One of the major benefits of amino acid therapy is that it stimulates the pituitary gland naturally, thereby causing the secretion of growth hormone in the normal pulsatile manner throughout the day and night.... It is the most effective anti-obesity drug ever discovered, revving up the metabolism to youthful levels, re-sculpting the body by selectively reducing the fat in the waist, abdomen, hips, and thighs, and at the same time increasing muscle mass.

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The average person – dieting or not – has 30 billion fat cells eager to go into fat-storage mode at any time. In the past few years, researchers have gained a greater understanding of how the body's cells work at keeping us fueled, energized and functioning. They can now explain why dieting makes us fat, why women have a harder time losing fat than men do, why strict dieting makes us crave carbohydrates so much we can't stick to the eating plan, and how to leave dieting behind as we move to fat-burning.

Brad King, PhD, author of Fat Wars, has studied the latest research to bring the rest of the world up-to-date on the fat-loss techniques that work. Fat Wars explores and explains all those things we’ve always suspected. Such as starving ourselves on diets, particularly low-carbohydrate diets, primes our bodies to store up even more fat when we stop. A large body of research now indicates that a properly balanced diet with the correct kinds of carbohydrates and fats, in the correct proportion, will get the body into fat burning mode and you will lose weight.

Men can lose weight more easily than women can. Why? Because men carry, on average, 40 lbs more muscle than women do and muscle is where fat burning's at. Men naturally have a higher metabolism than women have. They can burn, on average, 30% more calories during exercise than women can. (To add insult to injury, men can burn up to 30% more calories while at rest.) Once people start to gain some of their muscle back, they find the whole effect accelerates. More on muscle building later.

Our bodies developed over thousands of years of mostly feast and famine and they are ready and able to deal with such cycles. We are programmed to store energy as fat whenever there’s an ample supply of food, to get ready for the next famine, even a self-administered one. What to do? Understand how the body works with food and energy. Follow the Fat Wars 45-day plan to increase metabolism naturally, give the body the carbohydrates, dietary protein and dietary fat that it needs to work efficiently and fight disease. That fat, listless body will be transformed – into a leaner, more energetic and healthier one!

Brad is way ahead of his time; he has picked up the pieces and has finally solved the diet puzzle left behind by hundreds of ineffective diets.” state Dr. Donald M. McLeod M.D., Dr. Philip A. White M.D. American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, in the opening pages of his book. These two Kelowna doctors are longevity specialists. They are employing methods similar to those Brad king uses to help people lose weight, to help people live longer. All three of these specialists use a really neat trick called amino acid therapy to increase human growth hormone (HGH) in the body using SomaLife gHP.

One of the major benefits of amino acid therapy is that it stimulates the pituitary gland naturally, thereby causing the secretion of growth hormone in the normal pulsatile manner throughout the day and night. As I mentioned in an earlier article, HGH is the ultimate anti-aging therapy. It affects almost every cell in the body, rejuvenating the skin and bones, regenerating the heart, liver, lungs, and kidneys, bringing organ and tissue function back to youthful levels. It is the most effective anti-obesity drug ever discovered, revving up the metabolism to youthful levels, re-sculpting the body by selectively reducing the fat in the waist, abdomen, hips, and thighs, and at the same time increasing muscle mass. It is an anti-disease medicine that revitalizes the immune system, lowers the risk factors for heart attack and stroke, improves oxygen uptake in emphysema patients, and prevents osteoporosis. It may be the most powerful aphrodisiac ever discovered, reviving flagging sexuality and potency in older men. It is cosmetic surgery in a container, smoothing out facial wrinkles; restoring the elasticity, thickness, and contours of youthful skin; reversing the loss of extra-cellular water that makes old people look like dried-up prunes. It reverses the insomnia of later life, restoring the slow wave or deepest level of sleep.

