Turn off a main cause of morbid obesity….Today's post:  Thursday, 1-4-2018

*Background:

The doctors define morbid obesity as a BMI over 35 or over.

A more accurate definition might be a BMI of 40 or over in a person who is not heavily muscled and who has a harmful and chronic condition related to carrying that much excess fat or the lifestyle habits that cause obesity.

Or more simply put:  people who are well over 40 pounds too fat and already sick from it or sick from what they did to get that way.

*The three reasons that much excess fat can be extremely hard to remove:

a) We already know that as part of the famine protection most people have inherited that excess fat over a certain amount tends to internally resist being used short of a life threatening emergencies – real famines & similar events.

b) We already know that a separate factor in fat gained from stress tends to create fat that resists removal.

c) But this misses a third thing that may cause more morbid obesity than the first two things and make the excess fat it causes almost impossible to remove!

It’s a reason that makes the low previous success rate in getting rid of that much fat more understandable.

There are drugs that cause people to eat more.  There are drugs that make it hard or ineffective to exercise.  There are drugs that reduce people’s metabolism.  And there are drugs that reduce your energy and feeling of energy or cause significant depression so much that people who take them are less able to exercise or even try new ways of eating.

We’ve already posted about statin drugs and beta blockers and the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) commonly prescribed as antidepressants.

They each do many of these things and a LOT of people take them. 

*Statins turn off your cellular energy generators or impair them.  We now know this can make you feel less like exercising and even cause you to harm your muscles by doing the very exercises that help build muscle, keep you healthy, and boost your metabolism that CAN help you lose fat.

This mitochondrial damage both causes diabetes AND research has even found statins make diabetes more likely to cause the really dreadful things bad diabetes causes, blindness, foot amputation, etc!

Since there are far more effective and even faster ways to protect you from heart attacks and strokes that we have posted on, no one knowledgeable should take statins.

So statins no longer need to make you get or stay fat if you have that knowledge and act on it.

*Beta blockers prevent your muscles from exercising hard enough to maintain desirable muscular strength and size and capacity to do endurance work.  This causes heart failure and almost always causes severe depression that is untreatable without stopping the drug.  Recent research has found that the heart protection that short term use of beta blockers is used for is not really much at all.

The two effective ways that have been found to do the desirable physical stress relief beta blockers were thought to provide without this harmful permanent effect are not yet on the market.

But the drugs are so ineffective and harmful and fattening between their de-conditioning your muscles and the energy drain and depression, they no longer need to make you get or stay fat if you decline to take them.

*There are effective ways to treat depression including higher amounts of vitamin D3 that increase serotonin in your brain.  But the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) commonly prescribed as antidepressants increase serotonin in your blood where this causes problems.  Research recently found taking these weakens your bones.  And the rate of people with depression they help is little better than placebo.

Weaker bones and continuing depression don’t help you lose fat! 

So if you are knowledgeable and do the things that do work to stop depression including exercise and don’t take these drugs, you’ll be less depressed and have stronger bones and less fat!

*We’ve posted on these 3 already but there are some even more fattening drugs out there.

*Many people take steroids and immune system blockers for asthma and rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.

Many of these fatten the people who take them and you can actually make a record starting when they begin to take the drug with weights and pictures and see the people get fat.

There are three ways to combat this:

1.  Turn off the intake of things that cause autoimmunity.

MSG and artificial sweeteners and some herbicides and pesticides cause or help trigger autoimmunity.  So do things that cause your gut to have holes in it that creates a way for things that should not enter your blood stream to do so such as heavy or daily aspirin use. Eating hybrid wheat does this and is thought to be a common cause of autoimmune diseases by this method.

So, to the extent you can stop these totally, you can avoid, turn off, or turn down autoimmune diseases.

2.  Dramatically increase the things that keep you healthy without triggering autoimmunity.

Organic vegetables and whole fresh fruit do so.  So does following a low inflammation lifestyle including taking curcumin and ginger.

Because vitamin D3 increases your regulatory T cells that stop your immune system from attacking things it should not,

taking over 10,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 and taking vitamin K2 to make that strengthen your bones and remove calcium from your blood vessels, not only helps stop or turn down autoimmune disease, it protects your heart and strengthens your bones.

Doing both of those things, stopping the causes AND adding the protective things -- allows you get better or even well and stop taking the drugs for autoimmune disease that fatten.

3.  And, for some autoimmune conditions, a recent Medical News Today found that taking these drugs once a week only -- effectively kept the desirable effect of the drug but stopped the side effects including the effect that makes people fat.

Conclusion:

This is an incomplete list as there are other drugs that fatten.

We hope to have a way to stop all of those or use them without a fattening effect once our fat loss membership site is fully developed.

But these drugs are some of the most taken and least effective drugs that are most fattening that you can stop taking to keep them from making you or keeping you fat!