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Hi, this is Doctor Justin here. Today's talks about, "Why am I getting fat?"
Why is the food that I'm eating going into my fat cells versus going into build my muscles?
Whelp, this is an important concept known as calorie partitioning.
Essentially, it is, how does our body divvy up and say hey you, some calories you go into
the muscles, some calories you go into the fat.
This is a great concept and I have some excellent illustrations to show you what's driving this.
But in the end it all comes down to hormones. So first things' first, what's a hormone?
A hormone is, essentially, a chemical messenger (these hormones float throughout our body,
we have thyroid hormone, we have glucagon, insulin, testosterone, growth hormone).
All of these hormones float throughout the body and they bind into receptor sites.
So think of a hormone, maybe, as a baseball and the receptor's site is the catcher's mitt.
So the hormone, essentially, does not necessarily have a response until it binds to a receptor.
So, basically, baseball in catcher's mitt (receptor; hormone) and then we have what's
called a response, our proteomic response, which creates a reaction in the body.
So when certain hormones like estrogen hit a receptor, we have a different response than
maybe when testosterone hits a receptor. So that's important to know,
So everything that I recommend to help change body composition and help increase your metabolism
(and all metabolism means is help burn more energy ideally from fat sources for fuel.
So everything we're recommending on the diet, lifestyle, and exercise side, are all around
putting your hormones in the best possible scenario so that you can burn more fat for
fuel. So, one of the things that we see, essentially,
is when patients eat certain foods that are more inflammatory or fine or higher sugars,
we are dumping more of our calories, essentially, into the fat cell.
And the fat cells are storing those calories out so if the fat cells are storing these
calories in fat and the fat is getting bigger, our mitochondria (or the furnace in our cells)
don't really have access to burn these fuels for energy.
So one of the most common things we see as we're storing fat, we're actually becoming
very fatigued, tired, and we don't feel too well.
And we definitely don't wanna exercise because we'd rather be sittin' on the couch watching
a movie and doing nothing at all. Because, when you're tired, it takes energy
to want to go out and go work out. So when we're eating more food like that,
we're going to making more insulin, we're going to be making more cortisol, we're going
to be make more or excessive amount of lepton. And, over time, we see these cells become
numb to these hormones. The fancy word is known as receptor down regulation
or receptor resistance, maybe you've heard of insulin resistance or lepton resistance.
But essentially all of that means, the cells become numb to the hormone and then, essentially,
those fuel sub straights go into that fat cell and not to our furnace to get burnt up.
So on the other side of things, we have calories floating in our blood stream. When we make
specific hormones such as glucagon, lipoprotein lactate, lipoprotein lipase, hormone sensitive,
and epinephrine, we're able to drive more of our hormones into our mitochondria. Squeeze
me, drive more of our calories into our mitochondria. By that hormone response our mitochondria
can burn those calories of for energy and we feel good.
Essentially, our metabolism is revved up, we have more energy.
Therefore, we're more likely to exercise. So, a lot of times whenever I see exercise,
exercise as a byproduct of doing the right things in your diet and lifestyle, hormonally,
to give yourself energy. Takes a lot of willpower to exercise when
you're tired. So, if we create the right environment with
what we eat and how our lifestyle is, we're gonna have more energy, more of our calories
are gonna go into our mitochondria to get burned up.
And, essentially, our metabolism is gonna be healthier, we're gonna burn more fat for
fuel, and we'll be able to put more muscle on our body and look leaner and tone.
I hope this information was beneficial. Any questions, feel free to visit justinhealth.com
and/or email the office. Thanks.
Have a great day.