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2. The first hormonal block Dr. Wood toldme about
has to do with your Thyroid.
You’ve probably heard of your thyroid before…
It’s a small, tiny gland located in the front of your neck…
And your thyroid’s role is to take iodine, which is found in a variety of
foods…
And convert it into two thyroid hormones…
Which are known as T3 and T4.
These thyroid hormones are then released into the bloodstream…
Where they control your metabolism.
When your metabolism is functioning normally…
It turns calories and fat into energy…
Then sends this energy to your cells…
Where it’s used to perform all kinds of essential functions that keep you
healthy.
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4. But when your thyroid hormones are NOT functioning properly…
It means that your metabolism doesn’t function properly either…
5. And instead of burning calories like it should…
Your metabolism stores those calories as fat.
This is why, if you have issues with your thyroid hormones…
You can starve yourself and workout all day…
But you’re STILL going to encounter weight loss resistance and feel
frustrated…
Because even though you’re doing activities that normally WOULD burn
calories…
When your thyroid hormones are out of whack…
They tell your metabolism to keep storing those calories as fat.
This can leave you feeling exhausted, by the way…
Because over the course of the day…
You’re doing all of these things that require energy…
Yet your body isn’t releasing that energy…
It’s holding onto it…
And if you frequently suffer from brain fog…
Your thyroid hormones could be to blame for that as well…
Because your brain uses up a lot of energy…
But if your metabolism is broken and there’s no energy available…
Your brain is starved of fuel.
Pretty crazy, right?
And your thyroid is just one of FIVE different hormonal blocks you may be
facing…
Imagine what it would be like to fix all 5 hormonal blocks at once?
It could seriously be like the difference between being blind…
And having perfect 20/20 vision…
7. The second hormonal block that Dr. Woodtold me
about has to do with Cortisol
You have two adrenal glands that sit above your kidneys…
And they produce a hormone called cortisol…
Which is often referred to as a “stress hormone”…
Because it’s released when you experience stress.
Cortisol is very important to your survival…
But when your cortisol levels are always high…
Which can happen due to everyday stressors like:
A demanding job
Arguments on social media
A rocky relationship
Sitting in bad traffic
8. A challenging child
Plus anything else…
Your brain thinks you’re in survival mode…
So it shuts down your metabolism…
Your digestion…
And even parts of your brain.
Why does it do this?
Because even though your stress might be due to something “harmless”…
Like your boss nonstop texting on a weekend…
Your brain can’t differentiate between “harmless” stress…
And a real threat…
So it takes energy from anywhere in the body that it views as “non-essential”…
Which includes your metabolism, your digestive system, and even parts of your
brain…
And sends this energy to places like your muscles and your heart…
9. Which your brain considers essential to your survival.
Think of it like this:
If you need to fight, your muscles better work…
And if you need to run for your life, your heart better be able to pump
blood…
But you know what’s NOT essential to fighting or running away?
Your metabolism raging and burning fat…
Your digestion operating smoothly so you don’t experience irregular bowel
movements…
Or your brain being able to solve math equations or complex problems.
So the fact that those places get robbed of energy makes sense…
In fact, it’s actually smart of your brain to do this.
The problem though…
Is that if your stress isn’t coming from a real threat…
But from your 24/7 job…
Or family commitments…
Then your metabolism, digestion, and brain always remain robbed of energy…
It’s impossible to burn fat…
And you constantly feel like your brain is in a fog.
Pretty crazy, right?
And we’ve still got three more hormonal blocks left…
So let’s keep things going.
The third hormonal block Dr. Wood toldme about has
to do with Estrogen.
Estrogen is what’s referred to as a “sex hormone”…
And when estrogen levels are too high, or too low…
And aren't in balance with progesterone...
Which is another important female reproductive hormone….
It can very easily lead to weight loss resistance.
One of the tell-tale signs of erratic estrogen levels…
Is that you’ll notice more fat getting stored in your belly and hips…
And you’ll notice that this fat is visceral and clingy…
To the point where it feels like it’s impossible to get rid of it…
No matter how much dieting or exercising you do.
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11. For many women…
Erratic estrogen problems start in their mid-thirties…
Then continue before, during, and after menopause.
The reason why…
Is because as a woman exits her prime reproductive years…
Which normally happens between the ages of 30 and 35…
The balance between estrogen and progesterone can grow increasingly out of
whack…
And her estrogen levels will start to peak…
While her progesterone levels begin to free-fall.
And as women enter their 40s…
This imbalance between estrogen and progesterone only becomes worse..
Which can negatively affect your thyroid hormones …
And lead to you putting on more and more pounds of fat.
12. It’s for this reason that so many women are being pushed towards hormone
therapies once they enter their 40s and 50s…
But wouldn’t it be better if you could just keep estrogen levels balanced
naturally…
Without continuously packing on more pounds of fresh belly fat?
Well the good news…
Is that this is absolutely possible.
