Gary Brecka explains why women following standard diet advice still can't lose weight: genetic mutations affecting estrogen elimination cause water retention that looks like fat gain. He recommends balancing omega-3 and omega-6 intake, syncing habits with circadian rhythms, and eliminating foods that trigger individual immune responses.
Nothing is more frustrating to a woman doing everything right and they're not losing any weight. They may be gaining weight. For women that are having hormonal imbalance, they think that they're fat, but they're not. There are gene mutations that don't allow estrogen to be eliminated, and so then they start retaining a bunch of water. What lifestyle changes make the greatest impact on self-correcting hormonal imbalances?
Most people are like so off the charts with omega-6s. Make sure you have sufficient omega-3 fatty acids. Those are so crucial to just basic foundational health. A lot of great options out there, but these are the basics, and we're such circadian creatures, and we can't change everything. It's an elimination-style process we go through. I call it diagnostic— what healthy foods are not healthy for you. That's a big spectrum of what quality is and also how your immune system responds to it.
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