I
started Googling all the stuff I was dealing with (LOL).
And while most of what I found was ridiculous…
I did find one article that caught my eye.
It was an interview with New York Times Bestselling Author Dr. Sara
Gottfried…
And in the interview…
Dr. Gottfried said something that really grabbed my attention…
She said that…
“After digging into the research, I learned that 99 percent of weight
loss resistance is hormonal” she said…
And
then later she added that…
“It amazes me how easy weight loss becomes once hormones are back in
their sweet spots.”
Now this really made the hair on my neck stand tall…
Because, like any woman who is honest…
I’d blamed my hormones for stuff before…
But I’d never really thought that they could be the reason why I was
having so much trouble losing weight.
So I made an appointment with my doctor…
And
during the visit, I asked him to test my hormones.
I was expecting him to say “sure Sam, whatever you want!”…
So I felt CRUSHED when instead of doing that…
He let out this arrogant little smirk…
Then literally rolled his eyes!
My dear old doctor told me that hormone testing is expensive and
unnecessary…
Then he proceeded repeat the same tired advice he’d been giving me for
nearly two decades:
“If you want to lose weight, you just need to burn more calories than
you put in.”
My doctor said it was all simple math…
Then he asked me if I belonged to a gym…
And by the time he was done talking…
Oh
my God. I wanted to explode…
My
face must have been beet-red as I walked out of his office…
It was so humiliating and embarrassing how he lectured me…
He was always just assuming that everything was MY fault…
And yet when I — the patient — asked him to do a hormone test…
He pretty much said “NOPE”…
And that really ticked me off.
“I’m done with him” I thought…
And I wasn’t lying…
I haven’t been back to that doc since.
But even though I got the thrill of
dumping my doc that day…
I still felt lost…
And I needed help.
I wasn’t sure where to turn…
I did look for other doctors in my town…
But I was scared they’d just have the same reaction my doctor did…
And I was afraid to go through that humiliation and embarrassment
again.
So I thought about just giving up…
Just “letting go” and accepting that I’d never feel normal again…
And that might have been where the story ended…
If I hadn’t gotten a call from an old friend.
It was a Thursday night and I was standing exhaustedly in the kitchen…
When my cell rang.
It
was my girlfriend Jen…
She’d
been overseas with her husband for the past year…
But now she was back in the U.S. and she was calling to say hi.
So at first we just chit-chatted and caught up…
But then, as we were talking…
I remembered something important.
Jen had struggled with estrogen problems a while back…
But then she’d seen some hormone expert that she’d really liked…
And I remembered how she’d felt a lot better after…
Plus she’d lost a ton of weight too.
I’d always assumed that Jen just did estrogen replacement therapy or
something like that…
But when I asked her during our conversation…
She let out this huge, belly-splitting laugh…
Then said that I had it all wrong.
“No way!” Jenn told me.
“Estrogen therapy is expensive and scary as heck.
Seriously you don’t even want to know about the side effects.
I did fix my estrogen, but it was entirely natural.
And it just wasn’t just my estrogen either…
It was all my hormones.
And really I owe it all to Dr. Wood…
He’s the hormone expert I saw…
Seriously the guy’s the best.”
Well that was all I needed to hear…
I
got Dr. Wood’s information from Jen…
And
three days later…
I was sitting in his office…
Trying hard not to show my nervousness or excitement.
It was pretty crazy though…
We’d barely even shook hands…
But Dr. Wood was already describing everything I’d been dealing with in
amazing detail…
The weight loss resistance, the exhaustion, the brain fog, the anxiety…
It was like he’d been living inside my head this whole time.
Seriously, he knew EVERYTHING…
And when I asked him how this was possible…
He said it was because even though we’re always being told that weight
loss is some mysterious black-box…
That’s simply not the case…
“The vast majority of our weight challenges
are hormonal…
And they almost always come down to
5 Hormonal Blocks”…
That’s what he said…
And he told me that these 5 Hormonal blocks can all happen in our body
simultaneously…
Resulting in a sluggish metabolism…
Cells that are pumped full of fat…
And brains, moods, and emotions entirely out of whack.
Then Dr. Wood proceeded to share
what these 5 Hormonal Blocks are…
And I’m going to share them with you right now too…
So make sure you pay close attention…
Because this is going to remove
so much confusion from your life…
And it will finally make sense why you haven’t been able to lose your
excess weight.
The first hormonal block Dr. Wood told
me about has to do with your Thyroid.
You’ve
probably heard of your thyroid before…
It’s a small, tiny gland located in the front of your neck…
And your thyroid’s role is to take iodine, which is found in a variety
of foods…
And convert it into two thyroid hormones…
Which are known as T3 and T4.
These thyroid hormones are then released into the bloodstream…
Where they control your metabolism.
When your metabolism is functioning normally…
It turns calories and fat into energy…
Then sends this energy to your cells…
Where it’s used to perform all
kinds of essential functions that keep you healthy.
