Weight Management

Chronic infections and biotoxin illness
often cause weight management problems.

Some people gain weight and cannot lose easily while other people lose weight and cannot gain easily.  Pertinent lab work and tests are often normal.  Frustration is an understatement!  Why is weight management so difficult with chronic infections and biotoxin illness?

We obtain toxins from the environment, from chronic infections, and from our own metabolism. Environmental toxins include heavy metals, electromagnetic radiation, pesticides, chemicals, fragrances, medications, vaccinations, etc.  Many infections produce their own biotoxins.  For example, the Lyme bacteria called borrelia possesses a neurotoxin that affects the nervous system. Many metabolic pathways result in toxins naturally, too.

Toxins are generally at the root of the problem with inappropriate weight gain.   If these toxins are not eliminated, then they accumulate in the tissues.  The body wants to protect its organs so it cushions them with fat.  Then, the body stores even more toxins in the fat.  In addition, the fat then produces leptin which leads to even more weight gain that does not respond to exercise and diet.  This cycle is extremely difficult to break.

Toxins and chronic infection can be implicated with inappropriate weight loss, too.  In particular, toxins and infections can irritate the gastrointestinal tract and interfere with nutrient absorption.  Sometimes the gallbladder gets sick from the toxins and from chronic infection; the resulting nausea interferes with a normal appetite. 

So, what can we do?

In medicine, it is always wise to get to the root cause of a problem.  Once common conditions are ruled out, the principle etiology of weight management problems is often chronic infections and toxins. Therefore, the solution is to treat the chronic infections and to eliminate toxins;  Dr. Bazylewicz can help you.

While working on supporting detoxification and the immune system, you can take several steps on your own.

  1. If you are trying to lose weight, follow this healthy diet except eliminate non-gluten grains and legumes, too.  These carbohydrates are changed directly into sugar which is then stored as fat.  Definitely emphasize mostly veggies (non-starchy) and some fruits.
  2. If you are trying to gain weight, still follow this healthy diet while concentrating on the higher caloric foods and especially good fats, such as coconut oil.
  3.  Dr. Richey can help you with supplements to help digest food better for easier absorbability and to help calm inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract.
  4. Perform healthy exercise especially high-intensity interval training as tolerated .
  5. Get healthy sleep.

Weight management can be challenging,
but successful nevertheless!



Let food

be thy medicine, 

and medicine 

be thy food.  

~Hippocrates

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Your word

is a lamp

to my feet

and a light

to my path.

~Psalm 119:105

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The secret of health

for both mind and body

is not to mourn for the past,

worry about the future,

or anticipate troubles,

but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

~Buddha (paraphrased)

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