Weight Loss

To lose weight and keep it off, you need to balance hormones

Quick-fix and popular diet crazes provide minor, short-lived benefits. Without properly treating inflammation you can't restore hormone balance, and the weight comes right back.

Weight loss is directed by hormones. If you have a weight problem, you have a hormone problem — and in our modern environment, to understand and fix hormones you have to understand how toxins affect them.

Toxins cause inflammation in and on every cell. Addressing inflammation and toxicity is what makes this different from a typical weight loss program. Recent research indicates that inflammation is at the root of virtually every health problem. Inflammation indicates irritants affecting a cell inside and out, which can cause it to over-produce messengers such as hormones and cytokines, or prevent it transmitting and receiving them — or both. It drains a cell's energy and stops it functioning properly.

The most common agitators

• Toxins
• Bad fats
• Sugar

Most effects of inflammation go unnoticed. But as it continues to grow, you eventually experience a symptom. One of the most common is an interruption in your hormone balance — a delicate balance susceptible to inflammation — and you begin to gain weight.

If you live in the 21st century, your body is exposed to toxins

Toxins enter through the air you breathe, through your skin, or through your food. As they arrive they attach to fat wherever it is found — fat cells, cell membranes in the central nervous system, and throughout the body. They build up on the cell membrane and set off a chain of events that causes weight gain.

This happens two ways. First, toxins damage delicate hormone receptors, including leptin receptors. Second, they can cause the release of too much leptin — the hormone that tells your brain to stop eating when you've had enough, and to burn fat for energy.

Instead of healthy doses, toxins keep the leptin flowing. As levels rise, the brain's leptin receptor sites eventually burn out. That is leptin resistance. Once those sites are exhausted your brain can't hear the message to burn fat, so no matter what diet you follow or exercise you do, the signal never arrives.

How the Cellular Healing Diet and Detox program works

Restore your ideal body weight — detoxify your cells, reduce inflammation, and restore hormone balance. The Cellular Healing Diet and Detox program is incredibly effective. Here is how it works:

• We test to identify your toxic burden — an in-office screening plus lab tests to measure the presence and extent of toxins
• We remove those toxins appropriately and carefully
• As your body clears them, it naturally moves toward correcting the hormone dysregulation behind weight loss resistance — sometimes on its own, sometimes with nutritional or herbal support
• Finally, the program teaches a diet that reduces inflammation and heals cells: the Cellular Healing Diet

What you'll learn

• How to heal hormone receptors
• How to heal your cells
• How to reduce inflammation
• How to increase your energy naturally, from healthy cells
• How to detoxify at a cellular level

What this can help with

• Testing to identify your toxic burden
• Detox, then hormone balance, then the Cellular Healing Diet
• Aimed at the cause rather than the number on the scale