What You Eat Helps to Determine How You Sleep

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The unique way your body metabolizes foods plays a major role in how difficult ongoing weight control will be. Although there are many healthy diet plans, a given diet may not be the right one, since what works for one person does not work for another. Knowing you have a genetic variant that affects your body's ability to manage risk factors for specific a disease, or impacts how your body metabolizes an ingredient, makes a huge difference in the design of your personalized menus. Metabolic Research Centers are designed to help you resolve the problems that you are having with unwanted weight gain to improve your health and well-being. Our staff can design a menu plan based on functional foods that will better support your body's unique needs.

When you follow a healthy diet with the right nutrients, you can dramatically improve hormone production throughout your body. The right foods steady your blood glucose levels and optimize other hormone production.

• SLEEP HORMONE DIET - Cherries are a natural source of melatonin, which is the sleep hormone released by your pineal gland. If you suffer from insomnia, cherries have been proven to increase total sleep time as well as your quality of sleep.
• STRESS HORMONE DIET - Research has proven that people can lower cortisol levels by engaging in stress reducing activities like yoga or massage. Listening to soothing music can help normalize your production of stress hormones.
• THYROID HORMONE DIET - Every cell in the human body needs thyroid hormones to function properly. Thyroid resistance or autoimmune attacks against a person's own thyroid gland is common with Hashimoto's and Graves' disease where weight gain and weight loss are health issues.
• HORMONE RESET DIET - Secreted by fat cells, adiponectin is a key hormone that tells your body when to burn fat deposits. The hormone's role is to regulate blood sugar levels and breakdown fatty acid. People who have declining levels of fat-burning hormone are more prone to stored fat.
• INSULIN HORMONE DIET - Insulin hormone functions to facilitate the absorption of glucose into your cells and the storage of excess glucose in fat deposits. Making good food choices helps you avoid sugar spikes and maintain healthy insulin function.

On a daily basis, you are bombarded with toxicity nearly everywhere from the air you breathe to the food you eat. Many of these chemicals are known endocrine or hormone disruptors that can affect multiple pathways and create a wide-range of damage.

Hormones work to ensure you consume the right amount of food to fuel your body on a daily basis. To balance your hormones, sleep is just as important as food. This includes sending signals to your brain when it is time for you to start eating as well as when it is time to stop. Your body's production of insulin, serotonin, cortisol, dopamine, estrogen and testosterone can all be impacted by the food choices you make. Fats, carbs and protein play a major role in how hormones are synthesized in your body. In a recent study, women who consumed a diet containing 30% protein experienced greater feelings of fullness than eating a diet containing 10% protein. In addition, the women experienced an increase in their fat-burning metabolism.