#1 Morning Insulin Trick to Lose Weight Faster 🔥 Dr. Jason Fung

The circadian rhythm is that hormones in our body go up and down depending on the time of the day. And one of the things that we've noticed is that around 4 o'clock in the morning, 5 o'clock in the morning, just before you get up, most people have a surge of certain hormones. Growth hormone, cortisol, sympathetic tone or adrenaline. these are the same as the counter regulatory hormones that you see during fasting. The point of these is to take energy that's stored away such as body fat and take that energy and push it out into the bloodstream so that you are fueled up for the day. So as soon as you wake up you actually don't feel very hungry because of the effects of all these counter regulatory hormones. Your body saying, hey, I have lots of energy. I don't need to eat. That was Dr. Jason Fung, a nephrologist and the world's leading medical authority on fasting and metabolism. If you are over the age of 50, you have likely struggled with stubborn belly fat and waking up feeling exhausted. You've been told for decades that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that eating a large morning meal jumpstarts your metabolism. But today, Dr. Fung completely shatters that myth. He reveals that forcing yourself to eat breakfast is actually the number one reason your body is locked in fat storage mode. In this video, we are going to expose the biochemical reality of the dawn phenomenon, and we will reveal the ultimate morning insulin trick. By making one simple change to your morning routine, you can hijack your body's natural hormones, shut down cravings, and force your body to melt visceral belly fat all day long. When you're sleeping, you're not eating. So that's the fasting period. And that's where the word breakfast comes in. It's the meal that breaks your fast. If you ate dinner at around six o'clock p.m. and didn't eat breakfast until eight o'clock p.m., that's about a 14 hour period of fasting. When you're not eating, your body still needs energy. So it needs to take some of the stored energy which is calories out from where you stored it from which is sugar or body fat. So when you're fasting you're using body fat. Once you start eating your body now has a source of calories or energy and is therefore able to use that for energy and actually store some away. When you're eating you're storing calories. When you're not eating or fasting you're using those calories. The same thing happens with your blood glucose. You have sugar in the blood, but there's usually too much of it when you're eating. So your body's going to store some of it away, just like you store some of those groceries in the refrigerator. And when you don't eat, your body's going to signal through its hormones to start releasing some of that glucose back out, just like you might take food out of the refrigerator those hormones are known as counter regulatory hormones so they're called counter because they run counter to insulin when you eat insulin goes up your body wants to store that energy when insulin goes down when you're not eating other hormones go up here is the ultimate trap for the 50 plus demographic while you were sleeping your body was efficiently running on its own stored body fat. And right before you woke up, your hormones naturally peaked to pump energy into your blood so you could start your day. But what happens the moment you walk into the kitchen and pour a bowl of cereal, grab a piece of toast, or drink a glass of orange juice? You instantly spike your insulin. And the moment insulin rises, your body slams the door on fat burning and immediately switches back to fat storage. It doesn't matter if your breakfast is marketed as healthy if it spikes insulin you are completely shutting off your body's ability to burn belly fat when you look at typical foods that we think of as breakfast foods they're loaded with sugar so sugary cereals are a classic and of course they taste good there's so much sugar in them sometimes they're 50% sugar but it's more than just the sugary kid cereals but things such as muffins are often full of sugar you have yogurt with the fruit on the bottom which often has a lot of sugar the jams and the jellies that people put on bread for example again full of sugar one of the reasons that breakfast is especially bad because a lot of these things are just dessert in disguise what's the difference between a muffin and a cupcake what's the difference between a pastry such as a danish and something like a strudel that you might eat for dessert. Now we all know that desserts are not particularly slimming but you transform that into a breakfast food and all of a sudden people think it's good for you. Some of the breakfast bars are loaded with sugar and that's what you really have to be careful of. That's the reason that most breakfast foods we think of today are actually highly refined carbohydrates. They're cheap, they're easy, they're convenient, they don't go bad, you don't have to refrigerate