Energetic, Fit and Healthy with Emily Stoik

Do Toxins actually make you fat?? What is the connection between toxins and fat and what can you do about it? According to Dr. Mark Hyman, "Scientists recently uncovered a surprising and disturbing fact: environmental toxins make you fat and cause diabetes. Inside the body, these chemicals monkey with our ability to balance blood sugar and metabolize cholesterol. Over time, the changes can lead to insulin resistance. This discovery should be headline news but no one is talking about it. Why? Because there are no drugs to treat it. In the quest to conquer the two biggest epidemics of our time—diabetes and obesity—we’ve got to turn our attention to the heavy burden environmental toxins put on our bodies." As a direct result of all the toxins around us, in the air we breathe and the food we eat, our bodies are filled with toxins and our bodies literally use fat as a way to  protect our vital organs from those toxins. As Byron Richards, Certified Clinical Nutritio...

Cleansing and detoxing are so popular these days for so many reasons: improved appearance of skin more energy better sleeping weight loss...fat loss more specifically... (Go here to read more reasons people see benefits from a regular Nutritional Cleanse ) If we're honest, cleansing for weight loss/fat loss is probably one of the most attractive side effects of a total body cellular cleanse.  Yes we want to feel better, have more energy, sleep better etc but for so many people, doing a cleanse to help kick-start a weight loss or fitness regimen is probably at the top of the list! ;) But what is it about the right kind of cleanse that helps with fat loss? What happens to body fat when we cleanse our bodies of unwanted toxins and why does it work in the first place?? Think of Fat like a Sponge holding on to Toxins...during a cleanse, as our bodies get rid of toxins, the fat that was holding on to the toxins is allowed to be released properly as well...