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/

 

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