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Hunger Hormones – Leptin
Leptin and Obesity Leptin is what some experts refer to as the “master” hormone for regulating weight loss and controlling obesity. This hormone was only discovered in 1994; in fact, you may not have even heard of it until now. The Role of Leptin in the Body Leptin is responsible for regulating energy intake and expenditure, but it also controls appetite and hunger! Leptin travels through your bloodstream in order to reach the hypothalamus in your brain. It then tells your hypothalamus how much fat you already have in your body, and it sends messages when you are full and it wants you to stop eating. Balanced leptin levels are…
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Hunger Hormones, Leptin Resistance and Weight Loss
Your Hunger Hormones & Sugar How Leptin is Connected To Insulin Insulin levels increase within our body to some extent when we eat any kind of food. Whenever we consume simple sugars or refined carbohydrates (which are converted into sugar by the body), insulin levels rise significantly and much more quickly. Protein and complex carbohydrates in your diet help to ensure insulin levels rise in a more controlled and much slower manner. Whenever we consume a large meal, the body responds by releasing a large amount of insulin. How much insulin is released depends upon the quantity of food ingested and more specifically, what kind of food has been eaten. Eating large amounts…
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Back Pain and Exercise
Back Pain Can Make You Really Miserable! I am completely out of shape… I haven’t been to the gym in 9 months, and I did it on purpose! I went back to the gym this morning and did a really wimpy workout. I’ve been working with a new chiropractor, and she advised me to stop working out. The reason made sense to me. She was working on my muscles in an attempt to help my ever worsening scoliosis, and she needed to isolate the state of my back relative only to what she was doing. If I had a problem during the week or did well, it needed to be…
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Hunger Hormones…and Weight Loss…
Hunger Hormones and Weight Loss Leptin Hormone and Weight Loss Have you tried a lot of restrictive diets in order to lose weight but still can’t seem to make the scale move downwards? You’re probably aware that an effective weight loss plan is more than just knowing about what calories are being taken in minus the amount of calories being used. Certainly exercise is a component, but there is one more thing in the weight loss equation you need to understand: that one more thing is your Leptin hormone. How Does Leptin Help With Weight Loss? Many people believe that not being able to lose weight is caused by…
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Hunger Hormones – How do they affect your metabolism?
Hunger Hormones and Your Metabolism This post contains basic information on your metabolism. It’s a complex subject, and not everything can be included here. I highly recommend the book The Hormone Reset Diet by Sara Gottfried, M.D. if you want to explore this subject more fully. Leptin and ghrelin are our hunger hormones, and we know they affect our metabolism. If your hormone levels are out of whack, so is your metabolism. It’s pretty simple: as your leptin levels increase, so does your metabolic rate. Leptin is the hunger hormone responsible for making us feel full while ghrelin is the hormone that tells us we are hungry, and it’s time to…
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Magnesium and Leg cramps
Leg Cramps are So Painful! A while ago, I began waking up in the night with really bad foot and leg cramps. I’d have to jump out of bed and walk around until they subsided. They hurt! As I eat very carefully and take supplements as well, I was baffled. They continued, and I also had some bouts of restless legs. The twitching drove me nuts. I started doing some research into what causes them, and found a really interesting article by Dr. Mark Sircus, AC., OMD, DM. Magnesium is a critical mineral, and most of us are magnesium deficient because of our Western diet. In addition, magnesium deficiency is often misdiagnosed because it…
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Hunger Hormones – What are some appetite suppressing foods?
Fight Hunger Hormones with Appetite Suppressing Foods It has been determined that it’s actually our hunger hormones that are responsible for our food cravings. Hormones are the messengers of the body, and they all play different roles. There are some that influence how quickly fat is stored in our body, others determine what we want to eat (or crave) and still others determine how we feel (how up or down or level our mood is). Ghrelin is one of our hunger hormones and is produced when the stomach is empty. Its main purpose is to make us feel hunger so we feed our body fuel. The only way to satisfy…
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Hunger Hormones – Ghrelin…How Managing This Hormone Can Help You Lose Weight!
Hunger Hormones – Keeping Your Ghrelin Levels in Check We have all experienced a growling stomach prior to meal time. When our stomach is empty, the hormone ghrelin, also known as the “hunger hormone”, is released. This signals to the body that we are hungry, and it’s time to eat! In order to keep our hunger levels in check, it’s important to keep our ghrelin levels low during the day. There is a variety of factors that comes into play which can raise our ghrelin levels. For example, consuming high-fat, greasy foods, drinking alcohol or not consuming enough calories can adversely affect the correct brain and body response to our…
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Hunger Hormones – Fixing Your Leptin Levels
Hunger Hormones Fixing Your Leptin Levels Once we understand how the hunger hormones work; Ghrelin the hunger hormone and Leptin the satiety hormone, we can begin to understand if our body is in balance. Your Leptin levels are more than likely out of whack if you’re someone who eats all day long and never seems to feel full. There is good news though; with some changes to your lifestyle, you will be able to re-balance your hormones and get them back to healthier levels. How Cravings Are Related To Leptin Levels Craving certain foods or wanting to eat at certain times may indicate the Leptin in your body is…
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Chocolate Coconut Cookies
Gluten Free Chocolate Coconut Cookies
