Weight loss, what a nightmare. Counting calories and foot steps. Running endless miles or doing excessive exercise to see your weight bounce in two ways. And the shame of it all is when others tout “you’d be healthier if you just eat less”. It’s interesting how skinny people have no idea how to really get fat or lose it. Remember the argument: If you’ve never done it how do you know? It’s also funny how some thin people aren’t as healthy as they look either. Oh, and let’s not get started on the revenue river that feeds diet and exercise programs. So, what’s really going on? Is weight loss as hard as it sounds?
Just so you know, I was thin for 7 years of my adult life before I got sick and started gaining weight. I’ve also found as I dug deeper, most people become fat after they became nutritionally deficient. So, what is weight gain? This isn’t an easy question to answer. It starts when we interrupt our digestion and metabolic systems. We need 93 nutrients, in bio-available forms, that we personally can metabolize. When we play the health game as written we don’t have this.
So, how does the ball game play out for most of us?
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We start with a low salt, low potassium, low natural fat, and high carbohydrate diet robbing us of stomach acid... STRIKE ONE!
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Eating antibiotics grown in, sprayed on, or packaged as pills destroys our intestinal microbiome… STRIKE TWO!
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Eating foods in which we’re unaware we’re allergic… BALL ONE!
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Avoiding naturally fermented foods in our diet… BALL TWO!
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We assume “Organic” means more than it does… BALL THREE!
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Eating minerally depleted produce, meats, and processed foods limiting our mineral intake… STRIKE THREE!!!
Most of us know three of the six tools in a complete weight loss arsenal. Eating less, avoiding junk food, and exercise are these common tools. If only it was always this easy. Well, there’re three more tools that seem to get down played or forgotten. We need solid dense nutrition, to avoid allergenic foods, and we need to take the time to heal. Okay, so... how does this work in the weight loss game? What are the rules? Is it as hard as we’ve been lead to believe?
Just a little back story. I’m not a doctor or anything of the sort. I was a guy that married at 135lbs. I didn’t know what fat was until after I got sick. I started looking for answers to why I was gaining weight when I hit 200lbs. Good, right, solid answers never came from my doctor visits. At 490lbs I went to the hospital with stage 4 congestive heart failure. I watched my father die from this same monster just 6 months before I lay in the same hospital bed. I had nothing to do all day but research my condition and fighting with my doctors. Through my research I found that just following the first three tools “eat less, don’t eat junk, and exercise” may increases my obese morbidity rate an additional 22%. I wasn’t eager to do this.
Needing better than this, I looked into nutrition. Plainly, just to keep myself alive. I discovered from naturopathic medicine that we need minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, amino acids, probiotics, prebiotics, antioxidants, polyphenols, and enzymes in combined numbers of 157 flavors or more to be healthy. I also discovered the impact of our environment on our bodies with natural EMF, sunshine, and keeping to our Circadian Rhythm.
So, simply put… to lose weight in a healthy manner requires fixing the cause of the weight gain in the first place. Avoiding perceived junk food, eating less, or adding exercise miles doesn’t do this completely. Most weight is gained by a slowing metabolism. This means we’ve sweated or urinated out a bunch of vitamins and minerals and now we’re having problems metabolizing sugar. When this happens, our bodies starts storing it as fat.
So, how do these three touted front-line tools stack up? Let’s talk junk food. In reality all food grown in minerally deficient soil is junk-food even if it looks like wholesome vegetables. Plants need 13 minerals to look good. We need 60-76 depending on if you trust the government or dinosaurs. This means that eating less doesn’t work either because we’re still mineral poor. And exercise causes a more drastic mineral deficiency as we sweat away our minerals instead of replacing them. In addition, this mineral deficiency causes hunger as our bodies are starving for nutrition. Got the Munchies?
The first step to healthy weight loss is re-mineralization. (After we’ve found a good mineral source) we need to eliminate all the obstacles of digesting it. This means sugar, starch, and carbs ‘in general’ have to go as they burn our minerals and vitamins to depletion. We need to add salt to our diet. Minerals need to be processed through an acidic stomach (pH of 1 is good). Salt (sodium and chloride) and water with some potassium and vitamin B1 makes a strong stomach acid and raises the sodium bicarbonate levels in the blood. Both of which are needed to free minerals for absorption. Then we need to avoid food in which we’re allergic. Often this comes down to avoiding things like seeds & seed oils, dairy milk & cheese (specifically casein A), and (since everyone is different) here we need to avoid our own personal food allergies. An inflamed liver and gut from eating food in which we’re personally allergic prevents mineral absorption as well. The benefit of doing these things allows us to metabolize minerals meaning our hunger will naturally decrease.
Next we need vitamins like A, B1 (thiamine), B complex (a complete compliment is 16-17 different vitamins), naturally sourced C, D3 (or sunshine), E (tocotrienol), and vitamin K2 (mk7). These vitamins, in a natural form, are just as hard to get as the complete set of minerals are but still very necessary. However, cultivating a divers healthy intestinal flora produces a number of vitamins we need. The second part of this is managing our mitochondrial uncoupling with additional polyphenols, cold tempratures, and fasting.
These vitamins combined with the essential fatty acids (in a balanced ratio between Omega 3, 6, & 9) and the 12 essential amino acids (22 in total), make the enzymes and hormones needed to repair, maintain, and run our bodies. (note, animal sourced fat soluble vitamins are the most easily metabolized). Plants are often not the best source of minerals or vitamins as plants like to steal them back at times. Plants have at least 10 anti-nutrition weapons at their disposal. Phytic acid, for example is designed to bind to minerals in our digestive track rendering them useless to us but, we produce fine mineral dense plant soil for seeds. To recap so far, we need to metabolize a good complete mineral source. In conjunction, we need good vitamin sources that don’t rob us of the minerals we do find.
This brings us to our environment. Atoms (base of all food) are found to be in one of three categories: paramagnetic, diamagnetic, and ferromagnetic. Molecules also show this behavior (otherwise a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) wouldn’t work). The term magnetic in each of these cases alludes to the point that EMR (electromagnetic radiation) can influence them. From the spectrograph we learn that elements and molecules operate in a set frequency range. So, if I wanted to make water I could expose hydrogen and oxygen to an electromagnetic frequency (aside from setting it a fire) compatible to the exposed shell layer on the oxygen atom and likewise the hydrogen atoms causing them to jump and lock into place. With multiple frequency bands the two atom types in water can be separated as each encounters varying harmonics the other atom type can’t reach. All of this boils down to we need natural EMR exposure to heal. The Earth can supply this if we filter out or avoid man made radiation for a while each day.
That brings us to the sun. Direct summer sun exposure, no sunscreen, is required to make vitamin D3. Granted we need a healthy dose of vitamin E (tocotrienol) and our essential fatty acids to avoid skin damage from the sun. However, just as we need the sun we need the dark of night. Observing a natural Circadian Rhythm allows us to produce strong antioxidants (like Melatonin) and down time to heal.
And last (hooray!), once we corrected our nutritional deficiencies our hunger fades and it’s time to fast. The body doesn’t heal well if it has to use it’s energy processing food. This is also where we find out how well we’ve stockpiled our bone banks with stored minerals. Our bones, as the overlooked part of our “Endocrine System”, are required for weight loss. Good, well supplied bones make healthy hormones and enzymes both in production and quantity. And so, the fat burning really begins after we get healthy again.
Who would’ve thought it took all this just so we can convert sugar to CO2 and H2O?