Toxin #3-You Must Read This! Toxic Chemicals That Will Stop Weight Loss Dead In It's Tracks And Bring Your Metabolism To A Screeching Halt

I hope that you enjoyed yesterday's lesson. Today's lesson is perhaps the most important because it deals with something that we encounter every single day. Unfortunately, you can't see it and unless you were told about it would have no idea that they are everywhere.

I'm talking about Toxic Chemicals and Metals.

The Underlying Cause Of Your Weight Problem Revealed...

We have more gyms, more personal trainers, more exercise classes, more diet pills, gadgets, and doctors but we are still getting fatter and fatter as a population.

"I diet and exercise like crazy but I still can't keep that weight off". Does that sound familiar to you? Have you ever said those words? I bet you have. I know for a fact that alot of my clients have.

The truth is... you can diet and exercise your little heart out but the weight will always come back because of the toxic chemicals that you breathe, eat, drink, and put on your skin.

Where Are These Toxic Chemicals And Metals Coming From?

These toxins are virtually everywhere. They are impossible to avoid. The best thing that you can do is to reduce your exposure as much as possible and to make sure that your body is healthy enough to handle them.

Here is a list of sources that contain the most concentrated amounts of chemicals and metals:

* Heavy Metals such as lead, cadmium, aluminum, and mercury are obtained from polluted fish, water, some vaccines, dental work, food processing machinery
* Chemical fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides
* Growth hormones, antibiotics and steriods in meat, dairy products, pork and poultry
* Food Additives, preservatives and coloring agents ( we covered this in the last lesson)
* Environmental Pollution (air, land, water pollution)
* Chemicals leaching into foods from packaging materials (plastics)
* Artificial sweeteners ( we covered this last lesson also)
* Cosmetics (Our skin is an important detox organ. Did you know that sweating helps the body get rid of toxins?)
* Medications (antidepressants, anticonvulsants, steriod hormones)
* Household Cleaning Chemicals

A Couple Of Hidden Dangers That I Want To Particularly Note:

All of the metals and chemicals listed above are extremely important to avoid. I want to give you some insight on a couple of serious chemicals that always go overlooked.

1. CHLORINE: Is everywhere. Especially in the water that we drink and bathe in. It is used to "clean" water.

Unfortunately, it has some serious health concerns and weight gain concerns associated with it. to quote the US Fish and Wildlife Service: " Organochlorines are compounds that contain chlorine, carbon and hydrogen. They do not break down easily and since they resist metabolism are highly attracted to fat. These are readily stored in fatty tissue in any animal ingesting them and will also accumulate in animals that eat those animals.

This means that you can even get it in the food that you eat! These organochlorines hamper fat loss by decreasing thyroid function ( your thyroid is a major player in your metabolism)

2. Fluoride: Is found in toothepaste, mouthwash, & our water supply. If you drink water, you are most likely getting fluoride. Up until the 1970's Fluoride was used to decrease thyroid function in people with an over active thyroid.
It is now present in our water systems. These cannot be removed by regular water filters! It takes a special water filter that can remove fluoride. If you are drinking fluoridated water, you are sabotaging your weight loss efforts!

The Really Sad Part Is... You Had No Idea Until I Just Told You!

Toxic chemicals and metals, even in small amounts directly disrupt hormones such as your thyroid, which controls your metabolism, and your catecholamines (come from your adrenal glands) which are the slimming hormones of the body.

These toxic chemicals and metals interfere with your body's own natural slimming system! On top of that, they will increase your fat gaining hormones such as insulin and steroids! When this happens, you can basically kiss that beach body good bye.

How Does This Happen, Dr Livingston?

During my research, I ran across a paper written by Pamela Baillie-Hamilton, M.D. who is an expert in human metabolism. She states that toxic chemicals damage virtually every aspect of the way our body handles, absorbs, and creates proteins.

What exactly does protein do for you to help you lose weight?

* forms the structure of the most important slimming hormones.
* speeds up metabolism ( protein will actually raise your metabolic rate 30% above your normal metabolism for 3-12 hours! Of course, there is a certain way to make this happen that I cover in my book.
* protein helps your body to create energy. ( it's no wonder you feel fatigued all the time)
* Builds muscles so we burn body fat during exercise.

Does it make sense that if you have too many toxic chemicals in your body that it would be extremely difficult to lose those unwanted pounds?

If All Of This Is True Dr Livingston, Then Why Isn't Everyone Fat?

That's a great question. The truth is that we are all exposed to these chemicals and it doesn't make sense that everyone isn't fat. It seems that it can be broken down into people's genetic differences/weaknesses, eating habits and stress levels. Some people have better detoxification systems than others so they can detox chemicals more readily. Certain foods are more contaminated than others so alot depends on the individual diet, the chemicals that the person has been exposed to over their lifetime, their age, and nutritional deficiencies.

This is exactly why I recommend seeing a health care practitioner who has alot of knowledge about detoxification and nutrition in general. This is why my clients come to see me. We make sure that we address these imbalances while we put you on a weight loss program.

Did You Ever Wonder Why You Keep Gaining Weight As You Get Older?

Let me try to put some perspective on this for you. As you get older, your body becomes more toxic. You start to bioaccumulate toxins in your body. Why? Because the longer we are alive, the more we are around toxic chemicals and therefore the more that we will eat, drink, breathe and put them on our skin.

Your body is really, really smart and will do whatever it takes to keep you alive. All those toxins get shuttled right to fat cells because your body is simply overrun. Your detox organs such as your liver become exhausted and start to become sluggish and clogged up, keeping you from ever effectively getting rid of these excess toxins.

