FACTS
Here are some facts
Facts
Here are some facts:
You need Nutrient-rich calories. Try to stop counting calories and fat grams. Get the best and enough calories from food, and you will be fine!. You will lose unneeded pounds and you will settle into your body’s own ideal weight.
There are consequences on low calorie diet
When you don’t eat for a long period of time (fasting decreases gallbladder movement, which causes the bile to become overconcentrated with cholesterol) or you lose weight quickly, your liver releases extra cholesterol into the bile. Fast weight loss can also prevent the gallbladder from emptying properly.
Thyroid: This master gland affects every cell in your body, regulating cell metabolism like a thermostat. Your body needs a constant level of heat to perform its task efficiently. When the function is low doesn’t produce enough active hormones for getting to the cells, so literally every part of your body will not do well. Because the thyroid regulates the burning of calories weight tends to go up. On a low calorie diet the thyroid function reduces its activity that can be permanent.
“Everything is connected as a perfect system, big system under perfect little systems. Start your balance!”
Hormones
- Estrogen stimulates many of your brain’s mood sites, leading to the production (natural Prozac) as well to catecholamines (natural caffeine) and endorphins (natural pain killers and pleasure enhancers). If levels drop to low your mood can drop. Hormonal food craving gets triggered: sweet and starches briefly lift your mood by increasing all three key pleasure enhancers in your brain.
- Progesterone can increase your levels of GABA, a bran chemical similar to Valium, if levels no not raise enough, you can be tense and sleepless. If levels are high, they can destress or and relax or make you tired
- If levels are too low, more depression can result, as low libido (and muscle and bone loss)
Adrenal glands and ovaries make reproductive hormones. Adrenals produce at least 50% of reproductive hormones as well as the hormones that assist you in responding to stress: adrenaline, cortisol and DHEA. During prolonged stress these hormones are depleted. Also by dieting or overexercising. Adrenals put lots of effort to cope with stress and their job regarding reproductive hormones is not efficient, and the body gets out of balance.
If we are stressed (working a lot, illnesses, divorce , etc), the adrenal glands will fight for you, but if this is constant you can exhaust them. For the short period of stress adrenaline goes and helps to fight for you, but for longer periods, cortisol helps. During all this thyroid may turn down normal hormone activity to reverse adrenal super production to balance your body, but we may feel tired and heavy, because the metabolic rate slows down. Adrenal hormones get depleted and we need relaxation and rest to repair and rebound, or we can get sick more often or we have trouble sleeping. We start running out of cortisol, and feeling stressed more often and we get quite low in other hormones that help us on PMS por example.
