hey guys welcome to the adrenal body type webinar so get some paper and a pen out because you want to take some notes okay this is going to be an awesome webinar so let's get started right now so who am I Dr bur most of you know me for those of you that don't know me um I was in practice for 27 years and in my Northern Virginia office I was a director of my office and I also taught at Howard University as an associate professor in the area of health and nutrition okay I also uh have a best-selling book it's called the seven principles of fat burning okay and I trained over 2500 doctors over these 27 years I delivered over 4,900 seminars and also in my YouTube videos I have over 2,000 now and close to almost 52 million views so you can check me out on YouTube I have a lot of information so that's who I am uh really quickly my story okay so I just want to quickly tell you my story in a thumbnail sketch I was very very very uh unaware of Health growing up I could never just eat a little bit of sugar I would eat a lot of sugar I don't think I've ever ate anything green until I was 28 years old except pistachio ice cream and lime green Jello-O I never ate a vegetable I always Justified it I said I I told people I would eat healthy when I graduate and when I when I have my own place of course that never worked but anyway I lived uh in Wisconsin growing up um and we pretty much ate a lot of junk food All-American diet and my grandmother was an amazing cook she would bake pies and cakes and things and uh uh I would eat them the whole thing um so in high school I wrestled um I usually did very good in the beginning of the year I was usually undefeated towards the end of the year I would burn out because of the energy I I lost because I was eating sugar I would starve my body cut weight you know weigh a certain amount and then pig out right after that and that was really bad so um anyway I did go to state I did wrestle in college uh end up very very um brittle bones I started fracturing my bone so I had a lot of nutritional deficiencies that I was unaware of uh back then because it didn't show up externally it showed up internally with fatigue with um just fragile bones that was actually vitamin D vitamin K2 and probably vitamin C anyway um had a lot of dental work probably every single tooth was filled with amalgam had those out never really helped me because my nutrition just didn't change uh I was in the military uh in the reserves it was in the Army Reserves uh I went into basic training top of my uh group and then when I got to basic training I could barely do a pushup because of my nutrition because of my health was very very weak my recovery was very very low I barely passed the PT test okay you couldn't tell on the outside but the inside was really bad so when I was 28 that's when I hit my lowest point of my health I had chronic fatigue syndrome I had severe constipation I had insomnia there was nights I didn't even sleep one minute the whole night that was like torture because I would lay there and I couldn't fall asleep I had arthritis and my hands and my back I had bloodshot eyes I was searching everywhere we would drive down the street and with my wife and I'd say maybe they can help me maybe they can help me I would I'd come with a bunch of vitamins start taking these I had a warehouse of vitamins and this kept going on and on and on to the point where I'm like you know what I got to do something to make a long story short I found someone that uh set you know just kind of stood back and said okay we're not going to give you more pills we're going to find out what's going on and uh my adrenals were completely burned out my liver was messed up so he started putting on a program that was um very very strict um and I was willing to do anything at that time and so I was like some people are not willing to change I was like hey just tell me what to do I'll do anything um so I started feeling better and I started feeling better and then I I told my wife I said that's it I um there's something to this I want to get into nutrition I want to get into the area of more in depth into nutrition and she says you don't know anything about it I said I'm going to learn so I spent nights and weekends studying flying around the country getting going to postgraduate certifications I was obsessed about it for a long time and I still am as well but anyway I started getting better and better and of course now I want to help other people with the same problems that I had and I have a lot of reality because I had pretty much every single symptom that every single person has told me in fact all the videos that you were watching on YouTube um those those videos are probably all about me because uh and what I did to handle my own body all right so that's my story so um we want to talk about the adrenal body type because this relates to uh not just myself but a lot of other people um but you can see it starts off you know you start off U looking okay and then you notice there you start gaining weight in the midsection bigger bigger and bigger so the adrenal is more midsection weight skinnier legs okay the adrenal gland sits on top of your kidney you got two of them and they're the gland that adapts your body to stress so in other words it changes the physiology of your body to handle and cope with stress stress so if you could imagine a tiger chasing you what would happen to your blood pressure your blood sugar your muscles every adaptation that occurs is like the adrenal adapting your body to that stress State our bodies were not designed to live in a sustained stress environment for that long especially mental stress and um what happens over time time it burns the adrenal glands out so you have chronic fatigue syndrome so basically I'll get into the symptoms but that's really what the adrenal gland does and I think it's important to know the function um oh by the way uh the adrenal gland uh if you get a blood