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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