Identify your body type for wellness & weightloss

You probably already know there are four basic body types—adrenal, ovary, liver, and thyroid—and that getting healthy & losing weight helps to identify your body type or combination of the four.

As we know we are individual & unique, so you might find that you follow the one body type and feel that you reached a plateau in your weight loss its very possible that you have secondary underlying health issues, example you identify your body type as adrenal and you start to follow the thyroid body type as you have similar symptoms and now you find that you are feeling better have more energy & the weight is coming off.

THE FOUR BODY TYPES

1. ADRENAL
2. TYHROID
3. OVARIES
4. LIVER

ADRENAL sagging tummy

diet to follow:

• High protein
• High fat
• Non-cruciferous vegetables

• Also, adrenal types typically have blood sugar issues. This is why if you don’t have enough fat in your ketogenic diet (if you are following this meal plan), you tend to crash and burn and feel unsatisfied. Therefore, it’s very important for adrenal types to have enough fat in their diet.

  The adrenal body type  The sagging belly is fat coming from a hormone called cortisol. It is not necessarily diet-related—it may be stress-related. That’s why diets may not work.

• The adrenal body type needs more protein, for the reasons is their bodies are breaking down more protein in their muscles, in the collagen, and in the skin than with the other body types. So, you need to replace that protein or you’re going to feel weak.
  

  Top symptoms of adrenal fatigue or the adrenal body type:

   

   Low-stress tolerance • Overthinking (especially at night) • High blood sugar • High cholesterol • Fat in the liver and visceral organs • Gastritis • High blood pressure • High pulse rate • Asthma • Inflammation • Calcium deficiency • Potassium deficiency • Sodium deficiency • Vitamin D deficiency • Memory loss • Brain fog • Getting out of breath while climbing stairs

• Salt cravings

• Gastritis 

• Wide awake most mornings at 2am. Stress affecting your sleep. When walking an incline easily get out of breath, when suddenly getting up you feel dizzy (adrenals), anxiety attacks.

  Causes:

  Unhealthy life/work/relationships/family situations, toxic relationships, chronic stress, trauma, surgery, lack of sleep, fatty liver, gallstones, kidney stones, twitching in the left eye, sleep apnea, blocked sinuses…

• THYROID BODY TYPE

  Weight is distributed all over the body
• diet to follow:
  • Low protein
  • Low fat
  • Non-cruciferous vegetableLow Fat
  • If you have a weak thyroid function, your body struggles to digest fats properly.  Similar to the liver body type, thyroid types also have issues with high-fat diets.  Avoid fried foods & foods with high fat-content.Non-Cruciferous VegetablesTweak you diet by avoiding cruciferous vegetables: reason being that  cruciferous vegetables tend to deplete iodine, and your thyroid needs iodine to function.
  • Add iodine to your diet or use the drops and rub it inside your elbows every morning or on going to bed. This also helps to sleep better.
  • Add sea kelp to your diet.
    

    Causes:

    High levels of estrogen, The Pill (birth control pills), Bio-polar medication, antibiotics, steroids, environmental toxins, lack of digestion – bile – from gallbladder. Gallbladder cannot convert inactive T4 into active T3 through liver & gallbladder. Body has high levels of stress affecting the adrenals, possibilities of auto-immune problems.

    Note:

    If, you have been on thyroid chemical medication and you don’t see relief or loss of weight it means that the thyroid is the secondary problem: could mean that you have fatty liver (bad liver), the thyroid needs 80% from a healthy  liver to function.

• LIVER BODY TYPE

• pot belly shape

• Symptoms

• • Cravings for salt. Weight around stomach area ‘pot belly’: Visceral fat in the gut area
  • Another symptom: Bloatedness. Gas. Burping. Headaches. Constipation. Pain on the right-side shoulder & right side under your ribcage.
    

    Causes an unhealthy liver:

    1. Sucrose, artificial sugars, sugar, fructose, honey, raisins, fruit juices, alcohol
    2. Pesticides on foods, fungicides, medications, antiacids, canola oil, canned foods, processed foods, alcohol, refined foods, over cooked foods, sugar & protein mixed meals, meat & starch combined
    3. High levels of cortisol
    4. Too much estrogen & testosterone
    5. Eating too much large portions of cooked red meat
    6. Unhealthy liver struggles to digest protein

• • • Diet to follow
    • Low protein
    • Low fat
    • Cruciferous vegetableLow Protein
    • A healthy liver digests protein & responsible for metabolising protein, but when your liver is not functioning at optimal health your body is struggling to digest protein, if you eat too much protein, you will end up digestive issues (hence slow on weight loss). Have more vegetables than meat/proteins.Low Fat

      Avoid consuming large portions of cooked meat & deep fried fats. Add bile salts (sodium) to your diet lifestyle. ( Add Himalayan pink salts)

       

      Cruciferous Vegetables

      Consume lots of cruciferous vegetables because they have a ton of phytonutrients. Damaged liver needs phytonutrients to heal – make your foods your medicine.

      Cruciferous vegetable quantity of 7-10 cups a day.

      What are phytonutrients? “Phyto” comes from a Greek word that means “plant.” So, phytonutrients are plant nutrients, and they have unique properties that fight against many types of diseases.

      OVARY BODY TYPE

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      Shape: The ovary body type typically hold weight in their hips and below the belly button.

       Diet to follow

      • High protein
      • High fat
      • Cruciferous vegetables
      • Avoid soy

    • CAUSES:

      Ovaries stop working approximately age 52

      Ovaries function is affected with hysterectomy – from the ‘age’ you have your hysterectomy your ovaries stop.

      Heavy periods, cramping,  cravings, pms, infertility, birth control pills

      Estrogen dominance

      Fibroids

      Consuming too many artificial growth hormones in dairy & meats

       

       

      SECONDARY HEALTH PROBLEMS

      Too much estrogen can cause thyroid problems

      Fatty liver can affect your thyroid hormones & metabolism

      Excessive hormones cause the adrenals to weaken when going into menopause – start getting hot flushes & night sweats