RSS FeedToxins are possibly the greatest problem, when you are trying to loose weight.
We are surrounded by toxic substances that we breathe in, absorb through our skin, and ingest daily. These toxins are in our cleaning and household products; pesticides and herbicides on our lawns and gardens; steroids, growth hormones and antibiotics in our dairy products, chicken, beef, and pork; preservatives in packaged food; Teflon in our cookware; heavy metals, contaminants, and pharmaceutical drugs in our tap water; toxins in our soap, shampoo, toothpaste; heavy metals in vaccines, tooth fillings, and fish; and biotoxins from mold; and medications.
The effect of these toxins individual and working together are detrimental to our survival. When toxins enter your body, they are absorbed by fat cells, because they are fat soluble. The toxins attach to the outer layer of the cell membrane that is made up of two layers of fat. The result is that the cells continually release leptin, an enzyme that controls the burning of fat in your body.
When the leptin levels in your body are elevated too often, similar to when insulin levels are elevated too high in Type 2 diabetes, the leptin receptors burn out and the body stops reacting as it should to leptin. When leptin is out of balance, it is impossible to loose weight.
Toxins also cause the release of chemicals call cytokines that damage the leptin receptors in the hypothalmus part of your brain. That produces weight loss resistance.
In addition, leptin is involved in the production of an important hormone, MSH (melanocyte stimulating hormone), in your hypothalmus. MSH controls nerve, hormone, cytokine functions, skin and mucous membrane defenses, as well as controlling the production of endorphins and melatonin. When your brain becomes leptin resistant you will eventually become deficient in MSH.
Than means that all of your body’s immune and hormone responses will be changed. You end up feeling horrible without being able to understand why. Eventually you find yourself on medications, chasing the downward spiral of increasing symptoms and side effects.
In order to loose weight, you need to reverse the build up of toxins in your body by cleansing your body at the cellular level. There are a number of programs and treatments that can remove toxins, help to rebalance your hormones, and get you at your ideal weight. The keys are, of course, what you eat and the amount of exercise that you get.
A weight loss program that works is nutritionally balance, high in protein, low in high gylcemic index carbohydrates, and includes high antioxidant detoxifying supplements. Two effective available weight loss and cleansing programs are the Isagenix 9 Day and 30 Day cleansing and fat burning plans, which include nutritionally balanced, meal replacement, Isagenix Isalean shakes and Isagenix Cleanse for Life Dietary Supplement.
For additional information, click here to view an Isagenix Video on Cleansing for Life.
