everybody has an opinion as to how you gained all that extra weight
or why you can't lose weight despite your best efforts but in this video i'll uncover
one of the number one causes of weight gain that you probably never thought of
hey wellness warrior i'm dr zyrowski and when it comes to the topic of weight gain or weight loss
it's very difficult to tell fact from fiction but the reality is is that if you want to be on the
right path you have to be able to understand which way to navigate so that you can lose the weight
and of course have the body that you want and take control of your health so let's go ahead and dive
right in and talk about one of the first things that most people blame as to why you are suffering
from some weight problems we're gonna go through many of them but then i'll uncover the worst one
that you really have to be careful for and the first one we're gonna discuss is genetics okay
we've been taught for so many years that your genetics will predetermine whether or not you
will have weight issues as you get older and the reality is that's kind of an old science we know
that your genetics obviously obviously play a huge role in your overall health but your
genetics aren't going to make you fat it was thought that if your parents were fat well then
you would be fat but the reality is and what we now know is that if your parents were obese
and struggling with weight their whole life they probably had some pretty bad lifestyle habits you
know maybe they didn't work out they probably ate a lot of sugar carbohydrates you know just
didn't really take care of their health really well unfortunately they taught you those same
traits as a child and then you brought that into adulthood with you and then you're suffering from
the same chronic conditions or diseases there's they suffered from but also you are suffering
with the inability to keep your weight under control simply because you just don't really
understand how to get control of the situation and so it really comes down to just really bad habits
that you learned as a child from your parents so it really didn't have a lot to do with genetics
so the amount of weight loss and weight gain issues that come connected with genetics is very
few and far between so it's not something that you should hang your head on and go you know what
it's genetics there's nothing i can do that's not going to be the case okay now the next big thing
that we see especially in healthcare today is they say well you know the big problem with you know
someone who's gaining a lot of weight or can't lose the weight it all has to do with two hormones
insulin and leptin now insulin is a fat storage hormone leptin is a hormone that tells you that
you're folded to stop eating okay now when you have insulin resistance you're in a situation
where your body can't control its blood sugar properly and when you have leptin resistance
you're never told to stop eating okay now the problem with this this theory that these two
hormones are the major factor and what we should do is just create a magic pill that just pushes
them in the right direction is that that idea is wrong because at the root cause of leptin
and insulin resistance is a very poor lifestyle okay so leptin and insulin resistance actually way
downstream so you had to have that poor lifestyle first that caused these hormones to go out of
whack and now you have a real problem so still we shouldn't really be focusing on that as the main
cause of weight gain right we should focus on the actual poor lifestyle that would be the main
cause of the weight gain so we don't want to focus downstream now the next thing that we want to look
at is medications okay now do i think medications are a real problem when it comes to weight gain
yeah i think they definitely are a little bit of a concern because most people are taking medications
and they don't know how it actually affects their hormones their weight
or their inability to lose weight so if you take for instance like antidepressants antipsychotics
some of the diabetic medications and so many more medications they actually do have an impact on
your ability to lose weight and even have an impact on hormones like leptin to tell you to
stop eating right they might actually cause some issues there and so you might say to yourself well
you know medications big deal well it is a big deal simply because there's so many people on them
right it's estimated that 55 percent of people are taking four more prescription drugs and 39
of people are taking five or more prescription drugs and if you look at the increase in
medication use since 1960 it's increased over 55 times okay so medications are a big deal
and if you're someone who's on a medication you should talk to your doctor and say hey
look how does this affect my weight gain or my weight loss so i do think this is a factor
we should pay attention to because we're going through these different factors which ones are
legit and which ones aren't and we want to know so medication i do think is one now another big
theory is the problem is food availability okay now do i think food availability is a little bit
of an issue and i'd say yes okay and the reason for this being an issue is because it causes you
to want to graze all day right and this is why intermittent fasting is so powerful because you
literally take a section of your day and you say i am not eating during these hours you kind of just
cut yourself off and then you don't have all the temptation and the pressure to eat right because
this is going to be really powerful for taking control of those hormones like leptin and insulin
but if you're on the contrary just grazing all day then you are constantly spiking your blood sugar
and it makes it very difficult to lose weight so food availability is a little bit of an issue but
still not the worst okay we're gonna get to the worst but food availability isn't there
now the next big topic of discussion as to why you're gaining so much weight and can't lose
it is because of the aggressive marketing that these food companies use and i do think this is
definitely an area of concern because many of the food labels are very deceiving and often
make you think that you're buying something that's healthy when in fact it's not so i think that
