I’m not talking about the Red Sox and Yankees and a beer at the bar.
I’m talking wild game, for dinner, as an important part of your diet.
Wild animals and birds that eat real grass and vegetation and aren’t fed antibiotics, fat hormones and inflammatory manufactured foods.
I have a getaway home in Yellowstone Park, Montana. My Dad is a park ranger there. My brother feeds his family for the year on what he hunts. Elk meat is less than 1% fat.
You would have a hard time convincing me that this is not how one should eat. As a matter of fact, there’s about two and a half million years of proof behind it.
Wild game meats make an excellent alternative to traditional meats like beef for a variety of health reasons.
I’m a big fan of a paleo type of diet.
Why?
It’s anti-inflammatory. Not only will you lose weight, you’ll live longer.
Here’s all you need to know about nutrition… [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…]
We always want to know why. Why can’t I lose weight if my thyroid is fine? Why can’t I lose weight even though I exercise daily? Why can’t I lose weight when I’m following my diet to the letter?
The answer may be low levels of the hormone called leptin. The hormone heads straight for the body’s satiety and hunger center located in the hypothalamus and turns on your ability to burn more calories through thermogenesis. But that’s not all it does. Leptin also increases your metabolic rate, resetting it to where it should be.
Researchers have found that it’s possible to have high levels of leptin in the blood, but the body can fail to transport it to the brain. This is called “leptin resistance.” When the brain doesn’t get the leptin it needs, then food cravings and weight gain occur and it feels as if we don’t have any willpower.
However, it’s not a matter of willpower or not. It’s a matter of either there’s enough leptin in the brain, or there’s not. Without the leptin in the brain, the body thinks it is hungry and hoards calories.
The good news is that leptin resistance can be reversed. By far the most promising substance to help combat the effects of leptin resistance is called Isoquinolone Alkaloid berberine, found exclusively in LepToThin™.
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