HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day 21, Research proves that Vitamin D . ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day 21,Research proves that Vitamin D improves weight loss. ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

Day 21: 214.6 HCG injection 300 units ( .3 cc) days 15-25

This morning I started my day with some coffee and three fried eggs with bacon and cheddar cheese on a low carb wrap. I used the one wrap for all three eggs. This is a little more carbs that I should have in the morning, but I will just have to restrict my carbohydrate intake tonight. I ate two hard boiled eggs , i made yesterday for a mid morning snack and ate three thick turkey roll-ups with Muenster cheese ( I will show you that in the next blog). No afternoon snack, but again focused on drinking alot of water between seeing patients. For dinner I heated a pound, yes a pound of bay scallops in a frying pain with olive oil, and then after browning them on both sides (about 4 minutes each side) , I put them in the oven on broil with some Parmesan and Romano cheese. It was really filling and my 11 year old actually really liked it too. Life sure has its mysteries. I went with the sugar free jello and low sugar whip cream for dessert, and thus consumed no carbohydrates for dessert. Another key to successful weight loss is to have an adequate level of Vitamin D. Let me explain how beneficial this really is to weight loss.

Research proves that Vitamin D improves weight loss Robert G Carlson, MD, FACS

RESEARCH PROVES THAT VITAMIN D IMPROVES WEIGHT LOSS

Researchers at Aberdeen University found that low levels of vitamin D interfered with the function of a hormone called leptin, which tells the brain when the stomach is full. The study also found that excess body fat absorbs vitamin D, stopping it entering the bloodstream. Unfortunately in the winter months, when exercise is difficult and seasonal depression creeps in, low vitamin D levels are epidemic and will cause weight gain. In addition, the rapid spiral worsens as the accumulation of excess body fat leads to the fat-soluble vitamin D becoming locked away in fat cells.

In another study involving 60 overweight/obese women aged 20-35 years adhering to a low calorie diet, those with higher vitamin D levels lost more weight and fat. This supports the theory that women with a better vitamin D status will respond better to low calorie diets and lose more body fat.

In postmenopausal women calcium/vitamin D supplements have been shown to slow weight gain This finding comes from a detailed, seven-year study of more than 36,000 U.S. women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative. It clearly demonstrates that most weight gain was in the youngest postmenopausal women and that Vitamin D and calcium slowed the process of weight gain.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered that if you are struggling to lose weight or have lost weight but plateaued, that adding vitamin D3 to a high protein diet may be just be the boost you need. They found that you could lose 25 pounds of flab from your body in about 7 seconds per day, simply by adding vitamin D3 this year. So it appears that Vitamin D3 may be the "SWITCH" that turns on automatic fat burning engine.

A 2009 study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota found that overweight people have better success in losing weight when their vitamin D levels are increased. When combined with a reduced-calorie diet, it appears that supplementation with vitamin D helps to promote increased weight loss among those whose levels are low. For each nanogram per milliliter increase in vitamin D precursor, it was observed that an extra half-pound loss in weight occurred while on the diet plan.

To address the Metabolic syndrome and the increase in visceral abdominal fat, I believe it is critical to understand the connection between vitamin D levels and insulin resistance. Vitamin D deficiency may contribute to the wide set of disorders associated with this syndrome of high cholesterol, insulin resistance, high blood pressure and increased abdominal fat. In a study published in 2004, the authors saw a 60% improvement in insulin sensitivity in healthy, vitamin D replete adults — and determined that vitamin D was more potent than two prescription medications commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes.

Clearly, vitamin D is critical in regulating our weight, and knowing the dramatic impact on thyroid function, and optimizing metabolism, the correlation between rising rates of obesity and vitamin D deficiency aren’t a surprise. Vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol supports so many important functions in our bodies and interacts with over 2000 Genes. To believe that the only benefit of Vitamin D is to improve bone growth seems short cited at best. Focus on optimizing your vitamin D levels, and a healthy and active lifestyle will be in your future. MORE INFO AT WWW.ANDLOS.COM

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day 20, Is My Thyroid stopping me from losing weight? ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day 20, Is My Thyroid stopping me from losing weight? ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

Day 20: 215

HCG Schedule: 300 units (.3 cc) for days 15-25

I started my day with a chocolate whey shake and a cup of coffee. I boiled six eggs so that I could eat them for snacks during the day and for breakfast tomorrow. The hard boiled eggs, really seem to curb my appetite and are very filling. For my mid-day snack I ate a egg and two of the Babybel cheeses. My lunch consisted of three roll-ups (London Port Roast beef and Horseradish Cheddar). I had to eat rather quickly as we had a back to back patient day.

