As we peel back the layers from the cold winter months, the awareness of our body is at its peak! We start to feel a little more aware of what our body looks like and how we feel in our body. We hope that you make a sustainable and healthy choice for your weight loss journey and establish a healthy relationship with food rather than the norm of our culture...food as our enemy. Let's take our health into our own hands and start making decisions that will last a lifetime!
Your liver plays a central role in the metabolism of any type of calorie. When you gain weight, your liver is flooded by inflammatory metabolic signals coming from your white adipose tissue (stored fat) and your digestive tract (bacterial imbalance, food sensitivities, Candida, leaky gut, autoimmune, etc.). At the same time, your white adipose tissue is unable to store fat fast enough, turning to the primary backup location for fat storage - your liver. Now your liver gets clogged with excess fat, metabolic signals begin to decrease, your waistline expands, and you are at risk for developing far more serious health problems.
This liver problem is not a simple nutrient deficiency issue, although many nutrients can help balance the situation. This is a problem of stagnant fat congesting your liver. The problem spills over into your gallbladder, which is the primary reason 600,000 gallbladders are yanked out of Americans every year.
Your Liver Struggles to Keep UpIf your liver cannot handle the excess fat and sugar (excess carbohydrates), then fat and sugar will pile up in all the wrong places all over your body - hardening your arteries, your brain, and generally accelerating aging across the board. Your liver is the gatekeeper, trying to compensate and rid our bodies of general toxins we are exposed to everyday (GMO Foods, pesticides, stress, excess carbohydrates). The liver also helps aid in healthy hormone balance.
For example, the excess leptin production from white adipose tissue causes a depression in its companion hormone, adiponectin. Low adiponectin in turn causes insulin resistance in your liver, which raises your blood sugar and simultaneously converts sugar to fat in your liver. Now your liver cannot process carbohydrates properly, resulting in easy weight gain or weight regain from eating carbohydrates. Having a fatty liver elevates the risk for type 2 diabetes by 500 percent!
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