These are the most common question asked when initially speaking with a new patient.   The answer is simple, yet slightly difficult to grasp when you try to understand it for the first time. 

Let’s give it a try!     Fat = Fuel     When the body needs fuel, it accesses body fat.   Low fuel levels in the blood signal the body to increase fat storage.  When you lose access to fat storage, the levels in the blood drop, causing even greater fat storage.   The real problem=fat access  NOT fat storage.  However, the body reacts to the low fuel not a loss of access.  

1.       Lipolysis: (lipo=fat) (lysis=removal)  Lipolysis=fat removal)

Lipolysis is the process of removing fat and turning it back into fuel for your body to use.   Body fat can be easily compared to the gas tank in your car.  The gas tank allows you to effectively travel without the need to stop every 5 minutes to get more gas.  Fat stores fuel from the previous meal.  Your body pulls from the body fat between meals, allowing for a constant supply of fuel.  It is estimated that a person may use body fat up to 17 hours a day as a primary fuel supply.   

                So,          FAT=FUEL

2.       Metabolism

Metabolism is the word used to describe the use of fuel (FAT) to make energy.

A break in the fat removal process results in a fuel supply problem for the rest of the body.   When your body is no longer able to get the fuel out of the fat, your brain decides that you must not have enough fat storage.   This makes sense doesn’t it!   If your car kept running out of gas, your instinct would be to keep fueling up “keep storing more fat”.  You may even store extra gas in the trunk of your car “just in case”.    However, the real problem is not a lack of fat!    The problem is the ability to get to it!

This is the problem found in over 95% of the patients at our office with weight gain, or inability to lose weight issues.

JUST SO YOU KNOW.  (What we have discovered through medical observation)

Just so you know, here are two considerations that are obvious, yet perplexing observations.

Dieting:  Restricting food intake (dieting) eliminates the already limited amount of fuel your body has access to.  In all cases, dieting causes a worsening of the condition due to added restriction of fuel “food”.  This is why most people stop being able to lose weight by dieting over time and always have an increase in weight gain shortly after stopping their diet. 

Exercise:  Exercise quickly uses the already limited supply of fuel.  Although exercise and dieting may work in the first few years of weight gain, it produces greater stress on the metabolism.  Exercise, just like dieting will eventually lead to faster weight gain and an inability to lose weight in the future.

WHAT DOCTORS AND PHYSICIANS DON'T YET KNOW:

Weight gain is not the result of overeating, under exercise or lack of self control.  Its just not chemically possible.  Weight gain is the result of a dysfunction in the body’s ability to access body fat and convert it back into fuel.  The result is a lack of fuel resulting in a slowing of metabolism and a desperate attempt of the body to store more fuel to survive.  The impact is devastating, resulting in lowered energy levels and increased fat accumulation. Even more profound is the psychological damage that occurs to the individuals that are told that "its there problem" and given instructions to increase exercise and restrictive dieting.  All the more compounding "worsening" the actual problem.  These desperate individuals are often looked at as "big fat liars" and are suspected of not trying.  To make matters worse, the development of complicated secondary health issues always start, including:  High blood pressure, Diabetes, High cholesterol and Obesity.

Listen, if this makes sense to you, give us 15 days to earn your trust by allowing our doctors to produce results.  The program is covered by insurance, and it's likely the life change you have been praying for.  If this sounds like a desperate attempt to get you to call, your right.   As I continue to see the positive effects and resolving health issues, and the happiness and self confidence of our patients restored, I get ever more excited to find just one more person who needs this program.  Lets start with three health issues.  1) Are you overweight?  2) Does exercise and dieting have little effect on your weight? 3) Are you chronically tired?  If you said yes the these questions, the chances of us helping you are over 90%.  We have had success with thousands of people, many of them absolutely positive that nothing could work.   Call to schedule an appointment at: (630) 848-1708