This Hormone Helps To Literally Dissolve Your Stored Fat

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The Right Way To Do A Low Carb Diet

Hormone-Sensitive Lipase: How It Unlocks The Doors To Your Fat Cells

(If You Allow It To Be Present In Your Body!)

September 12th, 2012

By Jackie Wicks, PEERtrainer Founder

This is a segment of a larger look at low carb diets and how to do them "right." This page teaches you the one hormone that helps to dissolve fat in your body. You will also learn some simple diet adjustments to maximize levels of this hormone in your own body!

How Hormone-Sensitive Lipase Works:

Key Point: When there is less sugar in your bloodstream, less insulin is produced by your pancreas.

Scientists now know that when insulin levels drop, something called "Hormone-Sensitive Lipase" or HSL rises in your body. This process is literally a fat burning switch!

HSL transforms stored triglycerides into free fatty acids. In simple terms, when your body needs energy, and insulin is not present, HSL will take a triglycerol molecule and break it apart freeing up a diglyceride and a fatty acid.

According to Jonny Bowden, PhD, "HSL literally dissolves the stored fat that you have....into smaller components called fatty acids, which your body then burns for energy. HSL is what unlocks the doors to your fat cells." Bowden says that HSL and insulin function like a "see-saw" meaning when one goes up the other goes down.

However....

Most people, however, have way too much glucose in their bloodstream for HSL to be present and working its magic. Their diet literally shuts off this fat burning switch. For most people this starts with breakfast! If there is one thing for you to takeaway from this article it is this: Eat less sugar at breakfast time.

Consumption of sugar triggers insulin production. But so does the consumption of many foods that we consider healthy or that are commonly eaten. For example whole wheat bread, whole grain cereals, brown rice, pasta, potatoes and corn all send your insulin levels up.

What About Healthy Grains?
Keep Reading To Find Out!

PS: If you want to get our complete (free) guide on how to eat in a way that keeps your hormones working "right" the right way--what foods to eat, what foods to not to eat, the best vegetables for balancing your hormones, just enter your email and we will send you a webinar, a transcript of the webinar, plus 3 new videos that go deeper into this whole subject.

The webinar is hosted by PEERtrainer founder Jackie Wicks, and features nutritionist JJ Virgin, PhD. She explains how a very simple rebalancing (or nutritional cleanse) helps to promote the set of hormones in your body that take your fat and turn them into fuel.

The webinar teaches you everything you need to know to do this. One tip we have for you, is that you really need keep an open mind about what is taught here. In our experience, so many people are so focused on just calorie counting and exercising.

The most important point to make is that if you eat the wrong calories, you are going to shut off hormones like HSL, the one described in this blog post. We emphasize this, because it seems that we are all totally conditioned to think in terms of just portion control and exercise.

Even when we teach the exact science of fat burning, people seem to not believe it. There is probably a psychological explanation for this. Hopefully this caveat will help you make better use of this great information!

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