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Weight Loss Facts:
Low Fat Foods DON'T WORK.
You cannot lose weight using Low Fat Diets. Low fat foods have been popular for more than 15 years, but yet our society is getting more overweight as each year passes. This fact alone should tell you that eating a purely low fat menu is not the answer to losing weight.
Low Calorie Diets DON'T WORK.
You won't lose weight using a Low Calorie Dieting Plan either. In fact, eating low calories is the worst thing that you can do to your body, since that will only slow down your body's fat burning engine and ruin all chances of losing weight (low calorie diets may allow a few pounds of weight loss for the first few days, but then after that all weight loss comes to a halt --- known as a dieting plateau). You can never get slim by starving yourself.
Low Carb Plans DON'T WORK.
You'll probably find it extremely difficult to get slim using a Low Carb Dieting Plan. Low carb diets have recently become popular over the last couple years, but the problem with low carb menus is that they are too strict and TOO HARD TO FOLLOW for average people. Low carb menus tend to rob your body of too much energy (carbohydrates) and make it nearly impossible to remain on the program for very long. This is why so many dieters find it difficult to follow a strict low carbohydrate menu.
Full Chart on the Glycemic Count for food groups
and how to use this chart for weight loss;
combined with the nutritional program below you are
on your way to the weight loss that has eluded you.
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Adrenal Exhaustion the secret issue
to weight gain, fatigue and depression
The following symptoms not receiving the support it needs to
maintain healthy adrenal function
Fatigue
Feeling tired despite sufficient hours of sleep
Insomnia
Weight gain
Depression
Hair loss
Acne
Reliance on stimulants like caffeine
Cravings for carbohydrates or sugars
Cravings for salt
Poor immune function
Intolerance to cold
Related conditions
Adrenal fatigue is a likely factor in several
medical conditions such as the following:
Hypotension
Fibromyalgia
Hypothyroidism
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Arthritis
Premature menopause
What you should be taking
A good multi vitamin like Alive by Nature Way plus
When the adrenals are chronically overworked and straining to maintain high cortisol levels, they lose the capacity to produce Keto DHEA 25mg is a sufficient amount. Keto DHEA (the full name is dehydroepiandrosterone) is a precursor hormone to estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, and is necessary to moderate the balance of hormones in your body. Insufficient Keto DHEA contributes to fatigue, bone loss, loss of muscle mass, depression, aching joints, decreased sex drive, and impaired immune function. (For more information Keto DHEA) Also, Dyno-Mins Zinc, Biotin, 5HTP, Manganese, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Pantothenic Acid.
The herbals that are adrenal nourshing:
Licorice Root, Passion Flower, Schizandra, Three Bee's, Black Cohosh, Rhodiola Rosea Root, Panax Ginseng Holy Basil ETOH and or Holy Basil Supercritical Extract and Fenugreek for lymph cleanse. Dosing recommendation is available when purchased. We will custom blend all of these together for you as well.
Oats, Wild Milky Seed - Certified Organic is helpful as well
MG-W (multi glandular) is another that is well received and VM-W (Vital Mineral) which is great for clearing out the system of fat and acid crystals along with mineralizing the system to restore nerve function and alkalize the system of harmful inflammation which is the root cause of most all disease including heart disease and cancers. Read about the CRP test that is over looked by your physicians and is a simple $10 blood test that can save your life when your heart and stress tests come back saying you are fine and that is when we see the greatest amount of heart attacks...the arteries won't be blocked they will be eroded from acidity in the system and the artery implodes from thinning.
All of these herbals are made by Pure Herbs, one of the highest quality herbals on the market.
Check your multi vitamin to see how much of the following will be in it and there are some here will not be in a multi and will have to supplemented seperately. This is a check list for adrenal exhaustion that is helpful to know
Questions about supplementation and foods nutritional value go here supplement section. If you need help write to us.