And this is the reason you lose weight, but it will come right back... because all those toxins get dumped from the fat cells to the blood, they go to the liver, it can't process all of the toxins so it will shuttle it back into fat cells or worse, it stays in the blood and causes you to get really sick.

Your Liver... The Secret Weight Loss Controller

The clogging of liver is one of the biggest underlying causes for a majority of health problems including weight loss. Synthetic hormones, preservatives, and pesticides cannot be processed by the liver and will place a great deal of stress on the organ. The end result? A build up of artificial products in the fat stores of your body.

Your weight problems are primarily a symptom of:

1. The daily toxic load exceeding your liver's ability to process the toxins
2. An overworked, malnourished, poor performing liver
3. The production of fat to hold the backlog of toxins that have built up

Your ability to FLUSH harmful toxins out of your body is a major factor in determining the quality of your health... and your WEIGHT.

When the organs responsible for detox become overloaded, they start to become sluggish and ineffective. Your body looks for alternative ways to get rid of them. One of these back up systems is to stuff toxins into white adipose tissue (stored fat) to get them away from key organs involved with metabolism and health.

Research on fat samples across the country shows that ALL Americans have highly toxic chemicals stored in fat.
One study cited that at least 100 toxic chemicals were found in each fat cell!

THIS IS A DEFENSE MECHANISM! You can't get mad at your body for creating fat because if it didn't, you would DIE! Your body creates fat and cholesterol in order to "warehouse" toxins. The primary detoxification organ is your LIVER. When it becomes overburdened, it sends out "warning" signals" in the form of excess weight, skin problems, inflammation, fatigue and lack of energy.

REMEMBER: Until you free yourself of toxins, you'll have a tough time losing that extra weight especially if you are over 40!

Your body is creating large "fat-stores" (like the now extremely common and hideous "love handles" aka "muffin top") around your middle tummy area, and underneath your armpits, as well as the back of the legs, thighs and buttocks -- as a *DIRECT DEFENSE* against the poisonous "build-up" accumulating because of these
TOXINS!
In other words, your body creates a "Protective Layer" in the form of FAT in order to keep YOU and the TOXINS *separated!* Don't get mad at it!

3 Foods That You Can Eat To Help Your Liver Function Better

1. Beef or Chicken Liver ( Eating liver will help to heal your liver) Please ask your butcher to help you find a clean liver. DO NOT GO TO THE STORE AND BUY LIVER. Chances are, it is very toxic.

2. Beets and Beet Tops- eat them raw or juiced. Do not cook them because they will lose alot of their nutritional value.

3. Milk Thistle - Go to a nutrition store to find a good supplement.

This Brings Me To My Next Point... The Weight Loss Plateau

Every client that I have ever helped has brought this up and I thought that it would be an appropriate question to address. Picture this... you are doing great losing weight when all of a sudden after 15-20lbs you suddenly stop.

No matter what you do, how much you exercise, how much you restrict your diet, the weight doesn't budge a pound. Does this sound familiar to you?

It would make sense to eat less calories than you use per day and you should lose weight. Millions of people have tried consuming 900 calories a day, starving themselves to weight loss. This might even work for a little while. But there comes a point when the body stops burning fat and weight loss stops dead in its tracks.

I am now going to introduce you to a very scientific term: Thermogenesis. This term is defined as the process where heat is produced as a result of the body burning fat.

Thermogenesis increases as you exercise... but when your body perceives a stressful situation (an overload of toxic chemicals) it adapts by either increasing or decreasing the normal rate. In a weight loss scenario, thermogenesis is decreased causing your metaobolism to slow down. At this point, you hit the weight loss plateau.

Why in the world would your body do this? As a protective mechanism. Too many toxins coming out of your fat cells at a rapid rate could cause severe health problems. Especially if your detoxification organs cannot handle the load.

Overcoming The Weight Loss Plateau

Dieters are incorporating thermogenic supplements containing synthetic versions of powerful herbs to break past this plateau and overcome thermogenesis. Now, after reading the above information, do you think that this would be a good thing to do to lose weight? NO!! You can never trick the body without ending up with long term problems.

Some studies actually go as far as to say that losing weight this way is linked to a high rate of mortality (death). They are linking these rates to a high organochlorine concentration ( very common toxic chemical) in blood that is released during weight loss.
That's a very controversial topic that we won't address here.

Achieving Success To Overcome Your Weight Loss Plateau

I want to give you some tips on how to overcome your plateau. Obviously, we must eliminate as much chemical and heavy metal toxicity from all possible sources. But how do you do this?

* Detoxify the body of toxins within our system by performing cleanses. In our last lesson, I will give you a simple cleanse that is easy to perform so stay tuned!
* Eat more fiber. Fiber helps to clean out your body of toxins
* Buy a water purifier or drink contaminant free water. Spring water is the best, then reverse osmosis
* Buy a shower filter ( a 10 minute hot shower is the equivalent to drinking 10 glasses of tap water)
* Buy an air purifier.
* Eat Organic Foods
* Do whatever you can to eliminate chemicals from your food, home, car, office and environment, naturally.

So there you have it. Another shocking secret about weight loss has been revealed. I hope that you are starting to take action and apply the tips that I've been giving you.That's it for today! Tomorrow we will be uncovering another potent toxin that everyone has right now or has had in the past.

Yours in Healthy "Green" Weight Loss,

Charles S Livingston DC, CCWP
Author of Greenlife Weightloss Methods

http://www.greenlifeweightloss.com/greenlifehomepage.html

P.S. Remember Toxins Decrease Your Ability To Burn Fat! Read about an easy fix in my book: Green Life Weight Loss Methodology