Accidently Overweight How Did My Stomach Get So Fat?

1. Accidently OverweightHow Did My Stomach Get So Fat? Dr WAYNE GARD CHIROPRACTOR ♦ ACUPUNCTURIST ♦ NATUROPATH 1 Secant St Liverpool (Near Westfields) 96009593 email gardchiropractic@people.net.au Website www.gardchiropracticclinic.com.au

4. Who Am I and Why Should You Listen To Me? • Dr Wayne Gard is a qualified Chiropractor, Naturopath, and Acupuncturist • He has been serving Liverpool residents for 23 years. • Served as a Sports Chiropractor at the 2009 World Masters Games. • Examiner and Tutor at Macquarie University • He is a keen amateur athlete, enjoys swimming, running and bike riding.

5. This seminar is a brief look at Natural Treatments for Flattening Your Stomach/Hips/Bum  • For those who want more detail a full copy of this presentation is available on my website. • This website also contains an offer to a great book called ‘The 7 Things Your Doctor Forgot To Tell You’ • www.gardchiropracticclinic.com.au

6. Does having a Fat Stomach Matter? • Current Research suggests a strong link with stomach fat to – heart disease, diabetes, cancer, hormonal imbalances, brain diseases – young (ADD) and old (dementia), asthma, reflux, constipation, and muscle/joint/nerve Pain! • Having a fat stomach doesn’t LOOK good • Makes MOVING your body more difficult • Reduces your ENERGY • Reduces your SEXUAL desire

7. Being Overweight is a Disease • Just like heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, cancer • What is the disease = Slow Metabolism • We all know the skinny person who eats whatever they want and never put on any weight….and the overweight person who just has to look at food to put weight on  • What is going on? • Well just like any disease, it just doesn’t happen! It develops over time • = The SLIDING HEALTH SCALE

8. 1. Health is a Sliding Scale • Strength • Flexibility • Fitness • Positive Mental Attitude • Posture • Immunity • Digestion • Sleep • Pain Free • Good Skin and Hair • Fertility • Energetic • Ease of breathing • NORMAL WEIGHT • All tests normal • Loss of Strength • Loss of Flexibility • Loss of Fitness • Negative Mental Attitude • Poor Posture • Lowered Immunity • Decreased Digestion • Sleep Problems • Frequent pain • Skin & hair problems • Fertility problems • Fatigue • Poor breathing • OVERWEIGHT • Chiropractic/Naturopathic tests positive. • Medical tests normal • Arthritis • Bulging Spinal Discs • Pinched Nerves • Depression & Anxiety • Cancer, Colds & Flu’s • Reflux. Ulcers, constipation • Insomnia • Pain • Heart Disease • Eczema, Psoriasis • Infertility • Asthma • OBESE • Chiropractic/Naturopathic/ Medical tests all positive

9. Natural Treatment Triad of Health

10. YOUR SPINE AND YOUR GUT

11. Your Spine Controls Your Body

12. Get Your Spine Checked Chiropractic Assessment It is a great idea to have your spine checked by a chiropractor. Checking for Nerve Flow problems from Brain > Spine > Body Chiropractors use: • Posture • X-rays • Computer scanning • Physical examination

13. A Healthy Gut and Weight Control? • A key concept in Natural Medicine is that we need to have a healthy functioning Digestive System or Gut in order to have Good Health, Including Good Weight Control • Our Gut had 3 main Roles 1: Absorb nutrients from our diet – food and drink 2: Remove Toxins from our body – bowel and kidneys 3: Eliminate excess Fat • The following Disorders all cause the gut to not work properly

14. 8 Disorders and Treatment Strategies • Fatty Liver • Sex Hormones • Thyroid Gland – Type 2 • Gut Bacteria • Acid/Alkaline Balance • Adrenal Fatigue – Stress • Insulin Resistance Syndrome • Emotions