I drank about four bottles of water during the day, a couple of them the Aquafina Raspberry flavored water. Those are really good as well as are the Grape flavored ones. I didn't eat a snack but for dinner ate an entire Lemon Pepper Chicken( zero carbs, zero sugar) and no salad. My dessert consisted of a strawberry Atkins shake , blended with five strawberries and some ice...topped with whip cream.

Is My Thyroid stopping me from losing weight and how common are thyroid problems that result in weight gain and poor energy levels? Robert G Carlson, MD, FACS

Thyroid Disease: The Numbers

So how common are Thyroid problems that cause weight gain?

The AACE (American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists) established new TSH Guidelines (0.3 - 3.0 vs. 0.5 - 5.0). Unfortunately for you, Labcorp and most physicians still insist that a level of 4.5 is normal? With these new changes the number of people estimated to be affected by abnormal thyroid function have doubled. Are you one of them? From my perspective the classic low thyroid patient most often presents with two classic symptoms:. The first is the inability to lose weight despite exercise and careful food intake, and the second, feeling of exhaustion in the mid to late afternoon, almost like you have to take a nap or at least drink a double expresso to get through the rest of the day. Please understand that having non-optimal thyroid function means that it will be extremely difficult to achieve your goals of weight loss. Metabolically your system is not working well and even drastic measures of dieting and exercise often yield minimal to no results. This gets very depressing, to the point that you might decide to just “give it up” and accept that you will start to accumulate that extra fat around your belly.

The number of people affected by Thyroid Disease now surpasses the number of people diagnosed with Diabetes or Heart Disease.

• 27 Million: The number of Americans estimated to suffer from Thyroid Disease. (And 75 % of those patients are being treated with the worthless therapy of only T4 or synthroid alone)
• 13 Million: The number of Americans estimated to suffer from Thyroid Disease...but remain undiagnosed.( I think that this number is much higher)
• 14 Million: Estimated number of Americans affected by Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (Autoimmune Thyroiditis / Hypothyroidism). And that means that the TSH lab test , and even all the basic thyroid lab tests are worthless. And by the way, 30% of women over the age of 50 will have these antibodies, will have classic low thyroid symptoms, and will be told their lab values are normal! The lab tests are worthless, and the ONLY way to manage Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is by adjusting the medications to a patient’s signs and symptoms.
• 8 out of 10: Patients with Thyroid Disease are women.
• 5x - 8x: Women are 5 to 8 times more likely to suffer from Hypothyroidism than men.
• 25%: Approximate number of women that will develop permanent Hypothyroidism.

So stop suffering from low energy levels (especially in the late afternoon), weight gain( despite eating right and exercising), brain fog, muscle aches and pain, poor digestion, hair loss, dry skin and depression. Just say “no” to only being tested with TSH, and demand to get the full panel. If you are NOT getting better on replacement therapy, demand that your doctor checks your thyroid antibodies. And demand that your doctor takes care of you and NOT a worthless unreliable lab test like TSH.

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day 15, FAT BURNING ACCELERATOR INJECTIONS ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day 15, FAT BURNING ACCELERATOR INJECTIONS ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

Day 15: 218

WEIGHT LOSS SEEMS TO HAVE STABILIZED. MY SCHEDULE DOESN'T ALLOW ME TO RUN AND EXERCISE AS MUCH DURING THE WEEK. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE WEEKEND TO INCREASE MY EXERCISE AND THAT SEEMS TO ACCELERATE THE WEIGHT LOSS. TODAY I INCREASED MY HCG INJECTION FROM 200 UNITS TO 300. MY APPROACH TO THIS IS, BECAUSE WE HAVE A TENDENCY TOWARDS DEVELOPING SOME RESISTANCE TO THE HCG BENEFITS OF CAUSING APPETITE SUPPRESSION IF I LEAVE THE DOSE THE SAME FOR THE ENTIRE TIME. I WILL REDUCE IT TOWARDS THE END, AND THEN REMOVE ALL HCG INJECTIONS FOR TWO WEEKS TO ALLOW RESOLUTION OF ANY TOLERANCE TO THE HCG. SOME TALK ABOUT WAITING A MONTH OR TWO, BUT I HAVE FOUND THAT TWO WEEKS IS ALL THAT IS NECESSARY BEFORE RESUMING THE PROTOCOL AGAIN.

