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Once upon a time people assumed they were built to be heavy. The weight loss secret is simple hormones related to appetite play a role in weight management. The stimulus to weight gain is high levels of leptin and low levels of ghrelin.

Most people recoil at after dieting for awhile they gain back the weight. This makes it clear that the “yo-yo” diet effect is real. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism showed that plasma levels of hormones such as ghrelin, lepin and insulin influence regaining weigh after dieting. Short term diets open the door to explosive weigh gains for these people.

What you must know before dieting is the best foods for your metabolism. The evolution of weight management has reached a point where custom eating plans are coming into there own. This means a new life for many former fatties. Enhanced metabolic measuring tools make the battle of the bulge a thing of the past.

Blueprinting

Blueprinting tools such as metabolic typing is customizing the diet industry. The contributing factor to this approach is with mass produced food everyone is eating the same type diet. The thinking is one size fits all. The thought behind this is that people can eat anything and get away with it. A well-rounded diet in America consists of lots of starchy and sugary foods.  With an abundance of prepared food choices the public is becoming well-rounded not the diet.

Our bodies systems can compromise only to a certain extent. There isn’t any lifesaving merit to the statements that are floating out there that all you have to do is cut portions. This thinking breaks the rules. There are foods or “so called foods” that will harm you. In this case less doesn’t mean better health. The extreme examples are sugary and non-sugar soda pop. There is no safety record on chemical additives in our food. If the present state of American’s health is what the future is based on we have a monumental problem.

Your Father’s Heirlooms

Metabolic typing is really returning to you your inheritance. You can’t leave home without knowing what was passed down. By looking at parents of today there is no way to know that without testing. The right diet for you is concealed behind fast food, packaged foods, and convenience foods. The master plan for what makes you your best self is no longer visible.

What Metabolic Typing Does

Metabolic typing celebrates your individual makeup and supports your body type. It offers you freedom and disassembles your current diet. It gives you what you wanted all along your best weight and health. It is a most welcome arrival on the weight management scene. This is the only blueprint you will ever need to reach your goal weight.

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Stress and the nervous system’s relationship to our quality and quantity of life must be acknowledge.

Stress Effects

Stress has become one of the major causes of many health problems. Stress can arise at the cellular level after exposure to pollution, tobacco smoke, and bacterial toxins.

It is also something that is part of our fast paced lifestyle. World news now travels faster, and seems to drive up the volume. From natural disasters, to financial outlook, we have a one on one relationship with stress. One size doesn’t fit all; the challenge is how we react to the real-world realities.

Researchers from Dr. Klaus Hansen’s group from the University of Copenhagen have shown that external factors can stress our cells through the control of our genes.  

The question is there more trouble ahead. Good nutrition buffers the stress response. Poor nutrition is a stress on our system. So the double whammy of poor nutrition and a highly stressful environment will effectively shut down your immune system. 

The Nervous System     

The nervous system is unique and different from other systems in the body. It supervises stress and at the same time controls the body’s reactions to it. It reduces the level of hormones in the blood stream and signals the heart to revert to its normal beat.

Emotional stress does produce physical changes. It stimulates the nervous system which then responds. The body needs to respond to stress. When the body detects stress or a real or imaged threat, the body goes into a stressed state instantly.

The body reverts back to its normal state in a certain time frame. However, when the stress is constant the sympathetic nervous system is in a high state of alert all the time. This means the parasympathetic nervous system will not be able to come into play. What this means the body is not able to rest, during the stress response.

The Autonomic Nervous System

The autonomic nervous runs the automatic functions of the body like breathing, heart rate, digestion, endocrine (hormonal) system, and some other functions.

The autonomic system consists of the Sympathetic Nervous System which is the one that initiates the stress response, and the Parasympathetic Nervous System which induces the relaxation response.

The basic idea is that a balance is kept between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Our stress response is for short term use and prolonged responding is unhealthy. In the long term the hormones that are from a stress response can cause blood clotting and cholesterol levels to elevate, which in turn increases the risk of heart disease, stroke memory loss, obesity and even cancer.

