SWEAT YOUR BUTT OFF

Bikrim yoga is one of the various types of yoga I practice regularly. I’ve heard people say that you lose weight from exercising in the heat because of how much you sweat. But I think there is some confusion as to why you lose weight from sweating. Of course you can rush home and weigh yourself and exclaim, “I’ve lost four pounds!” But that water, and weight, will be replaced as soon as you drink.

Still, people who regularly sweat are thinner than those who don’t.

It has to do with toxins.

Even if you eat nothing but organic food you can hide but you can’t escape environmental toxins. Every year over 6 billion pounds of chemicals are released into our atmosphere and water supply. Mercury spews out of cement kilns. A lot of people still have mercury amalgams in their teeth and every time those fillings get chewed on mercury vapors are released. People who can’t afford bottled water are drinking fluoride. People who can afford bottled water are drinking water from bottles that have sat in their sun-baked cars, emitting xenohormones. You would have to live in a bubble to not be exposed to second hand smoke, gasoline fumes, volatile organic compounds (from new carpeting, and that “new car smell”), pesticides, prescription drugs, fire retardants, solvents, plastics (and the xenohormones they emit when heated in the microwave or in your car), polymers, and styrenes. I could go on!

When your toxic load is high you’re going to suffer from fatigue, lethargy, depression, headaches, allergies, chronic infection, colds and flu, nervousness, sensitivity to perfume and other fragrances, memory loss, fits of anger, and joint pains. Environmental toxins play a major role in the epidemic of cancer, autoimmune conditions, and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder. Last but not least, toxins are fattening!

The body is an amazing machine that is programmed for survival. If it were to allow all those toxins to float around in your bloodstream you’d get sicker and die faster. So it cleverly stows them away in fat cells. This is one huge reason why you don’t want to eat the meat and milk of animals raised in CAFOS, because these abused animals always receive copious amounts of drugs and eat pesticide and herbicide laden feed. Those poisons migrate to the animals’ fat cells. And when you eat tortured animals, you’re eating all the toxins they consumed or where otherwise exposed to.

The problem is, that if you want to lose weight, and you’ve got a big toxic load, your body’s gonna say, “Uh-uh, no way, cause I need the fat cells as storage repositories for all that poison!”

Then you start vigorous bike rides or spinning, jogging, Bikrim, or other activities that make you sweat a lot. Out of your pores comes the poison that’s been stored in your cells. When you toxic load goes down, your body is more likely to shed fat cells. That’s why “Sweating your butt off,” really does mean exactly that.

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