Fatloss for women Part three….Today’s Post….Thursday, 3-22-2018

Two weeks ago I posted on ways to prevent or reverse harmful conditions that cause women to suffer or become mobility restricted or die can be used as a gateway to losing fat or keeping it off.

This is true for women who do the things that work. And doing the things that make fatloss happen and stay off make that much more doable.

It works the other way too:

The different actions that women can upgrade to and sustain to prevent these conditions also help lose fat and keep it off.

And, if women make and sustain these upgrades for fat loss, they also escape these nasty diseases and discomforts!

Fat loss is sometimes a symptom of harmful beliefs women have. It certainly has been for years!

But fatloss can also be a way to empower women and protect them from the horrible traditional harms women have been attacked with recently.

Year round it’s still the case that most people working to lose fat are women.  Just like men, women want to look good and aspire to look like women who are healthy and can have babies.  Even if they want to remain childless, the healthiest younger women do look like that.

Given the amount of work it can take to make that happen, you may want to do it anyway. 

But you also may just want to do enough of it to be mobile and healthy.  To do that you may need to work hard at first if you have a lot to lose; but you can stop and maintain sooner and with less effort.  (The trap to avoid is to go back to the foods and drinks that are harmful and stop exercising.  But if you keep eating and drinking real foods from organic and unpolluted sources, you can, if you like, eat more and eat more foods with carbs. You may be a bit less lean; but you will be able to eat without thinking about it all the time.)

The unfortunate news is that women have acted on false beliefs that cause more health problems and fat gain instead.

We posted this last time:

1.  If a woman tries to lose fat when she is actually not and tries to lose what she does have in harmful ways to look like women who are actually on the verge of being so skinny they are frail, that can harm her health and always hammers her self esteem.

Far too many women and even younger girls have been doing this and still are.  For the benefit of all women, stop that from happening to you! And support women who are no longer doing that.

That has three cures:

*Find things you already LIKE about yourself. 

*Be so warm and worth knowing people forgive you for not being perfect. 

*And refuse to lose fat in any way that harms your health or leaves out upgrading to a lifestyle with real food from safe sources and doing regular effective exercises that fit you.

Making and sustaining those upgrades improves and protects your health! 

By contrast, just eating less and gaining everything back by going back to eating more over and over harms your health!

2.  Women are at substantial extra risk for breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease and migraine headaches and osteoporosis and depression when they eat junk food or take many medicines that are actually harmful and ineffective for these things.

3.  If they take the actions to prevent those in several ways that work that are based in eating well and exercising well before menopause or as soon as possible when they first begin it, they can prevent all this and avoid hot flashes and other problems.

Two weeks ago we posted this:

These two posts have the strategies that show what things work and how to upgrade to them:

Fast Heart Protection without drugs....Tuesday, 1-9-2018

http://iehealth.blogspot.com/2018/01/fast-heart-protectionwithout-drugs.html ;

This post and the two comments I added that contain many things that do this AND they improve blood flow to the brain as well as the heart and tend to prevent Alzheimer's and vascular dementia.

How to eat a low inflammation diet….Today's post:  Tuesday, 12-19-2017 

http://iehealth.blogspot.com/2017/12/how-to-eat-low-inflammation-diet.html

When women make the upgrades to a low inflammation eating style before menopause or very early when it first begins, they also tend to prevent both the discomforts like hot flashes and mental fog and even much of the fat gain.

This is also very protective against the Alzheimer's that begins to attack many women after menopause.

Many of these upgrades are easy to do!  The ones that are harder you can begin at an easy level at first. 

Pick one or two you can do for sure and start doing them.

Why not start?  People who do get better at it and often do very well.

We’ll add more things next week and maybe the week after!

Here are last week’s additions:

Almost every one of the several things listed above that cause women to suffer or lose mobility can largely be prevented or turned off.  AND those efforts are compatible with the health giving ways to lose fat.

So if you want to stop one of these nasty conditions or not get it, taking the actions to do so can be an effective gateway to fat loss!

*Besides what we covered above, women tend to have more migraines.  The good news is that they can often be prevented or turned off.

See More ways and reasons to stop migraines….Tuesday, 2-20-2018

http://iehealth.blogspot.com/2018/02/more-ways-and-reasonsto-stop-migraines.html

These actions can often simply stop your migraines!  For some they will reduce the number well over 50% and make those that remain mild enough to not derail your day.

