Be Clean…Be Lean…

You might think you’re hungry, but that’s just the hormones talking.

Two hormones, leptin and ghrelin, largely control our desire for food. A rising ghrelin level prompts your brain to register the sensation of hunger. As you eat and fulfill your body’s need for nourishment, leptin rises, ghrelin drops, and hunger fades.

Simple. But when you’re trying to lose weight - not so simple.

Anyone who sets out to lose weight with a program of exercise and restricted calorie intake will have to struggle with ghrelin - a formidable adversary.

A 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study followed subjects’ ghrelin levels over the course of a six-month weight reduction effort. After the first three months, each of the overweight subjects had lost an average of nearly 40 pounds. By the end of the study they had managed to maintain that level of weight loss.

But here’s the bad news: as body weight dropped, ghrelin output increased. At the end of the study, the subjects’ LOWEST ghrelin levels were almost as high as their pre-meal ghrelin peaks before their weight-loss program began.

That’s daunting. Here you are, working hard, week after week, exercising and depriving yourself of calories, while ghrelin lays the groundwork for backsliding the moment you let your guard down.

Fortunately, there are products that exist which will help you to greatly overcome this problem. These products focus on re-balancing your system through proper nutrition and elimination of toxins that contribute to the imbalance.

Here are additional steps you can take to tame the ghrelin gremlin.

1) Getting enough sleep is quite necessary to help your body adapt to change and stress of daily activity.

My sleep patterns have greatly changed since cleansing. I feel more restful and vibrant after a good night’s sleep.

Research shows that ghrelin levels are generally higher and leptin levels are lower in people who regularly get inadequate sleep. As a result, hunger is more pronounced during the day. And worse: If you’re sleep deprived you tend to desire calorie-dense, high-carbohydrate foods.

2) Avoiding fructose can be difficult. Look for products that contain Stevia leaf or Xylitol, as these are natural ingredients which are safe for everyone, especially diabetics. Do not use artificial sweeteners such as Splenda, Aspertame, Sucralose. They contain carcinogenic compounds that add further toxins to your body.

In contrast, fructose makes ghrelin rise.

3) Don’t attempt a crash diet. Crash diets stress the body by reducing the calories but do not replenish with the proper nutrients that will repair and replenish. A weight-loss diet that starts right in with a steep drop in calories is a shock to the system - a shock that’s more likely to prompt ghrelin increase.

Proper nutrition can retrain your body to receive less calories. It’s erroneous to think that you have to eat more calories to get the proper nutrition.

Nutritional cleansing seems to be the basic foundation that we need to allow us to enjoy the superior health we deserve.

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