The Science of Weight Loss

When Weight Issues Found My Athletic Daughter

Weight issues unexpectedly hit my daughter, Justine, while attending UCSC. She had complained of vertigo and fatigue for about six weeks before I took action, as I always allow the body to take care of its own business to a point, since most things will just clear up on their own and it is best to allow the body to exercise its biochemical correction responses occasionally as a “training exercise”.

When I finally ran lab tests on her, we found that she had a serious mold infection that was causing an equally serious bacterial dysbiosis in her GUT. I put her on a program to get rid of the mold and dysbiosis. The symptoms soon cleared, and she went back to regular life, discontinuing the program. Shortly after that, in July 2011, she went to Italy on a study abroad program.

When I arrived in Italy in early December for Justine’s birthday, I saw she had gained just over 35 pounds! On a 5’3 frame, that is a serious matter, both medically and psychologically. She never had an extra pound on her. Her weight in high school was 118. She trained in Kung Fu Martial Arts for 12 years, earning a second-degree black belt, and was a cheerleader throughout high school. She was a hard training athlete nearly every day of the week, from the age of nine.

To lose this weight, Justine, being a disciplined athlete, trained and exercised six days a week while dieting on good, organic food for six months. This resulted in her weight reducing from 156 to 138 pounds, still too much on such a small frame! Hardly a rewarding experience after that much exercise and living as a young adult in a food restrictive bubble. In addition, the mystery remained unsolved: why on the same green and clean diet she’s been on nearly all her life (now reduced for weight loss) would she be overweight and why is it so hard to lose?

Around the same time, I was researching how large and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (LIBO & SIBO) including mold, fungal and yeast infections create a Toxic GUT Syndrome, which can cause everything from addiction, autoimmune disease and cancer to a long list of mental health symptoms including schizophrenia. I found volumes of research indicating GUT fungal and bacterial infections in weight issues and obesity.

After retesting my daughter, I found that I had not completely rid her GUT of the mold infection, but only reduced it enough to get rid of the symptoms she was experiencing. I immediately put her on a comprehensive program to repopulate and correct the microbiome (the 3 – 5 pounds of bacterial GUT flora we all have) and to eliminate SIBO as well as yeast, mold and fungus.

This program included the following:

• a LIBO & SIBO-eliminating specific diet with a focus on repopulating the large intestine with beneficial bacteria;
• lots of probiotic foods;
• a top-tier targeted nutritional supplement therapy to address out-of-range organic acids, bacterial dysbiosis, mold and yeast;
• ozone-infused infrared sauna;
• drinking ozone water;
• taking probiotics and organic colostrum;
• self-administered vitamin B complex and methylcobalamin shots to feed her energy-producing mitochondria (by bypassing the GUT with shots, we prevented the toxic microbes in the GUT from consuming many vitamins, especially the Bs, before they can get to the bloodstream, thereby feeding her energy producing mitochondria to get her athletic metabolism back);
• eating to satiety while waiting a minimum of four hours between meals and emptying out for 12 hours overnight.

This program provided her body with all the nutrients it required to burn fats for energy and allowed her body enough time between meals to initiate its natural cleansing wave, which “ingests” debris and problematic bacteria.

She practiced this program for about two months and the weight that she struggled to lose for nearly a year literally disappeared. And now that all the underlying metabolic disorders are cleared, she doesn’t gain a pound when eating healthfully as she normally did before the mold infection! What is equally rewarding is that she can eat anything she wants. She eats to satiety when she is hungry and has organic treats when she desires them. She only eats organic foods within the Paleo diet framework, with lots of vegetables and regular green juices for maximum nutritional composition. She also enjoys not being hungry all the time any more. False hunger is associated with bacterial dysbiosis, and leptin and insulin resistance, all of which were cleared on the program.

In this book I am going to teach you how to do the same.

The Science of Weight Loss covers the modern day causes of gaining excess weight and not being able to lose it regardless of diet and exercise.

In todays world there are numerous toxic exposures in our food system and environment along with denatured processed foods that do more harm that good and are damaging the Gut. Many of the toxins people are exposed to are endocrine disruptors that now have a name: obesogens. Obesogens are hormone-like chemicals that literally instruct the body to gain weight.

The premise of The Science of Weight Loss is to look at weight issues, not as a pound for pound issue, but a medical issue and to heal the damage that food chemicals, incorrect diet and environmental toxic exposures have done to the upper and lower intestines. It also teaches the reader how to remove the harmful bacteria in their gut and replace it with a diverse rainforest of beneficial bacteria that serves the immune system, energy, weight loss, excellent digestion and production of vitamins that serve all those processes. Also, many people with weight issues have mild to serious cases of Biotoxin illness which is the end result of years of bioaccumulation of food and environmental toxins that put the body into a metabolic syndrome.

Inflammation being the hallmark of Biotoxin Illness and excessive exposure to denatured, processed and chemically adulterated food, is explained extensively in The Science of Weight Loss. Endotoxins are produced in a toxic colon that go into the blood and trigger the inflammation response causing leptin and insulin resistance. This is not only the foundation for uncontrollable weight issues and false hunger but also many diseases beyond those of the gut such as IBS, Crohn’s, diverticulitus, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, Gut Dysbiosis and Toxic Gut Syndrome associated with many mental health issues via the Gut / Brain axis.

