Hi, Dr. Dennis Clark here, talking about belly fat science, based on the research I’ve done in the medical literature on how you get fat, or more importantly how to get rid of it. One thing that I get asked about over and over is people are really curious about HGH, human growth hormone. I want to reiterate that you do not buy HGH over the counter. It’s a prescription drug. However, there are certain key things that you can do to get your own body to make more or to release more into the system. One way is to supplement with products that are called HGH secretagogues. All that means is that the HGH that’s stored in your pituitary gland is forced to be released into your body in the presence of these secretagogues. There are all kinds of formulas. Sometimes they’re expensive. Sometimes they’re not. Sometimes they’re worthwhile, and sometimes they’re not. I’m going to tell you the most important ingredient to look for, and sometimes you can even use it all by itself to get the effect. And that is the simply the amino acid, L-arginine. L-arginine is available in powder form so you take anywhere between two to five grams of arginine per day, preferably on two occasions: one before you go to bed at night so you can enhance your nighttime HGH spike and another, if you’re a weightlifter or do some kind of heavy exercise, then take arginine or a secretagogue containing a lot of arginine one hour before you go work out, preferably on an empty stomach. And you’ll get a maximum boost of your HGH like you wouldn’t believe. Those are the two key things that I use for boosting my own HGH level. They’re simple as possible. Sleep is one. Everyone can get sleep. You’ve just got to make sure you get good sleep. Taking arginine before that or taking arginine before a good hard workout is going to help you accomplish that. Yes, arginine is the simplest and probably the most cost-effective supplement that you can use for boosting your own growth hormone naturally. Other amino acids and supplements serve to boost the effects of arginine as well. Take a look at the details in my free belly fat book, which you can download now at BellyFatScience.com.

All the best with getting rid of fat,

Dr. D

Hi, Dr. Dennis Clark here with my next part on my segment about belly fat and how to get rid of it. I want to give you a pointer here that is one of the most crucial things you can do for getting your growth hormone to work the way it’s supposed to. Unfortunately, as you age, starting at about age 25, the amount of human growth hormone that you produce and release into your body starts to drop slowly until, when you’re in your forties and fifties and then in your sixties, it’s at a really super low level. And that’s the hormone that you want to enhance as much as possible to get your youthful skin back, your youthful shape back, and everything to work right, the way it did when you were younger. The simplest thing that you can possibly do to balance out and boost your HGH levels naturally is just to get good sleep. If you don’t go to sleep at the same time every night, and if you don’t sleep solidly all the way through the night, then you’re going to miss the opportunity for an HGH spike that comes starting at about two hours after you get to sleep. All you have to do is get a good night’s sleep on a regular basis and you’ll get a boosted HGH on a diurnal level on a daily basis just by getting good sleep. That’s the simplest possible thing you can do. No exercise, no supplements. You can make it better with exercise and supplements. However, start with getting good sleep. That’s the best thing you can do. Yes, sleep is a remarkable equalizer for all kinds of things related to good health, and maximizing your growth hormone release by just getting good sleep is one of them. You can find out more about what you can do to boost your HGH levels naturally in detail in my free belly fat book, which you can download now at BellyFatScience.com.

All the best with getting rid of fat,

Dr. D

Hi, this is Dr. Dennis Clark again, research scientist, talking to you in my next phase, my next segment, on belly fat science based on the research I’ve done in the medical literature about how to get rid of belly fat. Today I want to talk about the importance of making your hormone, leptin, work for you. As I mentioned in one of my other videos, leptin is called the master fat hormone. When leptin is working for you the right way, there is no way you can gain excess fat or maintain that fat belly. Here’s the most important key for getting your leptin metabolism working for you to metabolize fat the best possible way. What you want to do is get leptin to mobilize fat, or create a signal for mobilizing fat, in between meals for the longest stretch of spacing between meals that you have on a regular basis, and that is between dinner one evening and breakfast the next day. The way hormones work after a meal and the way they cycle, you’ll actually get to a point nine to ten hours after you eat, until you get all the food gone and all the metabolism in the right place between meals except for one thing. At that point, nine to ten hours after you eat is when fat metabolism goes into high gear. If you’re in the habit of eating a late night snack or eating after dinner, or not waiting at least twelve hours between dinner and breakfast the next day, then you are not getting the benefits of enhancing the leptin hormone that’s supposed to work for you in metabolizing fat the way it should. Yes, it’s pretty simple to maximize the effects of your leptin by just changing your eating pattern, taking advantage of the natural balance and cycling of your master fat hormone. You can find out more about how to do this, and what you do to counteract that in your lifestyle by reading my belly fat book, which you can get for free and download at BellyFatScience.com.

