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Sweat
Summer heat makes people sweat. A patient found a quote, “Sweat is fat crying.” Well, yes, but the first sweat to come out of your body is sick. You will understand this dramatic statement as you read further. The body retains water to keep toxins away from our cells. Another doctor rhymed, “The body’s solution to pollution is dilution.” The body keeps pollution (toxin) safely away from our cells by diluting it with water. Inflammation is the buildup of toxins and water in the tissue. Sweating gets inflammation out. But which is first –fat sweat or inflammation sweat? Many people ‘diet’ and ‘exercise’ to lose weight, to get the fat off. Using a weight scale that measures body fat percent, I consistently record the first 5 to 30 pounds of weight loss is not so much fat. If a person is 250 pounds with 50 percent body fat (125 pounds fat), and if they lose 30 pounds in one month, the follow-up scale might read 220 pounds with 52 percent body fat (114 pounds fat). Hence, of 30 pounds lost, 11 pounds was fat and 19 pounds was inflammation. The person lost 30 pounds and got fatter (by percent). Faced with eliminating fat or inflammation, the body opts first to eliminate inflammation more than fat. The mind wants a thin body and so the mind wants to believe the body gets thin by losing fat. The body does not care about the mind’s desire. While explaining this, I realize inflammation is quite plainly tissue storage of vomit. Sounds gross, which is my intent. I am not writing this article to a body; I am writing to a mind. I prefer the UK word for vomit; sick. Hence, for anyone overweight, there is too much fat and too much sick stored in the body. The body will opt to eliminate sick more than fat; worded this way, it makes sense that sick is worse than fat. Only after all the sick is gone, will the body eliminate fat. Very few make it to sweating only fat. The reason the body has so much sick is because people (their minds) don’t do what is best for their body. Instead, people listen to ‘authorities’ to tell them what to do. That is partly the reason for all diet plans – vegan, South Beach, Bible, Atkins, etc. and all exercise plans. Such plans carry on through hearsay. One mind to another, people are sick and fat because of hearsay. And by hearsay, people believe that losing
weight means losing fat. In practice, I see patients lose inflammation more than fat for up to 3 months getting ‘fatter’ while getting thinner. Sweat is first and foremost up to 30 or more pounds of sick. Then, when they ‘trim up’ (fatter but thinner) they quit exercising and go back to eating the way they did before. Hence, yo-yo diets and exercise plans prevail, as though a month or two of dieting and exercise worked, each time, time and again, while the dieter gets fatter. The average American carries 5 to 50 pounds of sick in the tissue. I am one of the few that achieve fat sweating because I push a mountain bike 50 miles once a week at an average 17 mph and I don’t eat foods that produce an inflammatory immune reaction. There is a way to differentiate between sick sweat and fat sweat. Sick sweat stinks because bacteria on the skin eat sick and release noxious odors. Fat sweat is strictly water, which doesn’t feed bacteria, so fat sweat has little to no odor. Ever go to a gym and smell people’s sick? In the summer, when riding my bicycle 50 miles, I pour sweat and I don’t stink. But when I start training in the spring (a short 20 miles) my sweat is so sick I use a garden hose to clean off before going inside. The results of winter inactivity and holiday food, food brings in sick, exercise gets it out. The quote should read: “Healthy sweat is sick. Healthier sweat is fat crying.” Now you can understand as I state, “Have a healthier summer.” Dr. David Fakadej, DC, LMT, is the proprietor at Journey Health Care & Chiropractic, 17652 Munn Road, Auburn Township. Call him at 440543-2771, or e-mail drfakadej@hotmail.com.
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