Most of you reading this post are not struggling with food scarcity. Most of us are struggling to lose and keep off weight permanently. Researchers found a genetic variant post WWII that is linked to today's obesity. If you eat less and exercise more you'll lose weight. Right?
It can be difficult to lose weight now because it requires metabolic coordination of trillions of cells in our bodies. A calorie is a calorie except that our response to calories depends on its form and our ability to metabolize it. That changes the metabolic game. .How many calories do we really consume? Since 1970, we have increased our calories by 10 to 15 each day. This is due to portion size and hidden calories (salt, fat, sugar) in processed foods.
An average adult eats about 1 million calories per year, 50 million in your lifetime which adds up to about 25,000 pounds of food.
Our gut bacteria drives what we eat and how we break it down. All of our permanent weight loss patients take high quality Xymogen Probiotics. There are probiotic strains that create lean muscle mass and higher metabolic fat-burning ability. Your first step to weight loss is taking a daily probiotic.
The brain does regulate eating and most obese individuals have microscarring on their hypothalamus which creates a dysregulation. The HCG diet goes around this impairment in the hypothalamic tract and corrects issues in the dicenphalon so that you can experience normal metabolic regulation. You feel full and don't crave carbs. Ask me about the HCG diet and find out if it's right for you. On average, our patients lose between 25 and 35 pounds in 40 days.
Our metabolism is influenced by our social situation, evolution, genomics, biology and our environment. Everything needs to be balanced for it to work right.
Our survival favors food consumption.
Those who survived in prehistoric times were skilled at acquiring food, eating it and storing the excess as fat. You ate what was available and when it was available. We feed our children so they can survive. From an evolutionary standpoint there is no advantage to limiting food intake. If we don't eat we don't survive.
Researchers found a particular gene variant and increased body mass index that dates back to World War II. This genetic variant rs993609 associated to fat mass and obesity got triggered by environmental changes sometime between 1942 and 1945. This is the same time that technology advanced and reduced energy expenditures and high-calorie processed foods flooded the market. Depending on what year you were born in actually increased your chances of becoming obese. If you were born with the FTO gene variant which plays a role in appetite and feeling full then you were likely to have a higher Body Mass Index. It's not just who you are, what you eat, but where you are and what year you were born in.
Today, we have an abundant food supply for some which has led to the development of obesity.
Food truths
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We are no longer opportunistic eaters.We eat meals based on time of day. Believe it or not, artificial light has extended the hours that we eat and changed our sleeping patterns. Think about it - if we didn't have electronics or light at night we would go to bed. Instead we watch T.V. or Netflix with food in hand.
- Industrial chemicals, additives and processing all impact on ability to burn calories. The environmental factors change what we consume, how we break it down and alter both our biological structures and function throughout our gastrointestinal tract. That is how we got leaky gut.
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Our individual genomics determine how many calories we need. Epigenetic factors, how the environment, affects our genetic expression for metabolism. Children of moms who survived a famine weigh more than those whose moms had normal amounts of food.
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Regulatory factors are like a well-tuned symphony orchestra. Everyone knows their part and the orchestration is in balance. The brain receives information from the stomach and gastrointestinal tract and in response sends back information to let you know if you're hungry or full. Hormones, chemical messengers that signal and regulate substances and neurochemicals all regulate your eating patterns. Each person has different signals based on thousands of data points. Time of day, available food and environment affects your eating behavior.
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Short-term solutions are useless. Fad dieting does not reset the regulating systems or cure obesity. Only the HCG diet directly changes information to the brain so that individual feels full with less calories.
- Whether you are a food-dependent personality or a fat-dependent personality, when you lose weight you are changing your physical size and your social, situational and emotional status. Both need to develop different coping mechanisms for handling stress. When a morbidly obese person loses a substantial amount of weight their complex compensatory emotional patterns fall apart. We witness that phenomenon on "The Biggest Loser."
Losing the first pound begins with a first step. We specialize in individualized lifestyle intervention that are sustainable and effective for long-term weight loss management. We work with natural chefs, colonic therapists, cognitive therapists and exercise specialists as part of your team to complement and reinforce your weight loss. Call Second Nature Care and let's talk about your weight loss plan.
