You Can’t Lose Weight Because Your Brain Is Damaged

If you’ve ever had trouble losing or keeping weight off, it might be because you’re suffering from brain damage! You read right! Researchers have found that maintaining weight loss success may be tied to a part of the brain involved in weight regulation.

According to the scientists, if a heavy person does all the right things and starts eating healthier and working out they will enjoy weight loss, but may pack the pounds back on as quickly as they shed them because of actual damage inflicted on brain cells or neurons in the hypothalamus by their poor eating habits. If you’ve followed my articles before you know this part of the brain in intricately involved in exercise and weight loss, because it controls a number of bodily functions, including appetite. See “Building Brains & Brawn http://www.edgepersonalfitness.com/content/building-brains-and-brawn

Apparently tests carried out on overweight animals showed inflamed hypothalamuses, which suggest some sort of damage or injury has occurred at the site of the inflammation.

Tests carried out on mice and rats showed signs of inflammation in as little as 24 hours of switching them to a high fat diet. While the brain reacted with a rapid neuro-protective response, they found that maintaining the diet meant the eventual return of the inflammation. So your inability to lose weight may have everything to do with damage to the part of your brain most directly linked to you appetite and controlling body weight. Scientists also believe that this may also be why some weight loss drugs and potions don’t really work…because they are not targeting the real source of the problem. Ain’t that something? Mind blowing huh?