What many don’t know … The secret basis for optimal results!
Intestines, liver and hormones are the important factor for results!
Whether you want to lose weight, feel fitter or happier, a good foundation is essential for optimal results.
In this blog I will explain more about why a correct foundation is essential, which factors are holding this back and what you can do to optimize this to the maximum so that you can expect even better results.
Today people train hard in the gym, they watch their nutrition with or without a personal trainer. That sounds like a good approach.
Yet often bigger results can be achieved.
People are not always aware of how great the effect is when the intestines, liver and hormones are optimized.
In the best case, attention is paid to high-quality nutrition, supplementing deficiencies with vitamins, minerals, enzymes and essential fatty acids, which is also an important basis.
Let’s look at even more hidden causes that affect your outcome.
To get a better picture I will elaborate a bit more about the function of the intestines, liver and hormones.
The intestines
The intestines have a very important task. If the intestines do not function optimally because your intestinal flora is not in balance, certain processes will not go well that have a great effect on effective weight loss, you feel fitter and happier.
To begin with, we must ensure that the digestive system works efficiently and that the bad intestinal bacteria do not dominate in order to actually absorb high-quality nutrients and produce neurotransmitters such as serotonin.
Important processes under the influence of the intestines are;
- Good digestion and absorption of nutrients
- Hormone balance, influence the storage or burning of fat and your happiness
- Immune system
- Good night’s sleep due to sufficient production of serotonin, which is produced in the intestines. Serotonin is the precursor to melatonin. Melatonin is an important antioxidant responsible for a good recovery and a healthy night’s sleep.
“Did you know that 80% of your happiness depends on the condition of your intestines.”
The following factors cause your intestines to become out of balance and nutrients are not properly absorbed or certain neurotransmitters that determine your stress level or feeling of happiness are not produced sufficiently.
- An unhealthy diet, especially sugary and refined food
- Alcohol
- Heavy long-term workouts
- Too often to bed after 23pm. Netflixing is disastrous “been there, done it” and with major consequences, namely fat storage around the waist and intestinal complaints, despite the fact that I lived a healthy lifestyle)
- Stress
- Medication and antibiotics
- Wheat, gluten, dairy products and food allergies
- Illnesses and a weakened immune system
- Parasites and fungi
The digestive system is a wonderful system that can keep the intestinal flora in good balance under normal circumstances. This is also a very vulnerable system that can quickly become out of balance, causing various unpleasant symptoms such as;
- Heartburn
- Bloated feeling
- Diarrhea or blockages
- Food allergies
- Urinary tract infections or candida
- Eczema
- Skin infections, acne
- Fatigue and depression
- Asthma
- Headaches and migraines
- Diabetes
So optimizing the intestines is of great importance.
A good probiotics and eating green leafy vegetables and fermented vegetables help to optimize the intestines.
If this does not work within 2 weeks, more factors play a role and I advise you to visit my practice in Amsterdam.
The liver
The liver has many very important functions such as bile formation, carbohydrate / protein and fat metabolism, detoxification and cleaning, clearing up old estrogens and storing glycogen.
If the liver is overloaded by too much alcohol or toxins, the liver will no longer be able to function optimally.
What I often encounter in practice due to overloading the liver is a hormone imbalance. I am talking about estrogen dominance, a situation in which there is more fat storage and the hormone testosterone is not high enough in relation to the hormone estrogen.
The consequence of this is, as described earlier, among other things less muscle building.
An overloaded liver also has indirect consequences on your fat storage, training results and hormone balance.
The liver is overloaded from medication, eating too many refined sprayed products, toxic environmental factors and especially alcohol.
Let’s face it, I also love a glass of wine and buying everything organic can be quite pricey.
That is why my golden tips on how you can support your liver if it is slightly more stressed.
- At number 1 taking the herb milk thistle, available in the form of supplementation or droplets
- Green tea
- Organic beets, radishes, sauerkraut, broccoli, chlorella, seaweed,
- Vitamin C (this helps produce glutathione, a substance in the liver that helps remove toxins)
- Drink enough 6 to 8 glasses a day
- Meditation and breathing exercises
- Regular sauna
- Get plenty of exercise
I have already written something about hormone balance earlier in the blog.
Let’s briefly look at what functions the hormones have and which factors throw them out of balance and what are the consequences.
Hormones are substances that have a regulating effect within the body and are produced by glands and released into the blood.
The hormones known by almost everyone are testosterone, estrogen, insulin (fat storage hormone), and cortisol (stress hormone)
Sugary and sweet products require more insulin to be produced, so more fat storage.
With stress and pain, more cortisol and subsequent insulin fat storage hormone is produced, which means that more fat storage around the abdomen is created without you eating anything.
The more fat storage you have in the abdomen, the more female hormone estrogens you produce. There is a hormone imbalance in which the hormone estrogen dominates over the hormone testosterone. Testosterone is responsible for muscle building. Muscle building becomes more difficult as the hormone estrogen predominates.
Hormones also fly in all directions around menopause.
With balanced unrefined high-quality food, a healthy lifestyle, and reduction of stress, this can already be properly balanced.
Important points
Important points to balance your hormones are:
- Optimize Your Gut and Liver
- Include phytoestrogens in your diet, these stabilize the hormones
- Provide enough omega 3 and fats. Hormones need fats to be produced.
- Eat as pure, organic and unrefined as possible and avoid refined sugars, bread, soups, etc.
- Drink enough water and preferably high-quality mineral water from glass bottles
- Avoid chemicals from foods, creams, and cleaning products
- Reduce or quit caffeinated products and alcohol. Alcohol overloads the liver, making it difficult to clean up old estrogens, resulting in too many estrogens in the body.
- Go to sleep before 23:00 PM
A few examples of products containing a high concentration of phytoestrogens;
- (isloflavones) Legumes such as lentils and chickpeas
- (Lignans) linseed (flax seed), sunflower seeds, sezam seeds, grains such as oats, vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower and carrots
- (coumestans) as bean sprouts and alfalfa sprouts (best broccoli sprouts)
As with any healthy diet, variation is of great importance here.
So you see again there are many more factors of importance to develop a beautiful healthy body and mind.
Another tip from me… take milk thistle a few days before, during and after if you start drinking a little more alcohol to support the liver.
We still need to be able to drink a nice glass of wine now and then!
Do you now also realize that there are more factors at play to achieve your healthy target weight and become more vital? And do you no longer feel like dieting and yet another yo-yo effect, but do you now want permanent results where you can also “sin”?
Then the iboyatotalheahacademy is for you.
Click on the link for more information or call 0626058512.
Information Iboyatotalhealthacademy
Take advantage of the free downloads
Free video positive affirmations
