Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

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

Hey guys, Dr. Berg here. In this video, we're going to talk about that biggest barrier

to weight loss and that is fatigue. Here's the thing, if you're tired, you're not going to lose weight.

Why? Because fatigue is not just about burning fat, it's about generating energy, okay? So many

people are tired in the day, yet they can't sleep at night. So the biggest reason why someone is

tired, and there are other reasons, but the biggest one is that you're not sleeping, okay? So I want

to talk about how to fix the sleep. That's a real big point. And just one point, when you're

sleeping, you're triggering the growth hormone. That's the main fat burning hormone, and that helps

you. That's why you burn most of that when you're sleeping. If you're sleeping, okay? So the point

is we want to get your energy up so you can burn more fat. But if you notice what happens when

you're sleeping, there's actually a cycle, a wave of hormonal flows. They're called a circadian rhythm,

okay, of growth hormone. And it's kind of similar to an alternator in your car where it's recharging

the battery. And that's what happens. There's four cycles of sleep that you go through that are

supposed to generate the deep delta wave sleep. So there's something in your body that pushes

you deeply into the sleep. It's not a passive. It's an active thing that pushes you into the sleep.

It's the same mechanism in your body that helps you recover from an injury, recover from exercise.

So let's say you spike your pulse rate and it's supposed to come back down. There's a system that

helps you recover, okay? And that system is the recovery. It's the reset. It's the rejuvenator,

all right? It's called, and this is it might be a new word called the para-sympathetic nervous

system, okay? Oh my god, it sounds like what is the para-sympathetic nervous system? It's the part

of the body that helps you actively recover. It helps you push you into the sleep. There's a

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