metabolic syndrome

Contrary to popular belief, there are plenty of people who try to exercise and eat right and still can’t lose weight.

Though most recent literature continues to show that the majority of overweight people suffer from a condition called ‘leptin resistance,’ it’s still unknown to the majority who suffer from it,  yet it’s the very hurdle that thwarts bold efforts to lose weight.

More research has turned up exposing leptin resistance and reverse T3 (a thyroid hormone which can lower your metabolism) as primary factors in the battle to lose weight and as big factors in the CAUSE of excessive weight gain.

Leptin resistance can contribute to reverse T3 production and that undermines your thyroids attempt at regulating your metabolism. When these metabolic self-regulating systems are upset, it makes it nearly impossible to lose weight and highly probable that you’ll gain weight, despite your efforts- rendering will power virtually useless.

There’s a lot to be said for the adage which promises that if you take in less calories than you burn, you will lose weight. I would agree that statement holds true for most anyone that has a normally functioning, healthy body.

But the issue  that seems to be eluding even the most learned of advisers and dieters when attempting to be successful at weight loss is this… people who are overweight just don’t have normally functioning healthy bodies.

In fact, in my experience, most all patients I’ve dealt with who are chronically overweight, have an endocrine or metabolic syndrome or dysfunction. And unfortunately it can sabotage and diminish the effects of exercise and eating right.

Dr. Kent Holtorf, medical director at Holtorf Medical Group, says that weight gain and the inability to lose weight “is not simply a problem that individuals are taking in more calories … or lack of exercise or willpower.”

Meaning that there may be more to it than the simple “calories in” vs. “calories out” theory.

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