Many people who are eating right and exercising are still not able to lose weight. Now there is a hormonal explanation to why overweight people cannot lose the weight on a strict diet and exercise plan alone – leptin resistance.
Dr. Kent Holtorf, medical director of Holtorf Medical Group and LA’s the Place medical expert, explains in this video how the hormone leptin regulates body weight and metabolism by signaling the body to stop storing fat with increased weight gain. Leptin is a useful hormone in maintaining healthy weight by reducing appetite, stimulating metabolism and signaling the body to burn fat.
But when someone is leptin resistant, it can undermine the thyroid’s attempt at regulating metabolism resulting in excessive weight gain. This disturbance in these self-regulating metabolic systems makes it almost impossible to lost weight despite exterior efforts.
Dr. Holtorf suggests getting your hormones tested to know if you are leptin resistant, therefore getting to the root of the problems and not just treating symptoms. If your leptin levels are above 12, ask your doctor about how to treat leptin resistance.
If you have tried the traditional ways of losing weight and are not getting results, contact Dr. Holtorf to find out if hormone therapy could help at www.HoltorfMed.com.
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