A broken metabolism is the inability to lose weight no matter what you do: dietary interventions, exercise or stress management. This requires specialized lab testing and expertize to determine root causes and a personalized program to reverse your broken metabolism. Metabolix Health can help you! Get started today.
Are you concerned because your recent health check-up wasn’t what you expected?
Have you noticed that you’ve gained weight, especially around the midsection, and losing weight has become harder?
Even though you may not “feel” any symptoms, or just notice that you’ve slowed down in recent years, an additional risk factor is your body shape. Because where you “wear” your fat matters: If you look more like an apple than a pear, your risk of broken metabolism is even greater.
Carrying weight around your middle is an indication of excess visceral fat, a key risk factor for the development of chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, and broken metabolism. Here are some key markers we track:
The good news is that metabolism issues can be reversed naturally, even if you have a genetic disposition or close relatives who have had diabetes or heart disease.
Since your risk for broken metabolism increases with age, it is critical to understand how your lifestyle habits impact your risk as early as possible. We also recommend proper testing to see where your inflammation markers stand.
The conventional approach to addressing broken metabolism is typically “lose weight and exercise” – which is cookie-cutter advice that most people just ignore.
Sadly, most conventional doctors have received little to no training in nutrition and fitness and how inflammation and insulin sensitivity play into this – which means they are ill-equipped at guiding you on a real plan that will reduce your risk factors.
Unfortunately, the conventional approach does little to help you resolve gut health issues and hormone imbalances that also play a role in broken metabolism.
What about a DIY approach? Sadly, most of the “healthy” eating information circulating on the Internet is incorrect and can actually worsen your risk for broken metabolism for many reasons:
First, most of these plans are high in hidden sugars and carbohydrates, include foods that are inflammatory in other ways, and may not be right for your unique nutritional needs or biological make-up.
This is why you see people losing weight on diet plans that don’t work for you. If you already have some of the risk factors or have a broken metabolism, losing weight can also be incredibly challenging for reasons I cover in the weight loss section.
Functional medicine is “whole body” holistic medicine – meaning we treat the entire body and teach our clients the correct way to achieve balance through lifestyle, nutrition, and targeted medical-grade supplementation.
This is why functional medicine really shines when it comes to treating chronic illnesses and disorders like broken metabolism that need attention in many systems in your body – from insulin to metabolic hormones and your digestive health.
One of the reasons we are so successful at treating broken metabolism is that we also deal with deeper issues that keep your metabolism from functioning properly:
This includes dealing with chronic inflammation (that is typically high in clients with broken metabolism). When the body is very inflamed, your hormonal balance (insulin, cortisol, thyroid, etc) is oftentimes “off” as well – impacting your ability to lose weight.
People with chronic inflammation typically also exhibit high levels of stress hormones like cortisol that don’t “shut off” – in turn causing intense fat and sugar cravings that keep people in a vicious cycle of steady weight gain.
Your gut health (also called your gut biome) is also a huge consideration: Many people have undiagnosed gut issues like bacterial infections, parasites, or gut dysbiosis that can put their immune system on high alert and trigger inflammation as well.
Weight loss can be an important part of healing broken metabolism. But it also has to be done the correct way, with an anti-inflammatory diet that helps to balance your hormones and gut health.
Many people don’t realize that even a modest 5% reduction of their body weight positively impacts blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol/triglycerides.
Yet most people with broken metabolism have an incredibly hard time losing weight due to insulin resistance and other challenges that they are unaware of.
This is why it is so important to partner with a functional medicine practitioner who can create the right weight loss protocol to help you safely release weight without crazy diets, pills, or potions. And even better is a functional medicine practitioner like Clare Kelway who has reversed her own autoimmunity and broken metabolism. There is often a link between autoimmunity and broken metabolism.
If you experience metabolism issues and are looking for answers, schedule a health consultation today so we can help you decide on your best next steps.
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