Jillian Michaels - Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!

As an endocrinologist, I often meet people who are looking for an explanation for their fatigue or weight gain that is associated with their hormones and metabolism.

This unique book addresses hormones in an easy-to-read format, and Jillian Michaels explains, in a superb way, her own personal life experiences about how she turned her mistakes into learning opportunities for others. The book reflects not only Jillian's passion for advocating a healthy lifestyle that includes physical fitness, but also her commitment to helping readers learn essential information about hormones, diet, and health.

This simple guide answers many of the most frequently asked questions, especially in the areas of hormones and weight issues. It's a book for everyone, because it addresses people of all ages who want to incorporate healthy eating with a balanced lifestyle. Master Your Metabolism even serves as a helpful guide to parents who are concerned about their children being at hormonal risk, especially in today's world, where childhood obesity is skyrocketing into an epidemic.

In addition to those patients with legitimate hormonal concerns, I also meet otherwise healthy people who insist on taking some sort of hormones on a regular basis because they erroneously believe they will achieve some favorable effects in overcoming a weight or metabolic problem. As a doctor treating many patients with similar conditions, I advise against putting more hormones into your body to deal with such issues. In fact, hormones will not help. Instead, they pose a danger of altering your natural hormone production. Additional hormones can cause long-term negative effects on your body that can lead to dependence for the rest of your life.

Your body needs regular medical checkups. You have to pay close attention to what is going on inside, just like you sort the mail everyday or declutter your room and living spaces. We don't accept spam or junk mail on our computers because it is of no good use to us. The same is true when it comes to harmful and toxic products that make their way into our bodies. We have to throw them away. They are no good to us. They need to be removed regularly, otherwise they will cost us space, time, and eventually will dominate the healthy aspects of our lives.

Some products are healthy just like those documents we hold on to and file away. Healthy nutrients and good habits such as exercising at least thirty minutes three to four times a week are the kind of things we want to keep. Exercise gives us a sense of reward and helps us to reap enormous benefits even with minimal amount of weight loss. Exercise harmonizes with your hormones to optimize your internal biochemistry and helps you to reclaim your body once again.

Jillian's book illustrates the environmental challenges we face daily and how stress influences our bodies emotionally and physically. It shows us how to avoid those challenges and get ahead of the stress so we can restore and reclaim a healthy body. The important work within these pages also emphasizes how vital it is to balance our psychological, hormonal, nutritional, and physical exercise to achieve a long, healthy, and rewarding life.

As you read this book, you will receive the necessary tools to understand how hormones work so you can begin to recognize and remove all toxic influences that can creep into your life. Also, as you read and learn, you will want to consult your physician to correct any hormone issues so you can reclaim your body.

Congratulations! You are about to embark on an amazing journey that will inspire you to eliminate toxins and rebalance your life with healthy habits as you take charge of your body.

Christine Darwin, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E.

Associate Professor of Medicine

David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California,

Los Angeles (UCLA)

I could have called this book The Evolution of a Health and Fitness Guru. Why? Because after seventeen years of work in the fitness fieldseventeen years of studying with the world's top doctors in sports medicine, nutrition, endocrinology, and antiagingthis is everything I've learned. Yes, this is what it has all been leading up to: