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What if I told you that a single supplement made from an ancient botanle can help you drop fat, balance your blood sugar, prevent autoimmunity, and heal your gut? That's the power of bourberin. If it sounds too good to be true, keep watching because in this video, I'm revealing exactly how to take bourberin for the best possible results.
I'm a big fan of Bourberine and so are lots of my clients and community members here on YouTube, but don't take it from me. Kylie lost 30 lbs in a few months when she added Bourberine to her daily routine. Stacy said that she definitely noticed curbing of her appetite after taking Bourberine for just 3 weeks. And Helen said that Bourberine helped her lose inches around her waist and improve her A1C after a lifelong struggle with emotional overeating.
Here's the thing. I want you to succeed with Bourberine, too. But just telling you to take it without any details might leave you feeling a little lost, which is why in this video, I'm sharing four best practices for taking Bourberine, including dose, duration, timing, and type. These guidelines are based on clinical research, plus my personal experience in taking bourberin and the past 15 years I've spent helping thousands of clients find functional medicine solutions.
But before we get into the details, it's important that you understand what bourberine is and how it can help improve your gut health, prevent autoimmunity, protect your brain, and promote healthy weight loss. Bourberine is a natural compound found in plants like golden seal, Oregon grape, tree turmeric, and barberry. It's known for its bright yellow color and bitter taste, which is why most supplemental forms are encapsulated or in a tablet form instead of a powder or a chewable.
That bitterness is one of the factors that makes bourberine useful for improving gut function and microbial balance. Believe it or not, your gut has bitter taste receptors similar to the ones on your tongue. And stimulating those receptors can help improve digestion and satiety. It also influences the release of gut hormones like GLP-1. More on this later.
But bourberine isn't just another bitter food. It's also a powerful antimicrobial against potentially problematic bacteria, yeasts, viruses, and even parasites that cause imbalances in your gut microbiome. An unhappy microbiome can cause all sorts of problems including blood sugar imbalance, gas and bloating, diarrhea and constipation, chronic inflammation, depression and anxiety, hormone imbalance, and of course, fat gain and/or trouble losing weight.
Thankfully, our friend bourberin can help us with this. Not only does it help handle overgrowth of unhelpful bugs, bourberine also increases the helpful types of gut bacteria that produce energy sources for the cells of your intestines. It also boosts the quantity of a very special bacteria called acromancia mucinophilia which regulates inflammation and prevents gut barrier dysfunction, also known as leaky gut. Acromancia does a lot of other cool stuff which I talk about in the video I have lined up for you after this one. So be sure to stick around for that after we finish up here.
If your gut microbiome is really unbalanced or you have particularly nasty bugs living in your intestines, they can kick up a fuss when bourberine enters the scene. This is one of the reasons that some folks have digestive side effects when they take bourberine, like temporary stool changes, gas, and bloating. Ultimately, this is a good thing by getting rid of bad microbes. Bourberine can also relieve those very same symptoms over time. If you experience more than mild short-term side effects when taking bourberin, those symptoms are pointing you towards a deeper issue that needs to be resolved. My suggested next step is an advanced functional stool test. I'll put a link to my favorite atome gut test kit in the video description in case this sounds familiar.
Bourberine is also a great tool for regulating the immune system, especially in the case of autoimmunity. One way that it can help calm autoimmunity is by lowering systemic inflammation. A 2024 study found that bourberin modulated multiple mechanisms involved in the progression of multiple sclerosis. And it's also been shown to inhibit the inflammatory responses associated with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Like we already talked about, bourberine also helps prevent and reverse gut barrier dysfunction, sometimes called gut hyper permeability or leaky gut, which is a known trigger of autoimmune disorders, including Hashimoto's thyroiditis and MS.
Bourberine is unique in that it can cross the blood brain barrier, giving it direct access to your neurology by reducing brain inflammation and oxidation and promoting cell growth and survival. Bourberine has been shown to decrease anxiety and stabilize mood by supporting healthy levels of neurotransmitters. It has also been shown to improve symptoms and reduce progression in degenerative neurologic diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. If you have a family history of dementia or you struggle with symptoms like brain fog, anxiety, depression, poor focus, or memory issues, supplementing with a high quality bourberin is a great option.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Bourberine is one of the most powerful tools in my toolkit for helping folks overcome weight loss resistance. One of my one-on-one clients who'd been struggling with consistent weight gain for years despite a really healthy diet, lost 5 lbs within just one week of starting my favorite bourberin supplement. And one of my followers on YouTube, Peaches 98, dropped over 10 pounds in just four weeks when she added bourberine to her healthy weight loss plan.
How does it work? Well, bourberine helps keep blood sugars and insulin levels from being too high or too low. When your blood sugar stays balanced, it not only helps your body burn stored fats, but it helps prevent type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol. Bourberine has also been shown to activate a regulatory compound called adenosine monofhosphate kinace or amk which is known as the master metabolic switch in fat and muscle cells. This is especially important because your metabolism tends to slow down with age and decline along with hormones like testosterone and even thyroid hormone.
Bourberine helps boost your body's production of glucagon like peptide 1 aka GLP1. You may have heard of this peptide in the context of medicines like Ozmpic. And while your own body's GLP-1 is not the same as these drugs, it does help lower appetite and food cravings and slow down how quickly food moves from your stomach to your intestines, which keeps you feeling full longer. Pretty cool, isn't it?
All right, let's take this out of the theoretical and into the practical with my four best practices for taking Bourberine. Starting with how much or what dose you should take. Given that a quick literature search reveals over 20,000 research articles published about bourberine since 2020 alone with hundreds of thousands before that, you can probably guess that not every study uses the same dose. But we do have some helpful data.
For example, one metaanalysis found that participants who took one gram of concentrated bourberine significantly lowered their cholesterol, BMI, weight, fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1C, and other metabolic markers. In another trial, participants who took 500 mg of bourberine three times per day for 3 months experienced a reduction in hemoglobin A1C, fasting blood glucose, postprandial blood glucose, and triglycerides. similar to that of people treated with metformin.
I typically start my one-on-one clients on 500 milligrams taken twice per day, but some folks do better with 500 mg once per day, especially if they've never tried a practitioner quality bourberin supplement before. I'll talk more about what type of bourberine I recommend in a minute, but just so you know, I've included a link to my favorite Bourberine product in my free functional fat loss download. You'll find it in the video description.
Now that you know how much bourberin to take, what about duration? Specifically, is it okay to take bourberine for a long time or is it more of a short-term thing? This is a question I get fairly often because there are a few health experts who suggest that because bourberine is antimicrobial, it should only be taken short term. The theory behind their recommendation is that you don't want to accidentally kill off the good bacteria in your gut along with the bad.
The problem is that bourberine isn't the same as an antibiotic. It doesn't indiscriminately ravage the microbiome. In fact, there are several studies that show bourberin helps increase the quantity of some helpful microbes, including keystone strains like acromancia, which I mentioned earlier. The best we can say with the evidence we currently have is that bourberine acts as a microbiome modulator, working to balance the bacteria in your gut. While it doesn't carry the same weight as a clinical trial, I can tell you that I evaluate a lot of stool tests and I have yet to see long-term bourberine supplementation negatively impact the gut microbiome.
That said, if you're not utilizing bourberine to help with type 2 diabetes or maintain healthy insulin levels, you could certainly take a break every few months. But for best results, I'd suggest taking it for at least three months consecutively. Consistency has been really helpful, especially in cases where weight loss is the goal.
When should you take your bourberine supplement? Well, because bourberine has a short half-life in the body, it makes sense to take a divided dose. For example, 500 mg at breakfast and 500 mg at dinner. Because it helps manage blood sugar, it's a good idea to take bourberine with or right after meals. This also helps minimize any digestive side effects and enhance absorption.
Last, but certainly not least, I want to talk about what type of bourberine I recommend. This is important because the supplement landscape is unfortunately clouded by hype, fear-mongering, and straight up dishonesty, making it tricky to choose a legitimate evidence-based product. And I don't want you to end up taking a bourberine supplement that doesn't actually do what it's supposed to do.
So when I consider the amount and quality of research, the pharmacocinetics and the safety and dosing evidence as well as availability of highquality supplements out there, the type of bourberine that I recommend is bourberine HCL. That doesn't make dihydroberourin or bourberine phytoone or other boutique variations of bourberine bad or dangerous by any means. If you feel that it works better for you, I'm not going to argue. But when it comes to preponderance of evidence, since bourberin HCL is the most widely studied purified extract with the most preclinical and clinical data supporting its effects, it has a definite edge on other extracts.
So, now that you know how to take bourberine to lose body fat, prevent dementia, calm autoimmunity, and balance your microbiome, head on over to the video description to download my functional fat loss trio user guide. You'll also find a link to order my preferred bourber and supplement at a really nice discount from my full script dispensary. If you're curious about functional gut testing, you'll find that info in the video description as well, or you're welcome to pop a request for more info in the comments. I do my very best to answer those, and I so appreciate your words of encouragement and your constructive questions. Thanks so much for being here, for supporting my channel with your likes and subscribes, and for spreading the word about the work I'm doing. I appreciate it more than you know. We'll see you in the next video.