Your Body is Like a Car or Household Appliance
It Needs Maintenance
If you could only have one car or one particular household appliance to last your entire lifetime, what good maintenance practices would you establish to make it last your whole life? More importantly, with the one and only body you will ever have, what maintenance practices are you implementing so that your body will stay optimally healthy through a long life?
Six Habits of Health
Why will your mitochondria last longer in the fat burning mode?
Answer: Because conversion systems last longer when energy sources are efficiently converted and put to work. Conversely, inefficient conversion of energy that results in damaging byproducts results in systemic damage.
There is one particular habit that reduces free radical damage more than anything else, and it's not part of most people's strategic thinking — namely, FAT BURNING!
Quintillions of free radicals are created in human cellular mitochondria when fuel (either fat or sugar) is metabolized (burned) to create energy. Far fewer free radicals, however, are created when fat is burned and not sugar.
According to Dr. Ron Rosedale click to read his bio:
"If I were to summarize in a single sentence what practice would best promote health, it would be this:
Health and life span are determined by the proportion of fat versus sugar people burn in their cells throughout their lifetime.
The more fat that one burns as fuel, the healthier a person will be, and the more likely he or she will live a long time.
The more sugar a person burns, the more disease ridden and the shorter a life span a person is likely to have."
Take Away: You will live longer and healthier if you ensure that your cellular mitochondria are predominantly burning fat, instead of burning sugar to make energy. Unfortunately, most people live virtually continuously in a sugar burning mode and by doing so, needlessly throw away significant potential (decades) for a longer and healthier life.
The primary cause of being in the sugar burning mode is a lifestyle that allows one's Leptin levels to rise too high. And, since most people don't know what is Leptin, they don't comprehend how they are undermining their health and lifespan, nor how to change directions.
Learn more about the impact of elevated Leptin level on metabolic mode, healthy, and longevity, and how to restore healthy Leptin levels by clicking below:
The major cause of having a sugar burning metabolism (that creates excessive amounts of damaging free radicals and other life-shortening problems) is having broken Leptin receptors in the Hypothalamus:
Leptin is a chemical messenger that is made in fat cells. It circulates in the blood. Receptors in the Hypothalamus sense Leptin as blood moves past the Hypothalamus. How much Leptin is sensed by the Hypothalamus is the primary driver for whether our bodies burn fat or sugar. How this works is described below.
Leptin sensory receptors in the Hypothalamus drive a metabolic mode "switch". This switch can be in one of two positions: fat burning or sugar burning
If the Leptin receptors can sense plenty of Leptin, then the Hypothalamus metabolic switch will be set for fat burning. Otherwise, if Leptin is not perceived (by Leptin receptors) as being plentiful, then the switch will be set to sugar burning, and the cells of one's body will be instructed to burn sugar and store fat. The Hypothalamic Leptin Metabolic Mode Switch operates as follows:
If no Leptin being sensed by the Hypothalamus, then one's body will be set to the sugar burning mode.
How the Hypothalamic Leptin switch "breaks" is normally the result of a gradual buildup of adipose fat. For instance, if a person consistently eats more food calories than he or she burns off in physical labor, then fat stores will build up until reaching the point where Leptin levels are so high that they damage the Hypothalamus's Leptin receptors. IE, when too much Leptin exists in the bloodstream, one's Hypothalamus's Leptin receptors will become desensitized to Leptin.
This is similar to how strong smells that continue for a long time will desensitize smell sensors in the nose. In much the same way, if Leptin levels are really high too long they will overstimulate Leptin receptors in the Hypothalamus And Hypothalamus receptors will stop detecting Leptin meaning that the Hypothalamus will measure Leptin levels as being zero, even though Leptin levels may actually be very high. When the Hypothalamus believes that there is no Leptin in the bloodstream, then the Hypothalamus will panic and signal for the body to burn sugar even though fat stores and Leptin levels are very high. The switch for burning sugar gets turned on and won't go off.
So, once a person accumulates an amount of body fat that is high enough to continuously keep Leptin levels high (and thereby continuously desensitize the Hypothalamus to Leptin), it will become very difficult to ever go back to the fat burning mode. It's almost like one is then sentenced by nature to always be in the sugar burner mode and to always try to store every incoming calorie as fat.
And then by constantly being in the sugar burning, one's health is going to be damaged much faster because of excessive free radical production. If that weren't enough, eventually one's body will become insulin resistant (meaning the cells will stop responding to the signal to make more more fat). At that point, blood sugar will rise and glycation damage (proteins cross-linking with sugar) will start to become an even bigger problem than free radical damage.
Being in the sugar burning mode has become the GREATEST MODERN CAUSE of chronic illness and early death.
Leptin can be too much, just right, or too little. Learning to keep it just right is really important.
OK, we understand that Leptin has to be within an optimum range for the body to burn fat. But, what is that optimum range?
Too Much Leptin
Just the Right Amount of Leptin
Too Little Leptin
Salient Fact to Take Away
When the Hypothalamus cannot sense an adequate amount of Leptin in the bloodstream, either because there really isn't very much Leptin or because its Leptin receptors have become desensitized by the presence of too much Leptin, the Hypothalamus panics and commands the body to try to burn sugar and store fat. While burning sugar, one is growing old and diseased twice as fast because twice as many free radicals are being generated compared to if one's cells were burning fat.