 Vitamin A (as beta carotene) 2500 IU Vitamin C (as Ascorbic Acid) 15 mg Vitamin D3 200 IU Vitamin E (as Mixed Tocopherols) 30 IU Thiamine (as Thiamine Hydrochloride) 12 mg Riboflavin (as Riboflavin-5-Phosphate) 12 mg Inositol 13 mg Vitamin B6 (80% as Pyridoxine Hydrochloride and 20% as Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate) 50 mg if possible if not do the best you can in the B6 Folic Acid 300 mcg Biotin 250 mcg Pantothenic Acid (as Calcium Pantothenate) 500 mg Calcium (as Glycerophosphate) 225 mg Magnesium (as Citrate/Malate, Glycinate, Ascorbate) 212 mg Zinc (as Ascorbate) 8 mg Selenium (as Selenomethionine) 25 µg Copper (as Gluconate) 0.5 mg Manganese 5 mg Chromium 100 µg Sodium (as Ascorbate) 10 mg Potassium (as Chloride) 2 mg Pantethine 50 mg Bioflavonoids 7 mg Choline 25 mg Para-Aminobenzoic Acid (PABA) 17 mg Glycine 1000 mg DL-Phenylalanine 250 mg L-Serine 250 mg L-Threonine 100 mg L-Tyrosine 25 mg EDTA (Calcium) 25 mg Keto DHEA 25 mg Proprietary Blend of Porcine Glandulars (Adrenal, Orchic, Hypothalamus, Pituitary) 392 mg Bold are the primary ones the others are helpfulMaca (Root) Extract 275 mg Ashwagandha (Root) Extract 125 mg Licorice (Root) Extract 50 mg Eleuthero (Root) Extract 25 mg (optional)Ginger (Root) Extract 12 mg Ginkgo (Leaf) Extract 12 mg Oat Bran 1000 mg |
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Blogging on Food:
What are the right things to eat?
Today: Potato and Resistent Starch, why you want it...
Potatoes get a bad rap as little more than a waist-thickening waste of calories. But amazing new research puts spuds squarely at the center of the latest weight loss buzz, along with other unfairly maligned carbs such as corn and rice. The reason: All these foods contain resistant starch, a unique kind of fiber you'll be hearing a lot more about. In fact, experts agree that it's one of the most exciting nutrition breakthroughs they've seen in years. "Resistant starch has the potential to become the next hot nutrition trend," says Leslie Bonci, RD, author of the American Dietetic Association's Guide to Better Digestion. Indeed, more than 160 studies have examined this little known nutrient's remarkable health and weight loss benefits.
Resistant Starch: The New Power Nutrient
Although this may be the first you've heard of resistant starch, it's likely been a part of your diet most of your life. Resistant starch is a type of dietary fiber naturally found in many carbohydrate-rich foods such as potatoes, grains, and beans, particularly when these foods are cooled. It gets its name because it "resists" digestion in the body, and though this is true of many types of fiber, what makes resistant starch so special is the powerful impact it has on weight loss and overall health. As a dieter's tool it can't be beat: Not only does it increase your body's ability to burn fat, but it also fills you up and reduces overall hunger. Its health benefits are truly impressive as well. Studies show it improves blood sugar control, boosts immunity, and may even reduce your cancer risk.
Resistant starch is bulky, so it takes up space in your digestive system. And because you can't digest or absorb it, the starch never enters your bloodstream. That means it bypasses the fate of most carbohydrates, which get socked away as body fat when you eat more than you can burn. Here are two more key ways resistant starch can help you drop unwanted pounds:
It ups your calorie burn. Unlike some types of fiber, resistant starch gets fermented when it reaches the large intestine. This process creates beneficial fatty acids, including one called butyrate, which may block the body's ability to burn carbohydrates. "This can prevent the liver from using carbs as fuel and, instead, stored body fat and recently consumed fat are burned," explains Janine Higgins, PhD, nutrition research director for the University of Colorado's Adult and Pediatric General Clinical Research Center. In your body, carbohydrates are the preferred source of fuel, like gasoline that powers your car's engine. Butyrate essentially prevents some of the gas from getting into the tank, and your cells turn to fat as an alternative. One study found that replacing just 5.4% of total carbohydrate intake with resistant starch created a 20 to 30% increase in fat burning after a meal.
It shuts down hunger hormones. Animal studies have found that resistant starch prompts the body to pump out more satiety-inducing hormones. A meal with resistant starch triggers a hormonal response to shut off hunger, so you eat less. Research shows that you don't reap this benefit from other sources of fiber.
We Found It: Why eating carbs can help you slim down--and how to do it right!
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Fighting Disease, One Potato at a Time
The research on resistant starch doesn't stop at weight loss. This powerful nutrient is also earning accolades as a major disease fighter from standard bearers such as the World Health Organization. Here's why scientists around the globe are so excited about its health benefits:
It can prevent cancer. Research shows that the butyrate created by resistant starch may protect the lining of the colon, making it less vulnerable to the DNA damage that triggers diseases, such as colon cancer. It can also create a pH drop inside the colon, which boosts the absorption of calcium and blocks the absorption of cancer-causing substances.
It may fight diabetes and heart disease.
