Gymnema Has Potent Weight Loss Properties

Thursday, April 19, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Gymnema sylvestre is an herb used traditionally in Asia to treat type 2 diabetes, arthritis, and help with weight management.  It has a blood sugar lowering effect, partly because it helps your pancreas make insulin.  This rejuvenating effect on the pancreas is one reason why this herb is in widespread use.  A new animal study now supports the traditional weight loss use, showing that it can powerfully influence multiple aspects of the obesity issue.

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Why Toxins and Waste Products Impede Weight Loss - The Leptin Diet Weight Loss Challenge #3

Monday, April 16, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Your body’s ability to process trash, including toxic trash, is a pervasive factor in your ability to lose weight and reach a healthy goal weight. Struggling with this issue activates backup strategies for dealing with toxic overload, which include expanding the number of fat cells and stuffing them with toxins as well as fat. This is likely done to get the toxic trash out of your circulation and away from key organs. It causes easy weight gain and complicates weight loss because your body does not easily give up the toxic fat it has stored.

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Acetyl-L-Carnitine Helps Anti-Age Your Metabolism & Brain

Friday, April 13, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Faltering energy production is the common issue involved with faulty metabolism leading to weight gain as well as cognitive decline and memory loss.  Central to this issue is the ability of your cellular engines (mitochondria) to produce energy from food, an ability that declines with age.  Acetyl-l-carnitine (ALC) is proving to be a remarkable nutrient for rejuvenating the ability of a cell to make energy, with direct implications for better metabolism and brain function.

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Blueberries Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

Wednesday, April 11, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health have determined that two or more servings per week of blueberries significantly reduced the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

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How Digestive Problems Prevent Weight Loss – The Leptin Diet Weight Loss Challenge #2

Monday, April 09, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Many potential monkey wrenches wreak havoc with your metabolism and impede your ability to lose weight. New science indicates that damage to your digestive tract heads the list of priorities for debugging stubborn weight issues. This applies to almost everyone who is overweight and not able to lose weight easily by cutting back on excess calories, following the Five Rules of the Leptin Diet, ensuring your basic nutrient needs are met, and exercising more. This is likely true whether you think you have digestive problems or not. 

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Stunning Discoveries Regarding Iron, Obesity, Candida & Thyroid

Friday, April 06, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

The information contained in this groundbreaking article applies to at least 75 percent of people who are struggling to lose weight.  It is a major factor contributing to the fatigue associated with being overweight and having symptoms of hypothyroid.  It involves new discoveries regarding iron metabolism and explains why even if you eat plenty of iron you may still have rather dramatic iron deficiency issues, which handicap your metabolism and thyroid function.

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The Leptin Diet Weight Loss Challenge #1 – Overview and Basic Needs

Monday, April 02, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Being overweight in America is a national epidemic.  It affects citizens of all ages. If you are overweight, then losing weight in a healthy and consistent way is the best thing you can do to help improve your quality of health. It will also benefit almost any other health problem.

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Significant Weight Loss from Green Coffee Beans

Monday, April 02, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

A study presented at the yearly meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) demonstrated that consumption of green coffee bean extract over a 22-week study period resulted in a 10 percent reduction in body weight – a rather dramatic finding for a single nutrient.

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Scientists Tout Banaba for Blood Sugar and Metabolic Health

Saturday, March 31, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Banaba has been used in folk medicine to treat diabetes with published reports dating back to 1940.  In the past decade scientists have been busy studying banaba and its main active compound called corosolic acid, with a focus on its ability to help diabetic patients.  A new review of this science by researchers from the Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE has found that in addition to banaba’s potent blood sugar lowering properties it also lowers blood fats, is an antioxidant, has anti-inflammatory properties, has anti-fungal and anti-viral properties, is anti-cancer, and even helps build bone.  The researchers concluded that due to its multiple gene regulating benefits it may be able to help those with metabolic syndrome.

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Silymarin Helps Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Tuesday, March 27, 2012  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Healthy liver function is required for the proper storage, release, and overall metabolism of blood sugar.  Individuals with compromised liver function often develop type 2 diabetes, often in conjunction with weight gain and the development of fatty liver.  A new study shows that silymarin can help patients with liver problems who also have type 2 diabetes.

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