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…Eat wild and organic plants and vegetation and the animals who eat these wild plants and vegetation.

That said, here are  some reasons for recommending that you add game and grass-fed organic meat to your diet…

• Wild game is low in fat which makes it an extremely attractive option for people trying to lose weight.
• Many people are often pleasantly surprised by the mild taste much game meat has. Buffalo, ostrich, rabbit, wild turkey and elk are probably the least ‘gamey’ and are becoming increasingly available in restaurants.
• Wild game is usually close to ten times lower in fat and cholesterol than traditional cuts of domestic meat.
• It’s a combination of more lean body tissue, fewer calories, less saturated fat and a higher percentage of cholesterol-reducing polyunsaturated fatty acids (good fats).
• Wild game contains more than five times the amount of polyunsaturated fat per game than is found in domestic livestock. Great omega-3 to omega-6 ratio.
• Wild game is 100% natural, free ranging and devoid of antibiotics, steroids and hormones.

You might be surprised to hear that ostrich meat is lower in fat content than chicken breast.

Here are some tips for cooking wild game…

Cook low and slow. I repeat…cook low and slow.

Braise, roast and/or baste frequently. If you can, use fruits to marinade. I use a pomegranate molasses or cherry juice.

Not only does it taste better and become healthier, it protects the meat if you are grilling it.

Wild game, in my book, is a true superfood.

It should be a part of your anti-inflammatory diet. You can even get grass-fed game and meat delivered to your home. Here is a great article on the best wine parings for wild game.

Here is a great video on how to grill an elk tenderloin, enjoy!If you’re thinking to yourself, “That’s an amazing grill!” I agree.

Here it is Grillery.com

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…

Shes goes on to say, “I’ve always known in my heart that there had to be something else.” This is a very familiar statement to me. Usually it arises after numerous, diets, exercise programs, weight loss supplements, and prescription diet pills that simply do not work for that individual.

Many people are exhaustively told, “just eat less and exercise more.”

And although that statement is true in principle, will power alone will not overcome a hormonally imbalanced body. For those of you who don’t have a weight problem this may sound contrary but just eating less and exercising more may be savvy advice that is set up to fail for that person. Especially if the brain isn’t receiving and sending the proper hormonal signals.

I’ve seen countless people try to do ‘what’s right’ yet still lose the war with being overweight. So this patient may be dead-on correct when she says, ‘there has to be something else.’ There’s got to be a better way. Brain surgery for weight loss? I’m opened minded but what’s next… decapitation for headaches?

The proponents to this new ‘surgical solution’ optimistically suggest, “what if there was a medical solution that could put an end to  yo-yo dieting, food cravings and calorie counting.”  Valid question, right?

Dr. Oz declared on the show, “If you put a probe in there and put electricity through it, you can stimulate that part of the brain so you no longer get hungry.”

The brain does, in fact, have a region of the brain, the hypothalamus, that links the nervous system to the endocrine system and has a big ‘say-so’ in whether your body craves food or not.

But, what if you could accomplish the same exact thing that this new scientific breakthrough brain surgery does and save yourself a few holes in your head?

Since Oprah was the first to break this story, let me be the second to break the really exciting news about the brain and significant weight loss when all else has failed.

Introducing….

“The Brain Surgery Alternative To Effectively Controlling Hunger and Obtaining Safe and Significant Weight Loss…. Through the Brain….Without a Drill”

The tool is not a drill… but a hormone. Leptin.

Leptin is a recently discovered hormone that directs signaling to the brain to control eating and induce satiety (sense of fullness). This protein hormone Leptin is encoded by the obesity (ob) gene.  And in the last several years it has  repeatedly been identified in published research as one of the primary modulators of body weight and metabolism. Sounds like a miracle drug, right?

But that’s not all. Leptin also disposes of cellular fat by up-regulating thermogenesis (fat burning) and metabolic rate. Once leptin reaches the brain (in the hypothalamus) it mediates weight loss by decreasing hunger and food consumption, and increasing energy expenditure, which then results in a loss of adipose or fat tissue mass and an increase in lean muscle mass.

