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let’s talk about leptin leptin is mainly known as an appetite hormone so the more

you have the less hungry you are but leptin also has a huge immune

function that I want to talk about and as a side note the Greek word for the

word leptin means thin because of the suppression of the appetite when you

increase leptin the hunger goes away because there’s a signal from the fat

cell to your brain specifically the hypothalamus telling the brain we have

enough nutrition or food but when leptin is low you are hungry leptin is made by

your fat cells and the intestinal cells but here’s a problem chronically high

levels of leptin start causing what’s called leptin resistance now this is

very similar to insulin resistance where you have this high level of insulin

produced by consuming a lot of carbohydrates and what happens over time

is your receptors start to downgrade and now you can’t absorb that hormone

anymore same exact thing happens with leptin

high levels of leptin over a long period of time kind of desensitize the receptor

and now you don’t get a lot of absorption of that hormone here’s the

problem the feedback loops that are supposed to go back to the fat cells

really don’t because of the blockage of the receptor so the fat cell keeps

making more and more and more but you have the situation where you have all

this leptin but it’s not working so we have symptoms of a leptin deficiency

starving and in excess as well and another purpose of leptin is to suppress

both parts of the immune system to calm inflammation down so people that don’t

have enough leptin have higher risks of getting an autoimmune problem because

they have way too much inflammation and when you have a lot of inflammation in

your body your immune system is actually weaker so the reason why I wanted to

talk about leptin is to mention that the way to fix this is the exact same

procedure as you would to fix insulin resistance

and that is doing keto and intermittent fasting these together over a period of

time will solve insulin resistance and leptin resistance which will also help

your immune system greatly so when people ask you what some of the benefits

of keto and intermittent fasting are you can tell them it has a huge benefit on helping

suppress inflammatory conditions as well as supporting a healthy immune system

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