test on the adrenal gland um rarely will it show a problem until sometimes 90% of the adrenal has to be unresponsive before it shows up clinically now you can do a saliva cortisol test and that's a coolest has to do but you have to do it every four hours because it goes on a circadian rhythm okay so but I'm just going to give you all the symptoms so you can kind of indicate it I'm not going to wait for a blood test to tell me I have an adrenal problem because if you have majority of the symptoms then you have it um so number one you're very dispersed thinking all the time excessively um kind of thinking about this and you switch gears over here I guess it's multitasking um it's hard to focus basically your attention goes all over the Place uh sometimes when you go into a room you'll spot things that are out of order because the adrenal glands are all about survival so anything that is against survival like insanities you can't tolerate insanities too well or things out of order or things that are incompetent incompetent people slow people stupid people like you might they might really rub you the wrong way too much um you also have a hard time getting up in the morning you don't feel bright you don't jump out a bed and go yeah you need coffee uh you can't get out of bed sometimes also you're tired during the day okay um since the adrenal gland is a survival gland what you're doing mentally is you're survi you're trying to survive you never feel like you're surviving though you never feel like you're really doing well you're trying but it's you're never getting there you're unsatisfied with your survival um and you're you're basically solving problems 24/7 why because solving problems is a Survival action so your basically adrenal glands are causing you to fixate on problems and constantly even if there's none there you'll you'll you'll think you'll find one right even if you go in a room you might be the person that spots that thing that's not quite right you might have a wonderful day and have that one little thing that haunts you because it's a problem that just sticks with you like like you ignore all the good stuff but you focus on the the bad stuff so that's what happens and that can keep you from sleeping also the stress depletes certain B vitamins as well uh this is a someone that's dispersed so you're bit a bit it's hard to focus so someone's talking you but you're actually over here you're not really listening all the time so that's just the adrenal issue your tolerance for stress is not as high as it should be so if you can tolerate a lot of stress you probably have good adrenals libido is low this is a little uh fence right here um low libido eventually uh also your blood pressure goes up which way am I going here okay dispersed I already talked about that uh inhaler because of asthma allergies and Asthma are adrenals think about what they give you if you have allergies or asthma they give you steroids Bronco steroid inhalers what's that that's adrenal hormones so anything that's treated with adrenal horm hormes is adrenal problem asthma is one allergies is one look at acne is adrenal High androgens blood sugar issues are adrenal because stress can trigger the release of insulin yeah interesting you could become a diabetic through stress events um okay snoring sleep apnea is adrenal as well uh leg cramps why because the ADR with adrenals you lose potassium you lose calcium through the urine wow interesting um also brain fog like you're always foggy you're not as clear um hair loss alopecia is an adrenal it's autoimmune all autoimmune diseases are triggered are treated with prednizone or cortisone why is that because they're triggered by a stress event and they're adrenal issues and because the adrenals control the white blood cells and they control the immune system an area that people don't look at so um what we're trying to do is I want to connect the dots between this kind of goes beyond the diet and we're talking about the stress connection to weight and other problems as well uh hot flashes why because the adrenal glands are the backup gland to the ovaries during menopause so that's another interesting thing uh so we have facial hair that's androgens sinus issues have to use the bathroom frequently especially at night as adrenal um fluid retention cravings for carbs breads salt okay carbohydrates Breads and salt because the adrenal gland basically turns your own food and muscle tissue into sugar which raises the insulin all these people that are insulin resistance it could come from the stress event as well not just the diet so if you're on a keto diet and you're not losing weight well let's look at this let's look at the cortisol connection because that could be why uh loose collagen underneath the arms um memory loss you go you go downstairs and like okay what what am I going in here for loss of names why because the adrenal gland activates cortisol that actually decreases oxygen in the brain it kills brain cells upstairs here's a perfect example of adrenal anything incline going upstairs or up a hill you get out of breath fast you're legs get heavy when you exercise up an incline when you do flat surface exercise you're fine but incline is what you're going to know you're going to run out of oxygen really fast high altitude not good a lot of bloating with adrenal because it affects the digestion think about the flight or fight mechanism shuts down a part of the nervous system that affects digestion um and you'll feel bloated after you eat and your stomach will swell so let's say you wake up in the morning your stomach is a little bit lower and then at the end of the day you're it's like swell out to here that's adrenal could be inflammation too heartburn gird acid reflux all it's all the same thing that's adrenal um low tolerance to incompetent people or low tolerance to stress fly off the handle easily um hard to um hard to just be calm all the time in stressful