Leptin- the Master of your Brain!

First off, I recommend you listen to this excellent interview via podcast with Dr. Ron Rosedale on Jimmy Moore Presents.

EXCELLENT overview of the role of Leptin in your body!

Leptin. Live call-in pod cast with Jimmy Moore today 7pm EST

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By DR. RON ROSEDALE | Published: JANUARY 19, 2012

‘All Things Leptin (Leptin 101)’ | Dr. Ron Rosedale Come join us and hear all about Leptin live with Dr. Ron and Jimmy Moore. If you have a question about leptin that you would like for Dr. Rosedale to address, then feel free to send it to the email below, e-mailing your name, question, and put in the subject line “Dr. Ron Rosedale” to AskTheLowCarbExperts@gmail.com. You can also ask your question LIVE on my show by calling (712) 432-0900 or Skype the show for FREE by calling the username freeconferencing.7124320900. Whether you call or Skype, be sure to use the access code 848908.http://www.askthelowcarbexperts.com/2012/01/2-all-things-leptin-leptin-101-dr-ron-rosedale/

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Ok, done that?  Good- let's talk leptin!

Bottom line:  A high fat, low carb, low sugar diet will keep your leptin happy.  When your leptin is "happy" it will keep your appetite perfectly regulated, and keep you healthy and happy as well!

"Your brain is a servant of your fat, your brain is what fat uses to do its bidding, and your fat’s bidding will determine your lifespan. 

Here’s a very brief review. Leptin was discovered about ten years ago. Produced by fat. It’s supposed to tell your hypothalamus how much fat you’ve got and whether to produce more fat. And whether you should keep eating to produce more fat or get rid of some excess. In our evolutionary history, it was good to store some fat. All of our ancestors encountered a famine. You needed to have a good energy source. Fat’s a good, efficient energy source, but it wasn’t good to be too fat, because if you were too fat, you were going to end up as a meal for another organism. Because if you are running from a lion in a group of people, which one is it going to catch? If you got too fat, the lion catches you, because you can’t run up a tree. And those genes would have been eliminated from the gene pool. Leptin tells the brain how much fat there is, and whether you should get more fat or you shouldn’t..

Which means, leptin controls whether or not you’re hungry."

Ron Rosedale

It really is amazing how powerful the role of leptin is in the human body.  Leptin, if kept at natural, low levels by eating a Paleo type of diet, with no grains (which turn to sugar in the mouth!), and of course very little sugar itself, and moderate protein and high levels of good, natural fat.  (Think of avocados, coconut oil, full fat butter, etc.)  

Did you know that it is quite possible, and actually rather common to be "skinny fat", or "metabolically obese"?   There are plenty of non-overweight people who are afflicted with "fat people" diseases:

Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and a host of others...

Their fat is stored "viscerally", meaning it is around and within the organs themselves.  It doesn't show up much on the outside, but it sure raises the leptin levels that destroy them from the inside out!

"How can one hormone make a difference in all these different things? It has to do with leptin’s ability to control the rate of aging. Aging, or the lack of it, is determined by proper communication. When that communication goes awry, all kinds of things go wrong."  Ron Rosedale

In other words, if you allow your leptin levels to rise, by eating the Standard American Diet or high carbs, high sugar, and low fat, you are setting yourself up for bad signals from the master hormone, leptin:

1. Metabolic syndrome, or Syndrome X
2. Increasing fat, which results in even higher leptin levels
3. ALL of the modern diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular problems, acid reflux, etc.
4. Vastly increased rate of aging

So, it is in your best interests in every aspect to follow a High Fat Low Carb diet!  HFLC, or in other words a Paleo type of diet!

Paleo diet to lose fat!

The Paleo Diet has shown remarkable success in helping people to lose fat/weight, and achieve a much better "body composition".   The amazing thing is that it can bring these changes about without:

1. Hunger
2.  Long sessions of exercise
3.  Injury from those long, boring exercise sessions you thought were necessary


Really!  But how can this be?

It's really just simple, proven science!