15. FATTY LIVER • The liver is the second largest organ in the human body after our skin. • One of its primary roles is that of detoxification. Detoxification is essentially a cleaning process with two phases and during this process the liver decides whether to fully process a substance or recycle (reabsorb) it. • The liver has to process things we consume such as alcohol and caffeine but also things we absorb through our skin. You only need to think about the way nicotine patches work to realise how • effectively we absorb substances through our skin. The liver also has to detoxify substances the body naturally makes, such as cholesterol, our stress hormones and our sex hormones. • The liver also picks up any shortfall in digestion so if people have constipation or IBS, the liver will have an additional workload. • The best way to imagine how the liver functions is to compare it to a motorway. When you first drive onto a motorway, you want to go 100km per hour but sometimes you have to crawl along at 30km per hour because the traffic is all banked up. The same thing happens with your liver. You want things to fly through your liver at 100km per hour and be fully dealt with, not crawl through at 30km per hour. It is when the traffic in the liver gets all banked up that it can impact on how we feel and function every day, including our hormonal balance. • Sorting out liver function can also change your life and lead to far more effective fat burning.

16. How do you know if you have a fatty liver? • You will probably be overweight, especially in the abdominal area • You will find it very hard to lose weight • You may have elevated cholesterol and triglycerides in your blood • You may have Syndrome X – Metabolic Syndrome • You may have diabetes type 2 • You will be very tired • You may have problems with your immune system Diet Guidelines: • Reduce the consumption of refined carbohydrates from sugar and bread, pastry, pasta, noodles, cakes, biscuits and desserts. • Increase the amount of raw fruits and vegetables • Use raw vegetable juices • Avoid deep fried, fatty, and processed foods • Aim to limit dairy foods including milk, processed cheese, cream and butter.  Opt for organic yogurt and cheese such as ricotta, parmesan or cottage. Try some different brands and varieties of soy as they vary greatly. The fresh soy products in the dairy cabinet are much lighter and not as strong in taste as the long life products. There are also rice milks and oat milks to try. • Avoid ALL margarines and similar type spreads.   • Avoid sugary processed foods and drinks • Limit chicken and turkey that is not free range as this contains artificial growth hormones, antibiotics and steroids that increase the liver's workload. • Drink 2 liters of water each day. • Avoid artificial sweeteners

17. Fatty Liver Treatment • Increase Fibre – Psyllium Husks • Nutrient – Lecithin • Cocoa Powder! – yes the natural ingredient in chocolate  • Phytosterols – the stuff that is now being put into margarines, milk etc • Globe Artichoke – herbal medicine • Sugar Can Wax alcohols • Spinal Nerve Supply – Neck C1-2 and Mid Back T4 - 12 Product = CHOLESTAHEALTH

18. Sex Hormones • The major sex hormones for women are oestrogen and progesterone with testosterone also playing a role. • The balance of these hormones can influence whether you are storing fat or burning it. • Oestrogen lays down fat. Progesterone on the other hand, is essential for us to be able to access body fat to burn it. • Reproductively, progesterone’s job is to hold the lining of the uterus in place after oestrogen has laid it down. • Biologically though, progesterone has many functions. It is one of our most powerful anti‐anxiety agents, it is an anti‐depressant, it is a diuretic meaning it allows us to excrete any excess fluid we may be carrying and it is essential for burning body fat. I think most women want bucket loads of it forever  • If oestrogen is far too high for the amount of progesterone being produced, body fat will be stored. • It is however ESSENTIAL to get to the bottom of why there is either poor progesterone production OR why oestrogen is in excess. Some people have excellent progesterone levels but their oestrogen is simply far too high to balance the progesterone. • The liver plays a central role in whether oestrogen levels are appropriate or far too high for body fat to be burnt. Getting this hormonal balance right can change a woman’s life for not only will she burn body fat far more easily but her menstrual cycle will cause her, (and those around her!) far less PMT grief! • Hormonal imbalances can also be magnified after pregnancy. • Getting on top of your hormonal balance can change your head space as well as your body.