environments get tired after you eat like I mean all these symptoms really mimic diabetes don't they well that's because cortisol is really close to insulin as far as what what's happening cortisol will actually increase your insulin this is the one of my favorite books is called the CBA Collection of medical illustrations volume four the endocrine system by Frank neet I have probably 10 or 12 of these books because they all they go I mean I use them so often but anyway on page 84 uh this is amazing this kind of summarizes highlight levels of adrenal hormone cortisol action okay look I mean look at this you have high cholesterol low vitamin D levels excessive brain stimulation look at glucose increased insulin diabetes gastric acidity these are all the symptoms I talked about uh look at loss of potassium electrolytes sodium um cyst or inflammation arthritis um acne immune problems I mean there so many issues fat that accumulates in the central part of your body amazing I mean this is the typical Advanced adrenal issue uh where you got the belly fat why is it going there because your body is holding fat around the vital organs as a survival mechanism it's going eventually grab your butt muscles and turn them into belly fat so your butt becomes your belly okay and then the legs start getting thinner because because your body's going to rob proteins from the Quad recept so in other words your adrenals are destructive they break down protein and your muscles and they turn into sugar and they convert it to the belly fat this is all a survival mechanism so you have muscle wasting going upstairs out of breath stretch marks bruising acne buffalo hump but other than that you're perfectly fine here's the here's what happens these two this is this is what it looks like you got two adrenals on top of the kidney and they're pumping out a lot of cortisol that's going right into this gut right there so that's what people look like they get kind of rosacea or red cheeks as well okay so um cortisol effects on the joints causes arthritis dementia because of it will just causing plaing of the brain and decrease oxygen rheumato arrius it's autoimmune high cholesterol high blood pressure osteoporosis and diabetes I mean there's a lot of people that have these conditions but don't they're not really educated on the adrenal so now what we want to do is I want to talk about um here's the biggest problem the obvious problem it's this obesity is a disease that's not true but what happened the medical profession has assigned um obes as the culprit they're not looking deeper I mean this is like in 2013 the American Medical Association voted to classify obesity as a disease in one day 78 million adults 12 million kids were instantly diagnosed with this disease now we can put them on treatment they voted this into existence it wasn't any type of other um like medical evaluation other than they voted on it okay well what I want to do is I want to show you what to do for the adrenal gland itself so we can go deeper into what's really causing this problem here's the problem the adrenal gland has an outside and an inside okay has an outside and inside and the um inside is all nerve tissue the outside is all gland tissue the inside of the adrenals have What's called the sympathetic nervous system you don't need to know that all you need to know it's called the it's like the flatter fight mechanism and the flatter fight is like the on switch so in the body you have the on switch that actually turns things on and accelerates things and gets things more stressed and then there's an off switch in the body as well that's called the parasympathetic so in your body you have an on andof switch okay well if you look at the off switch all these nerves that come to different organs the off switch is actually in the top part of the neck right and the in the lower part here and the on switch is all in the midback but if we look at these wires goes right to the adrenal gland so there's an on switch for the adrenal that's sympathetic connection to the adrenal but there's no off switch there's no parasympathetic control over the adrenal the inside of the adrenal what does that mean it means that over time you can rev up that adrenal but there's nothing that really brings it down it's not like an a a neurological off switch that you can just turn off and that's why so many people are almost they get stuck in a stressed State and they can't turn it off so what am I saying I'm saying that all stress tends to accumulate now how do I know that um I'll show you why I know that but just think about it for a second you know you were a kid you had injury you had stress you ate food things that were stressful you've been through emotional losses and stress if you take someone that has a lot of stress events in their life um they they nearly always have bad adrenals versus someone that has no stress in their life they have really good adrenals so it's really the accumulation of stress that really wears out the adrenals more than anything look at pregnancy hysterctomy that's surgeries tonsil tonsilectomy infections severe losses my mother-in-law for example example uh she pretty much had almost every organ removed the thyroid the ovaries the gallbladder and then later in life she started getting uh uh surgeries for other things like a fracture and then going out under anesthetics which is very stressful to the body she had like several of those and I noticed when she every time she had that she kind of um lost her cognitive function and you can see the the stress building up on her body she just didn't recover like she should have but any anyway the point you need to know is that your body's like a pin cushion and you're you've been accumulating stress for a long time so that's really what does it and even if you take just take the subject of weight right take a look at when you started gaining weight was it after a stress event was it after a