4 Fat Cell Facts Uncovered by George Washington University Weight Loss Expert

If you’ve been fighting the “battle of the bulge” for some time, and you can’t quite figure out just why that stubborn fat won’t budge, you’re in luck. A George Washington University weight loss expert reveals four fat cell facts that in fact, may just help you get and stay slim and in shape.

Fact Number One: Pre-fat cells inevitably turn into fat cells and you may be helping them do just that

Our body manufactures millions of pre-fat cells that try to become full fledged fat cells also known as adipocytes. Even though you do not wish to convert them, without your knowledge, you help them get converted. How can you put an end to this?

A weight loss expert at George Washington University makes this conversion process clear: Pre fat cells do not store fat, on the other hand, full fledged fat cells do. Whenever the production of two hormones increases in our body, these pre fat cells get transformed into fat cells.

Insulin and cortisol are the two hormones and our busy life styles aid in over producing them in the body.

Cortisol gets produced in excess whenever we suffer from lack of sleep and undergo stress. All this may sound very recognizable. That’s because it is. You pave the way for growth of fat cells, whenever you stress and do not get sufficient sleep.

The second hormone, insulin, is also overproduced because you get too little sleep and have too much stress — AND it’s also overproduced when you make poor food choices that are high in simple carbohydrates; simple carbohydrates cause insulin spikes, which in turn can cause weight gain, especially (you guessed it) fat storage. (By the way, lack of exercise, too, can keep your insulin levels higher than optimal.)

Fact Number Two: Once you’ve got those fat cells, you keep them

Again, this is something that’s your responsibility. It takes some doing to get those fat cells, but once you’ve got them, you’ve got them forever. So congratulations. Your new fat cell friends got to jump on board because you didn’t take care of yourself, didn’t sleep enough, didn’t eat right, didn’t exercise, had too much stress, and so on.

How can you change this?

Fact Number Three: Proper sleep can help you shun excess body weight

If you spend at least seven to nine hours a night asleep (REALLY asleep, no TV going, in other words) you’re going to lower your levels of cortisol and raise your levels of beneficial, fat-hating hormones like testosterone, leptin, and growth hormone. With enough leptin, for example, you’re less hungry (which will help you make better food choices) and your metabolism is higher (which will help you burn fat). Growth hormone and testosterone (yup, even for women in smaller amounts than for men) encourage muscle growth and fat burning.

You need not provide your body with any artificial supplements of these hormones. Proper sleep alone is sufficient in doing this job.

Fact Number Four: Sufficient sleep can put off fat storage by bringing down levels of cortisol and insulin

As our George Washington University weight loss expert says, once you’ve got those fat cells, you’ve always got them — but they don’t actually have to store fat unless you invite them to. You need a little fat on your body, of course, but to avoid carrying around the excess stuff, lowering insulin levels is going to help you raise your levels of something called hormone sensitive lipase (HSL), which in effect keeps fat out of the fat cells, while raising them encourages production of something called lipoprotein lipase; lipoprotein lipase, or LPL, in effect opens the door to that fat and says, “Come on in and set a spell!” Not exactly what you want, right?

There you have it; simply by sleeping better and making sure you destress as much as possible (along with a healthy diet and good exercise program, of course), you can watch those pounds of excess fat just melt away.

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