this is something that we definitely could do better on as a society there's different countries
around the world that do not allow aggressive food marketing like this but i know that in united
states it is allowed and it sends a lot of people down the wrong path in making food choices so i
think we could definitely put that as a potential problem next topic is sugar okay now is sugar a
major issue when it comes to obesity in losing weight and the answer is absolutely okay now
one of the reasons i don't say that this is the worst one is because it's pretty self-evident when
you're consuming a lot of sugar like most people know that they're doing it now it doesn't help
that sugar is literally in everything and there's over 150 different names that sugar can actually
fall under that's not very easy to determine if you're reading food labels but the thing is about
sugar is that we know it's bad for us and if we're consuming sugar it's about impossible to start
losing weight when you are priming that insulin pump and leading your pat yourself down the path
of insulin resistance so sugar is definitely a huge factor but it's not the worst because you
know it's happening you know you're consuming it if you're drinking soda you know you're consuming
a lot of sugar now next topic is misinformation okay so many people are trying to lose weight
but misinformation is out there and it's causing them to have a lot of problems and i think this is
definitely a concern and it probably will be for a very long time i mean i think of growing up when
my mom would follow these really low fat diets all the time and you know if you were they believed if
you were consuming fat that meant you were gonna be fat right so everybody was eating low fat and
there's still a lot of these fads that have happened throughout the years that many people
are still holding on to now i think one of the great things about today is the internet and you
have videos like this and you have the ability to have so much information at your fingertips
versus back in the day where the only information you got was from resources like maybe the american
heart association and many of these different organizations that are just pay-to-play operations
and giving you really bad advice and so that's the good news is we have access to good information
but there's still a lot of misinformation out there so you got to be aware of that but do
your homework and always look to try to find the best resources and then once you find them
you know you can trust them stick to them now food addictions is another topic of discussion is this
a big reason as to why you can't lose weight or you're having weight gain issues and i think that
food addictions definitely is a real problem you know when i was taking an addictionology course
one of the things that was very interesting is that when i went into it i thought people who
have addictions or people who are alcoholics or they're addicted to drugs or things of that nature
but the reality is we all have addictions right whether you look at sugar coffee or cigarettes or
eating whatever it is addictions exist in so many different ways and i think that we don't
put enough emphasis on realizing that we have addictions to certain foods and so just realizing
it doing a little bit of self-analysis and then maybe changing your diet a little bit to help
with this is going to be really good i mean it's one of the reasons that so many people
have a very hard time eating in a calorie deficit because they're just addicted to eating a lot of
food maybe big portions whatever so think of that and think of how you could curb that a little bit
and start eating less now we get to the number one worst cause of weight gain and that is artificial
junk foods whether you're talking of dyes artificial flavors hydrogenated oils corn syrup
white bread the list goes on forever and ever one of the huge problems that we have is a whole bunch
of food in grocery stores that are engineered with ingredients that are synthetic made in a lab but
they're designed to taste good they're designed to make you come back for more they are designed to
make you addicted and the reality is is they work and they work very well and unfortunately these
foods aren't designed to be in your body and they cause a lot of health problems for you and when
you look at these engineered junk foods we can correlate them with every single topic that we
talked about these engineered junk foods are going to drive inflammation they're going to turn on bad
genes that you don't want on in your body that could lead to potential obesity issues they're
going to drive inflammation which is going to cause insulin resistance and leptin resistance
we already mentioned the ingredients will make you addicted we also have to look at the fact
that it's going to lead to overeating and then not to mention all the different fancy food labels out
there is are convincing you that you should be eating these foods when you should not so these
artificial junk foods are allowed in places like the united states if you look at a food that's
made in the united states and let's just say a junk food let's take oreo cookies for instance
if you look at the ingredients that are allowed in the united states versus the ingredients that are
allowed in a place like australia it's literally two different foods because in australia they do
not allow all the fake synthetic ingredients whereas they do in the united states in order
to drive down cost and also make these foods cheap and addictive to you so we want to make sure that
we are always avoiding these artificial junk foods because it's not just the fact that they're high
calorie and you know there's some bad ingredients and it's far deeper than that what it does to your
physiology over time and driving inflammation causing weight gain are things that you'll
suffer from for years and years to come if you do not remove this stuff from your diet so whenever
making your food choices in the future make sure that you're sticking to whole foods
make sure that it's a food that you understand and it comes from nature and those are the foods that
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