Weight Management Should Be Simple without Harmful Side Effects or Surgery

Why is it so hard to lose weight once a person has decided to make a change in how they look and feel?

One of the key components for managing weight is knowing when to stop eating. Once we've lost our dietary habits and disciplines, getting them back is no small task. Three main reasons exist around this conundrum. Portion control, metabolic regulation and proper nutrition are three essentials in creating sustainable weight management by engaging your body's natural intelligence to feel satiated. And all three essentials are linked directly to sending appropriate signals to the body's command and control center in the brain (The part of the brain that has been hijacked or redirected by the body's imbalance or break down in the cellular metabolism).

How does the metabolism work and where is it controlled from?

Metabolism can be a mystery, but can roughly be defined as the chemistry that turns food into life. You may know that mastering it is the key to losing weight, but what is it? And where is it? It turns out to be the engine that drives every cell, and that means it's everywhere. Your metabolism helps you walk, talk, fight off illness, even read this page. Its fuel is calories which are used to make energy. Each calorie you consume goes into the metabolic tank that powers the machine that is you.

Keep that tank filled and you're good to go, right?

If only it were that simple. As you age, your body becomes less effective at burning calories, mostly because of a loss in the regulatory signals to the brain and the gradual decrease in activity and resulting loss of muscle. These circumstances can cause our metabolism to dip as much as 25 to 30 percent over your adult life. As a result, your body tends to store excess calories in the form of body fat, and that extra weight only slows you down more. A chronic syndrome sets in that continues to spiral down or fight your strongest intentions to do better for yourself.

So how can we address portion control and metabolic signaling?

Each and every one of us is made up of trillions of individual living cells that each must maintain itself, and it is the communication among the individual cells that will determine our health and our life. The communication takes place by hormones. Insulin and leptin are the major hormones regulating metabolism, and we now know more than ever before that they play a critical role to health and disease.

A breakthrough came around the metabolic discovery that balancing the leptin in the body helps to regain control at the brain center with simple and safe nutrients like essential fatty acids and polysaccharides in the right combination.

After it was discovered that fat produced the hormone leptin, (a messaging hormone manufactured in every fat cell in your body) fat cells took on a whole new meaning. Instead of fat cells just being cells that stored excess energy or functioned as insulation for the body; they looked more like an endocrine organ regulating and influencing the rest of the body like the ovaries, pancreas and pituitary. Foundational life sustaining functions like appetite and reproduction could be linked back to the hormonal (leptin) signals we receive from our fat cells.

More on Leptin

Leptin controls the energy storage and utilization of all of your cells allowing the body to communicate with the brain about how much energy (fat) the cells have stored, and whether they need more, or should burn off some of that fat. Leptin serves as a sort of 'on and off switch' that tells the brain when you've had enough to eat and whether a cell should store fat or burn fat. Rather than your brain being in control of the rest of the body, it is, in fact, subservient to your fat and the signal it sends to influence and control our metabolism. It is what is known as leptin-resistance; the loss of control of our metabolism when the signal isn't heard by the brain and other parts of the body.

How does leptin affect hunger?

Hunger is a very powerful and deep-seated drive that, if stimulated long enough, will make you eat and store more energy. Controlling hunger is one way that leptin controls energy storage. And the only way to eat less in the long-term is to not be hungry. If a person is getting too fat, the extra fat produces more leptin which is supposed to tell an area of the brain in the hypothalamus that there is too much fat stored, more should not be stored, and the excess burned. Therefore, signals are sent to stop being hungry, to stop eating, to stop storing fat and to start burning some extra fat off. More recently, it has been found that leptin not only changes brain chemistry, but can also "rewire" these very important areas of the brain that control hunger and metabolism and reverse leptin-resistance.

How do people become leptin-resistant?

As you can imagine this has really caught the attention of the scientific community, and the subject of much research. Most likely people become leptin-resistant by the same general mechanism that people become insulin-resistant. High blood glucose levels cause repeated surges in insulin and overexposure to high levels of the hormone. And this causes one's cells to become "insulin-resistant" which leads to further high levels of insulin and diabetes. It is much the same as being in a smelly room for a period of time. Soon, you stop being able to smell it, because the signal no longer gets through.

The same happens with leptin. It has been shown that as sugar gets metabolized in fat cells, fat releases surges in leptin, and those surges result in leptin-resistance just as it results in insulin-resistance. When your body responds to leptin, it has an easy time being satisfied with food and will burn fat for energy. When you over consume food, you drown out the leptin message to the rest of the body and specifically the brain. Without the right balance of leptin, there can be an uncontrollable weight gain. If you can restore your sensitivity to the leptin signal, your body can re-establish its ability to consume less food and burn fat again. The right nutrients will help your body regain its sensitivity to the appetite message while allowing leptin to dial up your metabolism.

Beyond leptin's influence is there more we can do about portion control?

In the area of portion control, special soluble fibers are designed to address this issue safely and easily without surgery that many overweight individuals are turning to today. When combined with water, soluble fiber expands in your stomach, sending a message to your brain that you are less hungry. Soluble fiber in the right amounts puts you in control of your portions, helping you make decisive choices with your meals, not compulsive ones. Soluble fiber absorbs the free water and expands to fill the stomach; promoting the release of hormones that signals the hunger center in the brain to suppress your appetite. So by the time you sit down and start eating, you are already beginning to "feel full."

So rebalancing our leptin signal safely with no side effects or drugs to get our metabolism back on track and easily managing our portions of food without costly and dangerous stomach surgery allows for anyone to succeed at healthy and long lasting weight loss.

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