All the best with getting rid of fat,

Dr. D

Hi, this is Dr. Dennis Clark coming to you in my series on belly fat research based on the research that I’ve done in the medical literature to find out how you can get rid of belly fat. This aspect of my report here, I want to tell you about the kind of food that makes you fat faster than any other kind of food that you can put in your mouth. It’s a certain kind of carbohydrate that’s know as fructose or fruit sugar. It’s all over the place. It’s in almost every food. It’s called high fructose corn syrup. I will call that, as far as health and fat goes, I will call that an evil food. There is research to show what happens to the metabolism of fructose as soon as it goes into your body. It is evil. You do not want to have fructose in your diet as an additive in foods like high fructose corn syrup. It’s okay as a fruit sugar because it comes in fruit. There are other kinds of cautions that I’ll give you about eating fruit or eating foods that have the wrong kinds of carbohydrates or the right kinds of carbohydrates for you to get rid of fat. I talk about these things in more detail and you can find out about them in my book, “5 Steps to a Slimmer and Healthier You.” Well, if I seem a little passionate about fructose, there’s good reason for it based on science. It’s really important to know what foods are doing you damage and what foods you really should have. Find out more details about what to eat and what not to eat in my free belly fat book, which you can download now at BellyFatScience.com.

All the best with getting rid of fat,

Dr. D

Hi, this is Dr. Dennis Clark again and I want to talk some more about my research on belly fat science that I’ve found in the medical research literature on how to get rid of belly fat. One of the most important hormones that I want to talk about is called human growth hormone, or HGH. And I want to give you a tip about HGH to be wary of as a big caution. Even though it’s a crucial hormone to get in balance and to produce more of to make all of your metabolism and every aspect of your life better, I’m going to tell you this. There are companies that sell supplements that are called HGH. I guarantee you they contain no HGH whatsoever. There is no supplement store, no nutrition store, no health store that sell over the counter HGH. This is a prescription substance that has to be handled by a medical doctor, and it has to be prescribed for specific reasons. Not all doctors are able to do that or are willing to do that. HGH, however, can be boosted in lots of different ways. I talk about how to do that naturally, without actually getting your doctor to write you an expensive prescription for HGH. There are natural ways to do it. You can supplement, you can increase your diet, you can do certain exercises. You can even sleep better and boost your HGH. These are the kinds of details I provide in my book, “5 Steps to a Slimmer and Healthier You.” As you can see, growth hormone is a key component of any kind of metabolic balance that you want to achieve for weight loss and general health. To see more details about how to do that, then take a look at my free belly fat book, which you can download now at BellyFatScience.com.

All the best with getting rid of fat,

Dr. D

Hi, Dr. Dennis Clark here. I want to talk to you a little bit more about the hormone balance that is important for getting rid of belly fat. There is a hormone that is called the master fat hormone. The name of this hormone is leptin. Leptin is produced in your fat cells and is transported to the hypothalamus of your brain, where it supposed to carry a signal as to how much fat you have. Unfortunately, if you get so fat from eating so much that the signal is overdone, your hypothalamus turns off. It’s like it doesn’t hear the signal whatsoever. You become resistant to leptin. When you become resistant to leptin, your internal signaling system for storing fat is so out of whack that you will put on fat even though you already have too much. It’s really crucial to do what you have to do to balance the hormone leptin so the master fat hormone can do its work so you can metabolize your fat and be slim and trip like you are supposed to. I talk about this in more detail. There are lots of things that you can do in your lifestyle and in your diet to make your leptin not work for you. Therefore, you have to undo those things or do other things to get the leptin to work for you the way it is supposed to. This brief video just gives you an idea of the importance of leptin as the master fat hormone. Get an idea of what you can do about it, what you do to get it to work right, or what you do that makes you fat if it’s not working right, then take a look at the details in my free belly fat book, which you can download now at BellyFatScience.com.

