It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

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disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, and kidney
disease.


Finally, as a weight-gain triple-whammy,
elevated cortisol messes with normal thyroid
function, leading to a metabolic slowdown
that makes it that much easier for you to pack
on the pounds.


So if you have an intimate relationship
with food-with-no-brakes, and you’re leptin
resistant, and you’re insulin resistant, and
you’re chronically stressed ...


Is it any wonder you can’t lose weight,
even on your low-fat, calorie-restricted diet?


We think we can summarize our case right
here:


It’s    all about   hormones.

In real life, these hormones ebb and flow
in reaction to various external stimuli: eating,
physical activity, sleeping, reacting to

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