By Frank Suárez, on January 20th, 2010
 When we wish to lose weight, we find ourselves obligated to reduce the consumption of refined carbohydrates (bread, pasta, pizza, flour, candies, sugar, etc). It is the only way of accomplishing healthy weight loss since this type of carbohydrates turn into glucose (sugar in the blood) and the excess glucose then becomes FAT with the help of the insulin hormone produced in our bodies. For various interesting reasons, which we will discuss further, for many people, the most difficult food to eliminate from their diet and the “biggest sacrifice” is considered to be bread or pasta.
After ten years of experience in helping people recuperate their metabolism and slim down, I have learned to recognize the metabolism problems that “body intolerances” can cause. Everybody knows what an “allergy” is because when someone is allergic to a certain food and they ingest it, the allergic reaction is very noticeable. Allergies produce headaches, itching, and loss of breath, phlegm, indigestion, and inflammation which is immediately noticeable in the body. If a person is allergic to seafood and he or she ingests any, the results can be deadly from the crisis or allergic reaction that it causes.
“Intolerances” are a type of negative reaction that the body has to certain foods which do not necessarily include immune system reactions (itching, phlegm, inflammation, etc.). An “intolerance” is a type of negative reaction of the body, which is less noticeable than an allergic reaction. However, when the body has intolerance towards a certain food and we consume this food, the metabolism will decrease to the point where we won’t be able to lose weight. In other words, “intolerances” make us fat because they weaken the metabolism.
The most common foods that cause intolerance are wheat, soy, and corn. In my experience the food that most prevents people from losing weight is wheat, which is a staple of our daily meals. Pasta, cakes, and other foods all contain wheat as a main ingredient.
Wheat contains a protein called “gluten” which causes trouble for a lot of us when it comes to losing weight. Gluten can cause, for many of us, intolerance that creates constipation, headaches, fatigue, indigestion, gases and accumulation of water in the body (edema). When a person is intolerant to the gluten contained in the wheat, he or she will have trouble losing weight, in addition to the possible emotional imbalances like anxiety, memory loss, disorientation and even depression. In fact, it has been noted that many children and adults who are being diagnosed with the popular psychiatric disease ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) really suffer from gluten intolerance. Many of these adults and children, who are put on a wheat-free and gluten-free diet, begin to act “normal” again.
There is an illness called “celiac disease” which not many doctors can easily diagnose. It is an illness caused by a severe intolerance to the gluten protein contained in wheat. There are families that suffer a great deal with strange illnesses and emotional or behavioral-type problems only because they are unaware of gluten intolerance. Some of them end up drugged with antidepressants which only makes the situation worse.
A very interesting discovery revealed that the gluten in wheat functions as an opiate. An opiate is a substance with effects similar to opium (the source of drugs such as morphine and heroin) with a very addictive power. This is the reason that many people who are obese or overweight are addicted to bread! They see a basket full of bread and their mouth begins to water while something inside screams: GIVE IT TO ME!
I know all about this subject very well from personal experience. When I began my quest to lose weight I discovered that my body is one of those bodies that wants nothing to do with gluten or wheat. Whenever I ate bread or pasta, I felt that my body was heavier and I could tell that my clothes fit tighter. Also, I just could not lose weight no matter what diet I was on. With time I discovered that gluten causes a reaction in my body that forces it to retain water and thus my clothes fit tighter. I realized that if I completely avoided gluten and sauces that contain wheat, I was able to lose weight.
I my book The Power of Your Metabolism I dedicated an entire chapter to the subject of “intolerances”. I have received hundreds of emails from people who were able to finally lose weight after eliminating wheat from their diet. Others have been able to handle their indigestion, headaches, and even thyroid problems since eliminating wheat from their diet. Some experts have concluded that for those who are intolerant to gluten, consuming it could damage the thyroid gland.
Everyone has a different heritage origin. Our ancestors, whose genes determined our own genetic characteristics, were hunters and gatherers as opposed to agriculturists. Hunters and gatherers did not farm the lands and they did not eat wheat, thus their bodies never adapted to it. The origin of wheat is wild and it was domesticated and cultivated by our more modern agriculture ancestors.
In any event, should you discover intolerance to wheat; you still have the majority of every other food you can enjoy. It’s just that if you are intolerant and do not discover it, you expose yourself to failure in all your attempts to lose weight, if you don’t avoid the delicious and tempting “daily bread”.
Frank Suárez, Metabolism and Obesity Specialist
By Frank Suárez, on October 13th, 2009
 Sleep to lose weight It’s funny how everything that happens in our body is related to everything else that happens in the body. Many people who experience the problem of having a “slow metabolism”, which makes it hard for them to lose weight, also suffer from insomnia (difficulty sleeping). The reality is that sleep is vital for metabolism and health.
The human body is in a constant process of construction (new cells) and repairing the cells that have undergone some damage. Some of the cells that make up the body are dying every day while they are being replaced by new cells that are created every day.
When we sleep, the body repairs the cells that have undergone some damage. The reality is that the body never “sleeps” since it is always working on either repairing or creating something internally. We ourselves do “sleep” because we rest our minds and we rest from the vigilance and constant attention that our senses are subjected to by the environment. But the body never really stops working and it continuously maintains its entire defense system on alert (the immune system) in case it detects a danger (bacteria, parasite, virus, etc) that it needs to attack.
