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Here is an excerpt from a great review of endocrinologist Dr. Diana Schwarzbein's latest book The Schwarzbein Principle II: The "Transition" – A Regeneration Program to Prevent and Reverse Accelerated Aging.

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The book is primarily about the 3 major hormones:

Adrenaline, cortisol, and insulin, and how they are affected by stressors in our lifestyle and nutrition habits (as opposed to an actual glandular-based endocrine disorder). Dr. Schwarzbein includes the "healing stories" of three former patients, as well as her own personal story, throughout the book in order to illustrate the different metabolism types and the paths that led there.

She discusses each hormone individually (acknowledging that no hormone works by itself) and what role each one plays in our survival. When one or more of these hormones are out of balance, you have a damaged metabolism.

The four metabolism types are:

• Insulin-sensitive with healthy adrenal glands (ideal)
• Insulin-sensitive with burned-out adrenals
• Insulin-resistant with healthy adrenals
• Insulin-resistant with burned-out adrenals (most damaged)

At the end of the book are detailed nutrition and exercise plans for each individual metabolism. If you can’t figure out which one you are just by reading, have your hormones and fasting insulin levels tested.

Key points:

You can read the full review here

Another enthusiastic review of Dr. Schwarzbein's work titled The Hamburglar's Metabolism can be found over at Matt Stone's 180 Degree Health… Bloggie-Style site. Here is an excerpt:

For quite some time I have been pondering the multiple expressions of a suboptimal metabolism to the point where I have begun believing that it is the most common root source of the greatest epidemic – the one that rules over all the others like that ring movie with the fat Goonie in it.

The metabolism, a concerted effort on behalf of the endocrine glands, the liver, and more truly controls the function of every single cell. It controls the speed at which food travels from one hole to the other. It controls what time you wake up in the morning. It controls your energy levels. It controls your sex drive and function. It governs all because you really are a product of your metabolism, which is best described as a biochemical network that transforms food, air, water, and events into the experience we know as life.

For many with health problems ranging from fatigue to allergies to susceptibility to infection to heart disease to diabetes to hypoglycemia to digestive problems of all kinds to mental illness – enhancing the metabolism has profound repercussions. This was my lesson learned when following the dogma of Endocrinologist Diana Schwarzbein several years ago….

You can read the full review here

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