I’ll show you exactly how to do it…
Plus give you four more proven hormonal fixes…
In just a few moments.
13. The fourth hormonal block Dr. Wood toldme about
has to do with your Insulin.
4th Hormonal Block Dr. Wood toldme about has to
do with
Insulin is a hormone that’s produced in your pancreas…
And you’ve almost certainly heard of insulin before…
Especially in in relation to diabetes.
The thing is though…
You don’t need to be a diabetic to have insulin challenges…
Because as world renowned health expert Dr. Mark Hyman puts it:
“No contest: The monster hormone that causes weight gain is excess insulin.”
14. Well with respect to Dr. Hyman…
There is a contest…
And it’s happening between all five of the hormones we’re talking about today.
But while Dr. Hyman may be oversimplifying things a little bit here…
There’s also a lot of truth to what he’s saying...
Because high insulin levels definitely are one of the major reasons behind your
weight loss resistance.
Insulin helps your body convert the carbohydrates you eat into sugar (glucose)…
And then tells your body to store this sugar as glycogen in your muscles.
The problem though is that your muscles can only store a small amount of
glycogen at any given time…
And once your muscles’ about to store glycogen is maxed it…
Your body has no choice but to store additional glycogen as fat.
Obviously, that’s not good if you’re trying to lose weight…
And it’s especially brutal when you combine high insulin…
With the other hormonal blocks we’ve looked at so far.
Think about it…
15. Insulin and estrogen are BOTH telling your body to store more fat…
While your thyroid hormones and cortisol are BOTH telling your body
not to burn fat.
So is it any wonder that you’ve been struggling to lose weight?
And all of this is before we add in the the last hormonal block too…
Which we’re going to go over right now.
The fifth hormonal block Dr. Wood told meabout
has to do with Leptin.
Leptin’s job is to tell your brain when you’ve had enough to eat.
This is why Leptin is often referred to as your “fullness hormone”…
Because when Leptin is functioning normally…
You feel satisfied after each meal…
You don’t overeat…
And you don’t suffer from those gnawing cravings that can strike out of
nowhere.
That’s how Leptin is supposed to function…
16. But when you start putting on excess weight…
And you can’t burn fat no matter how hard you try…
(Which both happen due to the other four hormonal blocks we’ve covered
today)…
Your fat cells start producing more-and-more leptin…
And your brain becomes bombarded with leptin signals non-stop…
Until it starts to ignore these signals entirely.
This is called leptin-resistance…
And as your brain becomes increasingly resistant to leptin…
You can guess what happens:
17. You stop feeling full…
You start overeating the wrong foods…
You get almost addict-like-cravings for salty, sweet, or crispy junk
foods…
And it results in you putting on even MORE weight…
Which in turn makes your leptin resistance even worse…
Until ultimately…
You spend very day feeling hungry, angry, and depressed…
Because it seems like you can’t stop overeating no matter how hard you try…
And you feel MAD at yourself…
Because you can’t understand why don’t have any self-control.
If that’s you right now…
Trust me, I get it.
That’s where I was at too…
And I’ve had all of those same thoughts….
Which is why I was so surprised when…
Dr. Wood looked me in the eyes and told
mesomething I’ll never forget…
18. Something I’m going to repeat to you right now:
It’s really, truly, not your fault.
None of this is.
Your weight struggles aren’t due to a lack of willpower…
It’s not because you don’t “want to be skinny” bad enough…
The weight gain that’s been accelerating…
The increased weight loss resistance…
Those things aren’t being caused by you…
They’re being caused by your hormones…
And particularly those 5 hormonal blocks we’ve been going over today.
19. Think about it like this...
What good is two hours on the treadmill…
Or going Keto…
If your metabolism refuses to burn fat for energy?
And what good are drugs that target your thyroid…
Or risky estrogen therapies…
When each of those things only targets one specific hormonal block…
Out of a total of 5?
So you see…
You’ve Been Set Up!
You’ve been BLAMED for your weight loss resistance by the folks in the diet
industry…
You’ve been NAMED as lazy by workout-addicts in the fitness industry…
And you’ve been SHAMED for your anxiety and exhaustion by pill-pushing
health professionals…
20. When the truth is…
The vast majority of the time…
Your inability to lose weight…
Your low-energy…
Your poor nights of sleep…
Your brain fog…
Your mood swings…
And so much else...
They are all caused by something that’s out of your control…
The 5 Hormonal Blocks we’ve been looking at today.
So I want you to make a promise to yourself right now…
That you’re going to STOP thinking any of this is your fault…
And START feeling confident again…
Because the truth is:
You can win this fight against weight loss resistance and excess body fat…
And I’m going to show you exactly how to do it…
Right now.
You see, as Dr. Wood explained…
Even though these 5 hormonal blocks can come out of nowhere…
And can stick around for years, or even decades…
It doesn’t have to be this way.
In fact
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