Boost your metabolism to lose fat, part 5.....

Today's post:  Thursday, 3-1-2017

In some ways there are two basics for permanent fat loss.

1.  Stop routinely ingesting the things that reliably fatten you.

Then you stop making the problem worse!

2.  Boost your metabolism so you burn more calories twenty-four hours a day.

Over time that will remove your excess fat.

People who succeed at anything we now know take consistent action and keep doing it;

-- and they use what Reverend Bob Schuler called “experimental persistence”: They not only keep at things until they get the results they want, they take action and test things; they scrap the things that fail but learn from what happens, they look for new things to try and try them, they put in the time as a priority increasing their abilities and trying again. 

A new book describing this is called “Grit.” 

Use that on these two actions and you can lose fat and keep it off!

2.  Boost your metabolism so you burn more calories twenty-four hours a day.

Over time that will remove your excess fat.

There are four ways to do that:

a) Increase your muscle mass and healthy bone mass. AND, do the things that prevent losing them.  (Part 2 last week had those methods.) 

b) Make sure your thyroid levels which control your metabolism are high enough to give you energy and burn fat and NOT low enough to do the reverse. 

AND, make sure your mitochondria that are the power centers for each of your cells that supply their energy remain plentiful and healthy. This ALSO slows aging; and the way that MSG & its cousins reliably fatten apparently is to do the reverse!

c)  Eat the foods that actually have tested to enable you to eat more calories and food -- yet be lighter AND less fat!  (There ARE some; and eating them is a key to losing fat you keep off because you can do it without excess hunger.)

d) Ensure that the bacteria in your gut aren’t making sure you gain and store fat. 

(Research shows that if you import otherwise healthy gut bacteria to cure the dangerous C. Difficile infection but do so from a fat person, these gut bacteria then make YOU fat.

And, more recent research has found that when you lose fat even without triggering the low energy plus increase in hunger of the famine response by using calorie cut backs only some days each week or by properly done fasting, a separate genetic program causes those same bacteria to increase unless it’s blocked.)

Last time we ended on part c), Eat the foods that actually have tested to enable you to eat more calories and food -- yet be lighter AND less fat!, here’s one more way to keep your metabolism high:

This time we cover:

d) Ensure that the bacteria in your gut aren't making sure you gain and store fat. 

(Research shows that if you import otherwise healthy gut bacteria to cure the dangerous C. Difficile infection but do so from a fat person, these gut bacteria then make YOU fat.

And, more recent research has found that when you lose fat even without triggering the low energy plus increase in hunger of the famine response by using calorie cut backs only some days each week or by properly done fasting, a separate genetic program causes those same bacteria to increase unless it's blocked.)

This is a HUGE influence on how many of the calories you eat are available for use or fat storage AND how high your metabolism is.

This topic is just beginning to be researched enough to be useful.

But new information we already know can boost your fat loss and slash the amount you gain back!

Three known fatteners each work in part due to boosting fattening bacteria or harming helpful ones.

Despite research finding the data long ago on the first two, surprisingly few people know of them and always avoid them.

Literally tens of millions of people don’t now!

By learning them and always avoiding them, your ability to lose fat -- and most importantly keep it off -- will go up WAY up!

The new one may be as powerful as the first two put together!

It has an interesting upside.  The foods and drinks that contain it are almost all the same ones that contain the first two.

And, the new research found the food component they studied to be so harmful and fattening that knowing it makes it MUCH easier to turn down ALL these fattening foods and do so 100% of the time.

This is true of me!  Three times in the last few days, I turned down some treat foods that likely have these particles that I would have allowed myself otherwise as occasional treats – two chocolate treats and one bit of high protein pizza toppings because I now know they are almost certain to contain these nano particles.

*The first one is artificial sweeteners with Splenda, sucralose, being by far the worst one. 

No one who drinks diet soft drinks thinking they help fat loss is correct.

They are more fattening than high fructose corn syrup flavored soft drinks.  This loss of protective bacteria and increase in fattening bacteria we now know is one of the main reasons for this.

The horrible thing is that the tens of millions who believe the opposite now and who still drink diet soft drinks, compound this fattening effect by drinking MORE diet soft drinks than people who drink regular soft drinks each day and each week!

Do you want to lose fat you keep off?  One of the most effective ways to do that is never drink diet soft drinks at all even once!

This effect on the bacteria inside your digestive system is a major reason why that’s so.

*A study done in China found that in two groups of people eating identically the same foods containing the same calories, the people who used lots of MSG were fatter and weighed more than people who ate none or close to it.

We’ve covered in other parts of this series that there is some evidence that MSG has this effect by harming the mitochondria that power EACH of your cells AND by harming your thyroid – both of which lower your metabolism.

MSG is fattening enough this study found, that I believe when it’s studied, I believe MSG also boosts fattening bacteria or harms preventive ones or both.

* To repeat:  the new research found the food component they studied to be so harmful and fattening that knowing it makes it MUCH easier to turn down ALL these fattening foods and do so 100% of the time.

It seems that nanoparticles of titanium dioxide are now added to ingredients in processed foods and some spices and most cosmetics to ensure they mix well without clumping.

Long ago when I read of proposals to use nanoparticles in ways that enable them to enter people, I was quite concerned because as far as is known, human cells have no way to remove them.  So if they caused harm it could be quite serious.

We now have the smoking gun to show this is quite true.

When ingested nanoparticles of titanium dioxide fatten four ways!

a) They slow your metabolism likely by harming your mitochondria.  

b) They prevent you from extracting the nutrition from the foods you eat which may cause overeating in some people or cravings to replace the missing nutrition.

c) They harm beneficial bacteria and increase fattening ones.

d) They cause holes in your gut that trigger autoimmune diseases and the steroids now given for those are fattening and harmful themselves

Packaged foods, likely baked goods, possibly toothpaste, spices not homemade or at least organic, most US cosmetics all have them or likely do so.

I saw this research on Medical News Today.  Then I saw this same researched reported with more details in an email from HSI.

Here are a few quotes:

"The latest warning about their use in food was just released by researchers at Binghamton University.

What their study found, after exposing intestinal cell cultures in the laboratory to amounts of titanium dioxide nanoparticles you might get in a typical meal, is that these things can really mess with your gut.

Exposures equivalent to what you might get over five days can weaken your protective intestinal barrier, slow down your metabolism and make nutrients like iron, zinc, and fatty acids more difficult to absorb. They also caused inflammation and "negatively affected" enzyme functions."

".... that's just the latest in a string of bad reports that have come out over the years about these teeny weeny food additives.

For example:

Eight years ago, a laboratory study in mice found that titanium dioxide nanoparticles were able to penetrate cells and damage DNA.

Two years ago, a study of their effects on the brains of laboratory animals found that nanoparticles could produce changes in the brain that gave "compelling evidence" of potential "neurological dysfunction."

And just last month, a French study published in the journal Nature found nano-sized titanium dioxide particles in the livers of rats exposed to it in drinking water. 

The researchers also noted that titanium dioxide "particles of dietary origin" have been found in the walls of the small intestines of patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease, including infants."

Next week, in our final post in this series we have two new things to report.

*The first and most important one is a new resource that multiplies your existing ability to do each of these things.

Research found that it is extremely effective!  It is helpful immediately and the full program only takes 6 weeks.

Each step is quite doable.  I began using it today and can report that it is!

**The second one is a third drug in common use.  We knew it fattened people are prevented the normally effective methods of fat loss from working.

The new information is that it is so extremely harmful in so many ways other methods should be used instead or switched to ASAP after you start to fix what taking it does do.