I WILL CONTINUE DESCRIBING THE CONTENTS OF THE INJECTIONS AND THE BENEFITS FROM THE USE OF THE FAT BURNING ACCELERATOR INJECTIONS.

The addition of Carnitine to the Fat Burning Accelerator Injections has provided a increase in loss of abdominal fat in my patients.

Supplementing your diet with L-carnitine can actually help you become slimmer, faster than almost anything else you do! Here’s why...

Lean muscle tissue burns approximately five times as many calories as fatty tissue. When you exercise you put a demand on your muscles to work — consume stored body energy. Supplementing your diet with L-carnitine can release the stored energy your body needs to build new muscle tissue, boost your energy levels and accelerate natural weight loss.

L-Carnitine is really not an amino acid in the strict sense; however L-Carnitine bears many resemblances to amino acids and is usually grouped under this heading.

L-Carnitine is used by the body to transport long chain fatty acids to the "power sources" in your cells called mitochondria, which are where your calories get "burned" or oxidized for energy. Since this fat burning is such a major source of muscular energy, deficiencies in L-Carnitine are manifested as low energy levels and muscular weakness.

L-carnitine is a health supplement that when used as an injection, with higher amounts absorbed, will boost weight loss and energy. We all need carnitine to metabolize fat and it’s already a natural component of your body. It is already inside you — metabolizing the fat in your cells, to be turned into energy, which will keep you feeling energetic and alert throughout the day.

But when our L-carnitine levels dwindle, we lose that edge , the edge that burns fat and uses it for energy. So supplementing your body with L-carnitine will not only give you more energy — and so you’ll feel much better — and losing those excess pounds and inches, becomes a lot easier.

The fact is many people have a serious deficiency of Carnitine in their bodies. It’s probably one of the major reasons so many of us have trouble metabolizing fat. Unfortunately some people won’t absorb the carnitine taken as a capsule, because it is destroyed in the acid environment of the stomach, and beat up by the enzymes in the liver. So giving that as an injection will provide excellent reliable absorption and blood levels will be higher, thus optimizing your metabolism.

And that is one of the reasons we end up being so overweight. A lot of overweight people don’t necessarily over eat; they just don’t eat the right types of foods at the right time of day. And when they do eat, their body metabolism is running so slow, almost every excess calorie becomes stored fat.

What else is so great about L-carnitine?

Well, when you start supplementing your diet with Carnitine, the fat you have stored up, as excess weight, gets burned (converted) to pure energy. Unlike many other weight loss supplements that include artificial stimulants, Carnitine generates pure natural energy. With an L-carnitine supplement, your body metabolism can start operating at optimum efficiency again.

Ultimately, your ability to control your weight is determined by...

How effectively your body converts food to ENERGY!

You may NOT be overweight because of overeating... A slow and sluggish body metabolism could be your real enemy. For many people, taking an L-carnitine supplement is their secret to achieving lasting weight loss that was impossible before!

You need to jump-start your body's metabolism... And an L-carnitine metabolic weight loss supplement is the perfect way to do this!

Without harmful drugs or using restrictive diets!

L-carnitine is the natural, effective weight loss solution people spent years and thousands of dollars searching for. Now you can lose all the excess weight and keep it off... Permanently! No wonder there’s so much excitement about the benefits of L-carnitine and the potential for permanent weight loss!

What does L-carnitine actually do?

L-carnitine transfers fat into the mitochondria — Mitochondria are the fat-burning chambers within your body's cells — where they are burned for energy. But if you have an L-carnitine deficiency, the fat cannot enter the inner cell to be metabolized. As a result, the un-metabolized fat will become stored fat (excess weight) in places you don’t want it!

Supplementing L-carnitine into your diet helps stimulate your metabolism naturally and also helps:

1. Promote stored fat burning for increased energy.

2. To give you a heightened sense of well-being.

3. As a mild appetite suppressant to control your food intake.

4. As a non-surgically way to reduce unsightly collected fat.

5. Increases your energy level and desire for physical activity.

6. helps your cells to burn fat (making it excellent addition to a weight loss program)

7. increases energy

8. improves heart and liver health all at the same time

9. reduces post-exercise muscle damage, pain and tenderness

L-carnitine is not just a powerful fat-burner and energy booster, but it’s also a natural appetite suppressant that can help regulate blood sugar levels.

If you aren't burning fat effectively, the fat will build up and get stored in your body. This then leads to a variety of health problems caused by fatty build-ups. L-Carnitine supplementation can help prevent fatty build-ups in the heart and liver (especially likely if you are a regular consumer of alcoholic beverages).

