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Is Exercise Making You Fat?

The 7 Principles of Fat Burning

It might seem perfectly logical to add exercise to your daily routine so that you can burn more calories to lose weight. Not according to Eric Berg, DC, author of the new book entitled The 7 Principles of Fat Burning. Dr. Berg has found many people are wasting a tremendous amount of energy exercising for nothing; some even gain weight. He says that different bodies, especially the Adrenal body type, need different kinds of programs. The Adrenal type should not be exercising, because this added stress worsens the problem. Exercise of any high intensity (over a pulse rate of 125) is contraindicated for the Adrenal body shape (midsection fat). The more the adrenal stress hormone (cortisol) gets triggered by exercise, the more fat is directed to the midsection. These types just don’t experience any reduction of belly fat from exercise.

Dr. Berg also states that, for other body types, typical sustained exercise (same heart rate throughout)—the kind that almost everyone is doing at the gym—will not do your fat-burning hormones much good.

Exercise in general does not melt or burn fat; it merely releases fat-burning hormones 24–48 hours later during deep sleep IF, and ONLY IF, certain factors are present. Fat burning does not occur during the day in any significant amounts, but rather at night during the recovery period (non-exercise period; downtime). In fact, try weighing yourself when you wake up and then before you go to bed; the difference will be zero.

The main fat burner—growth hormone—gets activated by one variable in exercise: intensity. The more intense the exercise, the more this hormone gets released. However, if the adrenals are involved and are exhausted, this effect will not be created due to high levels of stress hormones. Stress hormones inhibit fat-burning hormones, which is the reason why Adrenal body types can’t lose their bellies with intense or sustained exercise.

Dr. Berg quotes some interesting research with regard to obese people. “Obese people have very poor recovery from exercise—the technical name for this is poor parasympathetic recovery.” 1 In plain language, this means that part of the nervous system that permits fat burning to occur is not allowing it to occur. One solution, Dr. Berg explains, is to do exercise recovery training. He goes on to say that Adrenal body types are just too “out of shape” and too “exhausted” to use exercise to burn fat.

Adrenal body types should not exercise for the first two weeks on the program, as they need to increase their health and recover enough to handle the stress of exercise.

For more information or to interview Dr. Eric Berg, call Latara at 703-354-7336.

1. Zahorska-Markiewicz, B., E. Kuagowska, C. Kucio, and M. Klin. 1993. Heart rate variability in obesity. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 17 (1) (January): 21–23.

Eric Berg, DC, is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional and natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government and Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning, published by Action Publishing in January 2008. Eric Berg is also widely published in trade magazines, including Chiropractic Today and The American Chiropractor, and in consumer publications such as First for Women, Men’s Exercise, New Beauty, Upscale and Let’s Live.

Dr. Berg trains chiropractors, physicians and allied healthcare practitioners in his methods, and to date he has trained over 1,000 healthcare professionals. He has been an active member of the Endocrinology Society, on the advisory panel for the Health Science Institute, and has worked as a past part-time adjunct professor at Howard University. Eric Berg’s nonprofit foundation, Health Technology Foundation, is currently being approved nationally for the purpose of providing research to substantiate alternative healthcare technologies, giving cost-effective solutions and result-oriented healthcare. As a leader in natural health and food coaching, Eric Berg has appeared on many radio and television shows, including ABC, CBS, and as a monthly host on Channel 8’s Sports Talk. In 2005 he also had his own radio health show on WOL.