New research to help make fat loss easier.....

Today's post:  Thursday, 5-4-2017

*What this new research found was that an enzyme tended in middle aged and older people to cause the mitochondria in each cell to burn less energy and that this reliably caused fat gain.

And, when they managed to block the enzyme, this didn’t happen.

This enzyme reduces the number of mitochondria and their energy output and that reliably increased weight and fat storage in the people in this study.

*It may be helpful if they find a way to reduce this enzyme and make that solution available.

But this research proved something else as a byproduct!

No matter how it’s done, if you keep your mitochondria and keep them working really well, you will gain less fat and find it easier to lose any excess fat you might have.

It shows evidence that having more mitochondria and having more active mitochondria can prevent fat gain and help fat loss.

We already know how to do that in several ways!

THAT means that NOT taking statins, doing the kind of vigorous strength training and short burst cardio that increase mitochondria and taking Ubiquinol and PQQ each DO prevent fat gain AND make fat loss easier if not happen directly. 

Even better, you can do them all!

Here’s the link to that research:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317249.php

Inhibiting key enzyme may prevent midlife weight gain

http://mnt.to/l/4J8v

New study shows that a certain enzyme plays a key role in midlife weight gain. Scientists inhibited the enzyme and lowered the risk of being overweight.

THAT means that NOT taking statins, doing the kind of vigorous strength training and short burst cardio that increase mitochondria and taking Ubiquinol and PQQ DO prevent fat gain AND make fat loss easier if not happen directly.

Here’s the information on why each of these steps work.

*The ubiquinol form of CoQ10 the body uses tends to be at optimum levels in older teens and young adults who are physically active.

Their bodies make it from the food components they eat and it keeps their mitochondria that power all their cells stay healthy.

But as they get older or if they become sedentary or both, they make less ubiquinol and the health of their mitochondria and their metabolism slows down.

It was found that supplementing with CoQ10 improved this by keeping more mitochondria healthy.

But, particularly for people over 30 and over 45, this was relatively ineffective.

Then it was found that internally your body converts CoQ10 into the reduced form of it called ubiquinol. 

Then it was found how to make a supplement that would allow ubiquinol to survive the digestive system and enter the blood stream.

The mitochondria protector is the ubiquinol form and it was found that taking this form of ubiquinol increased how much is in the blood by at least four times what taking CoQ10 could do; and instead of keeping it elevated for a few minutes as CoQ10 supplements did, ubiquinol supplements kept this higher blood level for as much as hours longer.

For people with a good bit of fat to lose or who are over 45 or both, it may make sense to take 100 mg of ubiquinol before or with breakfast or earlier in your day and another 100 mg at mid-day.  (Jarrow makes this supplement.)

*Given this background, clearly there are two things you do NOT want to do.  You don’t want to lower your body’s level of the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 or cause permanent harm to the mitochondria.

Statin drugs do both of these things and the higher doses of some kinds of statins do so much more:  

And, since reducing the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 to very low levels can cause harm to the mitochondria in people who do the kind of exercises that normally benefit them, statins are contraindicated.

Moreover, since there are more effective ways to lower LDL cholesterol and high chronic inflammation and more effective ways to prevent heart attacks and strokes than taking statins, NOT taking them makes good sense.

The mitochondria energy production drop from taking statins causes diabetes.  Worse, since one of the ways diabetes causes blindness and limb amputation and death, recent research found, is when high blood sugar causes grave harm to the mitochondria -- and so does taking statins, this means that in anyone with diabetes, taking statins is totally contraindicated!

Here again, since there are more effective ways to lower LDL cholesterol and high chronic inflammation and more effective ways to prevent heart attacks and strokes than taking statins, NOT taking them makes good sense! (Diabetics DO need this extra protection so using these other effective methods is important for them to do!)

Since having lots of healthy mitochondria helps you keep a youthful feeling of energy and a high enough metabolism to avoid fat gain and makes fat loss easier, that’s a goal you want to achieve.

Taking ubiquinol and NOT taking statins tends to keep your mitochondria healthy.

*But some wear out or are harmed by viral diseases like the flu.  So wouldn’t it be great if we could send in new mitochondria too?

We can! There are two proven ways:

Researchers at UC Davis found that PQQ, a natural compound found in many foods with somewhat higher levels in kiwifruit, caused the body to make new mitochondria.

PQQ (Jarrow makes a 12 mg size)  does more than grow new mitochondria, according to studies Dr Al Sears found, it also saves some that are a bit off and returns them to health; AND it causes the immune system to remove those that cannot be saved.

So the evidence is that if you take the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 and PQQ, you will keep your mitochondria generating enough energy to keep your metabolism high AND avoid fat gain &/or make fat loss easier!

Having lots of healthy mitochondria also strengthens your heart and slows aging.  Plus you tend to feel more energetic than you otherwise would.

But taking PQQ is not the only way to grow new mitochondria!

Separate research has found that the short intense burst kind of cardio and effective strength training where resistance heavy enough to need focused extra effort to lift cause the muscles to have their expressed genes revert to youthful form AND generate new mitochondria and stem cells.

This explains that some people who do these two kinds of exercise, at least one most days of every week do lose fat by doing so.  And, almost none of them gain more fat!