Ways to remove locked down fat….Today's post:  Thursday, 12-7-2017 

Mike Geary sent me an email that vividly describes how excess fat can be harmful and nearly impossible to remove with some of the reasons for that.

This then links to a Jonny Bowden site with a possible solution that he says has worked well for some people.

I researched it and it looks to me that trying everything else known to be effective first looks safer and easier to do!

*So, first & next I’ll quote Mike’s vivid description of the problem.

*Second I’ll list the ways to solve this problem that DO sometimes work. Almost all of these have other health benefits.

*And last, I’ll describe Jonny Bowden’s solution and I found when I researched it online.

A.  Here’s Mike:

“I apologize for the dark nature of today's email.

However I promise what you'll discover today will be completely worth it.

Imagine a rotting corpse draped over your body from head to toe...

...suffocating tissue, restricting blood flow, damaging joints and infecting your healthy cells.

Shockingly, that nightmare is a reality:

64% of women and 74% of men carry too much bodyfat according to the National Institutes of Health.

It’s choking their organs, assaulting their metabolism and sucking their energy dry.

But here’s the worst part:

For most, this bodyfat has become “calorie-resistant”:

It's completely unaffected by even the strictest diets... and most intense exercises.

This zombie fat is essentially... “dead tissue”.

That's important for those who have 10, 25 or 50 or more pounds to lose...

AND for those who aren’t technically overweight, but have what’s called “pocket obesity”...

...unsightly patches of fat that cling to specific places, like:

just above your hips, lower belly, where your butt and legs meet... and even arms, neck and face.”

“here’s the #1 reason why bodyfat becomes calorie-resistant:

It lacks blood flow.

This has 3 effects:

1) Not enough oxygen or nutrients reach fat cells, so they become unresponsive...

2) Released fat can’t be sent to other tissues to be burned, so fat cells suck it back in...

3) Metabolic hormones carrying the “burn calories” message don’t reach the fat cell...

All this means one thing:

Your body can’t transform into energy, the 135,000+ of calories the average person stores as fat!

You become a metabolic zombie: NO energy to think. NO energy to move. NO energy to motivate.”

A study confirmed that fat deposited by stress contains a substance that tends to lock it in place and prevent you from burning it for fuel.

And, another study confirms that once enough excess fat accumulates, it also contains another substance that does the same thing!

B.  Here’s a list of things that have overcome this problem for many people:

(These all tend to work best when you have already stopped ingesting the things that make you sick and fat –

and have switched to eating and drinking things that are safe forms of the real food that people the world over ate –

before sugar and wheat flour and soft drinks and factory farms and herbicides and pesticides came into use.)

1.  Growth hormone from exercise that causes catch up breathing and/or sweat can work.

2.  Reducing foods & pollutants that boost estrogen or estrogen analogs can help.

3.  Doing things that boost testosterone production can help.

4. Properly done, effective strength training can do 1 & 3.  These things add muscle that burns far more calories than “zombie fat!” 

A recent study reported on Medical News Today even found that effective strength training removed fat from your bones and replaced it with metabolically active bone growing tissue that burns far more calories than the fat did!)

I found myself that doing a set of an exercise like deadlift or leg press with a weight heavy enough to be challenging where I make a strong effort to do the last few reps results in both sweating and becoming a bit out of breath for a minute or two. Your body releases growth hormone when you do this! This also tends to cause your body to make & release testosterone.

5. Properly done, various kinds of progressive but short and fast or intense cardio can help do 1.

Doing such exercise doing nose breathing only causes your body to make more red blood cells and is another way to become more fit and to find that you are making progress as you have to do more to make nose breathing difficult!

When you have to speed up your breathing through your nose or find it difficult to not switch to mouth breathing, you are doing enough to be challenging and increase your fitness and growth hormone.  And, when you find you can do more and more before this happens, you can literally feel yourself becoming more fit.

6. Increasing resilience and lowering real threats and learning ways to beat severe challenges without excessive chronic stress and ways to relieve stress physically when you aren't acting to beat a challenging threat can each help.  (I posted recently on a way to use always on slow breathing through the nose to do some of this.  And, I’ve found it to work!)

7.  The VIBE and maybe other things can pop open stubborn fat.

(Using the VIBE device Bulletproof sells apparently does this in two ways: 

It bypasses the blood vessel problem in this locked down fat by using its vibrations to cause robust circulation of your lymph which being older or having too much fat or sitting too much tends to prevent.  This has been shown to break up the lack of flow into and out of locked down fat AND remove water trapped in lymph that isn’t circulating.  THAT causes weight loss on the scale and removes inches!  This is motivating to put it mildly.

AND spending just a few minutes using it almost every day burns significant amounts of calories.  So simply continuing this tends to prevent the fat burned from coming back.

This of course, is why I plan to buy one and see if it works in my case!

