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Below, you will be able to read selected text by a lecture
given by James Harper, the author of the bestselling book, Lose the Weight Gain
Caused by Antidepressants. Lose the Weight Gain Caused by Antidepressants has
out sold The South Beach Diet book as well as most other popular diet books.
Why? The information found in the book works if you are taking an
antidepressant, are off an antidepressant or have never used an antidepressant
and need to lose weight.
Start of lecture Let me begin by saying, losing the weight gain that has been
caused by antidepressants is not an easy task. I like to use the phrase, trial
and success, in finding what will work for each individual. I do say each individual. As most of us will admit, we are
all different, that simple phrase seems to get lost when we are talking about
weight gain or weight loss. When you throw antidepressants into the equation,
you really have a uniqueness to each individual. What did the antidepressant change? Is the antidepressant
making hormones overwork or is the antidepressant suppressing one or more
hormones? Is the antidepressant moving a person toward being a diabetic or has
the antidepressant altered the adrenal, cortisol the hormone ACTH or any number
of things? What can you safely do if the person is still taking an
antidepressant and they need to lose weight? Antidepressants cause an altering of a balance mechanism used
in our body and this starts the spiral down or maybe better said the increase of
weight almost overnight. Antidepressant weight gain was overlooked by the medical
community until recent years and was aggressively denied until recently.
Finally, the side effect warning labels on antidepressants acknowledge weight
gain as a side effect. Many people would lose weight when they started taking an
antidepressant but then, out of the blue, bam. Weight gain would not only start
but the weight gain would be 10 to 20 pounds a month. Diet and exercise would
not stop the unexplained weight gain. Doctors would tell their patients “you
must be hitting the candy rack at the store. Your patient may now be gluten intolerant, lactose intolerant
or intolerant to everything and everyone. Understandable! Tough enough when you
suddenly gain those extra pounds but when others think you are hitting the
fridge after everyone is asleep and you are being accused of lying about your
food intake, it is disheartening. So, when you have a patient tell you they are not hitting the
fridge late at night and they tell you they have not changed their diet, believe
them. During the past ten years I received hundreds of thousands of
e-mails from people taking an antidepressant. Categorizing the data found in the
e-mails, researching existing clinical trials, tabulating the results and
working directly with people trying to lose the antidepressant weight gain has
led to specific conclusions and applicable data.
There are some things a person can do if they are still
taking an antidepressant or if they are already off the antidepressant. I want
to emphasize again, this is trial and success. This is not a one size fits all. I will be mentioning a few supplements that are used for weight loss. I will be detailing what they are doing and why they are used. These
supplements are manufactured by TRB Health.
www.trbhealth.com 1-866-810-3809 You will find in the next section a daily schedule of what I
am about to cover. To begin, a good probiotic should be used. Your next page
will show what I have found to be the correct probiotic for weight loss. Label of the recommended probiotic.
TRB Health calls it Complete Probiotic Formula.
Patients that have had bariatric bypass surgery continued to
lose weight after surgery if they also took a probiotic every day. The patients
that did not take a probiotic daily would not lose additional weight. Why would
that be? A few reasons that are possible: Antidepressants will cause Candida in 17% of patients.
Candida can cause weight gain as well as other symptoms. The intestinal tract, when able to work properly will convert
substances that directly relate to weight loss. A probiotic will help create
those substance. Nutritional supplements can be used for weight loss and the
supplements will usually have a percentage of success attached. Not all
supplements will create weight loss for each individual. This is the case if
your patient used or is using and antidepressant or never has used one. Have the patient take the probiotic and additionally take
1,000 mg of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in the morning, 1,000 mg CLA at noon
and at 1,000 mg CLA 4 pm. Never take CLA after 4 pm. At the same time have the patient take 2 mg of Ultimate Omega
3 in the morning and 2 mg of Ultimate Omega 3 at noon. Never take Omega 3 fish
oil after 4 pm. When a patient is taking Omega 3 fish oil daily they also
need to take 400 i.u. of vitamin e daily. They would take the vitamin e in the
morning with the Omega 3 and the CLA. This approach will work for roughly 34% of your patients. The
first thing a patient will experience is a reduction in size around week number
4. Week 5 is when the weight loss begins. For the 34% that this works for, the
weight will begin to fall off at week 5. The weight reduction and size reduction
will generally be in the midsection. The CLA may cause some of your patients to feel a bloating
effect. Make sure they are taking the CLA with food and this usually handles
that problem. There are a lot of Omega 3 fish oils sold and most will not
help with weight loss. You need an Omega 3 that is higher in EPA than DHA and
for whatever reason I have found Omega 3 fish oil that is only made from sardine
works better.
