The best of the newest weight loss science at a fourth grade level.
A significant amount of the newest science and research attempting to tackle America’s growing obesity problem is focused on hormonal disruptions and imbalances such as leptin resistance. LepToThin™ is natural science’s newest answer, in supplement form, to help address this issue. LepToThin™ contains LeptiPro™ which is the primary active ingredient to assist in improving leptin signaling. The main mechanism of action of this supplement occurs by inhibiting protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B, commonly known as (PTP1B). A plethora of research is currently being performed to assess the efficacy of PTP1B in the treatment of obesity, insulin resistance and leptin resistance.
To help your understanding of this ever-important concept and physiological cascade of events, I’ll provide a number of credible research excerpts followed by my ‘fourth grade version’ and interpretation. This should help you get to the bottom line on how and why this can significantly help you in your quest to lose weight naturally and improve your health.
Deal? Here we go… [click to continue reading…]
Brain surgery for weight loss? There must be an alternative.
Doh…Thank God, there is.
On Oprah’s most recent show, Dr. Oz explains a new experimental weight loss surgery that basically consists of cutting holes in the skull and then inserting probes into the brain, to control the area of the brain responsible for hunger and cravings. Next, ‘regulating devices,’ similar to pacemakers, are implanted into the patients chest. The doctors say the implants monitor electrical currents that control food cravings and feelings of fullness or satisfaction.
The patient featured on Oprah’s show, who recently underwent this new procedure, is only the second person ever to have it done.
Her plight is very familiar to most chronically overweight and obese people. “I’ve tried everything else,” she says. She’s tried dieting, exercising, even stomach stapling and gastric bypass surgery in an attempt to reach a healthy weight…but nothing has worked. An all too familiar story, unfortunately.
If you read the article, the surgeon who performed the surgery, Dr. Don Whiting talked about how they go into the brain, “We’re actually going to the control center, we think, to adjust things in a different way.”
WE THINK???
Back to the patient…
“I really believe that it’s got something to do with the brain,” she says.
Now……..the first thing I thought of when I heard her statement was, “Was this an original idea from her or was it suggested to her?”
Just a thought.
I’ve helped a lot of weight loss patients and can’t remember anyone saying, “I think it has something to do with my brain.”
BUT…she may be right… [click to continue reading…]
Do you really want to know the truth on how to win the war against ‘yo-yo’ dieting?
Here’s the skinny…
Most overweight people want to lose weight to protect their health. Restricting calories and following a diet avoiding certain foods, is the most common weight loss method. Although eating healthy is important for losing weight and getting a healthy body, diets rarely provide long term success.
Most people lose weight on a diet, but they quickly gain it back once they stop dieting. Hence the term ‘yo-yo’ dieting.
This frustrating result usually leads to a new diet with the same process happening over and over again. Since most people’s weight goes up and down like a yo-yo, with all these repeated diets, this occurrence has actually been called the yo-yo diet syndrome.
Yo-yo dieting is not only frustrating and discouraging for the dieter, but it puts an additional strain on a body that is already dealing with imbalances and inflammation due to being overweight. It is important to realize that the yo-yo diet syndrome loss is a very common problem and that trying different diets are seldom the solution.
Current research shows that no matter how diligently you stick to a diet, it will only ever be a temporary fix until you address what is causing the weight gain—usually a hormonal imbalance.
Hormones work in the gut and the brain to signal the body when to eat and when to stop eating. They also control whether calories are used for energy or stored as fat, thereby regulating metabolism. In particular, the hormone, leptin, is important in the control of these functions, like the feeling of being full after eating.
Fructose is found in the majority of foods in the typical American diet, even in the seemingly healthy ones such as breads, cereals, pasta sauce, salad dressings, granola bars and ketchup that are a part of many diets.
Research shows that consuming too much fructose leads to an inability for leptin to get into the brain where it needs to work. It is as if you get to work and the door is locked and you have no key. You cannot possibly get your work done standing outside the door!
Similarly, leptin cannot produce signals to tell the body to stop eating or to quicken the metabolism. Dieting, then, only works for a while but is not a permanent fix, just like putting a bandage on a gunshot wound may stop blood from pouring out but does not help to heal it.
Essentially, what studies show is that you need to get your leptin back into the brain where it can work to help you lose weight and keeping it off long term. The supplement LepToThin™ with LeptiPro™ was designed specifically to deal with this problem.
References:
Shapiro A, Mu W, Roncal C, Cheng KY, Johnson RJ, Scarpace PJ. Fructose-induced leptin resistance exacerbates weight gain in response to subsequent high-fat feeding. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2008;295(5):R1370-5.
Wadden TA, Considine RV, Foster GD, Anderson DA, Sarwer DB, Caro JS. Short- and Long-Term Changes in Serum Leptin in Dieting Obese Women: Effects of Caloric
Restriction and Weight Loss. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 1998;83(1):214-218.
Weigle DS, Duell PB, Connor WE, Steiner RA, Soules MR, Kuijper JL. Effect of Fasting, Refeeding, and Dietary Fat Restriction on Plasma Leptin Levels. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 1997;82(2):561-565.
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