But
when your thyroid hormones are NOT functioning properly…
It means that your metabolism doesn’t function properly either…
And instead of burning calories like it should…
Your metabolism stores those calories as fat.
This is why, if you have issues with your thyroid hormones…
You can starve yourself and workout all day…
But you’re STILL going to encounter weight loss resistance and feel
frustrated…
Because even though you’re doing activities that normally WOULD burn
calories…
When your thyroid hormones are out of whack…
They tell your metabolism to keep storing those calories as fat.
This can leave you feeling exhausted, by the way…
Because over the course of the day…
You’re doing all of these things that require energy…
Yet your body isn’t releasing that energy…
It’s holding onto it…
And if you frequently suffer
from brain fog…
Your thyroid hormone s could be to blame for that as well…
Because your brain uses up a lot of energy…
But if your metabolism is broken and there’s no energy available…
Your brain is starved of fuel.
Pretty crazy, right?
And your thyroid is just one of FIVE different hormonal blocks you may
be facing…
Imagine what it would be like to fix all 5 hormonal blocks at once?
It could seriously be like the difference between being blind…
And having perfect 20/20 vision…
The difference is that dramatic.
The
second hormonal block that Dr. Wood
told me about has to do with Cortical
You
have two adrenal glands that sit above your kidneys…
And they produce a hormone called cortical…
Which is often referred to as a “stress hormone”…
Because it’s released when you experience stress.
Cortical is very important to your survival…
But when your cortical levels are always high…
Which can happen due to everyday
stressors like:
·A demanding job
·Arguments on social media
·A rocky relationship
·Sitting in bad traffic
·A challenging child
·Plus anything else…
Your brain thinks you’re in survival mode…
So it shuts down your metabolism…
Your digestion…
And even parts of your brain.
Why does it do this?
Because even though your stress might be due to something “harmless”…
Like your boss nonstop texting on a weekend…
Your brain can’t differentiate between “harmless” stress…
And a real threat…
So it takes energy from anywhere in the body that it views as
“non-essential”…
Which includes your metabolism, your digestive system, and even parts
of your brain …?
And sends this energy to places like your muscles and your heart…
Which your brain considers essential to your survival …
Think of it like this:
·If you need to fight, your muscles better
work…
·And if you need to run for your life, your
heart better be able to pump blood…
But you know what’s NOT essential to fighting or running away?
·Your metabolism raging and burning fat…
·Your digestion operating smoothly so you
don’t experience irregular bowel movements…
·Or your brain being able to solve math
equations or complex problems.
So the fact that those places get robbed of energy makes sense…
In fact, it’s actually smart of your brain to do this.
The problem though…
Is that if your stress isn’t coming from a real threat…
But from your 24/7 job…
Or family commitments…
Then your metabolism, digestion, and brain always remain robbed of
energy…
It’s impossible to burn fat…
And you constantly feel like your brain is in a fog.
Pretty crazy, right?
And we’ve still got three more hormonal blocks left…
So let’s keep things going.
The third hormonal block Dr. Wood told
me about has to do with Estrogen.
Estrogen
is what’s referred to as a “sex hormone”…
And when estrogen levels are too high, or too low…
And aren’t in balance with progesterone…
Which is another important
female reproductive hormone….
It can very easily lead to weight loss resistance.
One of the tell-tale signs of erratic estrogen levels…
Is that you’ll notice more fat getting stored in your belly and hips…
And you’ll notice that this fat is visceral and clingy…
To the point where it feels like it’s impossible to get rid of it…
No matter how much dieting or exercising you do.
For
many women…
Erratic estrogen problems start in their mid-thirties…
Then continue before, during, and after menopause.
The reason why…
Is because as a woman exits her prime reproductive years…
Which normally happens between
the ages of 30 and 35…
The balance between estrogen and progesterone can grow increasingly out
of whack…
And her estrogen levels will start to peak…
While her progesterone levels begin to free-fall.
And as women enter their 40s…
This imbalance between estrogen and progesterone only becomes worse..
Which can negatively affect your
thyroid hormones …
And lead to you putting on more and more pounds of fat.
It’s for this reason that so many women are being pushed towards
hormone therapies once they enter their 40s and 50s…
But wouldn’t it be better if you could just keep estrogen levels
balanced naturally…
Without continuously packing on more pounds of fresh belly fat?
Well the good news…
Is that this is absolutely possible.
I’ll show you exactly how to do it…
Plus give you four more proven hormonal fixes…
In just a few moments.
The 4th Hormonal Block Dr. Wood told
me about has to do with Insulin.
Insulin
is a hormone that’s produced in your pancreas…
And you’ve almost certainly heard of insulin before…
Especially in in relation to diabetes.
The thing is though…
You don’t need to be a diabetic to have insulin challenges…
Because as world renowned health expert
Dr. Mark Hyman puts it:
“No contest: The monster hormone that causes weight gain is excess
insulin.”
