Aerobics is an excellent fat burning exercise, especially when you are fit enough to do a one hour aerobic session. Of course strength training, stretching, relaxing, walking, and general physical activity are equally important.Aerobic exercise is proven to help curb your appetite. It has been shown to increase BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor)...

When using nutrition to support leptin function you are simply trying to nourish your overall leptin system, along with your other systems. This approach falls under the category of assisting the healthy structure and function of your body and is not the treatment or prevention of any disease or medical condition.The topics previously listed are key...

Leptin is a hormone that comes from your stored body fat. It controls your metabolism, including the function of thyroid hormone. It controls your body weight. Women have a higher percentage of body fat than men, and thus higher levels of leptin even when not pregnant. This is specifically so that women have enough energy reserves to sustain pregnancy and...

No simple fix or miracle weight loss pill will ever address the complexity of leptin in your metabolism. Beware of false marketing for any one product making this claim (Many leptin products are out there, all of them riding on our coattails, as we are the original leptin experts). On the other hand, there are many nutrients that beneficially impact...

Stress implies that there is an increased need for energy. Leptin, which is overall in charge of your body's energy spending systems, also regulates your adrenal and nervous system response to stress. When leptin systems work efficiently you have a better ability to tolerate stress, do not feel wired up or exhausted from stress, and do not eat in response...

Leptin orchestrates blood sugar and insulin metabolism through central mechanisms in your nervous system and by communicating to your pancreas to stop insulin production at the end of a meal. When these systems are running smoothly they help you maintain a healthy weight and stay on a healthy weight management program. Key nutrients in Cinnamon Plus™ and...

A new study by researchers at the shows that children who get less than 9.75 hours of sleep in the third grade are 40 percent more likely to be overweight in the sixth grade.

The Leptin Diet® teaches you to maximize your ability to get energy from the food you eat – meaning you can eat less food and feel great. It is the first diet based on the science of leptin, and it is an astoundingly simple and common sense way to eat. It is not a fad diet or calorie manipulation – it is simply an eating lifestyle that makes all the...

Quoting the new press release covering the study, “Eat less, exercise more. Now there is new evidence to support adding another “must” to the weight-loss mantra: eat at the right time of day.” How flattering, I've been saying those exact words since publishing Mastering Leptin in 2002.

Most people think that hypothyroidism causes obesity. While this can be true, growing evidence demonstrates that elevated leptin causes increased susceptibility to autoimmune thyroid disorders like Hashimoto’s and Grave’s disease.

The media is beginning to catch on to what I have been reporting for the past five years – leptin problems drastically influence the perception and desire for food, leading to excess consumption and weight gain. There are only 12 humans that have been identified that have a genetic mutation preventing them from making leptin at all....

I have spent more than twenty years on the front lines of clinical nutrition helping thousands of people solve very difficult health problems – naturally. In all these years I have never encountered more powerful principles of health than those relating to leptin.

Effects of lipopolysaccharide on leptin transport across the blood-brain barrier.

Leptin and adiponectin interact in the regulation of prostate cancer cell growth via modulation of p53 and bcl-2 expression.

Leptin improves Fatty liver independently of insulin sensitization and appetite suppression in hepatocyte-specific pten-deficient mice with insulin hypersensitivity

Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) in the cerebellum.

Dietary xenoestrogens differentially impair 3T3-L1 preadipocyte differentiation and persistently affect leptin synthesis.

Leptin modulates enteric neurotransmission in the rat proximal colon: an in vitro study.