How to Use Fish Oil For Weight Loss & Fat Loss (Dosing, Duration & More)

This video explains how to use fish oil for weight loss, fat loss, and to help build muscle mass naturally.

Losing weight isn't about counting or cutting your calories.

If weight loss was truly only about calories then how would supplements help with weight loss?

Long-lasting sustained weight loss is about managing your hormones.

The hormones that tell your body to store fat (insulin), the hormones that manage your metabolism (thyroid hormone), the hormones that tell your body when you are hungry/full (leptin), and the sex hormones that manage your lean body mass (testosterone).

This concept (the hormonal theory of obesity) is why certain supplements can actually help your body burn fat and lose weight.

One such supplement is fish oil.

And while supplementing with fish oil isn't a magical weight loss pill, it has a very impressive benefit profile when it comes to your hormones which have been outlined in clinical studies.

So how does fish oil work to help with weight loss if it doesn't alter the number of calories you consume?

You guessed it:

Fish oil directly alters the hormones that lead to weight gain and obesity.

We are going to discuss these hormonal changes in detail below, but as a primer fish oil has a direct action on THREE of the most important hormones that lead to weight gain:

Leptin & Leptin resistance
Insulin & insulin resistance
Thyroid hormone & T3 (specifically thyroid resistance)
Fish oil also has beneficial effects that extend into the inflammatory cascade.

The same cascade that, when triggered, is implicated in a host of western diseases that can lead to premature death and increased mortality.

And believe it or not, but we are only touching the surface of the many benefits of fish oil as it relates to fish oil.

So let's get into the specifics of how fish oil can help burn fat in your body.

#1. Increases Lean Body Mass
#2. Reduces fat mass when combined with exercise
#3. Enhances thyroid function in the liver
#4. Increases insulin sensitivity and reduces glucagon
#5. Reduces leptin levels and leptin resistance
#6. Reduces inflammation

But in order to get these benefits you MUST use the correct dose. For weight loss, I recommend somewhere between 4 and 6 GRAMS per day. In other words, 4,000 to 6,000mg per day.

If you are using a triglyceride delivery system then you can cut that down to 1 to 2 grams per day.

Plan to use fish oil like this for 6+ months and use it in conjunction with other therapies such as healthy eating, regular exercise, hormone balance, and so on.

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