The majority of these actions that you’ll want to keep doing to stay free of migraines, also help you lose fat and keep it off!

*Another worry women have is to prevent breast cancer.  There are things that prevent all cancers starting with one that cuts the risk in half!  Then there are things that prevent the kind of invasive and metastatic cancers that can kill you or cause you pain or dysfunction.  Doing those actions defangs breast cancer as a threat far more than is reported yet in the media.  Note that many of these actions are already in this post in the post on How to eat a low inflammation diet….listed above.

See Prevent breast cancer 3 ways….Tuesday, 1-30-2018

http://iehealth.blogspot.com/2018/01/

This is the most recent post listed in this file of posts from January, 2018.

Next week we’ll add how to stop depression and osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s  disease without drugs.    

*In part because women in this culture have been conditioned to be less proactive and do less regular exercise, particularly strength training, they are more likely than men to be depressed.  (Those things women tend not to do cause depression both physically and emotionally.)

The changes at early menopause for women who don’t know how to prevent them or reduce them cause also depression both physically and emotionally.

For women, who in most cultures who are often more social than men, excess fat or a challenging menopause or lack of a good social network can cause isolation and loneliness.

This tends to cause depression.

And, much worse the drugs still given as anti-depressants are not very effective.  They tend to be addictive.  And they recently have been found to contribute to osteoporosis.  They boost serotonin in the blood where it causes problems and do not boost it in the brain which is helpful.

Knowing to never take ONE dose of these actually helps prevent depression.

Vitamin D3 and thinking warm thoughts about people you care about and good social interactions boost serotonin in the brain which IS effective in helping stop depression.

Following the anti-inflammation lifestyle from our first post in this series and getting regular exercise releases BDNF which has proven to reduce depression physically!

Stopping the harmful foods and drinks to live the low inflammation lifestyle as a permanent lifestyle upgrade has also been shown in several studies now to reduce depression!

Using the fast and effective ways to prevent heart disease can be a HUGE help in preventing depression because statin drugs reduce your cellular energy and tend to prevent the release of the BDNF that DOES protect against depression.

Statins also cause migraines and insomnia both of which make depression more likely or worsen it!

Worse, failing to use the effective nondrug ways in our first post to prevent heart disease and strokes can cause doctors to prescribe beta blockers.

All the harmful things statins do beta blockers do even worse. Beta blockers directly cause depression which is often severe that will not lift unless the beta blocker are stopped.

The really horrid thing is that beta blockers can be addictive enough to be harder to stop taking than heroin or cocaine.

Even worse, to avoid suddenly having extremely high rebound blood pressure, you have to step down your dose gradually for safety reasons.

If you want to stop being depressed or stop becoming far more depressed, it is important to know  to never take even one dose of beta blockers!

*In our post on Tuesday this week, 3-30-2018, on how and why to stop slumping, we dealt with osteoporosis because in women who are past menopause one cause that it is important to reverse is osteoporosis.

“In women, it….slumping…may mean she is getting dangerous osteoporosis which will hasten her death and disability.  If so, she would be much happier and healthier if she did the things that stop that and tend to reverse it.  She would live longer and stay mobile longer and be in less pain

I’ve posted on what those things are.  Such things as stopping ALL soft drinks, particularly colas and doing leg exercises with relatively heavy weight that she builds up to and many other things work to do this.  Taking boron and magnesium and vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 also help.”

Soft drinks both regular and diet, particularly colas, and the high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweetener used tend to cause bone loss.  Even the carbonation to make the fizz is acidic and demineralizes your bones!

Soft drinks both regular and diet are very effective fatteners so stopping them totally is very effective in causing fat loss and keeping it off!

But these drinks are even more effective at causing osteoporosis! They even help deplete magnesium which your body needs to make new bone and replace bone regularly.

The inexpensive supplement boron helps your body build bones that are unusually hard to break and still stay flexible.  It even has strong anticancer effects!

Doing the reverse of soft drinks and adding magnesium by taking 200 to 800 mg a day of magnesium and eating nuts if not allergic and greens high in it helps your body to make new bone and replace bone regularly.

