Tag: muscle

Lean Muscle and Weight Loss

There is an important corollary to our ongoing discussion on weight loss that needs special attention here.  Fundamentally, obesity is a symptom of metabolic derangement.  You can’t go long eating a diet full of processed high-carb foods before the “fuel injection system” of your body breaks down.  Eating in this way shifts your body away from maintaining lean […]

Cheap Weight Loss Part 4: Metabolic Derangement

In guiding patients through weight loss challenges over the years, I have championed two main strategies that have been the mainstay of my approach: detoxification and a low-carb diet.  The detoxification process jumpstarts metabolism while eliminating food sensitivities through a modified elimination diet.  After that three week process, keeping one’s diet relatively low-carb by removing […]