them. So many reasons why they're perfect for convenience, but unfortunately not very good for your waistline. Those highly refined carbohydrates are going to spike up your glucose, which is going to spike up your insulin. And then because the high insulin just takes all that energy and sucks it into storage, there's no energy left for you. So you eat two slices of white bread and jam in the morning. By 10.30, you're ravenous and looking for a low-fat muffin. Don't fall into the trap. Yes, it's easy. No, it's not good for you. By 10.30 a.m., your blood sugar crashes, you feel ravenous, and the cycle of fat storage continues all day. But if eating breakfast is so detrimental to fat burning, why do we wake up feeling like we need to eat? Why does your stomach rumble the moment you step out of bed? The shocking truth is that your morning hunger has almost nothing to do with actually needing food. Your body already has hundreds of thousands of calories stored as body fat, ready to be burned. You aren't starving. You have simply been trained by society, television, and decades of food marketing to expect food the moment you wake up. It is not biological hunger. Remember to ride the hunger wave. What I mean is that when you fast, you have to understand that you are going to get hungry. That's just natural. So you have to know how to deal with it because the number one worry about fasting is that people think that they're going to get hungry and then they're going to get more and more and more hungry if they don't eat until they're completely consumed by the hunger and they can't do anything else. Luckily that's not true so you have to prepare for it. What you see is that during breakfast or lunch or dinner if you don't eat your hunger does not keep going up. It actually peaks and then falls just like a wave and if you look at lunch for example if you eat lunch normally at 12 o'clock, at 1 o'clock, 1.30, you're going to be hungry. But by 4 o'clock, in fact, you are no more hungry than if you ate because your ghrelin levels are back to baseline because your body took the calories that it needed out of your body fat. So you're essentially feeding your body off of your body fat. So that's why you're not hungry anymore. You are literally feeding off your own belly fat. But you don't have to white knuckle your way through the morning. The second half of the morning insulin trick involves strategic beverages that completely kill your appetite without raising your insulin by even a single point. If you want to dramatically accelerate your weight loss and increase the amount of calories you burn every single morning, you can use these specific tools to ride out the hunger waves, boost your sympathetic nervous system, and keep your body locked in deep fat burning mode the first one I would like to talk about is green tea green tea might be especially useful for weight loss for a number of different reasons and what's the difference well green tea is brewed from the unfermented tea leaves and these contain certain antioxidants most important of which are called catechins also called EGCG is specific one and the reason that they're so beneficial is that they may have a role in suppressing hunger but also increasing the metabolic rate and those two things are going to make it easier to lose weight and to fast and some of the studies that have been done in the scientific literature really bear this out. We can look at a certain meta-analysis which are studies which group other studies together to look at the overall effect and you can see when they look at this that drinking green tea seems to lead to an extra 1.5 to 2 kilograms of weight loss. Well that's a real benefit and green tea is cheap, it's available, it's been used for thousands of years and it's also very tasty so there's no reason not to use it. The other thing that green tea tends to do is increase the metabolic rate and this may be due to not only the catechins but also some of the caffeine that's in green tea may increase a sympathetic nervous system and lead your body to use more calories. So in this meta-analysis what they find is that perhaps about three to four hundred extra calories per day is used extra when you're taking this green tea. The other beverages to stay hydrated and also help you with the fasting might be something such as coffee. Now coffee of course can be taken black but be careful about what you add to it. If you're just adding a small amount of cream that's likely okay but adding too much sweeteners or sugar or other dairy products is going to add calories and work against you for weight loss. Black coffee, plain green tea, and water. These are your ultimate morning tools. They do not break your fast, they do not spike your insulin, and they actively enhance fat burning. Give your body its morning window back. Stop forcing down sugary cereals, skip the toast, and let your natural hormones do the heavy lifting. That is the number one morning insulin trick that does more for your waistline than any treadmill.