Intermittent fasting is beneficial to your health

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From Dr Mercola fitness archives  | January 2013

Skipping meal, intermittent fasting can lead to good health and longevity.  Thus says Dr. Michael Mosley on the said topic.  Eat normally for 5 days and fast for 2 days (eating l/4 of your normal food intake, say 600 calories for men and 500 calories for women)  Such fasting does not only have religious bearing (as form of penitence) but contributes to health and longevity:

Some benefits:

1.  Normalizing the gherlin level - the hunger hormone;

2.  Promoting HGH (human growth hormone) and thus stops aging

3   Lowers triglyceride levels

4.  Reduces inflammation and free radical damage

5.  Normalizes leptin and insulin sensitivity;  such loss of insensitivity leads to chronic diseases like diabetes heart disease and even cancer

How to Escape the Molecule That Attacks from Within

Maca from Lepedium meyenii.  What increases sexual prowess:  glucosinates from maca

What is the molecule that attacks from within:   lectin from gluten?

From Underground Health Reporter
 Mon, Mar 11, 2013
 How to Escape the Molecule That Attacks from Within

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Adinopectin the new fat burning hormone

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From Real Dose Nutrition

Recent studies have shown that adeponectin, one of the groups of adipokinese (hormones coming from fats) show much promise.  It reduces appetite and above all burns fats.

What happened to  leptin?  Leptin does not seem to work with obese people who seem to develop resistance. People does not develop resistance to adenopectin.

With adenopectin, there is outright deficiency. Adenopectin helps body fuel muscle cells.  Lack of adenopectin makes it hard to burn fats. The drawback is that as people goes fat, the level of adenopectin drops (unlike leptin when fat levels go up leptin goes up to reduce appetite and burn fat)

Scientists are working hard to induce adenopectin and it seems that intermittent fasting wokrs. Read more at Real Dose Nutrition.

What does the Leptin post mean to you?

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The Leptin post on this blog may not have sunk to many - what it means to many diet food, exercises and being marketed intensively and which many go for spending huge sums of money.

For example, if you have liposuction, would you have a permanent weight or fat loss?

Absolutely not.  When you have liposuction, your fat level goes down, the leptin likewise goes down, you regain appetite, you gain weight, your metabolism decreases,  and you are back to square one.  You again have liposuction and the whole process repeats.  What a waste of effort and money.  So you see some celebs fall for this.

Or you enroll in a crash diet or exercise.  So you see why the whole system is rigged against you the consumer ie to take away your hard earned money.

There is a cheapcure. Please read

The Leptin basics video from Wellness Resources

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Learn more from Wellness Resources    the basics of leptin and weight loss.

Please watch this video:








Dr Leo Galland, MD on how to make Leptin, a fat burning hormone work for you.  From Huffington post.

The role of Leptin in weight loss

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From nutritionwonderland

We should understand the role of leptin on appetite and weight loss.  It the singlemost important hormone that regulates our hunger and energy level.  When leptin level increase, it signals our brain that we are full and we stop eating;  when it decreases, leptin orders the body appetite to increase and eat.

Leptin is produced by our adipose tissues;  thus fat people have more leptin.

If you lose a lot of fat via liposuction or via crash diet, your leptin level fall and your craving to eat is stimulated.  Thus crash diet or liposuction will not make you slim;  the effect will be temporary.

Leptin resistance.  High fatty diet and high fructose diet stimulate leptin resistance.  Thus even if leptin levels are high, eating and craving continues.

Some advice:

l.  Have plenty of sleep (leptin levels increase while sleeping)

2.  Avoid sugar; ( to avoid leptin sensitivity)

3.  Eat plenty of Omega 3 fish oil (they increase leptin sensitivity.  It was found out that people eating salmon had higher leptin levels.) and thus were less fat.

Role of leptin in health and obesity

 

Diabetes may be cured by diet and exercise; why was generic version of Actos approved in USA

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From Dr. Mercola Magazine September 6, 2012

Actos and Pioglitazone, two noted anti diabetic drugs with severe side effects have been given go signal for the generic version for distribution.  Mylan labs was given this green light to make the anti diabetic drug affordable to more Americans.  However these drugs were banned in France and Germany for increased bladder risk.

For starter, Actos has boxed warning that says that it may cause or worsen heart failure. Actos is thought to be safer than Avandia which has 43% risk of heart attack, and  64 % of cardio vascular death.  What deadly drugs.

Dr Helen Ge, who worked for Takeda filed lawsuit her former employer alleged that she was asked to prepare watered down report on the safety of Actos.  It is more dangerous than it is now;  connected to suicide, schizoprenia, heart attacks and stroke, renal failure and homicidal ideation.

Most anti diabetes drug works by tricking the body to become sensitive to their insulin.  If the tricking is pursued long enough, it has devastating effect on the body.

Diabetes is actually caused by  faulty leptin and insulin signalling that can be corrected by diet and exercise.

What are the cheap cures for diabetes:

l.  Severly limit sugar and high glycemic index food ;

2.  Exercise regularly

3. Avoid synthetic transfat;

4.  Take plenty of Vit D and Omega 3 oil

5.  Optimize intestinal flora with biotics and probiotics, or reseed with fermented foods

Dr. Mercola magazine Sept 6, 2012