Our bodies are not designed to eat grains, particularly wheat, which has become a mainstay of virtually every processed food in America.  Wheat is now completely genetically modified to the point where it has no similarity to the ancient wheat of the Bible, or even to the wheat from the 1960's!!
This is a huge point: if you wish to research the topic in depth, I refer you to the book Wheat Belly by William Davis-  Wheat Belly the blog

But, since all carbohydrates,  like wheat, corn, white potatoes, etc. turns to sugar in the body, that is more than enough reason alone to severely limit them in the diet.


The other thing to limit greatly in your diet is SUGAR.


When you eat sugar, or its twin- carbohydrates- your body responds to the rise in blood sugar, (which is actually an emergency situation for your body!), by producing massive quantities of insulin.  Insulin, which as we know is what Type 2 (self-induced) Diabetics lose the ability to produce, after many years of ingesting so much sugar/carbohydrates that their body has become overwhelmed by the bodily insult!  Don't let this happen to you- it is becoming EPIDEMIC in modern America, largely due to the fact that now- 90% of food sold in the USA is PROCESSED: (Comes in a bag, or a box, and is not real food anymore, but industrial food.


Industrial food is loaded with sugar/corn syrup/wheat/soy and the other thing you need to get rid of on the Paleo Diet- industrial seed (grain!) oils!
Corn, Soybean, Crisco- these are all rancid, harmful oils that are not really food.


The Food Industry uses all of this stuff, in processed and fast foods (another no-no!), because it is CHEAP!  That is the only reason- nutritional value is not even on their radar!

So, bottom line, what do you need to do to-

Regain your health and lose fat?

It's really rather simple, and if you think about it, you probably already intuitively know this stuff-

You've just been brainwashed into the "low fat, high carb Standard American Diet"

for your whole life!

So, here is what you get rid of:

1. Eliminate fast food
2. Eliminate bread, pasta, anything made with flour
3. Eliminate Industrial oils- margarine, soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil- any chemically processed oil
4. Eliminate Legumes- dried beans- irritate the gut lining, just as does wheat- this is a huge problem
5. Get long, painful, CARDIO/AEROBIC workouts out of your life (They lead to injury, burn very little in the way of fat/calories/, and do not build muscle, which is what you really want)
6. Stop Staying up late at night- (This interferes with your body in a minor way, stimulating the stress hormone "cortisol", which causes you to store fat, among other negatives).

 And here is what you replace the above with:

1. Whole eggs (free range is the best) 
2. Real, PASTURED butter (Kerrygold is the best)
3. All varieties of meat, and seafood  (Grass fed beef is best, but all of it is good- just be sure to include seafood, especially fatty fish like salmon and sardines)
4. Vegetables and fruits  (Berries are the best fruit!)  Don't go wild on fruit, but include it.  Eat LOTS of green vegetables.
5. Get on an intense, brief exercise program!  (Body weight exercise is best- pushups, pull-ups, sit-ups, brief sessions of sprinting and/or stationery bike "sprints" of 30 seconds or less, done for several "sets" lasting 20 minutes or less)
6. Get LOTS of sleep!  8 hours minimum (This is really crucial for health and fat loss- stress, like lack of sleep, causes your body to want to hang onto fat)

That's it!  Follow the above subtractions and additions in your life, and sooner than you think, you will look and feel better than you would believe!  This is a promise!!


I hear you asking:   "But how do I eat this way??

Simple:

1. Eggs and fruit for breakfast
2. Salad with meat or seafood for lunch
3. Grilled meat and vegetables for supper
4. Snacks- if you eat enough at meals, you probably won't get too hungry. But it you do:

Almonds,  dark chocolate, coffee with real whipped cream, macadamia nuts, olives, full fat cheeses, or again- meat, vegetables, sardines, etc. are all fair game


Or, you could make it easy, and make the Paleo Quick Start Smoothie!

It really makes the nutrition part almost effortless, and actually more "available" to your body, since it is all "broken down" and ready to assimilate, raw food enzymes and all!!

But anyway, there you go- try it for 3 weeks!  If you do, I guarantee you will not go back-
the benefits are that amazing!

I will leave you with this testimonial from an Australian farmer, who has transformed his own health, using the book by Nora Gedgaudus of Primal Body Primal Mind

J