Ask yourself these questions and READ ON if they resonate with you:
Do you have a weight problem even though you watch your calories like a hawk?
Is your waist-to-hip ration greater than 1?
Do you eat a lot of foods and drinks stored in plastic containers?
Are you one of those people who are “cold all the time”?
Have you been told you have reduced bone mass?
Are you menopausal?
Do you pretty much avoid dairy products?
Do you eat proportionally way more animal protein than vegetables?
Do you feel you’re getting shorter over time?
Have any back problems?
Do you get a sore neck?Frequently? Often?
Are you a cell phone user?(Electromagnetic field exposure)
Have you been told you have elevated Hgb A1C?
Do charbroiled foods show up frequently in your diet?
Any memory problems?
Our structure of our bodies affects function. We’ve talked about all the building blocks, cells, molecules, hormones, proteins, lipids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, fats, amino acids, DNA…WOW, so much function happening!!!! If problems exist in our structure, we are sure to feel it as symptoms in our functions. How do we support our muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and connective tissues?What are other parts of our “structure”?Are we thin? Are we thick? Do we have excess abdominal fat? Yes, these things are a part of our “structure”.
Our bodies need to maintain stability, motion, and still keep all its functions operating. We sprain our knee, inflammation occurs-swelling, pain, decreased motion. Practices such as massage, chiropractic manipulation, yoga, certain exercise, and acupuncture all support in creating proper alignment of bones, muscles, and nerves so that the structure can effectively manage the stress and strain of a body in motion.
What about heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease? Metabolic disease? Protein disease? How we cook, what we eat can directly affect any of these. Think of Mad Cow Disease - a problem with a change in a protein due to ingestion of affected cattle that were given a supplement made of remains of dead and diseased cows and sheep. This caused neurodegeneration in affected animals or humans.
The effect of sugar on proteins causes a process called glycation and this process creates end products that affect our bodies. Eating foods cooked at high temps and charred are loaded with glycotoxins that we ingest which can in turn harm our bodies.
The environment, lifestyle, and the diets we partake, have both immediate and delayed effects on our bodies. Without certain minerals, our bones get soft. Without exercise, we lose muscle and support. Without flexibility, we become stiff and prone to back and neck pain. Most of all we need good water intake to support ALL our body processes.
Osteoporosis - that softening of our bones over time which can lead to easily fracturing a bone with a fall or spontaneous fractures in our vertebrae in our spine - Calcium, Vit D, Magnesium are all needed to support our bone structure.
Obesity - the dreaded medical term and stigmatized word nobody likes to speak of or hear.
Calorie fallacy, thermodynamics, bioenergetics - Seriously, do I have to understand all that to lose weight????
You have the calorie thing down, you know you should exercise, but what else is going on???
Hormones: yes, you eat sugar/processed carbs - blood sugar goes up, INSULIN is secreted, energy used then stored as fat.
Stress - causes hormone CORTISOL to be released and will direct fat deposits to abdomen.
Chemicals of toxicity can poison mitochondria and direct calories to be stored in adipose tissue.
Chemicals attributing to obesity????OBESOGENS - A substance that can create obesity.
POPs - Persistent Organic Pollutants. OBESITY = Excess Cals + Wrong type of Cals + accumulation of POPs.
What??????Simply put,
Bad information from the food we eat creates angry fat.
POPs poison our mitochondria, reducing their ability to make food to energy, hence creating caustic oxidation, and further directing unused calories to fat storage.
POPs also accumulate in our fat tissue leading to further fat storage
Now you can see how diabetes occurs as a chronic disease.
Brown fat and white fat???? How am I ever going to keep this straight??? We have brown fat as babies. Brown fat creates energy and heat. It keeps the metabolism burning and using energy and keeping the “mighty chondrias” active in doing their job. White fat just stores the energy. Obesogens poison the brown fat.A sedentary lifestyle causes a decrease in brown fat. Accumulation of obesogens over years and how we turn our genes we carry or get them to turn off is further being studied. Adjusting our diet and lifestyle is KEY! Being ACTIVE can turn white fat to brown fat.
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