And, if you're among those people avoiding exercise because of the pain and exhaustion that often comes afterward -- and especially when you don't workout regularly -- getting enough L-Carnitine may make it easier for you to work exercise into your schedule. I like giving myself an injection before a long run, and about halfway through feel a second burst of energy.

Research has shown that adequate intakes of the L-Carnitine may not only lengthen and optimize workouts but also reduce pain in the days following for all types of athletes, including "weekend warriors".

Several studies have confirmed L-Carnitine's relationship to exercise. Researchers have tested people at all athletic levels, with and without adequate L-Carnitine, for indicators of recovery. They found that people had significantly less post-workout pain and tenderness and less post-exercise muscle damage with L-Carnitine supplementation than with placebo. In one study, 75 percent of participants saw a 20 percent improved ability to exert energy within 25 minutes after exercising.

Putting it all together, L-Carnitine emerges as a great supplement as it.

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" DAY 10. Here are the facts...low carb diets work the best and are safe! ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" DAY 10. Here are the facts...low carb diets work the best and are safe! ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

Day 10 218.6

I am on track for my 28 day goal of losing 16 pounds. How are you doing? I spoke to a patient today, weighing in at 310 before the program, he has already lost 16 pounds in 7 days. He feels great. Using HCG, this Palm Beach patient says he no longer feels the dragging feeling he would experience on the Atkins diet. Instead he is energized, and is experiencing no hunger pangs, and no sugar cravings. He is confident he can maintain his 20 grams of carbohydrate a day goal for 28 days, and maybe even longer. I personally like to take a "break" from the HCG, maintaining a lower carbohydrate approach after the 28 days, and then two weeks later go back onto another 28 day course of HCG. This approach will help your body remain fresh and ready to continue burning away those unwanted fats.
Many people have questioned the use of the Low carbohydrate approach. I know it is the only approach that works for me. As a cardiac surgeon, I am focused on reducing the causes of heart disease. The causes are inflammation, and the low fat diet or better known to me as the HIGH SUGAR DIET will ignite inflammation in your body accelerating heart disease and cancers. So enough about what I think. What do the big boys at Harvard, Duke and Stanford say??
Stanford University Medical School compared four weight-loss diets. People assigned to follow the Atkins diet, which had the lowest carbohydrate intake, lost more than twice the weight and experienced favorable overall metabolic effects at 12 months than those assigned to follow the Zone, Ornish, or LEARN diets.


University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Washington University School of Medicine randomly assigned participants to either a low-carbohydrate, high-protein, high-fat diet or a low-calorie, high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet. The low-carbohydrate diet produced a greater weight loss and improvement in risk factors for coronary heart disease.

University of Cincinnati instructed obese women to follow either a low fat, calorie restricted diet or a low carbohydrate diet for six months. The women lost significantly more weight and body fat on the low carbohydrate diet than women instructed on the low fat diet at three and six months. Additionally, blood pressure, triglycerides, cholesterol, fasting blood sugar, and insulin improved.

A study out of the University of Pennsylvania, compared the effects of a low-carbohydrate diet and a low fat diet on lipoprotein subfractions and inflammation on severely obese subjects. The severely obese individuals, who followed a low-carbohydrate diet had beneficial effects on insulin resistance, blood lipids and markers of inflammation.

The objective of this meta-analysis was to look at the evidence related to the association of dietary saturated fat with risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and cardiovascular disease. This meta-analysis (review of multiple studies) showed that there is NO significant evidence supporting that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of either coronary artery disease or cardiovascular disease. Fats do not cause heart disease, it is the high carbohydrates and sugars that cause heart disease.
Harvard University examined a 12 week low fat diet against two different low carbohydrate diets, one allowing 300 more calories a day (eat all you want, just don't eat carbs...now that is my kind of diet). The people who ate the higher calories with the very low carbohydrate diet were able to lose more weight compared to the lower calorie, low fat diet. And the low carbohydrate diet actually improved several risk factors for heart disease.

A Duke University study determined that a six month very low carbohydrate diet program markedly reduced body weight and improved numerous metabolic factors.
Alright, so if studies from Top University Hospital centers like Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Cincinnati, and University of Pennsylvania say that a low carb diet works better for weight loss and improvement in factors affected heart disease, than the low fat diet, then isn’t it about time to throw the low fat diet in the garbage and change to a low carbohydrate lifestyle? It is safe, effective and the best tolerated, so no time is better than the present to begin the Low carbohydrate approach to weight loss and add HCG in the Sarasota Diet to maximize your results and achieve massive weight loss. Dr C