For people who suffer from insomnia, or those who wake up repeatedly throughout the night because of light sleep, losing weight becomes nearly impossible. This is because lack of adequate sleep produces a state of stress on the body. When the body is under stress, it produces an excess of the stress hormone called cortisol and this is a hormone which accumulates fat (it’s fattening) while it slowing destroys muscle tissue, thus resulting in wrinkles and flaccid skin. This is why, when we don’t sleep well, we wake up in the morning in a state of crisis and with very little energy.
The cortisol hormone that the body produces when stress exists in the body is the same substance as the cortisol medication that many people have taken and they notice that they have gained weight after taking it. The body produces cortisol every time it is under physical or emotional stress.
Many times this insomnia is caused by a condition relating to the thyroid gland called hypothyroidism. Unfortunately, hypothyroidism is not always detected via a laboratory analysis of the blood because it could exist as a “subclinical hypothyroidism”. Many people suffer from thyroid problems which cause insomnia and obesity and yet their lab work does not detect that such problem exist.
One way of knowing if the insomnia is being caused by problems with the thyroid gland is to take your body temperature. Doctor Broda Barnes, an endocrinologist (hormone specialist) discovered that the body’s temperature directly reflects a problem with the thyroid gland even if the blood analysis does not show the problem. This is called the “Barnes temperature test” and it is even listed in the reference books used by doctors in their offices (a book they call PDR).
If you do not sleep well and have difficulty losing weight, you can learn to take your body temperature to detect whether your thyroid is affected. This test can be done by any person at home and it’s free. Perhaps this is why (free and not lucrative for some) it isn’t more accepted by physicians. Generally, nobody promotes those things that don’t make them money.
I have concluded, while I observe the healthcare industry, that healthy people are not good business for these industries. There are plenty of good doctors out there and a very good number of health professionals that have the intention of truly helping their patients. But, for the pharmaceutical industry and other related health industries, their business depends on our ignorance and illnesses. This is the only way we’ll continue to consume their products and services.
Anyway, our only true defense against this is KNOWLEDGE. If we understand the basic principles that better our health and better the metabolism, we avoid being the victims of ignorance. This is why I wrote The Power of Your Metabolism where I explain, in simple words, which are the factors that determine whether we sleep well, lose weight, and better our health.
Frank Suárez, Obesity and Metabolism Specialist
By Frank Suárez, on May 12th, 2009
It has been proven that stress makes you fat. Different scientific studies have proven that this is true. If you are experiencing a lot of stress, you won’t be able to lose weight easily and you will even begin to gain weight even if you eat very little food.
Those relationships that are very stressful, the work environments full of pressure and even financial problems, amongst others, can produce a state of stress. When we feel stress, the automatic message we send to the body is: DANGER. The human body responds to the DANGER by producing the hormone cortisol.
This hormone cortisol, which invades our body when we feel stress, causes the following effects:
- accumulates fat mainly in the stomach area
- destroys the muscles (this creates flaccid skin)
- reduces the immune system (people get sick more easily when they have stress)
- increases the levels of glucose in the blood (this is what makes us fat, glucose turns into fat)
- causes insomnia, gives you difficulty with sleeping (you wake up feeling tired)
- the thyroid gland function is reduced which in turn reduces the metabolism
It is impossible to lose weight when stress is out of control.
The easiest way of figuring out if you are gaining weight due to stress is by observing the quality of your sleep. The hormone cortisol which is the “stress hormone” is produced only when we are under some sort of stress (infections, pain, etc.) or outside stress (emotional pressures or “dangers” perceived in our environment). Cortisol is an ALERT hormone and this is the reason that sleep is affected when we have had an extremely stressful and agitated day, too much cortisol was produced.
Even those people who are having problems with their significant other or a family member, begin to notice that their clothing fits tighter. This happens because the effects of stress and the production of cortisol begin to accumulate fat and weight gain is inevitable.
Recently, the book “The Power of Your Metabolism” was published. This book reveals all the techniques that have been proven successful to those people that want to improve their metabolism and lose weight and even techniques that help reduce stress. Additionally, you can get help or order this book by calling Relax Slim System (www.RelaxSlim.com) by calling 1.888.348.7352.
As an additional help, natural supplements have been developed to control the effects of stress by reducing the production of cortisol in the body while you are experiencing stress. One of these supplements is STRESS DEFENDER ANGEL. With the help of this supplement the negative effects of stress are controlled and people can lose weight while reducing the fat from the stomach or abdomen area.
When it comes to losing weight, there are no miracles. To be successful, you must improve your metabolism while you control those things which make us gain weight including excessive stress. We live in a society where we experience many social and economic pressures. We are surrounded with technology (cell phones, televisions, etc) but our quality of life has been suffering. Every time we are living life more hurriedly and experiencing more and more stress. This is one of the reasons why the population’s obesity levels have increased over time.
Everybody at every age can lose weight; I have seen it happen in more than 10,000 people. People with diabetes can lose weight and even the elderly. In order to achieve weight loss, you got to do what you got to do. Not doing so, puts us at risk for high blood pressure, heart problems, high cholesterol and even depression. Overweight people don’t just dislike the way they look, they also don’t feel well. There are solutions to the problem of overweight, many of which you will find in the book “The Power of Your Metabolism”.
Frank Suárez Obesity and Metabolism Specialist
Tel. 1-888-348-7352
www.RelaxSlim.com
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