Gut health and Fat Loss (part 1)

How can Gut health affect your Fat loss?

There are many factors that go into fat loss. One often over looked is the our Gut health. A very popular pub med study made this statement in a study that did comparing obesity and gut health, “The gut microbiota has recently been recognized as a key environmental factor driving metabolic diseases.” In this study, they took obese mice, and lean mice, and looked at the diversity of bacteria living in them. When they would take poop from the obese mice and put in the lean mice, the lean mice would become obese. Same goes for putting the lean mice poop into the obese mice. The obese mice would become lean! Clearly then, our gut health plays a vital role in how we metabolize and store fat.

What happens in the Gut, doesn’t just stay in the Gut….

So what all is controlled and affected by our gut health? This was a question I had, after reading the above Pub Med study. The Microbiome has many hats in the body, and I want to just touch on a few key points that I found related to fat loss in particular.Gut health

  1.  Inflammation is an automatic reaction form having “leaky gut”, or poor Gut Health.
  2. Insulin Sensitivity is a likely down regulated by the above inflammation.
  3. Poor Insulin Sensitivity leads to Insulin resistance, and tons of fat storage.

The more we eat sugar, the more we feed the bacteria that feed off primarily sugar. Than an over growth of that bacteria begins to develop causing more sugar cravings and fat storage. There are many other functions of the Gut microbiota. Our small intestine is the producer of up to 90% of our Serotonine Also the immune system depends upon the health of our micro biome in our gastrointestinal tract.

Who should look into this?

Everyone can benefit from improving their Gut Health! However, if you are struggling with weight loss, no matter how much you count calories or macros, Gut Health may be the game changer for fat metabolism for you. Autoimmunity, thyroid problems, and blood sugar problems can all be traced back to our gut health. My next post will touch on some easy things you can implement to start improving your gut health.

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