50% of us suffer the effects of metabolic inflammation and we don’t know it. There normally are no symptoms of pain or swelling or other tell tale signs that we normally think of with inflammation. One huge symptom however, is the inability to lose weight. Some research suggests that a regular regimen of antioxidant supplementation may help. A little grape seed extract here a little acai berry there could go a long way in your weight loss journey.
As always, this isn’t a substitute for eating sensibly and taking daily walks. But it shouldn’t be ignored either. Antioxidants serve a variety of good purposes in your body. Even if you don’t have metabolic inflammation, they do help boost your immune system which couldn’t hurt.
Greg Arnold
How I am losing my big butt
Here is the article that inspired this blog:
Brain Pathway Responsible For Obesity Found: Too Many Calories Send Brain Off Kilter
ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2008) — An overload of calories throws critical portions of the brain out of whack, reveals a study in the October 3rd issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. That response in the brain’s hypothalamus—the “headquarters” for maintaining energy balance—can happen even in the absence of any weight gain, according to the new studies in mice.
The brain response involves a molecular player, called IKKß/NF-κB, which is known to drive metabolic inflammation in other body tissues. The discovery suggests that treatments designed to block this pathway in the brain might fight the ever-increasing spread of obesity and related diseases, including diabetes and heart disease.
“This pathway is usually present but inactive in the brain,” said Dongsheng Cai of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cai said he isn’t sure exactly why IKKß/NF-κB is there and ready to spring into action in the brain. He speculates it may have been an important element for innate immunity, the body’s first line of defense against pathogenic invaders, at some time in the distant past.
“In today’s society, this pathway is mobilized by a different environmental challenge—overnutrition,” he said. Once activated, “the pathway leads to a number of dysfunctions, including resistance to insulin and leptin,” both important metabolic hormones…
Right now every single fat person walks in a room full of people and looks for someone fatter than they are. They can’t help it. When they spot that person they are dramatically relieved. That means they don’t have to feel self conscious. If they don’t find that person who is fatter than they are, then they just want to die.
Drinking red wine might be a good thing for losing weight too. More and more Americans are drinking red wine for their health. In fact, the U.S. just became the largest wine consuming nation in the world this year. Resveratrol, the active healthy ingredient in red wine has been studied for a variety of health reasons, the latest being for weight loss…
The one thing that I have to constantly remind myself of is that I have to eat to lose weight. The second I try to drop my calorie intake way down, my body goes into starvation mode and begins to protect all that precious body fat that I carry around. I have learned this lesson over and over again. But every time I want to speed up my progress, there I go again cutting calories even further. Dumb, dumb dumb.
Most people think that the key to losing weight is calorie restriction…starving yourself. While watching what you eat is important, when you eat too little, your body goes into starvation mode. It’s a little left over from our caveman days that helped us survive long periods with very little food.
In Tim Ferriss’s blog post (The 4 hour work week guy) “
Well my weight continues to move down. My eating is pretty much a lifestyle thing. As I was out jogging with my daughter Mindy the other day, one of our friends said she looked very graceful out there. What am I, chopped liver? She does look great. She is down from 148 pounds to 131!
I always thought I was endorphin safe, I never felt that high when I exercised. All I ever felt was exhausted. I thought the whole runners high thing was a myth that was dreamed up by guys in better shape than I was to make me feel like crap.
My daughter Mindy named her slider (a small turtle) White Castle, we jogged 1 1/4 miles today. What does her turtle and our jog have in common? Nothing really, it just came to mind how slow we were moving. But it felt great…to finish, and I suppose it will make me more healthy…if I live.
As soon as the fast food industry hears about this, they will start hiring nothing but fat people to work behind the counter. Why hire an attractive young student to work the counter if fat people make you want to eat more. Next thing you know we’ll be reading in the news that McDonald’s sales are up 25% because they fired all the skinny people behind the counters and replaced them with only fat people.
