or five
or six thousand with lunch and with dinner. High doses
can help you to restore the balance of the omegas
in your body, improve enslom sensitivity, and best of all,
increase fat burning. And most people will notice as they
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start to supplement properly with the omega oils that their
cravings also disappear and their energy starts to come back quickly.
So I want you to think of an omega oil
as the oil of your metabolic engine. It's what's helping
it to burn efficiently and easily. Without it, everything gets inflamed.
Imagine like running on a car that's been having the
same oil in it for twenty years. It's just grinding
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its thick sludge. So if we get your oil changed
in your body by upp in your omegas, your fat
BURNI engine will run efficiently and smoothly, and fat BURNI
becomes possible again. Okay, Number nine. Co Q ten or
what should be called co enzyme because it's ten an
enzyme an assistance to it, coenzyme Q ten. It is
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an overlooked essential nutrient for fat metabolism. Its primary role,
ready for this is to shuttle electrons into the mitochondria
to turn on the process that takes fat and burns
it into energy. So, in very simple terms, if you
don't have enough co Q ten, your mitochondria is not
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producing energy and fat is not burning. And here's the kicker.
Co Q ten levels naturally go down as we age,
which is one of the reasons why when you get
to forty forty five or fifty most people are like, oh,
I'm just not losing weight, So ready for this. It's
not your genetics. It's not your age, it's the fact
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that you have not been supplementing a very essential nutrient
needed for fat burning. One of the biggest culprits also
behind deficiency is if you take a statin medication, which
are usually prescribed to lower cholesterol, it blocks the very
pathway in your body that produces COQ ten. This is why, unfortunately,
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one of the major side effects of taking a statin
is weight gain, and if you do it for long
periods of time, it leads to insulin sensitivity, which leads
to diabetes, which leads to things like fatty liver and
other issues, and then obesity starts to kick in. This
is why, again so many people will complain that, well,
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you know, like my metaboism slowed down when I got
to be in my mid forties. I guess it's just natural. No,
it's an indication you're not boosting your COQ ten. If
you want a meal plan, a recipe, pack, a guide
that shows you how to boost these nutrients naturally, I've
done all the hard work for you. We have a
Functional Approach to Weight Loss ebook. It has a four
week meal plan, a four week shopping list, a four
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week recipe, pack and all the resources that you need
to turn your metabolic engine for fat burning on. My
question is this, do you want to lose ten, twenty
or thirty pounds effortlessly? Download the Functional Approach to Weight
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word weight loss right now to seven oh four nine
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book to you and you get access to a masterclass
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I'm going to show you exactly the steps you can
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ten from through our diet? Well, typically the source is
going to be things that you might not eat on
a regular basis, like organs, so liver or heart, as
well as the oily fatty fish. But the amounts are
usually relatively low, So for almost all adults, it's recommended
that you dose yourself with a co Q ten supplement
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every day. Ubic one all the ol is more bioavailable
than ubiq one known, so there's two types of coq
tens available on the markets. You want to look for
the ubik one NOLL. A daily dose of somewhere between
two hundred to three hundred milligrams will help to support
your metabolism. And watch this. The moment you start activating
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your coq ten levels, energy productivity goes up, fat burning
becomes possible again. I want you to think of COQ
ten as like the battery charger of your metabolic engine.
Without it, batteries run flat and nothing works with it.
Systems power up, weight loss becomes available, and it becomes
active again. And here we go, guys, number ten. Not
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that it's like in the lowest on the list, it's
just these are the top ten that help you to
burn fat. Is chromium. It is an essential nutrient. Again,
a trace mineral is very powerful though in your role
of sugar metabolism. Chromium inenhances the activation of the insult receptor.
It physically helps to move sugar into the cells where
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your cells can burn them for energy. So, without adequate
levels of chromium, blood sugar levels swing out of control,
Insulin resistance can become a active and you stop burning fat.
Chromium deficiencies will usually show up like this, I just
need something sweet. Like if you ever feel like you
can't resist something sweet. I've had people to say, oh,
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I'm just a carboholic. No, you're chromium deficient. Your body's
crying out for chromium because without it, blood sugar spike
and crash and spike and crash, which drives hunger and
drives fat storage. Most diets today are extremely low in chromium.
Stress aging and high sugar intakes will also complete or
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deplete chromium. Restrictive diets again usually avoid foods that are
high in chromium. So what are those well? Number one, broccoli,
green beans, Turkey huge amounts of chromium in turkey. If
you're going to supplement, look for something called chromium picanolate.
It's the most effective form. Anywhere between two hundred to
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four hundred micrograms a day can restore some your balance
of chromium quickly. And when chromium levels are restored, watch
this guy's insolin levels start to get better, cravings for
sweets start to disappear, and what happens, fat burning kicks on.
It is a massive missing link for people who struggle
with carbs. If you're constantly saying like, oh, I just
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crave sweets, chromium. If you're constantly thinking, man, if I
could just shut off this desire to eat food, I'm
just hungry all the time. Zinc. Do you guys see this?
The nutrients I'm going through today will help you to
turn your body into a fat burning engine. And so
there you have it. We did it. The top ten
nutrients that are secretly blocking weight loss. This segment, we
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talked about selenium, B vitamins, omega three, fatty acids, coq ten,
and chromium. Selenium turns on your thyroid. B vitamins ignate, ignite,
ignite your energy. Omega three's calm down inflammation and they
restore insulin sensitivity, and coq ten recharges your mitochondria, while
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chromium helps you to balance your blood sugars. You pair
that with the other top five magnesium, vitamin D, zinc, iron,
and iodine, and these ten nutrients are now a blueprint
for your metabolism to burn fat fast. Because remember, weight
loss resistance is not laziness or willpower. It's chemistry. It's
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hormone balancing, and it's nutrients. Restrictive diets and all this
like difficultly punishing exercises. You know, what they do, they
can make it so that you don't lose weight. This
is why most people feel so frustrated with conventional weight
loss plans. Your starving yourself when in fact you should
be feeding yourself nutrients. This is why, again, the functional
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approach is different. We're not gonna punish your body, We're
gonna nourish it. We're gonna say if you can find
out your levels and re establish them. Your body was
designed to burn fat for energy, so you should be
burning fat, and the question should be why am I not?
And so now you know, maybe you're deficient in the
top ten nutrients. Download the Functional Approach to Weight Loss
ebook now. It has all the resources for you seven
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o four nine zero six two zero nine four and
join me for the masterclass on Saturday, September thirteenth. Hey,
thanks for tuning in today. We'll continue this conversation on
how to burn fat every week as we lead up
to the event. But I look forward to seeing you
guys next Saturday. Right here news TUG eleven ten WBT
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