And isn’t that what we are all so heatedly pursuing? Now, here’s the bad news…

Clinical findings show that the vast majority of overweight people have elevated levels of leptin due to “leptin resistance.” So although leptin sounds like a ‘miracle,’ if the brain becomes resistant to its signals, those powers are all for nothing.

When brain levels of leptin are low due to “leptin resistance” – even if there are high circulating blood levels of leptin – food cravings and weight gain occur because the body believes that it is hungry and goes into a state of continued fat storage.

AH HA!

Isn’t that the plight of this patient who had experimental brain surgery? Remember…she tried exercising, she tried dieting, she even had other forms of surgery… all to no avail?

Let’s revisit this science again…

When leptin cannot reach the brain, because it cannot cross the blood brain barrier,

“food cravings and weight gain occur because the body believes it is hungry and goes into a state of continuous fat storage!”

Leptin acts within the brain’s hypothalamic centers once it crosses the blood brain barrier. But in “leptin resistance,” it can’t effectively get to that part of the brain to perform its “weight management magic.” But here is the groundbreaking science that gives people like this, hope.

Recent studies have shown that an increase of a certain protein, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1 b, or (PTP1B), is the key to unlocking the door to let leptin reach the centers in the brain that not only control hunger but burn fat!

By reversing “leptin resistance,” through the blocking of PTP1 B, the function of the protein hormone leptin is restored so that the hypothalamic center can normally and effectively modulate body weight and metabolism.

And it can be done naturally, if you know what I’m about to tell you. It’s a mouthful but it may be THE KEY to possibly unlocking the secrets of true weight loss and management like nothing before.

Here is the key…..published studies demonstrate that the all-natural, botanically derived phytochemical,  Isoquinoline Alkaloid Berberine, specifically and potently inhibits human Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1 B).

What does this mean to you? It’s the key to unprecedented weight loss and maybe an appearance on Oprah!

Yes, this is brand new.

Yes, this is cutting edge.

Yes, it’s like rocket science… but it’s not brain surgery. Somebody please tell Oprah.

There is currently one place in the world to get this ‘key’ to unlock your body’s inherent ability to lose weight….www.GoGetThin.com

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™.

Over 50 years ago, researchers reported that the compounds lactucin and lactucopicrin found in chicory are able to antagonize the caffeine-like rush and leave the person feeling centered and emotionally-balanced rather than jittery and frenzied. And if you’re dieting, you probably are familiar with all the weight loss supplements that are created from the theory that those who need to lose weight need to get moving, and the best way to do that is with a a Triple Venti Extra espresso from Starbucks. Dieters know just exactly how far this idea gets them when they consume these type of products, as they try to recover from adrenal burnout, which packs on even more pounds!

Yes, truly the Energizer Bunny principle does not work in weight loss.

But chicory does indeed help.

The herb historically was used for treating liver disorders. Its roots contain a substance called esculetin, a phenolic compound that protects the liver even from some of the worst laboratory chemicals used to induce liver disease. One of them is carbon tetrachloride. That’s pretty powerful! The researchers also found that chicory root extract was powerful enough to stop the breakdown of DNA that occurs when cells are exposed to harmful chemicals.

However, the intestinal tract wasn’t created to be used as a suitcase! It’s important to pay attention to the “One Meal In, One Meal Out” rule in natural health, if you want optimum health in today’s toxic world.

Ask any colon hydrotherapist what happens when people’s colons are backed up and she’ll tell you about her clients that have cold feet, headaches, can’t think clearly, skin problems, feel sluggish, can’t lose weight and have a host of other health and life problems. She’ll also tell you about how much better they feel after the colon is evacuated.

As long as we have to eat each day for our nutrition, we have to consider how many bowel movements we have per day. And one way to get those bowels moving is by the use of the herb senna. For this reason, senna is often added to herbal laxatives or herbal colon cleansing program formulas.  Senna relieves constipation and if using it by itself, relief will be felt within 10 hours.

Senna contains active sennosides that irritate the lining of the intestinal tract and cause the muscles to strongly contract. These same sennosides also stop the fluid from being reabsorbed in the large bowel, thus helping the stool remain soft. It’s an ideal herb for those who need to increase the frequency of bowel movements or who have anal fissures and need a little extra help evacuating the colon without any strain.