8.  Eating a super low inflammation diet with safe, unpolluted, and organic and naturally fed foods can help. 

High chronic inflammation tends to lock down excess fat and cause many kinds of bad health and even be life threatening.  Low chronic inflammation makes it MUCH easier to remove excess fat.

This way of eating is also low in sugars that add fattening calories and cause rebound hunger and cravings for sweets.  And the fiber and nutrients and health OK fats and oils and protein enable you to avoid excess hunger and continue to live this way and keep the fat off.

Switching to this way of eating often removes 10% of your total bodyweight by removing some of your less locked down fat.

These other methods are to help you get rid of the rest of it!

9.  If necessary, intermittent fasting and ketogenic eating may work. 

(As I’ve reported elsewhere, I tried those and found them to be unpleasant but doable.  And, in my case for progressive fat loss and removing locked down fat I’ve found them ineffective.  That’s why I have a keen interest in other methods that work better.)

10.  Drink Organic Valley organic, whole, unpasteurized milk & use whey from cows fed only grass.  This is does two things.  

This milk provides a high level of IGF-1 and about a dozen other anabolic substances; but despite containing lactose does NOT spike blood sugar.

Doing this AND effective strength training adds more muscle and bone and increases your metabolism.  That enables you to eat more and still get and stay lean!

Mix in some powdered whey from grass fed cows. 

More than 50 years ago research found that whey protein both high in the amino acid L-Leucine -- AND with an amino acid profile almost identical to human muscle combined with effective strength training maximizes muscle gains better than any other form of protein known.

C.  Jonny Bowden’s solution apparently is to also add taking colostrum which has been effective for some people.

I did some research online & found this:

https://www.livestrong.com/article/242588-how-to-take-igf-1-for-weight-loss/

“The hormone insulin-like growth factor number 1 is usually referred to simply as IGF-1. It is strongly linked to sugar usage in the body and consequently is a powerful component in the motions of weight loss. 

Unfortunately, actual synthetic IGF-1 is an illegal substance, banned alongside many anabolic steroids. 

An obscure superfood supplement called colostrum, though, which is safely obtained as a cow milk derivative, is rich in this extremely potent substance. Being informed about how to make optimum use of IGF-1 in a totally natural, food-state form will elevate levels of fat loss for committed users.

Step 1

Avoid isolated, synthetic IGF-1 products. They are not permitted for sale in the United States and Canada. Likewise, they’re also banned throughout all major countries in Europe. Don’t be tempted to try and import from an online supplier based in an outreaching country, because if you are caught by the customs department it is likely that you will be liable for severe penalties.

Step2

Obtain your IGF-1 naturally. Bovine colostrum, which is basically a pre-milk fluid secreted by mothering cows, is the best way to raise your levels of IGF-1. This will then assist your weight loss safely. The website of the International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements organization affirms this: We conclude that IGF-1 levels in obese females reflect the intraabdominal fat mass rather than obesity per se. IGF-1 and blood glucose levels are inversely correlated in obesity before and during energy restriction.

Step 3

Purchase a supply of colostrum capsules. These are pretty hard to locate in health stores, but they are readily available from specialist supplement retailers on the internet. Select only additive-free vegetable cellulose capsules if possible, as these products are easier to digest and absorb than tablets of any specification.

Step 4

Use colostrum correctly. Take your dose every day for several weeks in order to notice a really worthwhile amount of fat reduction. Furthermore, always ingest colostrum on an empty stomach. Eat and drink nothing at all for at least an hour before and after swallowing your capsule. As it is a wholly natural, food-derived substance, colostrum must be absorbed in an unrivaled capacity for the IGF-1 content to be fully assimilated into your bloodstream.

Step 5

Drink plenty of milk daily. Although regular milk is nowhere near as nutritionally potent as colostrum is, they are fundamentally similar. According to Stanford University, The protein content of bovine colostrum has three to four times higher value than the protein level found in cow's milk. These include immunoglobulins and growth factors such as IGF-1, IGF-2, TGFbeta and EGF. Hyperimmune bovine colostrum contains a high level of IgG type, which is protective against rotaviruses.

From Wikipedia:

Some athletes have used colostrum in an attempt to improve their performance,[47] decrease recovery time,[48] and prevent sickness during peak performance levels.[49][50] 

Supplementation with bovine colostrum, 20 grams per day (g/d), in combination with exercise training for 8 wk may increase bone-free lean body mass in active men and women.[47][51]

Here’s what I think after reading what I did:

Apparently some male athletes and older women HAVE been able to remove fat but not lean tissue by taking colostrum. 

It sounds like it is hard to get and likely comes from cows fed grains and given rBST. 

This can cause other problems because such cows are fed grains, mostly corn, that has bioconcentrated pesticides and maybe the glyphosate from herbicides. 

Why subject yourself to these problems if you can cause this result another way?

Because colostrum has so many kinds of directly effective antibodies to protect newborns without developed immune systems, its best use may be in combating multi antibiotic resistant bacteria and viruses not otherwise treatable. 

For fat loss, I think you need to do everything else before trying it!