#337 How to Reduce Cellulite and My Anti-Aging Melatonin Protocol - Q&A Siim Land

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Hey, welcome back to the channel. My name is Siim Land, and today we're doing another Instagram Q&A, where I answer questions that you asked me on Instagram. And if you want to ask yourself a question in the future, then make sure you follow me on Instagram, at Siim Land. All right, so first question, are calories and hormones responsible for obesity? So, that's the very, you know, conflicting, let's say stance, like, is it calories that causes obesity? Is it hormones? Is it insulin that causes obesity? I personally think that, you know, it's a combination of both. The main culprit is definitely like calories. When you look at the trend, then over the past few decades, then the amount of calories consumed in Western countries has increased quite a lot. We're consuming, you know, 200, 500 more calories a day. Some individuals in the US, especially, they may be even consuming like a thousand more calories a day, and yeah, that's just generally the main cause of why people are gaining weight and why there is like a massive problem with obesity, and those calories generally come from, you know, processed foods, junk foods, restaurants, takeaways, those things. Many people don't cook their foods anymore, and they opt for the pre-packaged foods, TV dinners, all those things that just have added calories, and yeah, those calories add up quite easily. Like you can easily have, you know, 400 more calories in a salad if you just add more dressing and oils and those kind of things. Eating regular spinach, lettuce, broccoli isn't gonna make you fat. It's gonna make you fat only if you have, like, Caesar salad dressing or, yeah, just other kind of added calories in the meal. The amount of, like, carbohydrate intake hasn't necessarily increased, or, like, from whole food carbohydrates, it hasn't increased necessarily. It's mostly increased from added sugars and sugar-sweetened beverages and added fats as well. So it's not that, you know, people are eating low-fat diets. They're not. They're eating high-fat diets, high-carb diets, and low-protein diets, which generally just makes their bodies burn as calories, first of all, reduces their insensitivity, makes them gain weight, and causes this leptin resistance that enforces overeating over time. Like, your brain doesn't receive the message that it's full and that that's the reason why people overeat. Like, the processed junk food generally overrides these satiety signals and causes leptin resistance, which over time causes insulin resistance, which keeps your blood sugar levels elevated all the time and makes your body less responsive to the exercise, as well as makes it easier to store fat and calories. So if you are lean and healthy, then carbs are fine. You can even eat junk food if you're lean and healthy because you're already insensititive. The further you gravitate away from the center where you are insensititive, the worse it becomes, the easier it is to store calories because your body loses its insensitivity and loses its ability to pretty much store calories and glucose in the muscle cells as well. So from a hormonal side, then insulin alone isn't the issue because I mean, lean people, athletes, they eat a lot of carbs and they're very insensititive. So it's a matter of insulin resistance that's usually caused by overconsumption of calories and overconsumption of fats and carbs. So it's not carbs, it's not fat, it's just the overconsumption of calories that causes this hormonal disruption and this like insulin resistance that makes people gain weight over time, much more so and also like the psychological aspect of just eating more and craving more of the calories. 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