Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

You know, when you look around, at the difference between men and women, one big difference

is where they hold their fat. So with women, they have more, what's called, subcutaneous fat.

The superficial layer underneath the skin, and they have more deposits of fat, and when

it's called the gluteal femoral, and that's the buttocks, the hips, because femoral femur

that's in your thighs, and then you have gluteal, which is the butt area in the, in the

wraps around the hips. But with men, they don't really hold their fat as much subcutaneously.

They hold it more viscerally in the gut, right? And what determines where they hold the

weight is the level of estrogen they have, as far as the risk factors to other problems,

believe it or not, the subcutaneous fat, which is caused by estrogen, is more protective

against some of these metabolic diseases. Visceral fat is way more dangerous because

it puts you at risk for heart disease, diabetes, inflammation, insulin resistance, a fatty

liver, and metabolic diseases, which is diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. And so women

have less risk factors for getting all these conditions due to the amount of estrogen,

until they reach menopause, where this risk factor then is now equal to a man. Why? Because

of the drop in estrogen. Now your fat tissue, cold, out of post tissue, is glandular. It

produces hormone. It has a storage for fuel and has many other functions. And so when

you get insulin resistance, you can have insulin resistance of different tissues. You can

have insulin resistance of your liver. You can have insulin resistance in your muscles,

in your fat cells, which then can impair the function of your fat cell. Now what's going

to happen is now that that's ill is not holding or accepting the fat anymore. You get this

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