Maintaining Your Ideal Weight… Not A Pipe Dream After All?
What if I told you that many conditions of hormonal imbalance like high cortisol (stress), low thyroid and progesterone and others can signal your body to shift its setpoint and increase the risk of weight gain? With balanced hormones, a proper diet and fitness you can achieve that optimal weight that you are looking for.
The Hormones That Keeps On Giving
Stress is one of the leading factors in weight gain. Even with a proper diet, when your body is in a state of stress – the adrenal glands produce more cortisol – a hormone known to increase the belly fat. The thyroid gland and adrenal gland are closely related. So, stress can also cause decreased thyroid function which results in a lower metabolic rate. This means your body is burning fat off at a lower rate. Since cortisol production also utilizes the same building blocks as our sex hormones like testosterone, DHEA and estrogen, high cortisol demand creates multiple imbalances which can contribute to weight gain. It is important to get these hormones balanced properly to optimize your chances of achieving long term weight loss.
How Does It Work?
Stress can cause the set point of the body to change so any weight gained may be harder to lose. The use of HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) first appeared in papers by Dr. ATW Simeons in 1954 and promoted in the media by Kevin Trudeau. They promote the effects of HCG to the hormones’ interaction with the hypothalamus gland, which, among other things, helps to control the set point for weight. They also state that HCG helps break down deeply stored fatty tissues and evacuates them via the kidneys so that the body can utilize the calories released from the fatty stores.
According to Dr. Simeons, HCG is a glycoprotein hormone that plays a large role in cellular interaction. HCG helps to stabilize the hypothalamus. This is the portion of the brain responsible for regulating hunger, thirst, body temperature and weight set point. The hypothalamus also helps sustain a targeted weight after dieting, making it easier to keep the weight off once it is lost utilizing hormone balance, optimal diet, stress reduction and exercise.
The Complete Solution
BodyLogicMD’s highly trained physicians have helped tens of thousands of women and men overcome hormonal imbalance and its associated weight gain using natural bioidentical hormones integrated with customized nutrition and fitness programs. As we age, our hormones naturally begin to decline and when they do, so does the rate at which we metabolize fats. The older we get, the harder it seems to keep the weight off.
HCG is just one of the many supplements BodyLogicMD physicians might use in conjunction with your comprehensive bioidentical hormone replacement therapy along with your individualized fitness and nutrition program to help you become the best and healthiest you can be.
Your long lost figure may not be as hard to uncover as you imagine, after meeting with a highly trained BodyLogicMD physician to review comprehensive testing to determine all of your hormone levels, review your symptoms and your lifestyle and objectives, they will construct a unique and individualized plan to help you best achieve your goals.