19. Male and Female Sex Hormone Organs

20. Sex Hormone Treatment Herbs and Nutrition Women – Shatavari, St Johns Wort, Chaste Tree, Hops Men – Saw Palmetto, Tribulus, Withania Spine – L1-3, Pelvis

21. THYROID • The thyroid gland is a little butterfly shaped gland that sits in your throat area. • It makes hormones that play an enormous role in your metabolic rate as well as your temperature regulation. • The thyroid gland can become over active or under active and it is the latter scenario that can lead • to weight gain that is incredibly difficult to shift until this issue is addressed. • The thyroid gland is also susceptible to auto‐immune diseases, meaning your immune system, which is supposed to defend you from infection, starts to see the thyroid gland as a foreign substance and attacks it leading to a change in its function. Infection and/or poor liver function are two factors that can initiate this process. • It is important to work out the path that lead someone to altered thyroid function for behind the “why” that lead you there is an enormous part of your fat burning, well being answer.

23. Thyroid Imbalance Treatment • STRESS - A large body of scientific evidence suggests that the impact of stress can affect the body on multiple levels and that there is indeed a ‘STRESS SYSTEM’ that responds and deals with stresses in our lives • What is STRESS - it is comprised of Neurological (Spinal Misalignments), Endocrine (Hormone) imbalance, Psychological (Emotions) and Environmental (Toxins) components. • Spinal Nerve Supply – Neck – Vagus nerve = C1, C2 - Upper Back = T1 – T4 • Herbs – Rehmannia, Coleus, Bladderwrack, Broccoli Sprouts, Turmeric • Nutrients – Tyrosine, Selenium, Iodine, Zinc, B Vitamins, Vit C, Vit E Product = P2 Detox

24. Gut Bacteria • Recent research has found two distinct groups of gut bacteria inhabiting the colon can influence whether you are storing fat or burning it. • The big long scientific names for these classes of bugs are Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes. • People with more Bacteroidetes in their large bowel have been shown to burn fat more readily while those with more Firmicutes are more likely to store fat. • Even if two people ate the same amount of calories (kilojoules/energy) the dominant gut bacterial species can make those calories seem almost like a much larger amount for people with more Firmicutes. • Addressing gut health and digestion can change your chemistry to one of fat burning rather than storage.

25. Gut Health

26. Gut Treatment • Nutritional Medicine • -Herbs – Turmeric, Slippery Elm, Licorice • -Prebiotics and Probiotics • -Diet – beware of hidden Gluten Intolerance – good idea to reduce Bread and Pasta • -Spine – T6-L1

27. ACID / ALKALINE BALANCE • The concept of alkalinity can be a confusing one. • It relates to the pH of your blood. • Everything you eat and drink has an eventual effect on your blood pH. • When it comes to body fat, the best way to imagine how alkalinity plays a role is to imagine how car battery acid might burn your skin if it touches your hand. To exaggerate this scenario to communicate this process to you, when the blood is constantly pushed to the less alkaline (hence more acidic) end of its spectrum and the cells of your body are bathed in it, to protect them from the acid burn the cells insulate themselves with fat. • To make the cells feel safe that they can let go of their layer of fatty protection, we need to push our chemistry to be more alkaline.

29. Acid/Alkaline Imbalance Treatment • Magnesium • Potassium Citrate • Cherry Extract • Celery Extract Product = ALKA CAP

30. Stress Hormones – Adrenal Glands • The human body makes two dominant stress hormones. They are adrenalin and cortisol. • Adrenalin is our acute stress hormone while cortisol is our chronic stress hormone. • In other words, when we are stressed for a long time, it is cortisol that tends to take over as our dominant stress hormone. • Historically, cortisol was designed to save your life when food was scarce so even though food may be abundant for you today, cortisol sends a message to every cell of your body that your metabolism needs to be slowed down so that those precious fat stores can keep you going until the food supply returns. • Cortisol lays fat down around your middle, on the back of your arms and you grow what I lovingly call a back verandah. • Most people’s response to fat accumulation around their tummies is to go on a diet which means eating less food. This confirms to your body what cortisol has driven your body to believe is true, when in fact the opposite is true and food is likely to be abundant for you. • When you restrict your food intake on your “diet” you slow your metabolism even further making it feel like you only have to look at food for weight to go on! • So if cortisol is a contributing factor to your weight gain, going on a calorie restricted diet is not your answer. • Sorting out your cortisol is and there are numerous methods that you can use to do this.

