Man Or A Mouse Weight Loss

Man Or A Mouse Weight Loss

 

Its Saturday morning early March in the year 1975, and Old Dominion University and Virginia Tech University are preparing to do battle on the baseball diamond…  As a nineteen-year old freshman pitcher for Old Dominion, I expected to spend the day trying to stay warm in the dugout, when all of a sudden it started to very lightly snow…  Being from Massachusetts, I was the only player on the team north of the Mason Dixon line…  Then I heard coach Methaney a former Yankee call out my name, Remington go warm up your our starting pitcher today…  Who me coach, I replied, then he took me aside where no one else could hear and said, ‘are you a man or a mouse”?  The coached figured in this cold weather, I was the right man for the job…  Well the coach was right, that day in March thirty seven years ago my name went into the record books, because I threw a no-hitter against the guys from Tech…  It would be the only no-hitter I would pitch in my college career…  I still remember today those words, are you a man or a mouse…

 

Later that summer of the same year, I would work at Mason Research Center in Worcester MA, where they conducted mainly cancer research and other scientific studies on mice, rabbits and monkeys….  So for over thirty years I have witnessed and followed the scientific breakthroughs discovered in clinical trials working especially with mice…  I both applaud and support their findings in many ground breaking advances in science…

 

 In a recent counseling session I was asked this question…  Coach when you measure my body fat, can you determine how much of it is white fat or brown fat?  I was surprised because it had never been asked before, even after thousands of counseling visits… I replied, “why do you ask”?  The over-weight client said he just finished reading a study about a clinical finding turning white fat into brown fat in mice…  Now you now where I’m going, out of my mouth comes, “ are you a man or a mouse”…

 

So what’s the skinny on white fat and brown fat?  Humans and mice have both white and brown fat…  In the simplest of terms, white fat stores unused energy and has little metabolic activity…  Brown fat is metabolically active and releases energy to keep us warm…  If you are over-weight you have too much white fat and located primarily in middle third of your body…  Brown fat is located in upper back, neck and very little brown fat is found in adults, hence the theory of turning white fat, which is energy storing into brown fat energy burning…

 

White fat can be "browned" with a class of drugs called thiazolidazines (TZDs), which increase the body's sensitivity to insulin. However, TZDs have many adverse effects -- including liver toxicity, bone loss, and, ironically, weight gain -- which have limited the use of these drugs…  I can see the commercials now ten seconds of benefits and twenty seconds of side effects

 

 

The theory behind this discovery is irisin; a hormone found in both mice and human has been able to be manipulated to turn white fat into brown fat in mice…  Now here’s the theory, if the hormone is also in humans, maybe it can alter white fat into brown fat…

 

Now here’s the reason for my comment, “are you a man or mouse”…  The way this type of news is reported is not helping in the battle of the bulge…  So what do we do brake out the ice breakers and head to the north-pole and shiver our way to a leaner body…  This discovery though news worthy is not what some scientists call the “holy grail” to solving our battle losing unwanted fat…

 

So what does work, and has worked for decades at losing fat and more importantly keeping it off…  Here is The Fat Loss Coach prescription for getting to your ideal weight and staying there…  It’s a discovery I made, not working with mice, but with thousands of men and women…  I did not discover it in the lab, but on the front lines of the battle- field helping fifteen patients each day for twenty plus years…  The foundation of this breakthrough is a lifestyle forged with the right balance of quality foods, portioned amounts, frequency of meals, duration and type of exercise, good hydration and proper rest, combined with the right dose of behavior modification…  This discovery manages both hormonal and metabolic activity and has stood the test of time…  The commercial for this discovery thirty seconds of benefits and zero for side effects, because there are none…  I can see that old Yankee smiling down on me today and hear those words, “are you a man or a mouse”…

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