For the patients that do not lose weight with this approach,
the odds are extremely high they will at least feel much better. Supplement Labels of Ultimate Omega 3 and CLA recommended. Ultimate Omega 3
CLA
You can have the patient add the supplement alpha lipoic acid
for a greater chance of the Omega 3 and CLA to work for weight loss. I mention
this last because for some people with anxiety the lipoic acid tends to make the
anxiety worse or bring it back again. A 50 mg or lower amount of lipoic acid
should only be used.
Calcium Clinical trials have shown calcium can help with weight loss.
However, you should know the specifics with calcium and weight loss. This is only successful with females This is only successful if the female is not currently taking
calcium Calcium use for weight loss is successful for about 30% of
the population An exception or question I feel needs to asked with calcium
and weight loss would be; if the person is taking calcium and not losing weight,
are they taking vitamin D3? If the patient is not taking at least 1,000 i.u. of
vitamin D3 each day and 1,200 mg of calcium each day, split up in 3 dosages of
400 mg each during the day, this might be why the calcium is not working for
weight loss. Make sure there is magnesium in the calcium supplement or
have the patient take around 400 mg to 600 mg of magnesium each day. Keep in mind the vitamin D3. Due to genetic makeup, roughly 60% of the population will not
be able to easily assimilate vitamin D and 50% of the population will not be
able to easily assimilate calcium. As you know, if the patient does not have
enough vitamin D present, the assimilation of calcium will not happen.
If your patient has or had anxiety the only type of calcium
to use is calcium citrate. A different type of calcium
may be your favorite but if anxiety is or was present, calcium citrate should be
the only type of calcium used.
Inflammation Inflammation plays a major part with weight gain. Omega 3
fish oil, CLA and vitamin e will lower inflammation in the body. Most weight
loss prescription drugs claim their effectiveness because they lower an
inflammation substance called interleukin-6. Antidepressants will lower this interleukin-6 initially but
in time will create inflammation in the body and interleukin-6 will become
rather high. This is probably why physicians thought antidepressants were
good for weight loss when the new type of antidepressants came out, starting
with Prozac. A high percentage of people would lose weight in the beginning but
months later or for some people it took a year or more, the weight gain would
start for no apparent reason. Interleukin-6 runs hand in hand with depression as well.
Clinical trials have shown depressed patients will have high Interleukin-6 and
people with depression tend to be overweight. It is not known if depression
begins first and high Interleukin-6 follows or if high Interleukin-6 is present
first and that is a partial or complete cause of the depression. Regardless of which came first, Interleukin-6 being high,
depression being high or even weight gain happening first, we can take the
available clinical trials and put them to solid use. A patient that is overweight will have high levels of
Interleukin-6. A probiotic will also lower Interleukin-6 and that is probably
part of the reason the right probiotic will help with weight loss. You can also use a product called Infla Supreme to help lower
Interleukin-6. The Infla Supreme is sold in a packet with 4 different
supplements in each packet. You will find in each packet 1 of the following: 1 softgel of Ultimate Omega 3 Plus – A fish oil made from a
few different fish but high in EPA
1 capsule
with the ingredients of; citrus
bioflavonoids, Hesperidin, Quercetin and Rutin.
