What do obesity, too little muscle, and pollen allergies have in common? They all trace back to a hormonal imbalance that triggers many of today’s common health issues. “Which hormone?” you ask. It’s cortisol!
Body Composition
A high cortisol level causes the body to prepare for tough times. This hormone, released during stressful situations like workplace overload or due to unhealthy diet/alcohol, signals the body to store fat. Additionally, cortisol has a strong catabolic (breaking down) effect, which leads to muscle loss. Cortisol also reduces the production of steroid hormones in the body, promoting obesity or muscle wasting.
Inflammation and Allergies
Seed oils, additives, or gluten—all of these irritate our gut. An irritated gut produces large amounts of serotonin, which as a downstream effect produces estrogen and cortisol: both promote inflammation! This results in a societal illness that is more important today than ever: pollen allergies. I asked several doctors to finally explain where this comes from. But after a long round of questions, I realized they had no idea. So I took matters into my own hands… and eventually found the following solutions:
What You Can Do
Relieve Your Gut
The most important factor is (once again) your diet. Eliminating industrially produced oils is the first step toward good gut health. Only butter, coconut fat, beef tallow, and ghee should be used for cooking. Oils from rapeseed, sunflower, peanut, etc., should be avoided. Also avoid all additives that the food industry has added to your food. In short: If it didn’t exist 100 years ago, you shouldn’t eat it! Note: Genetically modified wheat was not used in the past. Today’s wheat has too high a gluten content, which also leads to gut problems.
You should know, however, that healing the gut can take some time. If you start today, you can expect results next year. A shortcut is offered by solution 3 (below).
Boost Your Metabolism
Keto diets are very popular. But as much as they are praised, your thyroid suffers from the reduced carbohydrate intake. Make sure to eat enough fruit between meals. If you really want to lose a few extra pounds, try a low-fat diet. This also boosts your metabolism because it promotes the Randle cycle in favor of carbohydrate metabolism.
Another way to increase metabolism is to get sunlight. Red light stimulates mitochondrial activity, and UV rays convert cholesterol into vitamin D. You don’t need sunscreen if you eat seed-oil-free for several months. Because then you won’t get sunburned anymore.
Consume Natural Metabolic Hormones
You’ve probably eaten fish before. What did you do with the fish head? Threw it away? That’s a shame… Because a fish head or a lamb neck contains the animal’s thyroid gland. You can make a delicious soup from it that distributes the active thyroid hormones (T3 and T4) in the soup, which you then eat. T3, the active thyroid hormone, lowers overall inflammation. You could even say that T3 competes with cortisol.
Since T3 is responsible for a high metabolism, it also promotes the breakdown of cholesterol into the active steroid hormone pregnenolone. So you not only burn more fat by taking thyroid hormones, but you also build more muscle!
Don’t Like Fish Head?
If you don’t have time to cook or fish head soups don’t suit your taste, you can also use our thyroid extract from organic pasture-raised cattle. One capsule in the morning (for at least three months) is enough to achieve the described desired effects!