If you are completely content with your body, energy level, health, lifestyle and diet, you may think there is no reason to consider a low carbohydrate diet. However, there is evidence-based research that proves a diet with higher simple carbohydrates (sugar) is very detrimental to your well-being. The following information will help you guide your future diet decisions.
Epigenetics is the study of how the environment influences our cells and genetic expression. Epigenetics explains how our cells interact with our environment and diet at the cellular level. This interaction results in either altering our health in a beneficial or detrimental way. We now know that our genetic make-up is influenced by epigenetics in such a way that our environmental stressors and lifestyle/diet can have a more powerful effect on our health (how we feel, perform and look) than the genes we inherited. Our genes respond to what we do and the environment we live in.
Our many years of knowledge and experience will guide you to maximize your current health and maintain an optimal body weight. We will help you break through your body weight plateaus, improve your body composition and increase your energy level. You need to allow your body to adjust to lowered insulin/leptin levels. The roles of insulin and leptin hormones in your body will be explained later. After reducing sugar in your diet for a period of seven days, you should notice a decrease in sugar cravings. Once you reduce sugar in your diet for a period of 3 to 6 months, you should see a significant transformation in your health and well-being. Normalizing your insulin levels is the most important factor for optimizing your overall health and decreasing disease risks of all kinds, from diabetes to heart disease to cancer and everything in between (flu, tiredness, stress, etc). Lower insulin and optimal vitamin D levels are two of the many elements to improving your health and weight. We will recommend laboratory testing of your biomarkers (health indicators) to ensure your well-being.
My health plan is based upon the science of calories and the fact that all calories are not created (nutritionally) equal. New and different ideas can be challenging, especially when dealing with food and the temptation associated with eating it. We encourage you to make the recommended changes to your habits and lifestyle and to observe the effects. Once eating habits are changed to healthy foods, most people no longer have to count calories.
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