Oddly, eating a healthful diet and possibly taking a multivitamin and mineral supplement gives you all the calcium you need for bone building and repair.  Taking more calcium in supplement form is not needed for this and some studies even suggest it’s harmful!

What IS important is to take 5,000 to 10,000 iu of vitamin D3 a day and always take it with vitamin K2.

This is in the information on protecting your heart because this combination, particularly the K2 prevents your body adding calcium to your blood vessels.

K2 sends the calcium in your blood to building and repairing your BONES instead!

Bones are very similar to muscles.  Exercising them with relatively heavy weights on a regular basis causes them to stay strong or get stronger.

Nearly 50 years ago slow reps with heavy and gradually increasing weight was shown to begin to reverse early osteoporosis in women!

Women who want to avoid osteoporosis certainly should consider doing this in addition to stopping things that cause it and taking things that reverse it!

Even going to the gym to do this once or twice a week is effective! 

Possibly for evolutionary reasons, if you cannot to get to a gym, even taking a 7 minute walk four days a week is almost as effective.

For a woman who has osteoporosis already it may make sense to take the supplements and stop the soft drinks for a few weeks before beginning the strength training.

Then, using only weights that are easy to lift for a few weeks after that may also be wise.

What about the drugs for osteoporosis?

Most unfortunately the ones currently in use are so ineffective and harmful here again it’s important to know to not take even one dose!

They seemed good at first because they did make bones a bit heavier and denser.  But they are actually harmful to your bones and prevent the things that do work from working!

Worse, they have truly horrid side effects and they make breaking your bones much more likely!

They stop your bones from adding healthy new bone in favor of making your bones turn into a hard but brittle concrete in a way that prevents healthy bone growth.

These drugs are prescribed in the hopes of preventing the devastation caused by broken legs or hips.  Their actual track record is that they make severe such bone breakage MORE likely.

They can disfigure your face by destroying your jaw bone or bones.  And they cause such severe heartburn they have induced suicide and fatal esophageal cancer.

Should you take them for a short time to jump start healing? 

Since they cause suffering and delay the things that do work if you do this, does that sound good to you?

The data show that starting the things that do work as soon as you can is MUCH more effective. 

And you get skip the horrible heartburn and dollar cost too!

Best of all, the things that do work that you continue as sustainable lifestyle upgrades you keep doing, all help with fat loss and keeping it off!

*Alzheimer’s disease afflicts mostly women.  And the actions that prevent or help reverse it in its earlier stages all help cause or maintain fat loss.

There is now book on the research that found what actions to take, why they work, and that when done they did work 90% of the time.

In fact, there was some evidence that they work 100% of the time in people who keep doing them!

Because many of these lifestyle upgrades are the same ones that cause and help maintain fatloss, women doing this are most likely to be protected!

Several years ago it was thought that diet drinks and artificial sweeteners were effective and safe. 

We now know the reverse is true and they can cause toxic mental decline. 

Similarly, back then spicy foods often had lots of MSG. Unfortunately many still do.  MSG is toxic to the brain and it's not easy to avoid.  It’s a direct cause of MSG and MS and contributes to causing Parkinson’s disease.

Most people, at 70% of all cases, who get Alzheimer's are women not men.

I once thought that exposure to cleaning solutions and less exercise compared to men caused that.  And, in some cases they may.

But the big, most likely, cause is the extremely high inflammation that happens to women in perimenopause, the initial transition to complete menopause.

As Dr Bredesen found, that level of inflammation is a direct cause. 

And, many of the protections disappear that younger women have been able to get away such as bad food and drink choices!

For more on Dr Bredesen’s book which I think well of see:

http://iehealth.blogspot.com/2017/12/

Alzheimers IS reversed by protocols…. Wednesday, 12-27-2017 

To repeat:

Dr Bredesen’s research found what actions to take to prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s disease , why they work, and that when done they did work 90% of the time.

In fact, there was some evidence that they work 100% of the time in people who keep doing them!

Because many of these lifestyle upgrades are the same ones that cause and help maintain fatloss, women doing this are most likely to be protected!

Conclusion:

If there are any of these nasty to horrible conditions you want to avoid or turn down or off,

doing the things as an ongoing lifestyle upgrade that cause fatloss that you keep off makes adding the other  things work far better and much easier to keep doing!