Hormonal Control of Weight Loss

Fat cells don’t just fill up space. Believe it or not, they actually produce biochemical substances called hormones that impact your metabolism! The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (8) discovered that fat cells can produce CRP (C-Reactive Protein), a substance that reflects inflammation and is a risk factor for heart attacks and strokes. In 2007, research at Washington University
School of Medicine, St. Louis, published in Diabetes, (9) showed a dangerous association between abdominal fat and inflammation. If you have the former, you also
have the latter!

Many studies of popular diets show only minimal permanent weight loss; the weight almost always comes back. Therefore we’ve already discarded dieting as a workable solution; but let’s just look at a scientific study to confirm that decision.

According to one such study in the New England Journal of Medicine (10) in 2009, 200 overweight people dieted for two years. The average weight loss was only 8 pounds!

Most diets are almost guaranteed to fail, because they focus on counting calories and restriction of foods. You don’t need a diet, you need a lifestyle that is fun and productive. Then losing weight becomes easy.

The human body is an incredibly complex mechanism. It is composed literally of billions of tiny cells that are all small bio-chemical factories. They use nutrients and Oxygen and give off unusable chemicals (wastes) and Carbon Dioxide. They are dependent on the availability of Oxygen and a truck load of nutrients
or chemicals like simple and complex sugars, fats, vitamins and many more. The processing of all these substances in all these tiny factories is “regulated” by
other more complex chemicals called hormones. Is it any wonder that the processing of fat by your body (the sum total of all these tiny cells) is regulated or influenced by some of these hormones? No, it is only natural that there is some sort of order in this complex system!

What is becoming apparent is that a small dozen of all these hormones exert an influence on such things as hunger, satisfaction of hunger, fat deposit and storage
as well as breakdown, conversion of sugar to fat and more. Nearly all of that is on “auto-pilot” so to speak, and we have only very little control over it. People continue to try, but they always fail, because they don’t understand how it all fits together. You would think that someone should have been able to figure that out and let the rest of us know about it before now; but it is really only quite recently that enough research has accumulated to provide the needed insight into this puzzle. Yes, here we go again with that important thing called “understanding”.

The good news is that there are only two of those many hormones that we need to understand, in regard to the topic of fat loss. Fortunately, they are also two
over which we are able to exert some degree of control. They are two critical actors in the drama of burning fat and weight loss. You’ll notice that I use
weight loss and fat loss nearly interchangeably. That is because the two are usually synonymous, except for loss of other tissue as part of diseases. I will never advocate losing weight by starvation, in which important tissues such as muscle are also lost. On the contrary, I always recommend building muscle tissue
as part of any program for fat loss.

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