All the best with getting rid of fat,

Dr. D

Hi, this is Dr. Dennis Clark again, with my next segment on belly fat science based on the medical literature, the research that I’ve done on how to lose belly fat. I’m about ready to go out and play golf on a beautiful sunny morning in Arizona, so I thought I’d give you my thoughts on this topic before I go. It has to do with your steroid hormone balance. You have probably more than 150 steroid hormones that your body makes naturally. The two most famous ones are testosterone and estrogen. Particularly, those two are effective in governing how your body composition is. You’ll lose testosterone as you get older. You can do some things supplementally to take care of that and boost that. However, the most important thing that happens to people on a routine basis, and I mean men as well as women, is that we all become estrogen dominant. When we get a little fatter, the fat cells make estrogen, and the effect of having more estrogen makes more fat. It’s a vicious circle, so the more fat you have the more estrogen you have, the more estrogen you have the more fat you have. What that means is that it is crucial to get your estrogen balance under control, and there are ways to do that with creams or supplements that are important. And I talk about that in my book, “5 Steps to a Slimmer and Healthier You.” I want to give you one pointer today, though, that may be the easiest thing to do. We don’t know how exactly important it could be for every single person. However, there are foreign estrogens in the environment that I want to tell you about, at least I want to tell you about one of, and just tell you to avoid it. It is called BPA. It’s part of plasticizing agents that go into making plastic bottles that you get bottled water in. There are all kinds of plasticizers that go into plastic containers that you can be exposed to in your diet. There are plastic liners in canned goods. There are plastic containers of all kinds. I just wanted to give you a little tip about that. If you want to affect your estrogen balance in a good way, get rid of those things in your lifestyle. In fact, if you drink bottled water, the best thing I do is dump the bottle water out and refill it with fresh water from my home. The substance that you have to avoid, BPA, is going to cause your estrogen balance to go in the wrong direction. That’s just a little tip for the day. As you can see steroid hormones are a key for metabolic balance. To get an idea of what you can do for getting your steroid hormones in balance for lifestyle and even supplements, go ahead and look at the details in my free belly fat book. You can download it now at BellyFatScience.com.

All the best with getting rid of fat,

Dr. D

Hi, Dr. Dennis Clark here again, in my series on getting rid of fat. I want to talk today about hormone balance and its importance in balancing your metabolism so that you don’t get fat, or if you do so you can get rid of that fat as quickly as possible. I want to reiterate that when I say hormones, I include two or three hundred different kinds of molecules in your body that we call hormones. Testosterone and estrogen are two of the most important ones that you think of that you probably already know about relative to your metabolism. Those are important to keep in balance as well, along with about 150 other steroid hormones that are similar chemically to testosterone and estrogen. In addition to that, there are things that I call neurotransmitter hormones, the things that make your brain work a little bit better. How your brain works relative to the balance of those neurotransmitters is crucial for keeping a balance of your metabolism as well. And finally, protein hormones, which include insulin and leptin and human growth hormone…I’ll have a lot to say about these in my book, and all hormones. The book is called, “5 Steps to a Slimmer and Healthier You.” As you can see hormone balance is a key for getting your metabolic balance in the right place for fat loss. See what else you need to know about hormone balance in my free belly fat book, which you can download now at BellyFatScience.com.

All the best with getting rid of fat,

Dr. D

Natural Hormone Balance is the Key

At least I think so.

So does hormone expert Dr. Holly Lucille.

Holly’s idea of balance goes beyond day-planners and schedules. She talks about “internal” balance: Balance between your natural hormones to help create energy, lower body fat, and even jack up your sex drive.

Good stuff.

I wanted to give you this today. It’s an excerpt from Dr. Lucille’s fantastic book, “Creating and Maintaining Balance.”

Pick it up here free: 26 pages of Holly’s book

Enjoy!

All the best in natural balance,

Dr. D

The granddaddy of all hormones for regulating aging is human growth hormone (HGH). Loss of HGH over time also leads to a decreased ability to burn off food calories as you get older. The result is fat gain.

The Catch-22 of this scenario is that it also works in the other direction. Fat gain suppresses HGH levels, which accelerates aging. It almost seems like you are trapped on a closed loop. Less HGH leads to more fat. More fat leads to less HGH. And the consequence is that you age faster and faster as you gain fat and lose HGH.

The relationship between HGH and overweight was first described in a research article in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in 1991. The scientists behind this study pointed out that, on average, for men aged 21 to 71 with a normal body mass index, the production rate of HGH decreased by 14 percent with each decade of life. In comparison, each unit of Body Mass Index (BMI) reduced the daily HGH secretion rate by 6 percent.