Let's Dish
Like other fibers, resistant starch helps control blood sugar levels. "Because it skips routine digestion, we see lower blood sugar and insulin levels following a resistant starch–rich meal," says Christine Gerbstadt, MD, RD, CDE, spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. Blood sugar control translates into more energy and sustained energy. It also means long-term heart protection, because chronic high levels of blood sugar and insulin cause delicate arteries to become clogged and harden.
It boosts your immune system. "When you have low levels of good-for-you bacteria in your digestive system, it's very difficult to fight off disease," says Joanne Slavin, PhD, RD, a nutrition professor at the University of Minnesota. Resistant starch may boost the growth of probiotics, the same kind of healthy bacteria found in yogurt that keep bad bacteria in check.
How to Eat Enough
Right now, there is no specific target for resistant starch intake. But preliminary data shows that the average American woman consumes about 4 g of resistant starch each day. Experts such as Gerbstadt believe the research is strong enough to advocate doubling that.
Adding just 1/2 to 1 cup of cooled resistant starch–rich food per day can do the trick. See "6 Best Fat-Burning Foods" below for ideas, and follow this advice to maximize your intake.
Keep it cool. In cooked starchy foods, resistant starch is created during cooling. Cooking triggers starch to absorb water and swell, and as it slowly cools, portions of the starch become crystallized into the form that resists digestion. Cooling either at room temperature or in the refrigerator will raise resistant starch levels. Just don't reheat. That breaks up the crystals, causing resistant starch levels to plummet.
Look for fortified foods. A growing number of commercial foods have been bolstered with Hi-maize, the brand name of a resistant starch powder made from corn. You can use it in baking (and lower calories) by replacing up to one-quarter of traditional flour in any recipe without affecting taste or texture (King Arthur Hi-maize Natural Fiber, $5.95 per 12-ounce bag; kingarthurflour.com). Or, look for packaged products that include Hi-maize, as another easy way to boost your intake.
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As a bodybuilding consumer advocate, I guess I'm not supposed to actually design any supplements. I'm just supposed to give a "thumbs up," or a "thumbs down" to various products, because the last time a critic (Roger Ebert of TV fame) decided to get off the couch and actually produce something, it was an absolute turd of a movie called "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
Well, despite his miserable failure, which probably should have served as some sort of warning to the rest of us, I've taken the plunge, and not just once, either. However, I'm pretty happy with the things I've developed or helped to develop, and so is much of the bodybuilding world, or so I've been told.
The trouble is, a few vocal critics of mine are upset because I got off the couch. To these critics, it doesn't matter that the supplements I have designed or helped design are among the highest quality and most efficacious — in their respective therapeutic areas — to ever hit the market.
When you consider safety, efficacy, and ease of use, MD6 is the best stimulant thermogen out there, hands down. What more can I say about Androsol that you, the good readers, haven't already wrote in to tell me? But no, a histrionic minority has such a negative and narrow view of the supplement market that they label me a "sell out" or a "pimp".
I resent those labels. I design supplements. That's what I do and it's how I make a good portion of my living. If you don't like it, then either get over it or move on to something else. And I'm warning you right now, the rest of this article is going to be about a supplement I pretty much came up with and researched for Biotest. So if you're one of those, "It's a giant supplement conspiracy, I tell you!"
Are you still here? Good! Because I want to tell you about something I've been working on. Some of you might remember that a few months back, I mentioned a compound called TML-2. Tim and I have been trying like mad to get this stuff synthesized in bulk. I've had to call companies on 5 continents.
TML-2 is not an "off the shelf product" and I'm told by far better chemists than I'll ever be, that it takes about 8 separate chemical reactions to make it. Now there are a few companies that will make TML-2, but all of them inquired as to what I planned to do with the bulk powder. When I mention the words, "food supplement" I invariably hear a "click" on the other end of the phone line.
Quite literally, there's only one chemical manufacturer on the planet that'll both make TML-2 and allow us to buy it in kilogram quantities to sell here in the USA as a food supplement.
If that's not a difficult enough scenario, try this one on for size: While this company was manufacturing organic chemicals for another company two months ago, they had a huge fire and an explosion that killed some of their workers. The damage to the structure of the chemical plant was pretty severe, too. So, understandably, TML-2 is going to be delayed for at least another 12 months. I apologize to all of you but it's obviously beyond my control.
Not to worry, though. One of the things I've learned as a clinical scientist working with biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical firms is that if you're developing a moiety for a certain indication, make sure you always have a back-up molecule in case something bad happens to your lead product!