The list of benefits (of HGH) seems to grow with each new study. These include: · 8.8 per cent increase in muscle mass on average after six months, without exercise · 14.4 per cent loss of fat on average after six months, without dieting. Makes you stop and think, right? I'll elaborate on the 45 day Fat Wars plan for the next few weeks. Let's get this animal under control.

If you increased your growth hormone (HGH) levels enough you could see 8.8 per cent increase in muscle mass on average after six months, without exercise, and a 14.4 per cent loss of fat on average after six months, without dieting. With ample levels of HGH it's practically impossible for the body to store fat. Sumo wrestlers can store fat despite a relatively young age and potentially normal HGH output by strict adherence to a rich diet and a lifestyle that is designed to reduce HGH secretion from the pituitary and trigger the fat-storing mode.

What you're going to do is exactly the opposite by increasing growth hormone secretion and tweaking your system into fat-burning mode. Your system will become more metabolically active so it will not only burn more fat but it will give you more energy in the process. But how to get there?

It boils down to what you eat, and just as importantly, when you eat it. By eating the correct meals at the right times of day you will trigger your body to burn fat instead of sugar. It hardly sounds like a diet, because it isn't. Diets don't work, lifestyle changes do.

The new age research shows that complex carbohydrates convert into sugar almost as quickly as the simple carbs. With few exceptions, carbohydrate-rich meals result in insulin spikes, and insulin spikes turn off HGH production. The most popular diet drink on the planet doesn't work because it's 13 per cent sugar. This high-glycemic cocktail triggers an insulin rush that promptly shuts down HGH release, effectively tossing your best dieting efforts into the toilet for several hours. Combine this with the suggestion that you refrain from eating anything else, which increases cravings, and you can see why although it's popular, for most people this high-carb approach fails. That's how dieters waste muscle away instead of fat. The whole approach is flawed; it WILL NOT allow the fat burning technique to work.

Eating protein-rich meals is what gets your body to produce more of the fat-burning hormone, glucagon. This lets your body produce muscle and quality tissue. Protein raises tissue oxygen consumption as much as 2 to 3 times that of a carb diet, which indicates an increase in the metabolic rate. Protein is 40 per cent more thermic than carbohydrates, an easy measure of metabolic increase. The increase in temperature allows you to burn more calories even while you sleep.

HGH is necessary for rebuild and repair, including muscle mass creation. Provided you eat either nothing at all or a light protein snack late in the evening, it is elevated for most of the night, particularly during deep regenerative sleep. When you arise in the morning, your growth hormone (HGH) levels are still somewhat elevated, and if you reach for protein-rich foods instead of carbs, or sugar in your coffee, your HGH levels can remain elevated for most of the morning. That represents extra fat-burning hours every day, that you may not have seen for years. If you're taking an amino acid therapy like SomaLife gHP in a project to seriously elevate your HGH to youthful levels, this breakfast modification represents an opportunity to markedly extend the fat-burning effect, free of charge.

One of the main benefits of HGH increase in terms of fat loss occurs around your middle and around your internal organs. Being overweight around the middle is recognised as a fairly reliable indicator of potential heart, stroke, and diabetes issues just down the road. Fat in this area is perhaps the most difficult to get off with excercise or diet, but it melts away fairly quickly when your HGH levels remain elevated. In fact, often one of the first things the client notices in his or her physique is loss of that belly fat when following an HGH program. And a bonus! After the first month or so of the HGH increasing program, RESTING levels, the base pre-treatment HGH level, remains elevated by over 17 per cent. Imagine what a metabolic increase for 22 hours a day can accomplish!

I've mentioned that a carb diet raises cravings, which is the exact opposite of what we're after. You can lose those cravings. Eating protein with fat decreases hunger better than carbs do. The number one source of bioavailable protein is whey solids (rated 159), the number two is egg (100), then breast meat (79), fish, seafood, lean meats, then yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese, fermented soy, and soy isolates (74). You can see why the whey isolate Immunocal (HMS-90 in Canada) is prescribed in the USA to stop wasting in cancer and AIDS patients. Finally, foods considered to be protein rich, such as beans, are actually more than half carbohydrate, so for this excercise they are better avoided or considered to be part of the carb allowance.

