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We often hear that people who are overweight owe their trouble to glands: for the most part this is not true, because hormonal obesity is very rare compared to “normal” obesity, which is caused by excess intake or combination of food.
The craving for certain foods and particularly for carbohydrates does not depend so much on willpower as on the balance of a certain number of neurotransmitters, e.g. serotonin and beta-endorphins. This balance, in turn, is strictly connected with the production of insulin.
Not rarely, those who are overweight also suffer from a chronic lack of serotonin and a hypersensitivity to fast-absorption carbohydrates.
Any type of medical treatment, whether natural, homeopathic or allopathic, cannot be very productive if it's not associated to a correct diet, which must be maintained for a sufficient period; furthermore, any diet works a lot better if it is associated with motion and (even mild) physical exercise, which causes the body to consume more calories and facilitates all circulatory and purifying functions.
A good and balanced diet must be set up by a doctor and it must be associated with all possible aids, starting from family relationships (relatives should encourage, not make fun) and continuing with a pharmacological integration of substances that facilitate the purifying process.
Suggested links
It's difficult to draw a complete picture of a complex pathology such as obesity. For this reason we suggest a link to the pages of the Merk Manual on Obesity. In these pages you'll find useful information on this ailment, on its possible causes and on the consequences of this multi-factor disease. We also suggest an article dedicated to the problem of infant obesity drawn from the list of illnesses of Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm: “Overweight Children. How to Help Your Child”.
Homeopathy
The same therapy that is used for Cellulite, with the addition of three granules of Hypothalamus 7 CH in the evening. This has a balancing effect on hunger.
Trace elements
For best results use a combination of metabolic minerals (Manganese and Chromium), anti-swelling (Magnesium and Potassium) and anti-tension and circulatory (Manganese, Lithium and Cobalt), associated in a mixture of oxyprolinates of Manganese 10 ml, Lithium 20 ml, Chromium 25 ml, Potassium 30 ml, Magnesium 30 ml and Pidobase 25 ml. Take 2 teaspoonfuls a day of this combination for one month. This may be repeated after an interval of one month.
Phytotherapy and drainage
Hypericum TM and Rhus toxicodendron TM may be used for local applications and massages.
Spirea ulmaria TM or Taraxacum TM or Pilosella TM, in a dosage of 30 drops 2-3 times a day, have an important purifying function and may be taken in rotation, fifteen days each.
Fucus vesicolosus TM, in a dosage of 20 drops twice a day, must be associated systematically to one of the three above mentioned products: it stimulates metabolism in general; it may be alternated Betulla verrucosa (linph) 1D glycerate extract, in a dosage of 40-50 drops twice a day, with a anti-toxic function.
Vitamin therapy and food supplements
The craving for sweets or drugs is often linked to an unconscious search for glutamic acid, especially in case of nervous hunger. You may utilize, therefore, Levoglutamin (Clutaven, half a cap a day; L Clutamin, a fourth of a cap), associated with Vitamin B6 (50 mg or more per day: Benadon, vitamin B6) to be taken at breakfast.
In the course of a diet you have to watch out for excessive mineral deficiencies and therefore it may be useful to associate it with a multimineral product (Multiminerals). Other substances, for example glucomannan, alginic acid and others, have a stomach-filling function: they inhibit appetite and partly reduce intestinal absorption. A few of these products (Grapefruit, glucomannano 500) may be associated to diet.
Doctor Attilio Speciani
Clinical Allergist and Immunologist
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