33. How is Adrenal Fatigue Treated? • NUTRIENTS • Magnesium • Taurine • Glutamine • HERBS • Licorice • Tribulus • Reduce Stress on your body – similar to the Thyroid Gland, too many stressors on your body lead to adrenal dysfunction and disease • Spinal Nerves – Neck C1-2 and Mid Back T4 - 12

34. Pancreas – Sugar Metabolism • The pancreas is another gland that makes a hormone intricately linked to body fat burning or accumulation. • Insulin is made by the pancreas and it is a fat storage hormone. We make it when we eat carbohydrates. • Yet we must consume some carbohydrates as they are vital to the function of our brain, kidneys and red blood cells, in particular. So how do we manage this? • When it comes to body fat accumulation, it is the OVER PRODUCTION and/or big surges of insulin that are the problem, not insulin itself. • Many people have excellent blood glucose levels (also called blood sugar levels) inside the normal range, yet they have to make a huge amount of insulin to keep their blood sugar levels within the normal range. • So whether it is big surges of insulin on and off over the day as your blood sugar flies through the roof and then subsequently plummets and then surges again, or because of your overproduction of insulin, accessing body fat to burn for energy will prove difficult.

35. Insulin Resistance Syndrome

37. How is Insulin Resistance Syndrome Treated? • Herbs - D-Purslane, Gymnema, • Nutrients – chromium, zinc, magnesium, selenium,manganese and B vitamins • Spinal Nerve Supply – Neck – C1-2 - Mid back – T4 – 12 Product = Gluco Control

38. Emotions • Humans store fat when they don’t feel safe, whatever that means to them. • I don’t necessarily mean safe from burglary (although if this has happened to you then it is likely to be one of your safety “rules”). • We have rules about what it means for us to feel safe, usually in the areas of relationships, finances and work. • Trouble is, we don’t usually know what they are. Some of us have had traumatic experiences in life that have led to us not feel safe, while for others they created meanings about what things that happen mean when they were little that they continue to replay now they are adults. It’s like an itch that constantly gets scratched only you usually don’t realise why you felt a yucky feeling in your tummy or why your heart started to race or why “suddenly” your mood has changed. • As an example, you may have had a chat to another mum at the school gate on the morning school run, someone you like and possibly admire, someone whose life you might be curious about and you are hopeful that you might become friends. You leave that morning experience feeling happy. You then do the school pick up run in the afternoon and that same lady ignores you. There is no conscious thought that she has “rejected” you but if you had been paying attention that moment,you would probably have noticed a momentary sick feeling in your tummy. Her snub changes your mood and hence the way you go on to treat/relate to the people you love the most in this world for the rest of the evening. Only trouble is you can’t put your finger on why you had such a lovely morning and such a dreadful afternoon. In this head space, you couldn’t care less about the diet you started two days ago. You will eat whatever you like in this head space. But that only makes you dislike yourself more... and the vicious cycle continues. • Many people overeat so they don’t have to truly feel or acknowledge the emotion behind their behaviour. Some just say they love food.

41. First Steps? Where To Start? • Recognise you have a Problem – if you don’t recognise you have a problem I will guarantee that you won’t do what it takes! • Find out Why your body is fat? Consult a Natural Health Care Professional • Design a Plan to fix the problem – including MEASURING your progress! Step by Step! • Be Accountable to someone other than yourself – someone who matters to you – partner, family, friend…..someone who can keep you: - Focused – “stick to your plan” - Motivated – “this is important to you because…” - Encouraged – “you are going great” - Rewarded – “you are looking fantastic”

42. Do Something Different??? • Over many years I have seen good results with: • 1. Get your spine checked by a Chiropractor – to stimulate the nerve flow from your brain and therefore speed up your metabolism. • 2. Get your organs checked by a Naturopath – to find out which nutrients you need to take to heal your organs and so speed up your metabolism • 3. Get Fit !!! Build Lean Muscle 

43. Special Offer Free Chiropractic and Naturopathic Assessment Simply Complete the Attached Form at Your Chair Give to me at the end of this seminar  • If you wish to speak with me about a specific health concern or your suitability for treatment, please email me or phone me on 96009593 • I will be available after this seminar to talk with anyone.