Jillian Michaels Master Your Metabolism Book Is Out

Jillian Michaels, who seems to become more and more popular as time goes by, has come out with another book on blasting away fat and helping people lose weight who have not responded to their liking when dieting and eating healthier. The book, Master Your Metabolism, is all about how the current American diet, which is rich in processed foods and a lot of chemical additives, is mostly about going organic and eating unprocessed, whole foods in order that your body may restore it’s natural hormone balance that helps it to achieve it’s ideal weight and weight maintenance.

She really advocates an organic diet that is high in unprocessed foods like organic fruits and veggies, and stresses the importance of vitamin C since it is a powerful antidote against a stress hormone called cortisol, which has been strongly linked to weight gain. She also talks about how getting enough sleep every night is extremely important because of the hormones it helps to both stimulate helpful hormones and supress the unhealthful ones that are counterproductive to your weight goals.

She says that when you sleep at night you produce the most HGH, which is human growth hormone, the hormone that keeps us lean and healthy in our younger years and tails off toward our later years, which accounts for more body fat and less muscle tone. Using HGH to lose weight is to your advantage because it helps to build muscle while helping to suppress fat production.

For example, she says that sleeping helps you produce a hormone called leptin which helps you feel fuller. The reason you feel ravenous all day after not sleeping enough is because your body has not produced enough of this natural chemical. Also she says sleep helps you to supress the production of cortisol, which helps in your weight goals as well. However, although she points out a lot of helpful and educational anecdotes and facts about why certain things are important in your diet and other things are counterproductive, she really advocates the organic, whole foods and seems to feel that processed foods are majorly responsible for a lot of the obesity and inadequate metabolisms.

I love to be educated on things like this, so this would be a book for me. I think it says a lot of things that some people may not know, but someone who is savvy in how to eat for optimum health may feel that some of it is repetitive. As always, her book is competitively priced, just like her workout dvd’s, which is always appreciated, and something that I feel is really important because she is making this information available to people who really need it. She’s extremely motivational, and I still love her workout videos too.