And experience has taught me that sometimes, these "just in case" products often pan out to be better than the original and in some case, far better than you could have ever imagined.
For instance, I've been doing some research on a fat-burning compound some of you may have heard about before, called 3,5-diiodo-L-thryonine (T2).
Initially, I wrote this compound off as useless because, unlike TML-2, it does suppress endogenous thyroid function to a degree, although somewhat less than 3,5,2'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3, Cytomel) does, and not anywhere near as much as tiratricol (Triax, Triacana).
My initial assumption about T2 was wrong, because T2 seems to be quite useful and far safer than other OTC thyroidal nutrients that contain tiratricol. That'll teach me to prejudge things!
Of course, being safe is one thing, being effective is quite another. Anything that I design has to be both; it's a matter of pride.
Some folks, during casual discussions, have told me that T2 would be "useless" because they felt it would only manifest fat burning power by converting into T3 (this is one of the ways the human body can make T3, from adding an iodine group to a T2 molecule at the 3' position).
It was looked upon as a "thyroidal prohormone" that was a waste of time. Well, I have concrete evidence that T2 has truly potent fat burning potential in its own right.
In a very recent study, researchers examined the long-term action of T3 and T2 on lipid metabolism in animals.(1) The analysis of this study concluded that long term administration of T2 is effective at producing an effect on lipid metabolism that's comparable with T3.
Most first-year biology students know that the mitochondria are the "powerhouse" and energy center of every cell. By virtue of their biochemical functions, the mitochondria are a natural candidate for the calorigenic effects of thyroid hormones, which brings us to the questions, how would T2 affect them?
In a study conducted in the Universiti di Napoli in Italy last year, it was observed that mitochondrial activities are regulated both directly and indirectly by T3 and T2 and in some cases, the resting energy expenditure increase shows a clearer effect with T2 administration.(2)
Another study, done at the same university in Italy, showed that energy expenditure and oxidative capacity of four very metabolically active tissues (brown adipose, skeletal muscle, liver, and heart) increase dramatically when exposed to T2.(3)
There's also the possibility (and I admit, it is only a "possibility") that T2 can upregulate serum growth hormone levels. One ofthe studies cited above showed that when hypothyroid rats were given high dosages of T2 (100mcg per kg bodyweight), serum growth hormone levels increased 5-fold!
1) So it's pretty clear that T2 is a direct metabolic enhancer. But is it safe? If not, I'm not putting my name anywhere near it. As I mentioned earlier, T2 will downregulate TSH levels. This means you'll want to cycle it, much the way people tend to cycle Cytomel (T3). However, T2 is less of a TSH depressant than T3 is, as T2 seems to depress TSH levels about 16% less than T3 does.(2)
Nonetheless, the fact that T2 does depress TSH levels had me worried quite a bit. I didn't just want to make and educated guess about this, so I decided to consult an expert. I spoke with an endocrinologist who holds a faculty position in an academic medical center in the Midwest.
In essence, this physician told me that he couldn't see any permanent damage to the thyroid gland from the short term use of T2 or T3 (meaning that we were wrong all these years when we preached about the dangers of croaking our thyroid glands from using Cytomel for a month).
He did, however, mention that acute, hyperexposure could have deleterious effects on the heart and cardiovascular system. He also pointed out that while short-term exposure would not "kill" the thyroid gland, it might depress function after being on it for months on end.
This would lead to lowering the basal metabolic rate to a point where rapid accumulations of fat was possible. To prevent this, we're suggesting that people who elect to try T2 only use 50-150 micrograms (one capsule, one to three times per day) for no more than 30 days without a 45-day break in between cycles.
This should provide a nice fat burning boost to those who can't tolerate MD6 or ECA. Additionally, it's possible to add T2 to MD6 or ECA to really get a powerful fat-burning effect (just be very careful and try adding the smallest dosage possible to see how you tolerate the combo).
In closing, I think I'm about to help Biotest bring an incredibly useful and effective fat-burning supplement to the market. Does that make me a sellout? I don't think so. I look at it as "helping the little guy" because T2 is something that can truly impact someone's life in a positive manner if they use it sensibly and responsibly.
I'll leave it to my critics to give me a "thumbs up" or a "thumbs down," but I'll only pay attention to the people who use the products and benefit from them. Theirs are the only opinions that matter.
References:
1. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1999, DEC; 124(4):445-50
2. FEBS Lett 1999, JUN 11;452(3):115-20
3. Pflugers Arch 1998, AUG;436(3):407-14
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