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Hormones rule, did you know that? I’m not talking just sex hormones though in teenaged boys and middle aged women they are certainly at the top of the pecking order most days.

Everything we eat has a hormonal consequence, some helpful, some down right harmful over the long term.

Insulin is a hormone and is responsible for getting blood sugar somewhere it can be used or stored. Grehlin and leptin are the push me-pull yous of the hunger and satiety dance. These three food related hormones are in direct communication with our other messengers such as glucagon–the fat-burning hormone. Called into action when food is scarce, glucagon converts stored fat into sugar and uses it for energy. These 4 hormones worked in perfect harmony before the introduction of grains and industrial food production when all hormonal hell broke loss. It’s been a steep slide towards disease and women on the verge ever since.

So what can be done? Keep an eye on this blog cause it’s one of missions to let women know about how to eat for hormonal balance, and grab this book if you want some science and some recipes.

Dr. Michael Aziz is an internist with a practice in Manhattan; Midtown Integrative Medicine. Frustrated early on in his medical career that so many young people were coming in with cancers, diabtetes, and allergies that he couldn’t heal as well as all ages of people who had weight issues, he went in search of some answers. What he found was this connection between key hormones and the foods we eat. The main culprits?

Sugar, grains, processed fake foods like margarine, and the endocrine disruptors found in the chemicals used to increase shelf life, texture, color, etc. One of his findings goes along with mine of late–low fat diets are partially at fault in the rise of diabetes, obesity, and hormonal chaos. “The results of the research is clear, eating fat does not make you fat. Rather it’s the lack of natural fats in your diet that makes you gain weight” writes Aziz. He continues, “Natural fats are essential for your cells to work properly. Fats slow down the absorption of food, stabilize blood sugar levels, decrease, cravings, and make you feel full.”

And blood sugar levels will make or break our health over the long haul. I’ve included a link to a 2.5 minute video of Dr. Aziz live, he explains his philosophy and his book a bit more. His solution is an easy, delicious way of eating, protein, fat and fresh fruits, veggies, beans and legumes pretty much.

It’s becoming harder and harder to hide from the latest message on food as medicine–eat what’s natural, eat foods you can recognize as such, don’t fear the fat, and eat organic (meats and dairy) and grass fed (meats) when you can. In case you don’t remember how delicious a dollop of half and half is in your coffee or whole egg poached or fried–it’s The Yumm Factor to the 10s. You may have to let go of some long held beliefs to take on these new ideas but if you find hormonal heaven vs a daily roller coaster from hell, wouldn’t it be worth it?

Dr. Michael Aziz

Use this link to get to his video.

In the second in a series of 4 articles on the truth about cholesterol–why you want it and how lowering it by all means is not healthy–begins by looking at the different “parts” if you will of the cholesterol molecules.
We most commonly talk about and test for LDL or “bad” cholesterol and HDL or “good.” The L in those two acronyms stands for lipoprotein and is basically a coating around the cholesterol that allows it to be water soluble and therefore move around and work in our blood.
LDL cholesterol-low density lipoproteins carry cholesterol to the cells for repair work as well as the many other important functions they have. HDL, high density lipoproteins carry cholesterol away from the cells and arterial walls and back to the liver to be used or disposed of.

Here’s the sixty-four millions dollar question: how can one part of cholesterol be good and the other bad just because one travels in one direction and the other moves in another?

Here’s a little history:
In 1948 The Framingham Study was begun. It was designed to study heart disease and followed 5,000 men and women to determine some common traits among those who succumbed to the disease.
Here’s an important point, this study was observational, not a double blind, placebo controlled testing environment. It simply tracked people and checked in with them over the years to see what they were eating, their lifestyle habits, and it checked blood levels and health markers looking for commonalities in those that ended up with heart disease.
In 1961 cholesterol was “discovered’ and although the Framingham study had to date uncovered important lifestyle factors that promoted heart disease, like smoking, once cholesterol was “outed” the medical world locked on to it as a way to prevent heart disease. It may have made sense initially but the thousands of tests and research papers that were produced to prove it was the culprit have never been able to do so.

Enter Ancel Keys, by all reports a blustery, self important scientist from the U of Minnesota. According to Dr. Dwight Lundel “Keys’ theory, one he actively promoted to an increasingly health conscious public, was that an association existed between the rate of cardiovascular disease of a population, serum cholesterol and their intake of saturated fats.”

Keys was able to convince the US government that dietary fat equaled increased rates of heart disease and death but the proof is in the health statistics.
Consumption of dietary fat decreased from the 1960’s to the 1990’s but the rate of heart disease did not and instead, the incidence of obesity and Type II diabetes soared. As the fat got stripped from our diet–as did the Yumm factor–heart disease rates soared and so did rates of depression and anti-depression drug sales.

Here’s where it gets interesting. The people in the Framingham study ate what they wanted and the amount of saturated fats varied widely. No matter how they twisted their findings they could not prove a cause and effect relationship between the fat participants ate and the cholesterol floating in their blood.

At the end of the study–22 years after they began to compile research–the scientists concluded:

“There is, in short, no suggestion of any relation between diet and

the subsequent development of chronic heart disease in the study group.”

I’m going to end here today. Tomorrow I’ll explain a little bit about how low-fat-diets-save-lives became the nation’s health dogma. As you might expect is has something to do with politics, lobbyists and Big Pharma.

I’ll also reveal what aspects of cholesterol do relate to food and what foods are dangerous ones, the ones to avoid.

Did you know that? The companies currently rushing the flu vaccine to market–which means it is not thoroughly tested and proven safe–are 100% untouchable if someone falls ill from the vaccine. How is this possible? Follow the money as in lobbyists, but I’m not here to get all political on you. I’m here to ask you–if you are considering the H1N1 flu vaccine or considering giving it to your kids or grandkids–to take a look at what some medical docs have to say about it.

FIrst of all, is it necessary? The body is a marvelous self healing machine if you support it.

Second, is it safe? With manufacturers immune from any liability if something goes wrong, and being pushed by the WHO and govts like the US to rush these vaccines to market, is it possible that they might be less concerned with the safety aspect to all who might get it? They make money either way right?

Here is a list of doctors–none of whom are crazy whack job radicals–who have real evidence that this vaccine is going to be harmful to certain members of the population. At least become fully informed by both sides before you run to the nearest clinic or CVS to get your jab.

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny  DO Vaccines expert  

Dr. Viera Scheibner      PhD and research scientist

Dr. Russel Blaylock Former pediatric neurosurgeon–When you get to his site, click the link for Swine Flu Data. To hear Dr. Blaylock report on his conversations with the CDC and their no drama, no pandemic, no panic necessary estimate of the coming flu season, head over here.

For information on what to do to bolster your immunity naturally against this flu or any other take a look at my earlier post.

Get educated, protect yourself, plan to stay well not treat disease.

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