THE PAUSE

"MAKING OUR THIRD ACTS THE BEST YET"

SWEETENERS: WHAT TO USE AND WHAT NOT TO USE

In the first strand of The HOPE Protocol, we optimize our hormones. In the second strand, we optimize our weight. In the third strand, The Purification Strand, we optimize health. In the fourth strand, we optimize our minds.

We begin optimizing our health by optimizing our livers.

Nearly all overweight menopausal women and andropausal men have fatty livers. We must de-fat it if we want to dance at our grandchildren's weddings.

Fatty livers cause us to burn fat slower and prevent our cells from receiving the messages our hormones are trying to convey. And remember, it's all about our hormones.

CELLULAR HORMONAL RESISTANCE

Insulin resistance is an excellent example of Cellular Hormone Resistance.

Modern-day diabetes is caused by insulin resistance, the cell's inability to receive insulin's message.

When blood sugar spikes, insulin is released to open the entrance doors to our cells. This way, the blood sugar can be cleared from our blood because high blood sugar is toxic to our brains, livers, hearts, and kidneys. The high blood sugar will crème brûlée these organs, literally.

When the entrance doors to our cells remain closed, despite insulin telling the cells to open their doors, blood sugar levels elevate. The pancreas is still receiving the signal from the brain that blood sugar is high, and it continues to release more and more insulin.

When this happens, you end up with elevated levels of blood sugar and insulin, and if this becomes chronic, you eventually become diabetic.

DIABESITY

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Most of you know it is nearly impossible to lose weight once you are paused.

To lose weight once you are paused, consume a menu that bottoms out insulin and tops out glucagon.

The Meso-Menu is a menu that requires you to eat low-glycemic-load foods to bottom out insulin. There are only two actions you can take to top out glucagon:

1. Bottom-out insulin
2. Animal Protein

Insulin opens the entrance doors to your cells, allowing blood sugar to pass into them. The cell turns most of the sugar into fat and stores it in our fat pantries: belly, breasts, and hips.

Glucagon releases the stored fat from these pantries to be used as fuel.

Diabesisty is a combination of several conditions.

• Elevated blood sugar
• Elevated insulin
• Elevated inflammation.
• Elevated fatty liver disease.
• Elevated hormonal resistance.

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION

Chronic inflammation causes.

• Cancer
• Diabetes
• Heart Disease
• Strokes
• Alzheimer’s

Most chronic systemic inflammation is caused by consuming pro-inflammatory foods.

Avoiding pro-inflammatory foods decreases chronic inflammation dramatically, and our internal chemistry becomes more harmonized.

The food group that causes more chronic inflammation than any other is sweeteners.

Due to email providers limiting the number of words in an email, we have made a PDF of what sweeteners to avoid and what sweeteners to use.

​SWEETENERS: WHAT TO USE AND WHAT NOT TO USE​

And remember,

IT'S ALL ABOUT OUR HORMONES!

"We are nothing more than reflections of our hormones."

🍯 Doc Mac

Hormone and Weight Optimization Coach​