...in order to see results from a program to increase your metabolic rate, burn fat, and reduce weight, you're going to view potatoes, rice, white flour, and sugar, as well as certain fruits, as the enemy for awhile. Alcohol too.

Nowadays, we know that eating well practically requires seriously reducing the fast release and the medium release carbohydrates. Eating well to get well doesn't mean starve yourself or anything, though, just change a few things. In fact, hunger triggers fat storage mode, so eat 5x500 calorie meals a day to make sure you never feel hungry. You'll get the feel for what a 500 calorie meal is pretty quickly; it's like a medium snack. Sound good so far? Please stop eating before you're full. (aw, shucks) Ten points for the grazers and nibblers. You've probably heard the term before; now let's put it into practice.

Nutritionist Brad King's acclaimed book Fat Wars lays out your dietary day and includes several helpful recipes. Breakfast should be early and mainly protein to kick your metabolism into high gear as early in the day as possible. Don't skip. Two of your five meals should be whey milkshakes, perhaps with a handful of low-glycemic berries thrown in and no sugar. Brad says in order to see results from a program to increase your metabolic rate, burn fat, and reduce weight, you're going to view potatoes, rice, white flour, and sugar, as well as certain fruits, as the enemy for awhile. Alcohol too. (sigh)

Clinical studies have found that the common denominator in obesity, diabetes, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue is growth hormone (HGH) deficiency. Old and young alike, the overweight and obese are down a pint. Though not everyone with CFS or FM is overweight, the majority are. If you're at all heavy around the middle, you can bet you will respond to increased HGH.

Let's all deal with the weight similarly, whether it's accompanied by diabetes or not. The main thrust of the information is how to control your carbohydrate intake to reduce your weight, and for that we can follow the diabetic's lead. A good diabetic diet book from the library will tell you that most carbohydrates spike insulin to undesireable levels and the easy calories are easily stored. It may fail to mention that the main reason behind reducing carbs is that the elevated insulin will also reduce HGH production, which will lower your metabolism and your ability to burn fat. The diabetic cookbook makes even more sense to non-diabetics than ever before.

Dr. Diana Schwarzbein is a leading authority on metabolic healing. Her book, The Schwarzbein Principle includes eating guidelines that she has developed to help her diabetic patients eliminate the need for insulin and drastically reduce the nasty side effects insulin restistance can bring. Because carbohydrates are essentially sugar, regulating foods high in carbohydrates and low in fiber allows diabetics to regulate their blood sugar naturally, without the need for insulin. Says Dr. Schwarzbein, As they followed the new dietary program their blood sugar normalized, so they were able to get off insulin and/or oral hypoglycemic agents. Their cholesterol levels improved, so I stopped their cholesterol– lowering medication. Their blood pressures came down, so I stopped their blood pressure medication. I was able to eliminate most of their drugs. They lost body fat and gained muscle mass. Their energy improved. They were not going hungry anymore. They felt great. By reducing carb intake, she was able to increase the HGH naturally secreted by the pituitary, which enhanced fat burning and increased muscle and metabolism. See how easy and how elegant a diet can be?

As Dr. Schwarzbein and others have proved, we can reduce carbs and weight the natural way; however as we age we produce less HGH so it becomes difficult to knock off those extra kilos without an able assist. In the bestseller Doctors' Secrets: The Road To Longevity by North America's leading longevity specialists Philip White and Donald MacLeod, the doctors devote 110 pages to the use of HGH and HGH increasers, and name SomaLife gHP, the HGH increaser that many doctors say is the only one that works, and for which the FDA has approved statements. They outline a Swedish HGH study in which subjects lost 20 per cent of their total fat in six months, and 30 per cent of the fat over their midsections. In another, men lost 9.2 percent of their overall fat, 6.1 per cent of their abdominal fat, and 18.1 per cent of the central fat around their internal organs, without an exercise program! Dr. Hertoghe in Belgium observed a 20 to 30 per cent shrinkage in love handles, across the middle, and the underside of the thigh, in only two months. What may be even more striking is that he believes that the loose skin, the triceps wattles hanging there under the ladies' upper arms, is also related to low HGH levels and will improve as the HGH levels are maintained.

