Wednesday, November 21, 2007

How Hoodia Affects Your Metabolism Rate

How Hoodia Affects Your Metabolism Rate
If you are one of many who are using a pure source of
Hoodia, you know first hand how powerful it is. Initial
trials indicate that it can make you feel full for up to
twenty-four hours. Some studies have shown that people who
have used pure Hoodia have drastically reduce the amount of
calories they take in on a daily basis by up to 1,000
calories a day within 15 days or so.

On the face of it, statistics like that definitely cause
anyone who wants to lose weight to take notice. The thought
of popping a pill, then enjoying the weight loss happen
before their eyes seems almost too good to be true. If you
look at the science behind how your body works, you will
see that, unfortunately, it is too good to be true long
term.

The reason behind this is all because of something called
your starvation response. As a human being this is a built
in function of your body. Everyone has one.

Let me explain this in a little more detail for you:

Before you take your Hoodia, your body becomes used to a
certain level of calories that you take on a daily basis.
These calories are basically made up of the calories in the
food you take, less the calories your body burns throughout
the day, whether it is from running its natural processes,
or from any sort of exercise you do.

When you suddenly decrease the amount of calories you
consume, your body notes it. Initially it may not react,
thinking it is just a one-off. That's why you will start to
lose weight in the first few weeks.

But your body is smart. It starts to adapt to the
circumstances it faces. Because the circumstances for its
survival have changed, it starts to change with it.

For example, back, many thousand of years ago, when we were
hunter/gathers, this was the key to survival. You may hunt
down a big animal, be able to feast on it for a day or two,
even a week, but then have nothing substantial for days on
end while you went hunting for the next kill.

When your body finds itself deprived of nutrients for an
extended period of time, it slows down the burning of the
nutrients and calories that it does have. It does this to
give yourself the greatest chance of survival, until your
next meal.

The rate at which your body burns calories is commonly
called your metabolism rate. The slower your metabolism
rate, the slower your body burns the stored calories you
have (including fat). As your metabolism rate decreases,
your body utilizes less of the calories you do take in, and
stores more of it as fat.

By having an extremely low metabolism rate, our forefathers
(the hunter/gatherers) were able to survive for days
without eating. Their bodies were used to going into what's
called 'survival mode' or coping with the 'starvation
response' (as I mentioned above).

So the lower your metabolism, the more calories you will
store (including more fat cells), and the fewer calories
you'll burn off, no matter what activity you do.

So now, let us bring this back to taking Hoodia and how it
affects your metabolism rate.

I hope you see here that Hoodia is going to decrease your
metabolism rate, the better it works. That's because it
causes you to feel full, and so, you will most probably
decrease the amount of calories you eat on a daily basis.
When you do this, your body automatically responds by
lowering your metabolism rate. So if you even eat a little
bit over your new daily calorie level in the future, you
will put the weight on far quicker than you lost it. That's
a big negative.

So when you do decide to take Hoodia or any other weight
loss supplement make sure you understand how it works, and
how that will affect your body. You want to make healthy,
effective changes that will give you a long term impact.


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If you would like further information on how to counter the
effects of a decreasing metabolism because of Hoodia, then
go to:
http://www.idealweightresearch.com/hoodia/hoodia-and-your-me
tabolism.html . You may also want to know how to avoid buy
real, pure hoodia at:
http://www.idealweightresearch.com/hoodia/real-hoodia.html .

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