Stress hormones weaken the immune system, increase blood pressure and kidney disease. Back and neck pain are also one of the outcomes of stress. Cotisol which is released in a stressed response interferes with serotonin a mood enhancing neurotransmitter. This can cause clinical depression, anxiety disorders, insomnia, obesity and sensitivity to pain.

The Bottom Line

Start preventative measures. It is proven that keeping your body rich in nutrients is the best defense to stress. Exercise works well to keep the stress levels down. The high cost of stress means that this is a priority. Since all it takes is common sense to find what works, you can effectively protect yourself from some of the common stressors.

Antiperspirants are a potential endocrine disruptor. That is the antiperspirants cancer link. They now suspect this product to have possible links to both breast and prostate cancer. It is suspected as either a causative or contributor agent. This is enough to make anyone sweat who has used antiperspirants regularly. Antiperspirants are considered a drug by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That fact somehow is not mentioned in both both the media and advertisements for the product.

It is classified as a drug because antiperspirants affect a bodily function. It reduces the amount of sweat that reaches the skin. This has a profound effect, the sweat is laden with hormones that are suppose to reach the skins surface and evaporate. Now the hormones remain on and within the skin to be reabsorbed. This is what makes it a potential endocrine disruptor. This is a chronic assault that doesn’t allow the body to function as it is meant to. The reason this is significant is that both prostate and breast cancers are hormone dependent.

Using antiperspirants starts in utero, and continues through the teen years and into maturity. These hormones and pheromones are absorbed back into the system and effects the fetus. Prostate and breast tissues contain both androgen and estrogen receptors. So far the only evidence comes from plotting breast cancer incident and mortality from 74 countries, by antiperspirant use. The trend –lines reveal positive correlations. In African-Americans sweat glands are larger and more developed. This is a protective device, because of the higher heat exposure that occurs in their country of origin.

In our culture we often sweat less, which may not be good for the body. We do less physical labor, and work in air conditioned environments. Sweating is a protective mechanism that is built in for our protection. That is why people use steam baths, and saunas to detoxify the body of impurities. On all levels we are disrupting the natural protection that nature provided for us. We are putting ourselves in harms way by interfering. Thought the evidence for antiperspirants role in cancer is not what you can call a hundred percent conclusive, it is enough to forget throwing caution to the wind.

Placing chemicals that are absorbed in a place that can distribute them throughout the body is probably quite harmful. The question is do we have a choice since we produce sweat. However perspiration is basically odorless. The real odor stems from anaerobic bacteria. These are bacteria that flourish when your body is short on oxygen. The metabolism is the way your body gets rid of waste products. So many times odor is tied to an imbalance in your metabolism.

Toxins are another cause that is overlooked. These are substances that come from food and air that accumulate because the elimination channels are not functioning. The organs of elimination are the liver, kidneys, and colon. Imbalances in nutrition that results in constipation and low levels of magnesium or zinc will contribute to body odor. Peoples body chemistry reacts to a meat, or vegetarian diet and will produce an odor according to what was ingested. There are individuals that cannot metabolize foods containing certain substances. We know that onions, garlic, spicy foods, coffee, and alcohol play havoc with body odors. Rancid fats and oils also cause body odor.

Metabolic dysfunction, emotional stress, diabetes, liver disease, parasites, and fungus change the body’s odor. Antiperspirants are an easy answer to a complex problem. Toxic overload is part of the environment we live in. The real problem is antiperspirants add to this toxicity.

There are many ways to cut down on the use of antiperspirants, the first one is to take responsibility for your health. A person who is healthy is not using medications, and  tobacco, and is eating whole foods. They ingest less toxins, and eat foods high in chlorophyll also know as a deodorizer. The right vitamins and minerals help reduce specific secretions, which can cut down your dependence on antiperspirants. When your metabolism, elimination, circulation system function well, you function well.