1 capsule of Antioxidant Plus
The supplement
Resveratrol has received plenty of
press lately for health. However, the maximum content of resveratrol in red wine
extracts available for use in dietary supplements is 20%. In contrast, root
extracts of Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) provide up to 50%
trans-resveratrol content, the same form as found in red wine. Antioxidant Plus
provides 250 mg of trans-resveratrol from Polygonum cuspidatum root. You can use the Infla Supreme supplements along with the
Ultimate Omega 3 fish oil, CLA, vitamin e and calcium. With the Infla Supreme
having 1 Omega 3 softgel, have the patient use the Omega 3 in the Infla Supreme
packet and only take one additional Ultimate Omega 3. Have the patient take all 4 capsules found in the Infla
Supreme packet at noon, with food. Again, we are going for trial and success here. With your
patient using all of the information covered so far, their chance of weight loss
is rather high. After 5 weeks if weight loss has not started and they are doing
everything mentioned so far, have them stop taking the CLA. CLA will either work
or not work after 5 weeks and there is no need to continue taking it if weight
loss has not started.
The schedule above is based on the quantity and purity of ingredients found in supplements provided by TRB Health. www.trbhealth.com 1-866-810-3809 If you use a supplement made by any other manufacturer, make sure to check the supplement facts on the label. Calcium has been left off this schedule. A total of 1,200 mg of calcium should be used each day and have patient divide the calcium into three 400 mg amounts. Generally, morning, noon and before bedtime will be the desired times to take calcium. Ideally, the patient will also take at least 1,000 i.u. of vitamin D3 daily. Make sure a proper amount of magnesium is also used daily.
Broad Acting Multi-Enzyme Formula After 5 weeks if weight loss has not started, have your
patient begin taking a broad acting multi-enzyme. Glucose and what your body does or will not do with glucose
can be critical for weight loss as well as general health. Enzymes play a
crucial role in conversion of carbohydrates, sugars, proteins and vegetable
fibers. The multi-acting enzyme should include all of the following:
Carbohydrate Enzymes The complex carbohydrates found in fruit,
vegetables, grains and legumes must be converted into simple sugar glucose,
fructose and galactose to be absorbed. If you are experiencing gas or bloating,
this may be part of your problem. Alpha-Amylase – Converts complex starch in root vegetables
and grains to the next step needed for a healthy system. Glucoamylase – Helps convert the final product of
Alpha-Amylase into glucose.
Sugar-Specific Enzymes Converting sugars into glucose is critical and without the
right conversion a person will not only gain weight but experience GI discomfort
and the fermentation due to the incomplete digestion of these sugars will cause
additional problems Lactase – Converts milk sugar into glucose and galactose. Maltase – Digest maltose in milk, cereal grains and processed
foods into glucose. Sucrase – Converts table sugar into glucose and fructose. Pullulanase – Breaks down starch molecules that are resistant
to degradation. Without this breakdown inflammation will become higher in the
body.
Vegetable/Fiber Specific Enzymes These enzymes will help with nutrient absorption and bowel
regulation. Cellulase – Frees nutrients from fruits and vegetables and
makes them more bioavailable. Alpha-Galactosidase – Breaks down hard to digest
carbohydrates found in legumes and cruciferous vegetables. Pectinase – Helps stop the bulking effect of some fibrous
foods. Phytase – Breaks down parts of wheat, oats, barley and
legumes. Beta-Glucanase – Breaks down glucans in cereal grains and in
yeast cell walls.
Diet
Exercise Antidepressant weight gain will not be helped by exercise.
The weight gain is drug induced and until something else changes, exercise will
not help with weight loss. That being said, it is still important for your patient to
get some exercise in this process. At some point in time, the exercise will have
a benefit again for weight loss and will be excellent for general health
regardless. Going for a walk at least 3 times a week for 20 minutes
should be part of this program. I want to close with a little story I was sent a few months
ago. The author is unknown. "A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is
fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed
and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home
today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move
necessary.
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window. 'I love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. 'Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait. ''That
doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied...' Happiness is something you
decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the
furniture is arranged ...it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love
it. 'It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can
spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body
that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and
all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life. Old age is like a bank account. You
withdraw from what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot
of happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you for your part in filling my
memory bank. I am still depositing.' Remember the five simple rules to be happy: Have a nice day,
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