Causes of obesity
There is no one cause of obesity. Some people are more easily able to identify the reasons why they are unable to lose weight and keep it off once they have lost it. For some individuals, the origin of the weight gain was a basic shift in lifestyle. They may have gotten married, had a work-related injury, experienced cultural pressure, had poor exercise patterns or changed their exercise patterns due to a sports injury, had a baby, or quit smoking. For others it is hereditary factors. It may be a medical problem with neurological regulators or natural hormonal factors such as thyroid gland dysfunction. It may also be a digestive disorder, blood sugar disease (hypoglycemia or diabetes), enzymatic activity, brain mechanisms, genetic predisposition, or they may simply take in more calories from the food that they eat than they expend. Let's take a closer look at a few of these factors and how an effective herbal weight program might reduce their influence.
Enzymatic Activity causing obesity
The enzyme lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is a factor that may influence obesity. LPL helps the body store excess calories in fat cells. The enzyme is manufactured in fat cells and is transported to the capillaries, where it breaks dietary fat into tiny particles that penetrate the membranes of these fat cells. The process becomes a vicious cycle of cells continuously collecting fat and LPL levels rising, which causes more fat to be collected from the bloodstream.
Reducing caloric intake decreases LPL levels, but when a person begins to overeat or even return to normal meal patterns, LPL levels may become higher than before the diet began. Using herbs, such as Garcinia cambogia extract and Gymnema sylvestre, can naturally reduce the tendency to overeat and thus reduce the factors that cause an increase in LPL levels.
Brain Mechanisms
Many obesity experts believe that there is a mechanism in the brain known as the adipostat, which tells the body how much fat to store. This is, in turn, based on a predefined weight that the body wishes to maintain. As your body uses fat through your daily activities, the brain regulates the usage or storage of energy until your fat levels maintain this pre-established goal. Sometimes the adipostat may actually set a fat storage level that is unhealthy. In such a case, simply Reducing your caloric intake may not reduce weight so easily.
