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More thoughts on why low-carb the second time around | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Good stuff. BTW, I posted on the first article here.
All of you commenters have done your job. You’ve brought up several issues that I neglected to address in my last post. Let me address them now.
First and foremost is the question about peri- and post-menopausal hormonal balance. From long experience I can tell you that it is difficult for many women to lose weight in the peri- and post-menopausal years, especially the peri-menopausal years, without some hormonal balancing...
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Another subject I left off is sleep. Numerous studies have shown that more good quality sleep will help with weight loss. As we age, it becomes more and more difficult to get good quality sleep. Often regaining the formerly lost weight brings on acid reflux and GERD, which tend to cause awakening in the middle of the night. And once we get going again on a low-carb diet, we usually get into a little ketosis, which makes falling asleep a little more difficult yet...
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Another reason people have difficulty losing as they get older is that their livers don’t function as well. As we get older we tend to have more aches and pains, and we take more Tylenol and Advil and similar OTC medications for them. These drugs are metabolized in the liver, and, consequently, they consume some of the liver’s capacity. Same goes for coffee. No one likes coffee more than I. But when I want to pick up my weight loss after I’ve gone off the wagon for a while, I cut back on my coffee. Why? Because caffeine is metabolized in the liver just like the above drugs. It also consumes some of the liver’s capacity...
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Insulin stays in the circulation because it is put there by the pancreas and because it isn’t metabolized in the liver. A liver that isn’t functioning up to snuff won’t break down insulin as rapidly as it should. Consequently, higher levels of insulin mean more difficulty in losing weight. Plus, since the liver is the major organ involved in the entire metabolic process, it works a whole lot better to stabilize everything when it is unhindered by having to detoxify a lot of unnecessary stuff. Which is why you need to baby your liver when you restart your low-carb diet...
First and foremost is the question about peri- and post-menopausal hormonal balance. From long experience I can tell you that it is difficult for many women to lose weight in the peri- and post-menopausal years, especially the peri-menopausal years, without some hormonal balancing...
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Another subject I left off is sleep. Numerous studies have shown that more good quality sleep will help with weight loss. As we age, it becomes more and more difficult to get good quality sleep. Often regaining the formerly lost weight brings on acid reflux and GERD, which tend to cause awakening in the middle of the night. And once we get going again on a low-carb diet, we usually get into a little ketosis, which makes falling asleep a little more difficult yet...
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Another reason people have difficulty losing as they get older is that their livers don’t function as well. As we get older we tend to have more aches and pains, and we take more Tylenol and Advil and similar OTC medications for them. These drugs are metabolized in the liver, and, consequently, they consume some of the liver’s capacity. Same goes for coffee. No one likes coffee more than I. But when I want to pick up my weight loss after I’ve gone off the wagon for a while, I cut back on my coffee. Why? Because caffeine is metabolized in the liver just like the above drugs. It also consumes some of the liver’s capacity...
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Insulin stays in the circulation because it is put there by the pancreas and because it isn’t metabolized in the liver. A liver that isn’t functioning up to snuff won’t break down insulin as rapidly as it should. Consequently, higher levels of insulin mean more difficulty in losing weight. Plus, since the liver is the major organ involved in the entire metabolic process, it works a whole lot better to stabilize everything when it is unhindered by having to detoxify a lot of unnecessary stuff. Which is why you need to baby your liver when you restart your low-carb diet...
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