pregnancy was it after a loss take a look at that if it was then we know you know we need to improve the adrenals so again this seminar is uh this webinar is all about going beyond the food okay we're just talking about another angle into why people gain weight so stress does accumulate okay if you take a look at injuries and traumas and infections I mean I I've had them okay so now let's get to uh a little test that I have in my office and this is called heart rate variability what is this thing heart rate variability it actually is a tool to measure something called the autonomic nervous system so this is an amazing book on autonomic nerves the autonomic nervous system is composed of the nervous system that's a foundational system that's behind everything that runs on automatic okay you have two system you have actually three systems but you have the flutter fight and then you have uh the it's called rest and digest so we got the sympathetic and the parasympathetic so this little Gadget measures both of those States so you can get an idea of what's happening to a person's sympathetic nervous system what's happening to their stress state in at a in a rest State okay you can you can actually visualize their recovery state or their parasympathetic State okay and I've tested thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people so and it's quite interesting I can look at this graph and not even you can you don't even have to tell me anything about yourself and I can tell you all about what's going on inside it's really cool here's two graphs the small dial here should always be um right up here it should be very very high okay and the tall dial should be straight up and down so it should be like 3:00 and I don't have a normal here but anyway you can see the tall dial is it should be up and down it's too high and the bottom dial should be up here and it's coming down but it's still pretty high so this person right here is kind of stuck in stress even when they're relaxed so typically they would be thinking more analyzing can't calm down can't sleep but because they're sympathetic the the parasympathetic this is the recovery system is quite high they probably are not going to feel anything bad they're going to probably cope with stress fine and feel fine it's only when this thing burns out that you start feeling it so this person will feel okay despite having a high level of that flight or fight mechanism okay but this one look at this one this person's activate or the um the sympathetics that's the flatter fight is kind of where it's where it should be but look where the recovery is it's way down here it should be way over here so basically they lost their recovery this person is going to be a lot worse off they're going to have they're going to get overwhelmed by stress easily they're going to not cope well they're going to have low tolerance to stress they're not going to sleep too well because this recovery graph is not there to get them to bounce back so they're going to have an adrenal issue big time um cortisol the hormone for the adrenal that makes your belly fat um is one of the hormones that makes you fat and it's a dominating hormone which means even if you eat good you exercise and you take your vitamins and do everything if this hormone is too high it will nullify all the good things that you're doing okay so it's not about triggering the fat burning hormones it's about avoiding the hormone that blocks these okay so the most important thing it's a thousand times more important to avoid stress or do things to handle stress than it is to try to stimulate or take something to try to boost your fat breing hormones so just make mental note of that now I want to talk about the number one single most important thing if you have an adrenal body type is to fix your sleep okay adrenal cases don't sleep they can't get to sleep they don't stay asleep they wake up they don't feel refreshed at night you go through these these four W waves of sleep and you should feel rejuvenated with adrenal you don't get that so you're not going to feel rejuvenated so this is what we need to fix number one um exercise essential but what kind of exercise walking low intense walking why because that is lots of oxygen and low stress okay so walking is the best exercise for the adrenal and you need to do it every single day like 45 minutes to an hour yoga is the second best thing but sometimes yoga could be intense so just do the light type of yoga people stress this is another big one right probably 50% of the people that I see they're stressed out because of other people relationships their marriage their kids parent co-workers oh my gosh it's crazy so you're going to have to deal with that but just realize that that could be the culprit so you really need to either get new friends get new family get new co-workers um if possible I don't think that's possible but the point is that you need to deal with that and avoid situations as much as you can but that's a big one so you don't look like that right there um lots of space is good change of environment um go go on a vacation get out there get Space um don't sit in your room or watch TV watching TV is not a stress reducing thing because it's constantly you're you're not getting enough space you're looking at a a screen with pictures okay but this is a very therapeutic thing in fact I know people even when they have food allergies they'll they'll go to another country they get Space they eat like crap and they still lose weight why is that because of the space I had a guy a patient who he would get space like this his belly literally would shrink and he'd come back and it just blows up so I know that that's important because look at with adrenal you're thinking all the time right and all the thinking activates the adrenal so you want to actually get in a situation where you you just stop just analyzing things so much that's why it's important to get out