Lose Body Fat Through Fat Burning Hormones for Weight Loss
These are Safe, Natural and Effective Ways to Manipulate Fat Burning Hormones and Transform Your Body
Here's what you need to understand in order to increase metabolism for real weight loss that will last.
These are safe, natural tactics that you can use to manipulate hormones for fat burning and weight loss.
Hormones are the chemical messengers of your body.
They travel in your bloodstream delivering messages to tissues and organs.
They affect many different processes including metabolism (how the body gets energy from food), growth, development, and mood.
There are safe and natural tactics that you can use to manipulate hormones for weight loss.
This page is about hormones in general.
If you are looking for:
the specific foods that boost fat burning hormones
the lists of those foods
the feeding frequency
or the specific exercises that create a metabolic furnace
please see the following sections of our website by clicking on the two page links directly below. On those pages we show how you can freely manipulate hormones to burn body fat. These are highly effective natural ways to manipulate hormones:
If you want in-depth information about hormones in general, please continue reading this page.
Let's first look at hormones in relation to male or female body fat or weight gain at any age in life. In part two of this section, we go on to give you the cure for menopause and weight gain.
There are safe and natural tactics that we use to manipulate hormones for fat burning and weight loss. They are part of the free total program at this website.
However, to understand the relationship between hormones and body fat it's important to begin at the beginning.
Fat Burning Hormones: Intro
The beginning
The critical elements of the free program presented here on our website are increasing lean muscle mass to burn body fat, eating fat burning foods, and eating a smaller meal, with sufficient protein from natural sources, about every three hours (in other words five or six meals per day). All of these things will significantly boost your metabolism.
You will not be eating more food; you will simply be spreading it throughout the day.
See this section of our website for more details about feeding frequency to boost metabolism and the amount of protein required:
Muscular growth is neither predictable nor uniform. There's still a lot about the process of building muscle that remains unknown. There's also a lot still unknown about the endocrine system and how it works in relation to muscular development.
Glands or glandular tissues secrete hormones, which act like chemical messengers. They affect every organ system in the body and control many of the body's vital functions. The endocrine system is this complex network. There are many different kinds with a wide array of functions.
Many different glands or tissues (such as the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, and parathyroid glands) as well as organs (like the kidneys) secrete them.
They travel through the bloodstream and exert their influence on body parts away from their origin. There are also tissues that produce substances similar to them (such as prostaglandins) that have specific, localized functions.
Since there are many different types with a wide array of functions, it should be no surprise that there are different ways of classifying them. A common way is by their chemical derivation. Consider two groups:
(1) The steroid hormones are derived from cholesterol. These pass through the cell membranes of their target cells to act directly on the nuclei.
They include the sex hormones (such as testosterone and estrogen), mineralocorticoids (which regulate the body's fluid and salt balance), and the glucocorticoids (which regulate glucose metabolism). Cortisol is the most important glucocorticoid.
(2) Others are derived from protein, peptides, or amino acids. They do not actually enter their target cells; instead, they attach themselves to receptor sites on the surfaces of their target cells and work in other ways.
They include insulin, growth hormone, and epinephrine (adrenaline).
Fat Burning Hormones: Balancing
Endocrine system
The endocrine system is very complex and delicately balanced by an interconnected set of controls. The many different hormones circulate in very small quantities and have very specific target cells or receptors.
When the system becomes unbalanced, usually because of too much or too little of one or more hormones, health is compromised.
Symptoms are often dramatic and sometimes life threatening.
There are many different kinds of endocrine disorders. Diabetes is the most common. It is caused either by a lack of insulin or by the body's inability to use insulin. Carbohydrate metabolism is the chemical process by which carbohydrates (sugars and starches) are broken down into glucose (blood sugar), which is the body's principal fuel. Insulin is essential in carbohydrate metabolism.
Thyroid disorders are another common kind of endocrine disorder. Thyroid hormone affects virtually all metabolic processes. An overactive thyroid ("hyperthyroidism") is caused by excessive production. Sometimes the thyroid is attacked by the body's immune system, which is the most common cause of underactive thyroid ("hypothyroidism").
In addition to diabetes and thyroid disorders, there are many other endocrine disorders; they include growth abnormalities, sexual development abnormalities, diabetes insipidis, parathyroid disorders, disorders of the gonads (testis or ovaries), and adrenal disorders.
If you suspect any such hormonal imbalances, your internist or other primary care physician may refer you to an endocrinologist.
Unless you have a license to practice medicine, please do not rely on self-diagnosis of such imbalances. Only rely on a diagnosis made by a competent physician and not, for example, on one by a store clerk in a health food store or even a nutritionist.
Treatments to restore hormonal balance can sometimes be surprisingly simple—such as temporary amino acid supplementation.
To read more about hormones and amino acids, see the Ross and Larson books at the beginning of Part III on our free reading list.
In relation to fat burning hormones and how to lose body fat, the best natural tactics for obtaining and sustaining a well-balanced endocrine system are eating well, exercising well, and resting well.
The free program presented here on our website includes all that and more to help you optimize fat burning hormones and lose body fat in a healthy and natural way. You will find all the information you need listed on the navigation buttons.
Caution: despite the claims of many, over-the-counter glandular supplements are not an effective medicine.
These are extracts of animal thymus, adrenal, pituitary, and reproductive glands. Taking them can be dangerous because they can upset your body's delicate hormonal balance.
Please avoid products like DHEA.
Instead, focus on eating well, exercising well, and resting well. The tactics on these three topics that we recommend on this website will help you lose weight by naturally managing the relevant hormones.
Here are 5 specific examples of fat burning hormones.
The first two examples are insulin and leptin. Their levels rise and fall together. Preventing your insulin level from spiking is a chief reason to keep your daily carb intake at 25 grams or lower on most days. This prevents fat storage.
Preventing your leptin level from going too low is a chief reason for one cheat day weekly, which is all it takes to keep it at normal levels and prevent your body from going into starvation mode.
Here's an important third example: Too much stress leads to cortisol overload that causes cravings for carbohydrates, breaks down muscle, increases abdominal fat storage, and can lead to depression. Our important sections on breathing well and meditation will help you keep your cortisol level under control.
The fourth example of fat burning hormones is often neglected. The higher your level of ghrelin, the hungrier you are. The way to keep it down is to get plenty of sleep. Our page on sleeping well can really help.
The final example is this: the higher your level of adiponectin, the more fat you'll burn. To keep it high, ensure that you are ingesting plenty of magnesium and green leafy vegetables like (preferably organic) spinach. If you miss an occasional meal (as our hunter-gatherer ancestors did), such intermittent fasting can also help.
4 Topics of Concern
Four specific areas
Now lets' look at specific areas of concern in relation to fat burning hormones and how to lose body fat.
These four areas of concern are: male and female aging, body composition, increasing lean muscle mass to replace body fat, and female menopause and weight gain. This information will show you how to lose body fat and achieve permanent natural weight loss.
Click on the first link listed below to go to fat burning hormones, part 2, for more how to lose body fat tips and the cure for menopausal weight gain.
