Usa is in a health care crisis. Even more than sixty percent of US adults are overweight and twenty five percent are considered obese. 1 in 4 toddlers are overweight and are headed for a lifetime of chronic sickness. These amounts have about doubled in the last 20 years.

Excess body weight has been linked to many common conditions affecting Americans. These include: heart disease, high blood pressure, back infliction, certain cancers, hormonal imbalances, fatigue, stroke, high cholesterol, diabetes, gall bladder disorders, sleep apnea, Syndrome X (insulin resistance), and others. Health care costs directly related to obesity are 2nd only to smoking and are increasing at an alarming rate.

Consistent weight loss can be accomplished by understanding and implementing a few basic truths. Number caloric intake must be less than the amount of calories a host burns. This is known as the base metabolic rate (BMR). Low calorie high glycemic (carbohydrate) diets cause an increase in insulin which will virtually lock higher fat making it impossible to burn. High insulin levels will lead muscle wasting when eating less than the BMR.

Moderate resistance training exercise is also called upon to insure lean muscle is retained. Maintaining muscle mass while burning fat improves body composition (increases lean muscle and lessens fat) and maintains or even increases the BMR. Long term weight loss and/or maintenance is extremely hard if a host has an uncontrolled appetite and/or problem with emotional eating.

These concepts are basic to realize however typically hard or even impossible for the overweight host to implement. An additional little known fact further explains why so many people are overweight. 90% of overweight people are deficient in serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and/or epinephrine. It is vital brain and nervous system chemical messengers called neurotransmitters (NTs) that effect each system in the body including the appetite and satiety centers in the brain. Virtually all people have heard of serotonin because those suffering from depression and/or anxiety disorders are normally prescribed selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) class drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Welbutrin, etc.

Even given that these drugs occasionally provide temporary symptomatic relief, they DO NOT add a lone molecule of serotonin to the system. In fact, SSRI drugs cause an increased rate of excretion of serotonin which further depletes a NT deficient individual. The guide is to evaluate NT levels with a basic urine try out and then optimize the NT by providing amino acid therapy. The amino acids provide the building blocks to rebuild the neurotransmitters. Serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine are appetite suppressors.

In addition to their emotional/psychological functions, serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine are also natural appetite supressors. When a individual has therapeutic levels of these NTs in their system, they go into a state of safe appetite control. This allows them to follow their reduced-calorie diet while eliminating emotional eating and carbohydrate and chocolate cravings.

An additional advantage of this elegant approach is that not only are there no side effects, however there are important side benefits. Optimizing NT levels can help with many more symptoms of low neurotransmitters like depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic fatigue, panic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, pms, fibromyalgia, migraines, hormonal dysfunction, adrenal fatigue, digestive disorders, and many others.

The clinical results applying this approach are quite promising. In a MN clinic with a patient base of 690 patients, the results are as follows. Average starting weight: 211 pounds. Average amount weight loss: sixty-two.six pounds. Average loss when you took 1st month: sixteen.nine pounds. Average loss when you took active loss program: eight.four pounds/ month. Average goal weight: 149 pounds. Percentage of active patients reaching their goal: 90%.