lose weight and fat burning hormones

Before we discuss the fat burning hormones and lose weight

there’s something very important to know. ALL of the fat burning hormones are activated /
produced by the liver. Under normal circumstances, the liver is quite
good at handling all of the chemical reactions it must process, including
the processing of fat burning hormones. Unfortunately, the usual
American lifestyle can get pretty overwhelming for the liver. We tend to eat too much fat and protein and drink too much alcohol and take too
many medications, and sometimes the liver just can’t keep up. Since
keeping levels of certain chemicals from reaching toxic levels in the
blood is the liver’s first priority, if you overload the liver, it’s not
going to
be able to process the fat burning hormones as it should. This means
that you will not produce adequate amounts of the activated forms of the
fat burning hormones, and you will deposit fat. In addition, when the
liver is overworked, fluid tends to accumulate in the upper abdominal
area. The classic description of this is the “beer gut”.
For people with overworked livers, a large amount of their excess weight
is actually water. Some people try to exercise away the protruding gut
through sit-ups or crunches in an effort to “spot reduce”, but usually to
no avail. Liver overload is also the primary reason many people don’t
get good long-term results with the Atkin’s diet even though it often
works great at first. The weight gain associated with an overworked
liver must be addressed through changes in diet and by reducing the
intake of alcohol and limiting the use of drugs and medications of all
kinds as much as possible. As the liver recovers, the water weight will
usually begin to recede pretty quickly (and you’ll be spending quite a bit
of time in the bathroom as it does!). The specifics for helping the liver
recover will be covered later in this book.

Now we come to the fat burning hormones and lose weight . 

Thyroid hormone is probably the most powerful of these – under normal circumstances of
course. The thyroid gland produces an inactive hormone, called T4
which is converted to the active form T3 by the liver. The active T3
hormone stimulates cells to produce structures within them called
mitochondria, which are kind of like energy factories that to
convert to usable energy for a variety of functions. When thyroid
hormone is either not produced adequately, not converted to the active
form by the liver, or is blocked from its receptor sites on the cells (most
commonly by excess estrogen or estrogen-like compounds), not only do
the cells not lose weight, they also fail to produce sufficient energy for
normal functioning. This obviously leads to weight gain, but also can
cause fatigue, hair loss, and brittle nails. The weight gain related to
thyroid issues is all over the body – trunk, arms, and legs, as the failure
of lose weight is wide-spread. As just mentioned, some thyroid problems
are due to blockage of the receptor sites for thyroid hormone, rather
than due to insufficient hormone levels. This is why it is possible for
someone to have classic low-thyroid symptoms even with perfectly
normal blood tests for thyroid hormone levels. Thyroid hormone
production is stimulated by exercise – primarily anaerobic exercise –
and specific recommendations for exercise will be presented later. As
we mentioned a short time ago, thyroid hormone is converted to the
active form by the liver, so it is important that the liver be kept healthy –
which basically comes down to not overloading it with excessive intake
of fat, protein, alcohol, and/or drugs and medications. Finally, to keep
the cellular receptor sites working normally, it is necessary to keep
natural estrogen levels normal and to limit as much as possible one’s
exposure to exogenous estrogens by consuming natural meats and
organic produce. Synthetic estrogens used in birth control and estrogen
replacement therapy can also dramatically interfere with thyroid receptor
sites and inhibit thyroid function, so you may wish to consider other
options if you are using these medications and are having a lot of trouble losing weight.
Adrenaline (also called epinephrine) is a fat burning hormone that is
produced by the adrenal glands. It accelerates the body’s breathing and
heart rate to provide more blood flow and oxygenation to the tissues in
times of stress, or during heavy exercise. When you accelerate in a car,
you burn more fuel, and the same is true when you accelerate the body
– but in this case the fuel is fat and sugar.
lose weight

Many lose weight and diet drugs either stimulate or simulate the action of adrenaline. 

The problem is that stress and diet drugs stimulate the adrenals generally, and also wind up
stimulating the production of cortisol – the fat storing hormone we
discussed earlier. Adrenaline is fast-acting, and produced in limited
amounts, whereas cortisol is long-acting and can be produced over a
longer period of time. So, while doing short bursts of intense exercise
will give you the fat-burning effects of adrenaline, excessive exercise or
excessive stress will stimulate cortisol release and hinder fat burning.
Likewise, diet drugs will stimulate adrenaline production for a limited
time, but the cortisol production they stimulate will last much longer –
this is why many diet drug users wind up gaining weight in the long-run.