These hormones are important to burning fat, especially belly visceral fat
cortisol: stress hormone, fight or flight response, should peak in morning, gradually reduce in evening, melatonin increases to aid sleep, decrease.
-Long and slow cardio workouts boosts cortisol,leads to muscle loss, so avoid, increases cortisol levels, increases appetite
-lack of sleep: increases cortisol
-low carb diets increase cortisol
estrogen: female hormone, suppresses T, decrease
insulin: keep insulin levels low, reduce carbs and sugars. intermittent fast resets insulin levels
testostrone: burns fat, give us energy, builds muscle, boost
-you need cholesterol, which turns into T; low fat diets shrink T
-resistance training: short metabolic workouts, burns energy after
-T is created at night, so need good night’s sleep
This is an interesting theory, and a very minority one. The traditional theory is that obesity is caused by a person’s lack of will power, where if you don’t eat you won’t gain weight. This theory, the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model (CIM) of obesity, says that insulin is a hormone. When you eat carbs or sugar, insulin kicks in and tells your cells to burn carbs and not fat. You therefore crave more carbs and accumulate and not burn fat.