This means that the drop in HGH secretion rate with an increase in BMI from 21 to 28 corresponds to the average drop going from age 21 to age 45. In other words, all adult men whose BMI classifies them as obese (i.e., 27 units and above) have HGH levels that correspond to men who are at least 20 years older. This leads to high-speed aging and the increasing prevalence of age-related diseases in younger people.

Women are not off the hook just because this study included only men in the experimental group. Indeed, fluctuation levels of estrogen and other steroid hormones in women during monthly cycles and menopause may amplify the consequences of HGH loss. One such consequence is faster fat gain.

The Four Best Solutions

Belly fat loss would, of course, be the most important strategy for enhancing HGH levels and thereby additional fat loss. Even though this sounds logical, the failure rate for long-term fat loss is too high to just willy-nilly direct you to do so, wish you luck, and send you on your way.

Fortunately, the close connection between belly fat and HGH levels opens up the possibility of restoring hormone levels first, which then would lead to fat loss. This can, indeed, be accomplished as follows:

Solution 1. The most direct way to increase HGH levels is to receive HGH replacement therapy. This solution, however, requires medical treatment with a prescription drug. It is also very expensive and generally not covered by health insurance. If you can take advantage of this solution, however, you do not have to do anything else for fat loss.

Solution 2. This and the following two solutions entail the natural enhancement of HGH levels that your body already produces over a 24 hour period. One of the normal spikes in HGH levels comes at about two hours after you get to sleep at night. You can enhance this spike by taking certain amino acid supplements before bedtime. These act as what are called HGH secretagogues, which refers to their ability to induce your pituitary gland to release more HGH. The two most important supplementsl amino acids are L-arginine (2-3 grams) and L-lysine (1 gram).

Other amino acids that enhance nighttime HGH levels include L-glutamine and L-tryptophan. (The latter may also be replaced with 5-hydroxytryptophan, or 5HTP.) Most supplement companies offer products that are formulated specifically as HGH secretagogues, so the right amino acids are easy to find at most nutrition stores.

Solution 3. A high-intensity weight-lifting workout will cause a spike in HGH levels. You can boost this effect with HGH secretagogues, especially L-arginine and L-lysine. In addition, L-glycine will enhance the results of your HGH-boosting workout. Most supplement formulas do not include this particular amino acid, even though good research backs up its use for enhancing exercise.

You can get the best results for boosting HGH through a high intensity workout by taking amino acid secretagogues on an empty stomach, about 1-1.5 hours before your workout.

Solution 4. The most ignored and overlooked strategy for enhancing HGH secretion is related to when you eat. Normally your HGH levels will start to pick up at about 2 hours after meal, increasing to a peak amount at about 4 to 5 hours after eating. At first HGH works with insulin to help metabolize food into muscle building. Once the insulin is almost gone, HGH works solely to mobilize fat for burning as fuel.

The effect of HGH on fat loss is at its greatest more than 4 hours after a meal. Stimulating this HGH spike means that you have to space your meals at least 5 hours apart.

Now here is the absolute best way to boost your post-meal HGH surge: fasting. The mini-fast after 4 hours is helpful. However, fasting from dinner to breakfast the next morning, spacing them at least 12 hours apart (no between-meal snacking!), is much more effective for burning fat because of the overnight fasting.

Recently scientists have been studying the effects of more extensive fasting that is done once or twice per week. They call it intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting has become so important for weight loss, anti-aging, and many aspects of health that any internet search for this phrase will yield tens of thousands of pages.

Accelerating Belly Fat Loss

The best scientific results and the most supportive testimonials on intermittent fasting involve a 24 to 34 hour fasting period once or twice per week. One of the truly appealing aspects of this approach is that it removes a lot of worry about what to eat on non-fasting days, because the beneficial effects of a single fasting period are so powerful. This does not mean that intermittent fasting gives you free license to eat junk food. However, it does mean that you can lose fat, reverse and slow down the onslaught of aging, and enjoy great health and fitness just by using this simple strategy to boost recovery of your own HGH to youthful levels.

Although the concept of intermittent fasting seems simple, you have to really know what you are doing to get optimum benefits from it. Fortunately for you (and me), I have found a resource that provides all you need to know. You can see more details about this resource on a special page that I have for this purpose, here:

Of course, is not really a secret. I just wanted to get your attention. Most weight loss folks, however, don’t seem to know anything about it.

All the best for your belly fat loss,

Dr. D