Goji is the Asian secret to losing weight.
Patients in an Asian study to fight obesity were given goji every morning and afternoon. The results were great, and most of the patients lost a lot of weight.
Stress and high cortisol levels are linked in a clear way, as researchers at UCLA and elsewhere have shown. If you can lower your stress, you can lessen or even get rid of the bad effects of cortisol.
In a study on animals, it was found that the master molecule in goji, polysaccharides, improved the way food was turned into energy and helped the animals lose weight.
Getting rid of stress can be hard, but for more than a thousand years, adaptogens have been used successfully in traditional Asian medicine to do so. The word "adaptogen" refers to herbs that help the body deal with stress. The goji berry is the most well-known adaptogenic herb for reducing mental and emotional stress.
Goji can help you deal with stress.
There is a special berry that people in the valleys of Tibet and Mongolia use and love so much that they have special celebrations for two weeks every year to honour it. The type of Lycium that grows in Tibet and is now called "Goji" is thought to be the "Mother" of all Lyciums. It grows in the remote, unpolluted hills and valleys of Tibet and Mongolia, where the soil is so full of nutrients that the berries seem to burst with life.
Goji is the only name for this type of Lycium berry that grows in Tibet and Mongolia. It is called "Goji" for this reason. Local harvesters are careful to tell the Goji berry apart from its distantly related offspring, the Chinese Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum). They point out that while the Chinese Wolfberry evolved over hundreds of years from the Tibetan Lycium berry, it has very different nutrients and grows in very different places.
Goji gives you enough energy to help you deal with almost any problem. In Asia, people say that eating goji regularly makes you happy, and happiness is the best way to deal with stress. It has been said that goji's unique ability to reduce stress can help bring cortisol levels back to normal. If you can stop the cortisol cascade, you'll soon be on your way to a lower Body Mass Index and a healthier weight. You'll also notice a wide range of health benefits for your whole body, such as:
-Burning fat faster
-Less fat storage
-Reducing the urge to eat
-More energy
-Less tiredness after a meal
-Burning fat faster
-HGH, the body's growth hormone, is made and released normally.
-Bring down cholesterol and lipids in the blood
-Better use of insulin and control of blood sugar
-Lessening of pain and swelling
-Improved the immune system
-Better sleep
Nearly two-thirds of people in the U.S. who are 20 or older are overweight. More than three out of ten American adults are very overweight, which is called obesity. Both being overweight and being obese make you more likely to get a number of long-term diseases.
It's not just an American problem. In 1995, the World Health Organization did a study that said 200 million adults around the world were obese. Five years later, the number had skyrocketed to an unbelievable 300 million. Globesity is the name the organisation has given to this worldwide epidemic that seems impossible to stop.
The extra weight might not be coming from fat. You may be overweight but not obese if you are a bodybuilder, a professional athlete, or just have "big bones."
Being obese usually means that a person has a lot of fat on their bodies, which makes them heavier than they should be. Experts have long disagreed about the line between normal weight, being overweight, and being obese. But now, thanks to the Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a statistical tool, almost everyone agrees.
Comparing apples and pears in terms of fat content
Doctors and nurses are worried not only about how much fat a person has, but also about where that fat is on the body. If you have "apple-type obesity," which means most of your fat is around your waist, you are more likely to have health problems because of your weight than if most of your fat is around your hips or buttocks (pear-type obesity).
What makes people fat?
From a scientific point of view, obesity happens when a person eats more calories than they burn. What makes this difference between what you eat and what you burn vary from person to person. There may be a role for genes, the environment, mental health, and other things.
Obesity often runs in families, which suggests that it is caused by genes. But families also tend to eat and live the same way, which can lead to obesity. It is often hard to tell these from genetic factors. And research shows that being overweight is linked to your genes.
Factors that make a difference include what you eat and how much you move around. Many people eat when they feel bad, like when they are bored, sad, or angry. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases thinks that about 10% of people who are only slightly overweight have binge eating disorder. People who are very fat are more likely to have this disorder.
Most likely, the most important cause of obesity is the stress that we all deal with every day. When you have long-term stress, your adrenal glands make too much cortisol. Cortisol is important in normal amounts, but too much of it can cause a chain reaction of bad side effects, many of which can lead to weight gain no matter how much you diet or work out.
Cortisol results in:
- Causes fat storage and enzymes to work.
- The body changes protein into sugar that it doesn't want.
-Stop making human growth hormone, which burns fat (hGH)
- Having dangerous "apple-type" belly fat
-more hunger and a desire for sweet and fatty foods
-Insulin resistance that gets worse over time, which can lead to Type II diabetes, high blood pressure,
-cardiovascular disease and the other risks to health that come with being overweight.