Well with respect to Dr. Hyman…
There is a contest…
And it’s happening between all five of the hormones we’re talking about
today.
But while Dr. Hyman may be oversimplifying things a little bit here…
There’s also a lot of truth to what he’s saying…
Because high insulin levels definitely are one of the major reasons
behind your weight loss resistance.
Insulin helps your body convert the carbohydrates you eat into sugar
(glucose)…
And then tells your body to store this sugar as glycogen in your
muscles.
The problem though is that your muscles can
only store a small amount of glycogen at any given timeAnd once your muscles’ about to store glycogen is maxed it…
Your body has no choice but to store additional glycogen as fat.
Obviously, that’s not good if you’re trying to lose weight…
And it’s especially brutal when you combine high insulin…
With the other hormonal blocks we’ve looked at so far.
Think about it…
·Insulin and estrogen are BOTH telling your
body to store more fat…
·While your thyroid hormones and cortical
are BOTH telling your body not to burn fat.
So is it any wonder that you’ve been struggling to lose weight?
And all of this is before we add in the the last hormonal block too…
Which we’re going to go over right now.
The fifth hormonal block Dr. Wood told me
about has to do with Lepton.
Lepton’s job is to tell your brain when you’ve had enough to eat.
This is why Lepton is often referred to as your “fullness hormone”…
Because when Lepton is functioning normally…
You feel satisfied after each meal…
You don’t overeat…
And you don’t suffer from those gnawing cravings that can strike out of
nowhere.
That’s how Lepton is supposed to function…
But
when you start putting on excess weight…
And you can’t burn fat no matter how hard you try…
(Which both happen due to the other four hormonal blocks we’ve covered
today)…
Your fat cells start producing more-and-more lepton…
And your brain becomes bombarded with lepton signals non-stop…
Until it starts to ignor e these signals entirely.
This is called lepton-resistance…
And as your brain becomes increasingly resistant to lepton…
You can guess what happens:
·You stop feeling full…
·You start overeating the wrong foods…
·You get almost addict-like-cravings for
salty, sweet, or crispy junk foods…
And it results in you putting on even MORE weight…
Which in turn makes your lap tin resistance even worse?
Until ultimately…
You spend very day feeling hungry, angry, and depressed…
Because it seems like you can’t stop overeating no matter how hard you
try…
And you feel MAD at yourself…
Because you can’t understand why don’t have any self-control.
If that’s you right now…
Trust me, I get it.
That’s where I was at too…
And I’ve had all of those same thoughts….
Which is why I was so surprised when…
Dr.
Wood looked me in the eyes and told me
something I’ll never forget…
Something
I’m going to repeat to you right now:
It’s really, truly, not your fault.
None of this is.
Your weight struggles aren’t due to a lack of willpower…
It’s not because you don’t “want to be skinny” bad enough…
The weight gain that’s been accelerating…
The increased weight loss resistance…
Those things aren’t being caused by you…
They’re being caused by your hormones…
And particularly those 5 hormonal blocks we’ve been going over today.
Think about it like this…
What good is two hours on the tread mill
Or going Keto…
If your metabolism refuses to burn fat for energy?
And what good are drugs that target your thyroid…
Or risky estrogen therapies
When each of those things only targets one specific hormonal block…
Out of a total of 5?
So you see…
You’ve
Been Set Up!
You’ve been BLAMED for your weight loss resistance by the folks in the
diet industry…
You’ve been NAMED as lazy by workout-addicts in the fitness industry…
And you’ve been SHAMED for your anxiety and exhaustion by pill-pushing
health professionals…
When the truth is…
The vast majority of the time…
·Your
inability to lose weight…
·Your
low-energy…
·Your
poor nights of sleep…
·Your
brain fog…
·Your
mood swings…
·And
so much else…
They are all caused by something that’s out of your control…
The 5 Hormonal Blocks we’ve been looking at today.
So I want you to make a promise to yourself right now…
That you’re going to STOP thinking any of this is your fault…
And START feeling confident again…
Because the truth is:
You can win
this fight against weight loss resistance and excess body fat…
And I’m going to show you exactly how to do it…
Right now
You see, as Dr. Wood explained…
Even though these 5 hormonal blocks can come out of nowhere…
And can stick around for years, or even decades…
It doesn’t have to be this way.
In fact
Addressing
all five of these hormonal blocks
can actually be very simple…
You just need to take proven scientific
research…
Research that too many in mainstream wellness are ignoring…
Apply it to each of the hormonal blocks you’re facing simultaneously…
And once you do this…
You’ll find it’s shockingly easy to optimize hormonal health…
While reducing the biggest blocks to your weight loss…
All in one fell swoop.
So let’s go ahead and rifle through each of the hormonal fixes that Dr.
Wood showed me…
Then after we’re done…
I’ll share the easy trick Dr. Wood showed me…
Something that made it simple to apply all 5 of these fixes at once…
And I’ve got to say that once started using this trick…
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