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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So today I want to talk about this idea of boosting your metabolism trying to speed it up.

A lot of people have a slow metabolism and in their mind they think they need to just to speed it up and

so they're always looking for a pill to do it or you know green tea extract or

chili pepper so they can speed up this metabolic rate, okay?

And then they find it just doesn't work.

So when you consume caffeine or coffee

to try to speed it up, you're not stimulating

your metabolism, You're stimulating your

sympathetic nervous system, which is the flight or fight mechanism. That is not the

way to lose weight. You're actually going to gain weight by increasing that mechanism because you raise

cortisaw. And you'll notice that you'll have it right in the midsection right here.

Green tea does elevate the metabolism like in very small amounts. It's very insignificant.

You're not going to see a lot of weight come off just by drinking green tea or

consuming chili peppers.

Sometimes people have this idea that, oh, chili peppers,

it's going to create some heat in my body,

and so I'm going to burn the fat off.

The fat is not melted off with heat. That's not the way it works.

There's a machine in your mitochondria that uses the fuel for energy, but it doesn't do it through just temperature,

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