OLDIE BUT GOODIE: Weight Gain

Everything we know about weight gain is wrong. You can heal! Class notes: Weight gain is caused by inflammation -Inflammation is the cause of weight gain -Inflammation is also the root cause of disease -Weight gain occurs in the liver and fat tissue -Your body is like a car– you need the right gasoline for it (not unhealthy food) -If your body can respond better to stress, inflammation will go down (learn to manage stress) -Fast food and soda? This will lead to inflammation which leads to weightgain -Inflammation is a fire that needs to go out -Take liver detox supplements to help out your liver (LIVERLOVE is our recommendation) Study this reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5507106/ Your liver is likely fatty if you’re gaining weight -Your liver is an organ made of healthy fat (not fast food unhealthy fat) -1 in 4 US adults have a fatty liver -If your liver is fatty, then you have inflammation all over the body -The liver is the most important organ when it comes to your health -The liver is detoxifies your body -Your liver needs to retain the ability to produce healthy antioxidants -Fatty liver plays a role in the US obesity epidemic -Fast food can kill your liver the same way alcohol can kill your liver -Your liver can’t withstand 20+ years of fast foods -Fatty liver = can likely die at an earlier age Study this reference: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30502373/ Your fat cells become bigger -You lose weight where there are fat cells (hence why you’d see weight loss in your abdomen but not really your foot, where there are far less fat cells.) -Whatever you’ve eaten in life, have gone into your fat cells -Your liver says “We don’t have any more room, let’s put it in the fat cells” this is when weight gain happens -Calories are macronutrients -Energy gets stored up in the liver and fat cells -You need good energy, but when you eat too much and at times when you don’t need it- it’ll go to your fat cells, not the liver -If your liver is healthy, it won’t store inflammatory foods/toxins in your fat cells -Your fat cells are an organ and they make hormones -Inflamed fat cells make inflamed hormones Study this reference: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0928468018300579?via%3Dihub Are we eating when we’re hungry? -Leptin tells you to not have an appetite -Many people miss the signal of leptin -Leptin resistance is a real thing with weight gain -The body releasing leptin is a bad deal -High levels of leptin can calcify arteries -You’re addicted to sugar and salt due to cravings, not hunger -Many people who have gained weight keep eating without an appetite (leptin problem) -Salt and sugar releases dopamine in our body -Most people walk around with fluctuating or little to no dopamine (which can explain reaching for unhealthy snacks) -Leptin and dopamine have a direct correlation. High leptin messes with our dopamine levels Study this reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167040/ Insulin resistance is a huge culprit of weightgain -Insulin resistance is associated with many diseases -Insulin resistance is occuring 10+ years before a diagnosis is made -Too much alcohol and fast food? That’s the beginning of insulin resistance -Insulin is the most anabolic hormone that our body makes -Insulin resistance looks like Diabetes type 2, type 3 (alzhemers) and type 4 (PCOS) -Insulin resistance can make premenopause come sooner -Negative thoughts can spike insulin. Spiking cortisol? Spiking insulin -Want to live to 100? You need to learn how to regulate your insulin -You want to be insulin sensitive, not insulin resistant Study this reference: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29939616/   NOTES CONTINUED: Mitochondriac supplement