there and walk and not sit in front of the computer too often the sugar has to go we need to bring the sugars down to zero um because the sugar will deplete nutrients and raise insulin and block any chance that you're going to lose weight okay hidden sugars are fruit yeah fruit grains including oatmeal can block your ability to burn fat yogurt has even the plain has like 10 grams of sugar alcohol will also mess up the liver and bump you fat burning for at least 48 Hours look at look at an apple an Apple has 19 g of sugar unfortunately uh I used to recommend eating apples but I'm going to tell you right now I don't recommend that anymore okay in my book that I'm updating uh you won't see that anymore we recommend not consuming Apples because the amount of sugar and also a lot of them are GMO so we want to avoid fruit especially the sweet apples now let's say you're not trying to lose weight well you could probably get away with it but I'm just telling you there's a lot of sugar in these apples unfortunately but I don't want to deprive you okay cuz if I every time I tell people not to have something guess what they want it more so there are things that you can do as substitute Foods so you can eat these foods and not feel like you're deprived I have tons and tons and tons of alternative foods you can search Dr Berg um ketofriendly eat meals and you'll you'll find these recipes all over and I recommend that you start making some uh the next thing you want to do is increase potassium why pottassium not only is a physiological tranquilizer and calms adrenals down but we need about 4700 which would equal about 1 2 3 4 5 that's 10 bananas or five avocados every single day now instead of doing the bananas and avocados I I recommend doing the salad a big salad about 7 to 10 cups not an all one sitting of course I do it but you don't have to just a couple big huge salads a day and I highly recommend that you do that because that'll give you your potassium you cannot fix adrenals without potassium potassium is needed to also lower insulin potassium will help restore the adrenal glands and help you sleep it's very very vital uh as far as protein you want 3 to 6 ounces you want three meals a day or two meals a day okay but make sure that they're protein and fat and you add the vegetable to that as well you don't have to consume what I consume if you're a vegan you don't have to consume this just this happens to be what I consume I four eggs a bunch of bacon nitrate free organic without sugar paleo and I do a lot of times an avocado and I'll probably put some cheese on it that's what I do but I'll probably consume this I'll do this like probably 11 o' in the morning and then I won't eat until maybe 4:30 sometimes I'll I'll do three meals maybe I'll do a late dinner small one but sometimes I'll do two meals but I'm not having snacks because the intermittent fasting not eating between meals is really powerful because that will trigger hormones that will block your ability to lose weight so inent fasting is basically not snacking another thing I used to tell people to do is snack bad advice so I don't recommend it two to three meals a day no snacking so how do you do that you want to add more fat at the meal so you can go longer without eating what is that going to do well Fat's neutral it won't trigger the insulin Factor okay it allows you to go longer intermitted fasting um will help the adrenal glands why because every time that you fast it takes the stress off the digestive system and it gets you to burn fat which is a better fuel system it's more efficient and sugar if you actually raate sugar and your blood sugars go up and down guess what that does to cortisol and adrenaline it Jacks it up so we want to do intermittent fasting okay apple cider vinegar vital to help with your um uh visceral fat in your gut it actually helps break down fat and it's really really really good for keeping the pH um correctly balanced so your body can maximize weight loss and it also helps blood sugars and cortisol all right so now that you know about the drenal how what do we do about it okay how do we fix it plan a right here you need to go into a desert island or some Island and just for the next six months and rejuvenate okay that's plan a sound good right and you'll come back you'll lose tons of weight if you can't do this right now okay there's a plan B and that is the adrenal body type kit this is the most popular comprehensive kit and I want to explain what it does okay um this kit is composed of the sleep aid okay sleep a used to be the adrenal Knight formula what I did is I upgraded it and I added uh alanine and trypan tryptophan to actually enhance the formula I had this last night I take one before bed had a beautiful sleep I I'm sleeping longer with it and I wake up feeling refresh no grogginess there's no hormones there's not anything in here that's going to activate the wrong hormones there's not melatonin for example it basically supports your adrenal gland and helps you get into rejuvenating sleep and I take this one before bed and it it's awesome okay number two cortisol adrenal and cortisol relief this product used to be my adrenal day formula I added an ingredient called ashanda added more of it 200 milligrams and that also helps lower cortisol even more so it's mainly for high cortisol when you take this you take it during the day and you just feel stress free you're going to feel like calm it's going to take that tension out so the combination of both of these take this at night this during the day one with meal you're going to feel really really good okay you don't really have to take this with meals you can just spread it out through the day you can take maybe one in the morning two at night or it doesn't really even matter you can take them all together but this right here um has nutrients to support the adrenal gland itself and rejuvenate 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