New breakthrough in fat loss and heart protection....

Today's Post: Thursday, 5-12-2011

Last Sunday, Dr Al Sears sent out an email with some very valuable information.

In fat loss, if your hunger fails to shut off when you are actually full and fed or your body fails to burn fat when you need to access the calories in it, it will be dramatically harder to get rid of the excess fat.

But when you get too fat, the messenger, leptin, which your body uses to do this stops working. Or it stops working well.

Meanwhile, if you eat too much omega 6 oils and too little omega 3 oils and get no exercise, your level of chronic inflammation as measured by the HSCRP (High Sensitivity C Reactive Protein) test.

We already know high levels of C Reactive Protein and high chronic inflammation cause heart disease and help cause many cancers and may also help cause Alzheimer’s disease.

That’s why in our last post, last Tuesday, 5-10, about heart disease risk and reducing it has many details on how to eat less omega 6 and get more omega 3 oils.

We also know that eating ginger and curries with turmeric as spices &/or taking curcumin supplements derived from turmeric lowers inflammation.

Here’s the breakthrough news on fat loss.

Here’s the key quote from Dr Al Sears, “Leptin normally binds to “leptin receptors.” But more fat cells increase inflammation. That makes the liver produce a protein called CRP. And CRP binds to leptin, stops it from reaching its receptors, and blocks its signals.”

He also said, “That is called leptin resistance. And it’s one reason why you may feel hungry all the time, and may not melt fat naturally.”

That’s extremely important to know. And, here’s why it is and is such important news.

1. When you carry too much excess fat, your CRP levels go up and you are more likely to get the diseases caused by the inflammation associated with it.

That’s one of the many reasons why losing your excess fat will help you prevent heart disease.

2. But the more important and useful information is that if you do the other things that lower CRP, your leptin will begin to work properly.

And, when that happens, you will feel full and less hungry when you should and you will burn your fat stores more easily.

That means that using all the other methods that lower inflammation besides losing fat will make it MUCH easier to lose your extra fat.

That’s new. I’d never heard of that before. It gives you an extra way to lose excess fat and make it easier to do and have it stay off!

Dr Sears also adds that the herb Irvingia that has had some press as helping people lose fat or not gain it was found to lower CRP inflammation by 52%.

If that statistic is accurate, it may mean that for people who have high CRP now, taking Irvingia might be well worth doing.

Doing so would sharply increase your heart attack protection for one thing.

But it also means that for the people who have high CRP now, taking Irvingia would also boost their fat loss results.

They would stop being as hungry when they are already full and doing strength training or interval cardio would be more effective at getting rid of their fat.

Dr Sears says he recommends people take 150 mg a day of Irvingia for these two reasons.

This has not yet been well verified that I know of.

BUT, since you can get your HSCRP tested, by getting it tested and then getting retested after taking Irvingia for 2 or 3 months, you might find it does work – in you.

So, for heart attack prevention it may well be worth trying.

And, if you have been eating in a way that boosts inflammation and not exercising, taking Irvingia may also make your fat loss progress faster.