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What does leptin and big waistline have in common? Leptin is the hormone that controls the appetite and your waistline. How does leptin work?
Leptin is normally secreted in response to a meal or in response to increasing fat stores. It reduces hunger and increases fat burning. Awesome!
Then why is everybody telling you that you need to go to the gym and forget about the double chocolate cake topped with ice cream? You have your leptin in action to take care of it and burn the fat. Right?
Well, not really. Relations change between leptin and big waistline. In fact leptin is overly produced in overweight and obese people. Now, this is confusing- shouldn't be lower?
Here is the reason behind this contradiction. In order to have the right result, your body tissue has to be sensitive toward leptin. If the tissue becomes insensitive or resistant (as indicated by a high level of fasting serum leptin and big waistline) 2 things can happen:
1. The message does not reach your brain, so you stay hungry and instead of burning it, your body stores more fat.
2. Meanwhile, the chronic stress in your daily life is constantly sending the message to increase sympathetic nervous system activity (release more adrenaline and cortisol) that leads to high blood sugar, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and metabolic syndrome.
What is the point here?
The point is to lower leptin and big waistline by reducing the activity of the sympathetic nervous system. Remember the connection between big waistline and stress? The fat accumulated around the waistline is different from the fat in other areas of the body. You need to fight stress in order to reduce waistline and improve tissue resistance.
How can you be successful in the long run?
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