In this article you will discover one unknown key to accomplish the following:
1. How to shift your hormones to burn more fat.
2. How to optimize your liver function to burn more fat.
3. How to hone your mindset to burn more fat.
If you are not doing this one thing properly, you are creating at least 3 problems which make it nearly impossible for you to burn fat during exercise and at rest.
High Cortisol
The stress response or the “fight or flight” activation of the central nervous system creates a high level of cortisol in your blood. Cortisol works to increase blood sugar and insulin and decreases insulin sensitivity.
In short, the stress response shifts your metabolism closer to being diabetic. This internal environment make using fat for energy almost impossible and causes disruption of the appetite regulating hormones–leptin and ghrelin.
If you’re ignoring this unknown key, you’re compromising your metabolism with excess cortisol.
Sub-Optimal Liver Function
The liver is the primary organ that carries out most of the aspects of fat metabolism. Fat that you eat passes through the liver to be processed before you can burn it for energy.
Carbohydrates that your muscles don’t immediately use or store as glycogen go to the liver for repackaging either as glycogen or fat.
If you’re ignoring this one thing, your liver function is not optimized and when it comes to burning fat, you’re screwed.
Lack of Focus
Mental focus is essential to make choices that bring you closer to your goals. The ability of focus your mind is a key element to reaching your goals.
In our modern information age we have more distractions than any population of humans ever has. It is so easy to get drawn off course. Cultivation of our abilities to focus and concentrate has become an essential life skill if we intend to accomplish anything worthwhile.
If you’re not practicing this one key to better mental focus, you cannot reach your full potential.
So what is the key?
Better Breathing
Most people in modern society have poor breathing mechanics. They breath mostly through their mouths. This causes shallow chest breathing where the ribcage expands and the collar bones rise. The abdomen is held in tight and doesn’t expand.
The diaphragm goes mostly unused. This ribcage dominant breathing stimulates the sympathetic branch of the nervous system causing the “fight or flight” response that raises cortisol and leads to all the problems explained above.
This rib cage breathing also leaves the most effective lower parts of the lungs unused for taking in oxygen. The lower lungs have more blood for taking in oxygen. This is nullified by ribcage dominant breathing.
Because oxygen is essential for burning energy in your body, this inefficiency causes fatigue and poor mental and physical performance.
Another result of improper breathing is lack of mental focus and increased anxiety. Your mind essentially matches your breathing pattern. So if your breathing is shallow, erratic, and fast, your mental state will be noisy, nervous, and unfocused.
What’s the solution?
Better breathing is the key. It is the unknown factor for burning more fat efficiently.
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