The four key causes of today’s epidemic obesity and overweight issues are peeled away like an onion in The Science of Weight Loss and then a corrective strategy is provided which includes optional laboratory testing, targeted nutritional supplementation (protocol is provided in the book), a three phase organic diet based on the common layers of GAP, FODMAP, and SIBO diets, and a detailed day to day fermented food ingestion time table for rebuilding the microbiome. Candida, fungus, bacteria dysbiosis and mycotoxicity (mold) are also covered as an add on to the foundational program so the participant in the program is ready to act when their labs come back reporting their specific gut health issues.

The four healing strategies provided for beyond excellent Gut Health are explained and the addressed in the program and food and supplemental nutritional protocols.

DETOXIFICATION: The participant is guided through an award winning clinical detoxification program focused on cleansing the gut and eliminating inflammation. Eliminating harmful bacteria, fungus, yeast and mold are addressed.

REBUILDING THE MICROBIOME: The participant is educated as to the importance of the Microbiome and is guided through dietary and supplemental strategies to populate the gut with a diverse and robust variety of healthy bacteria which serves the healing process and quickly serves excellent digestion.

CORRECTING METABOLIC SYNDROME: Endotoxins such as the hallmark one for weight gain, lipopolysaccharides are released from a toxic colon and cause distress on the neuroendocrine system causing hormone imbalances, adrenal fatigue, physical and mental fatigue, pancreatic dysfunction among many other conditions – eliminating lipopolysaccharides will by default help bring hormones into balance and “tune in” the neuroendocrine system for optimal functioning. Not only do these endotoxins negatively directly affect the neuroendocrine system but they also do it through causing inflammation in the brain which disrupts the delicate communication systems between the hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid and adrenals known as the HPAP axis. This condition throws the entire neuroendocrine system out of balance with no hope of real correction with drugs or diet. Lipopolysaccharides are the number one progenitor of leptin and insulin resistance.

HEALING BIOTOXIN ILLNESS & THE GUT: Biotoxin Illness, such as mycotoxicity, (endotoxicity) (lipopolysaccharides) is common among those with weight issues and is many times the cause of their excess weight. While the program addresses Biotoxin Illness for the general population because most anyone on a SAD (standard American diet) and who doesn’t pay attention to their toxic exposures has body burden (bioaccumulation of toxins), a specific weight loss designed version of Dr. Shoemaker’s Biotoxin Protocol is provided in the book for those that find in their labs that they are suffering from this condition. The difference between the two populations is those with serious gut symptoms, chronic fatigue, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and other distressing symptoms sometimes related to the gut and sometimes anywhere else in the body are considered diagnosable with a “disease” The rest of the population is non-symptomatic but overweight and “just getting by” usually with brain fog and mental / physical fatigue.

The Science of Weight Loss is an educational journey through your gut and what is making you gain weight and why it is difficult if not impossible to lose. The program will not only cause dramatic weight loss and excellent health but it will add years to your life and create a quality of life beyond what you could imagine.

2010 ‘Human Rights Award’ for the High Impact Biological Medicine “Green Body & Mind Medical Model” she developed which practices the best of Functional Medicine for a long list of today’s epidemic physical and mental diseases and metabolic disorders such as at risk weight and addiction.

Genita M. Mason H.H.P., N.C., F.E. is a two time award winning Biological Medicine Health Care Practioner who for 15 years specialized in Addictive Biochemistry & Psychiatric Medication Tapers while clearing the symptoms people either self medicated or were prescribed psychotropic drugs for. Her intensive “Total Immersion” comprehensive medical model “High Impact Biological Medicine” began being used for many diseases and metabolic disorders as she witnessed more and more of her patients’ other health problems disappear while in treatment for addiction, anxiety, insomnia, depression, biopolar and schitzophrenia. She began successfully providing HIBM successfully for all gut related diseases and conditions, and as an adjuvant treatment for autoimmune disorders, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, deteriorating cerebral function and many other metabolic disorders and diseases. One byproduct she never paid much attention to was the healthy yet rapid weight loss her patients experienced while in treatment – until her athlete daughter was exposed to mold in her collegic home. She treated the chronic fatigue and vertigo symptoms successfully, thinking she had rid her of the mycotoxic infection. Leaving for Italy for a study abroad program soon after, Justine had only gained a few pounds and thought nothing of it. However, Ms. Mason soon learned that she had not cleared the infection when her daughter gained 38 pounds on a 5’3” frame within 3 months of the exposure – going from 118 to 156 – and the weight gain became unmanageable.

With her training in biological sciences and clinical experience she reviewed her HIBM model with a new focus- what did the weight gain associated with psych and illegal drugs, enviornmental toxic exposures, bacterial dysbiosis; mold & yeast infections, processed foods, and toxic gut syndrome all have in common and how could she treat the common denominator to help others who clearly did not gain their weight through irresponsible diet and sedentary lives such as her daughter. Nearly a year in research which resulted in reclaiming her daughter’s healthy weight and self image is now packaged in a treatment program that will not only deliver you to a body you can enjoy but a vibrant and healthy life.