Getting and keeping Leptin levels in normal range is our number one Habit of Health.
You can get a blood test for Leptin (from your Doctor) in order to know where you are currently in terms of Leptin level.
Or, since Leptin is made in body fat which means the more body fat you have the more Leptin your body makes, you can estimate your Leptin level by simply looking at the fat percentage chart to see where your body fat most likely is, and if your Leptin level is in the the fat burning mode or not. Please note that women make about 15 percent more Leptin in their fat cells than do men, since women's hormonal processes are different. This means that women's fat burning responses are different, take longer, and must be sustained longer.
Once you get your Leptin blood test results (or make an estimate based on body fat percentage), you will know where you are at. You can then choose to adjust your life-style and/or diet to get your Leptin level into the fat burning range.
Remember Leptin is made in fat cells and that means that a main driver of Leptin level is the amount of body fat one has. So, scientifically speaking, in order to stay in the fat burning mode and live the healthiest and longest life possible, it will be essential to get and keep your body fat percentage in an optimal range.
If your body fat percentage is not in the optimal range for fat burning, then you need to learn and carry out the tactics for temporarily normalizing Leptin levels while you make permanent changes that will allow you keep your Leptin level in the fat burning range permanently, for the rest of your life.
As described in the previous tab, you know you are in a sugar burning Leptin range if your Leptin level is 9 ng/ml or greater or if your body fat level places you above the fat burning range (shown in the picture in the preceding section).
If you're in a sugar burning Leptin range, then you also know that your body's cells are being damaged faster than they should be (because your cells will be generating twice as many free radicals as they could and should).
If nothing changes your metabolic mode back to fat burning, the unhappy reality is that cellular damage will occur much faster than might have been. Consequently, you will experience disease and death much sooner than could have been.
That should be an incentive to take action. But, unless you know what to do, it is very unlikely that you will be to get your body back into the fat burning mode. So, learn the fat burning tactics described on this page.
But, this is only possible if if you take decisive, correct action to change your metabolic mode permanently back to fat burning. That's what you now need to learn.
Using those five facts or tactics for overriding damaged Leptin receptors in the Hypothalamus, you can get your body back into fat burning.
So, we will teach you how to get your Hypothalamus and the cells of your body back to a fat burning mode and how to burn through excessive fat stores until you have the right amount of fat on your body to permanently maintain the fat burning metabolic mode.
# 1: Leptin can be cleared from the bloodstream each night so that one starts the day with low Leptin levels. What helps Leptin to clear includes:
Getting more precise:
# 2: The amount of sugar in the blood stream significantly changes the rate of Leptin production of Leptin in fat cells.
Getting more precise:
To keep blood sugar low, we recommend eating low glycemic foods and eating nutrient-dense food.
If you understood the above, then you will realize that the quintessential secret for lowering Leptin production temporarily (so that you can get Leptin level low enough to get back into a fat burning metabolic mode) is to keep your blood sugar low. Tactics for keeping blood sugar low, then, are what you want to learn!
Significant, prolonged exercise forces fat burning to occur.
Stress hormones (adrenaline, cortisol) force sugar burning to occur.
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Elevated Leptin
Pain and Stress
Inadequate Sleep
Excessive Dietary Protein
When trying to predict metabolic mode a few additional factors, other than body fat percentage, come into play:
Pregnancy hormones override Leptin switching of metabolic mode and force fat burning to occur.
Women's bodies produce less Leptin than do men's bodies for the same amount of body fat.
If you’ve come to realize that you are currently a sugar burner and, therefore, permitting extra life-shortening damage to occur to your body, you will undoubtedly desire to get the cells of your body back into the healthy fat burning mode. Here are the things you need to do to accomplish that:
Ron Rosedale is an Internationally known expert in nutritional and metabolic medicine whose work with diabetics is truly groundbreaking. Very few physicians have had such consistent success in helping diabetics to eliminate or reduce their need for insulin and to reduce heart disease without drugs or surgery.
Dr. Rosedale was founder of the Rosedale Center, co-founder of the Colorado Center for Metabolic Medicine (Boulder, CO USA) and founder of the Carolina Center of Metabolic Medicine (Asheville, NC). Through these centers, he has helped thousands suffering from so-called incurable diseases to regain their health.
One of Dr. Rosedale's life goals is to wipe out type II diabetes in this country as a model for the world. He also has written a book,"The Rosedale Diet", covering his proven treatment methods for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, osteoporosis and other chronic diseases of aging.
being in the sugar burning mode is stressful to the brain. When the Hypothalamus can't detect Leptin it will believe a famine or illness is occurring, and it will feel panicked or stressed and unable to relax. Since the Hypothalamus is at the center of our survival, reward and motivational behaviors, when the Hypothalamus is stressed from not being able to detect Leptin, it is quick to rewire the brain to look for food or “other sources of comfort”. So, anyone who is trying to overcome harmful addictive behaviors, should seek to get Leptin levels into a normal range, almost as a first priority.Copyright 2002 - 2024. All rights reserved.
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