The most significant discovery on fat loss in the past century was made in 1994. That is the year that the master fat hormone, leptin, was found to be in control of belly fat and all other excess fat. As all other hormones, leptin interacts with many others in a complicated array that includes insulin, human growth hormone, ghrelin, adrenaline, and estrogen, among others.

Why is leptin so important for fat loss?

Fat cells make leptin. This hormone tells your brain whether to store more fat or burn some of it up. Although this seems simple, the accumulation of excess fat over a long period of time causes leptin resistance. When you are leptin resistant, the brain receptors “think” there isn’t enough fat so they tell your body to keep adding more. If your leptin isn’t working for you efficiently, you will have a very difficult time burning off excess fat and keeping it off.

How can you get leptin to work the way it is supposed to?

Everything you have heard about regarding reducing excess fat is important, if you have the right approach. This means that the right eating plan (what to eat, how much to eat, and when to eat), the right exercise plan, and the right supplement program are crucial. I’ve actually outlined five major steps to slimming that encompass these components of fat reduction, which you can get through BellyFatScience.com. They explain how to eat right, how to exercise effectively, what kinds of supplements work best, how to manage stress for losing fat, and the importance of hormone balance and how to achieve it.

All the best in natural health,

Dr. D

This is the most important plank in my platform: Mother Nature offers everything you need for healing and being healthy. Mainstream medicine has strayed so far from this premise that the health industry has become a corrupt sickness industry. You must be knowledgeable enough to defend yourself against it. Likewise, you must also  be  able to defend yourself against the abundant flim-flam of natural approaches to health. My goal is to help you with both, whether it is pointing out good science, bad science, or the absence of science on every issue that I can cram into this blog. Read on.

How to Escape the #1 Killer That Threatens Your Health

Take a look at this astounding survey about the causes of death in the U.S.:

• 783,936 Deaths caused by medical mistakes
• 699,697 Deaths from heart disease
• 553,251 Cancer deaths

Yes, according to the most recent and most comprehensive statistical analysis ever published by doctors about their own profession, the #1 killer in the U.S. in 2001 was medical mistakes. And many doctors think that the number cited here is way too low. The number of deaths caused by medical mistakes undoubtedly grows higher every year. Are you surprised that that whenever doctors go on strike, death rates drop? How do you avoid the #1 killer? Do everything you can possibly do to get and stay healthy naturally!

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These days you need a lot more than an apple a day to keep the doctor away (in fact, apples aren’t as good for you as you might think). Eat right, exercise right, and take the right supplements. Natural Health News, plus this blog offer you the guidance you need, from a scientific point of view, on how to do exactly that.

What To Do About Information Overload

Most of the information that you find on supplements is hype, with very little or no science behind it. Unless you can look up the medical research yourself, then read and understand it, you have to rely on someone else to explain what is good and what is bad about supplements. This is where I come in. On this site I offer my perspective as a research scientist, so you can sift through what is important to you and make your own health decisions. After all, the only real health that you will ever experience depends completely on what your body does naturally. Natural products feed your body’s innate healing power. Synthetic drugs do not. It’s that simple.

Medical Propaganda and Dangerous Drugs

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