Why diets make you gain weight

With summer now upon us, you might want to lose those extra pounds for your trip to the beach. So, you go on a “diet.” While you might lose the weight, the diet itself may make you more prone to gain weight. This is what we call the yo-yo diet. And new research into the diet craze shows why diets don’t work.

Tracy Bale is a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania. Her team wanted to find out what causes yo-yo diets. Thinking stress might be a factor, the researchers cut food intake in mice by 25%. They did this for three weeks until the rodents lost from 10-15% of original body weight. (This also works in humans.) Then they exposed the mice to mild forms of stress, such as loud noises. The hungry mice had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood. The cortisol also remained around longer than in the controls. The dieting mice were more stressed and took longer to calm down!

When losing weight has nothing to do with diet
and exercise

Do you struggle with your weight, your diet, or your level of fitness? There are a lot of books out there about how to lose weight. But every single one of them focuses on what you eat and on exercise. Of course, diet and exercise are critical. However, there’s another side to this equation. And it can make a huge impact on whether you successfully lose weight or not.

Studies show that there’s a huge connection between stress and weight gain. And almost every so-called weight professional out there has missed it. Everyone, that is, except Bill Cortright.

Big Pharma causes holes in your brain

Did you know the drugs you take every day could be causing holes in your brain? A new technology shows these chemicals cause huge holes to show up on brain scans. But as you’ll see in a moment, it’s not just Big Pharma drugs that can do this damage.

This new brain scan can look at your brain in real time. This SPEC scan has the ability to look at your brain’s energy production as it happens. So it’s remarkably effective at looking at the effect of different stimuli on your brain.