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The Thermo Heat® Weight-Loss Revolution

September 16, 2020 - Admin
category: Energy, Fat Burning, Health, Muscle Growth, Performance, Recovery, Sleep, Strength, Thermo Heat, Thermo Heat Multi, Thermo Heat Nighttime, Thermo Heat™ Weight Loss Revolution

By Steve Blechman

 

The wildly successful “The Biggest Loser” television show started in the United States in 2004 and was adapted for local consumption in more than 30 countries around the world. Grossly obese men and women competed for a cash prize to lose the most weight. The show was wildly popular because it gave people hope. More than 67 percent of Americans are obese or overweight. “The Biggest Loser” showed people that it was possible to lose more than 100 pounds if they worked hard enough. Unfortunately, the show was more hype than reality.

A long-term study of “The Biggest Loser” contestants led by Erin Fothergill and Kevin Hall from the National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland found that contestants lost an average of 130 pounds during the show, but regained about 90 pounds after six years. Resting metabolic rate – the rate of caloric expenditure – decreased by 610 calories per day at the end of the study but decreased further to 704 calories per day six years later. Weight regain was almost inevitable because of the large decrease in resting metabolism. The contestants were worse off than before the show because they had regained previous losses but the rate they burned calories (i.e., resting metabolic rate) decreased by 25 percent.

Thermo Heat® Weight Loss Revolution is a groundbreaking scientific plan based on research involving brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat. 

A true revolution absolutely requires a paradigm shift that fundamentally contradicts previously held notions. The widely held belief that all body fat is bad is currently being heavily scrutinized, due to the recent discovery of a different type of fat in humans known as brown fat. This type of body fat can actually burn off energy in the form of heat by a process known as thermogenesis, which can ultimately reduce overall body fat. This discovery has provided the requisite paradigm shift spawning a new revolution in weight loss that is the primary focus of the book, Thermo Heat® Weight Loss Revolution by Advanced Research Media.

The body has two forms of fat: white fat, or unwanted fat that can lie directly underneath the skin, detracting from the physique, and brown fat, which often is found in the shoulder blade region or the neck. Unlike white fat, brown fat is good, as it can actually burn calories. The more brown fat you have, the more calories you burn. Brown fat packed with mitochondria loaded with UCP-1, the protein that uncouples fat burning with ATP (energy) production instead of converting the energy into heat via thermogenesis, making the mitochondria effectively the “furnace” of the cell. The emergence of brown fat as a readily available fat-burning furnace is revolutionary, but, like any fire, it requires the proper kindling materials. The ability to get lean by producing extra brown fat, or enhancing the activity of existing brown fat, represents a promising way to burn fat and lose weight. Several landmark discoveries and approaches to enhancing brown fat function are being explored at major research centers and universities worldwide, with great excitement. Brown fat research is a hot topic today. Thermo Heat® Weight Loss Revolution is a groundbreaking, scientific plan based on research involving brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat.

Thermo Heat® Weight Loss Revolution offers its readers a nutrition, diet and exercise program that targets brown fat, along with an informational guide on the best thermogenic nutritional supplements. Additionally, a section of the book is devoted to appropriate brown fat-activating food choices and easy-to-follow, thermogenic fat-burning meal plans. Followers of this scientifically developed program will find that they are able to harness the power of brown fat, maximize their energy expenditure, reach and maintain their ideal weight and achieve reduced body fat while preserving a lean, muscular physique – improving overall health and well-being. The contents of the book go into the critical details required to really understand the remarkable capacity of brown fat to stimulate the thermogenic loss of those unwanted pounds, and how to maintain that weight loss for a lifetime. Thermo Heat® Weight Loss Revolution by Michael J. Rudolph, Ph.D. includes the foreword by Daniel L. Friedman, MD and Eugene B. Friedman, MD. You can click the link to order on Amazon here published by Advanced Research Media, Inc. You can also get a free PDF version here

 

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  1. THE THERMO HEAT® LOW-CARB MEDITERRANEAN DIET: WHY IT’S THE HEALTHIEST & BEST DIET FOR 2019 by Steve Blechman, https://advancedmolecularlabs.com/blogs/news/the-thermo-heat%C2%AE-low-carb-mediterranean-diet-why-it-s-the-healthiest-best-diet-for-2019

 

  1. The Thermo Heat® Weight Loss Revolution, by Michael J. Rudolph, Ph.D, including the foreword by Daniel L. Friedman, MD and Eugene B Friedman, MD.