Mark Mincolla/Salon Maxime Presentation: April 28, 2009
Maximize Your Metabolism!
Endocrine Metabolism - regulates and maintains the glandular and chemical processes of life. It affects and determines rate of weight loss, as well as skin, hair and memory function.
Key facts pertaining to health:
*Total U.S. health care expenditure for intervention is currently $1.5 trillion annually
*National health care budget is $2.1 billion per year/1% for prevention
*Personal health care costs $5,000 per person per year average
*Prescription Drug expenditures are $140 billion per year
*W.H.O. – U.S. health care system is rated 37th in the world
*W.H.O. – The health of our nation’s people is rated at 72nd in the world
*Obesity costs are $117 billion per year
*NIH – 2/3 of all weight lost is re-gained within the first year
*600,000 gall bladders removed annually – 90% women (estrogen imbalances)
Key facts pertaining to metabolism:
* Recent Study of 115,000 women age 30-55:
5% overweight = 30% added risk of heart disease
15% overweight = 80% added risk of heart disease
30% overweight = 300% added risk of heart disease
*If you are overweight at 40 your life will be shortened by 3 years
*If you are obese at 40 your life will be shortened by 7 years
*The life of an obese 20 year old will be shortened by an average of 13 years
*Stress hormones force our brains to transition from efficiency to emergency
*Rutgers Univ. researchers found that stress + estrogen = memory impairment
*The skin is made up of an outer layer called the epidermis. The epidermis is made up of mother cells that hold the tissue integrity in tact. These mother cells divide regularly as old layers die off and new layers mature, eventually forming the impermeable protective outer layer (strateum corneum). Beneath this is the dermis that is made up of connective tissue (collagen protein/skin and hair) wherein lies the regenerating stream of energy that comes from blood vessels, nerves, and glandular fluids. This endless flow of energy that continuously cycles out old cells and replaces them with new represents the essence of metabolism.
Stress: Efficiency versus emergency metabolism:
*During non-stress times the thyroid gland regulates metabolism (the skin and hair) with great efficiency (efficiency metabolism).
*During periods of high stress the adrenal glands regulate the thyroid (emergency metabolism: 45 additional fight or flight hormones alter metabolism).
*Sleep is nature’s prescription for stress and stress antagonizes magnesium (our body’s natural nerve tranquilizer)
*Taurine is a nerve membrane stabilizer
*Meditation/Yoga/Ta’i Ch’i/NLP
Additional keys to health thyroid adrenal metabolism:
*Avoid sugar and caffeine during periods of stress
*Reduce consumption of high starch carbs (potatoes/rice/pasta) to one serving per day
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*Test 1st AM under arm basal temp 3 consecutive days (norm avg. 97.8-98.2 range)
*If basal is too high or too low have 5 thyroid tests:
T3
T4
TSH
Anti-thyroid Antibody
FTI
Leptin - The key to maximized metabolism:
*Comes from the Greek – Leptos which means thin
*Leptin is the number one hormone that regulates all other hormones
*Leptin establishes the system of communication between the brain and all hormones
*Leptin can function without the help of any other hormone, but there is no other hormone that can function without leptin
*Leptin tells the thyroid, adrenal glands, pancreas and sex hormones how to function
*Leptin is secreted by fat cells and helps regulate the fat cells
*Stress, drugs (caffeine, alcohol), sugar and high glycemic carbohydrates imbalance leptin
*Overweight and chronically stressed people have high leptin levels
*Their bodies are insulin resistant and their brains are leptin resistant
*When the body overproduces a hormone it become burned out and unable to regulate it
*Too much sugar and starch create insulin resistance
*Too much stress creates stress hormone resistance
*Together they produce leptin resistance
*In order to have a balanced healthy metabolism you must have balanced leptin levels
*The 6 keys to maintaining leptin balance:
- Allow 12 hours between dinner and breakfast
- Take only 3 meals per day
- Eat small meals
- Eat a high protein breakfast
- Restrict to 1 high starch per day
- Manage your stress daily
Sample Day’s Diet Monday through Friday at sundown:
Breakfast: Egg Whites with Spinach, or Grapefruit
Lunch: Salad with 6 oz. Grilled Chicken (dress with Olive Oil and Lemon)
Dinner: 6 oz. Wild Salmon with 8 oz. Steamed Broccoli and Zucchini and 1 Baked Potato with 1 tsp Butter
Beverage: 50 oz. pure water
