HORMONAL WEIGHT LOSS focuses on how to eat to trigger a satiety response, both at the time of eating by keeping both insulin and cortisol low at the same time, as well as activating our L-cells that release GLP1 and other satiety hormones in our lower intestines. So much is already known about the power of nutrition for GLP1 release that is it shocking it gets no traction on the airwaves now that we know the meds work so well.
METABOLIC WEIGHT LOSS focuses on nutrient flow to enable cell function, which drives the use of Calories. The key nutrition targets are the same as those that drive satiety for hormonal weight loss but rather than asking the question of how to reduce hunger it takes the different approach of asking the question of what our cells actually need. It makes sense that our body’s natural design would match what it needs to what generates satiety. Find out what Little Metabolic has to say on this!
METABOLIC FITNESS means different things depending on whether you are focused on quality of life or on athletic performance. Fitness for quality of life increases your strength and stamina to live life to its fullest in a physical sense, whether that is to maintain independence further into your health span or to hike Half Dome in Yosemite. This requires the consideration of exercise intensities that target specific aspects of physiological function so that you balance out your body’s ability to both deliver nutrients through your circulation with cardiovascular health and use those nutrients in your neuromuscular system to generate strength and power. Fitness for athletic performance means avoiding the metabolic collapse associated with overtraining, which research shows is almost always caused by under-nutrition, meaning under-healing.
METABOLIC HEALTH means maximizing the the vitality of each individual cell, as opposed to maximizing the rate at which you are burning Calories overall. Your overall Calorie use is increased by overeating and by overtraining and reduced by undereating and staying sedentary, which is why the Calorie-balance model of Calories-in-Calories-out can fail so horribly. Expanding this model to include concepts on how our cells function is key to enabling them to provide both our health and wellness, which in turn is the platform from which we can sustain our fitness and weight loss efforts.
AI generated these podcasts using Maya and my voices in conversation based on the metabolic essays I wrote on metabolic hurricane gearing. These essays and their associated audio are on this newsletter site HERE. The AI toned down the science and created a version of Maya with a much longer attention span! Read about the character “Little Metabolic” that Maya created on this newsletter site HERE.