Dr. Rhonda Patrick

And so that tells the brain, oh, I'm in a crisis.

I need energy right now.

And you crave these high-energy –

you know, high calorically dense foods.

And it's this vicious cycle where you start to overeat more.

You can totally reset that system by decreasing your calorie intake.

And there's a variety of ways of doing that.

And also by including high intensity interval training, any type of aerobic exercise is good.

It causes you to lose visceral fat.

Even if you don't shed the pounds on the scale, the losing of the visceral fat is the key because that's the whole cycle of basically disrupting your satiety hormones

how you feel, you know, satiated after you eat or like hungry, you know, all of a sudden you're hungry even though you just ate a meal, right?

That's all part of insulin resistance and visceral fat.

And so if you reduce your calorie intake, and there's ways you can do that, counting calories is one.

A lot of people like intermittent fasting.

Intermittent fasting is something that I do.

And it's really, you know, I'm middle-aged, right?

I told you I'm 47.

And I've realized that everything that I do, even though I've been doing it for years...

all of a sudden, as your hormones start to change, you know, you do start to kind of get more visceral fat.

And that's something that's known to happen with women as they're aging, right?