Diets that focus on weight loss rather than metabolism result in undesireable muscle wasting and not enough fat wasting. With less muscle available to burn up the fat, your long-term fat-burning ability is reduced rather than increased, so if you slack off on the diet you gain even more weight.

In his book Fat Wars (www.fatwars.com) Brad King says that what you put into your body today, you will become tomorrow. The junk diet produces a junk body, a fact that should remind you that if you want to preserve your health and limit your tendency towards obesity, your body needs high-quality muscle-building food every day.

Longevity specialist Dr. Tom Iwama pointed out during his recent anti-aging presentation in Duncan, there is no better muscle-building food than whey protein concentrate, and eggs are similar. Whey protein concentrate is sold in the supermarket bulk section for about $2.60 a kilo. Athletes were the first to use whey protein as an anti-catabolic (anti muscle wasting) supplement to build lean muscle mass decades ago, and cancer and AIDS patients now use whey protein to protect against lethal catabolic wasting syndrome. Highly purified whey protein isolate is 50 per cent more bioavailable than either whey protein concentrate or eggs. A low temperature micro-filtration technique ensures a 98% undernatured isolate can be produced that retains all the important sub-fractions, and provides even better health maintenance and disease prevention benefits than previous products. This hi-tech whey, but not the cheap overcooked stuff, increases the production of glutathione, the body's most important anti-aging antioxidant and detoxifier. The isolate HMS-90/Immunocal is medically accepted for that purpose, but it hasn't been too popular because of the price. As an alternative there are now several undenatured whey isolates on the market for about a sixth of the price, such as Dyna Whey, found at Superstore. Now you can afford to make two simultaneous anti-aging plays by increasing glutathione levels and providing your body with a decent dose of the purest form of bioavailable protein. A bonus is that a component of whey produces a hormone that curbs your appetite.

Most vegetarians know that fermented soy and soy isolates contain the most vegetable-based proteins, but although soy is the highest plant-based protein on the Biological Value chart, vegetable proteins have a much lower value than whey proteins. They contain a higher percentage of carbs than what we require, and plant-based proteins are bound to fiber so the body is not able to extract it all. Vegans are usually low on muscle mass (emaciated is the word used by sports nutritionists); in fact, athletes who switch to a vegan diet start to lose muscle mass right away. Vegans can correct their diet and build muscle by using a lot of soy protein isolate and taking an essential amino acid supplement such as Master Amino Pattern, a zero-residue essential amino acid blend. This amino acid approach also resolves the need for a high protein diet without loading the kidneys with waste ammonia as the body tries to expel the excess nitrogen created by protein metabolism. MAP can be used as well as or instead of, all of your protein intake. It is completely utilized by the body with no nitrogen excess and it is so efficient that three grams of it daily will meet your requirements for protein with no waste.

By increasing your protein intake compared to the carbs, what you're accomplishing is increased muscle mass and metabolism so weight loss will naturally follow. Diets that focus on weight loss rather than metabolism result in undesirable muscle wasting and not enough fat wasting. With less muscle available to burn up the fat, your long-term fat-burning ability is reduced rather than increased, so if you slack off on the diet you gain even more weight. Conversely, the metabolic approach requires little dieting and produces a healthier person with less fat rather than less muscle. Your proportion of muscle mass to fat is directly proportional to your success in a metabolic program because muscle burns the most calories daily, both in action and at rest. The metabolic increase also allows you to find the energy again that you thought you'd lost forever.

If you don't think you can increase your muscle mass and metabolism quickly enough through dietary means, you may jumpstart the technique by increasing your natural growth hormone levels for a few to several months. If that's you, call me.