Obesity is a Nutritional Deficiency: Why Livestock Farmers Know More than Doctors on Weight Loss and Fixing Your Central Nervous System

INTERVIEW WITH DR. PETER GLIDDEN, N.D.

In this country, and indeed around the world, billions of dollars are spent on weight loss products every year. However, these products are largely ineffective. Each year, a new company emerges with a new product or approach. Consider celebrities like Oprah or Kirstie Alley: they lose weight, gain it back, lose it again, and regain it once more. Clearly, something is fundamentally wrong with our approach to weight loss.

The great irony of this situation is that livestock farmers in this country have known the secret to weight control for 70 years. Let me explain it to you because it's so simple that it might astonish you.

Imagine I'm a cattle owner with 500 head of cattle, and it's time to sell them at market. I need to fatten them up. How am I going to do that? Well, it's quite simple. Throughout their lives, I've given them a nutritional pellet that I add to their feed. This nutritional pellet contains all the essential nutrients that the animal's body needs to grow strong and healthy, to provide offspring without birth defects, and to reduce veterinary bills to almost nothing, thereby maximizing my profit.

So, the livestock farmer gives the cow a nutritional pellet its entire life to keep it healthy. Then, about a month before it's time to sell the cow at market, they remove the nutritional pellet from the feed. What happens when you remove the nutritional pellet? The cow becomes mineral deficient because there aren't enough minerals in the hay alone; they are in the nutritional pellet.

When a cow or any animal develops a mineral deficiency, they exhibit a curious behavior called "pica" or "cribbing." This is when they start to eat everything in sight. You've seen dogs eat grass or dirt and horses chew on the wood of their stalls. Cows will do the same thing. They'll eat anything in sight because their body knows it needs something, but their mind doesn't know what it is.

A normal, healthy, nutritionally balanced cow will only eat so much hay. You could have a mound of hay in front of a normal, healthy cow, and they would only eat until they're full, then stop. But when you withdraw the minerals from the cow's diet, they develop cravings that are insatiable. They know they need something, but their mind doesn't know what it is, so they consume more and more calories in a futile attempt to gain whatever it is they're missing. As a result, a cow starts to eat 50%, 60%, or even 70% more hay than it normally does and puts on fat rapidly.

An interesting thing happens when this situation persists for a number of days (I believe it's around 10 or 11 days): a switch in the central nervous system gets flipped. This applies not just to cows, but to humans and other animals as well. The animal's body starts to think it's living in a time of famine because it's been consistently undernourished in terms of minerals. The body then starts to turn everything eaten into fat because it believes it's living in a time of scarcity and is trying to store as much energy as possible to guard against future famine.

This is exactly what happens with humans. Obesity is a deficiency disease; it is not a disease of excess. You do not eat more calories than you need because you weren't loved by your father, or your parents got divorced, or you grew up in a poor neighborhood, or you just got fired from your job. Certainly, all of those things can be factors, but we are driven to consume more calories than the body needs because we are suffering from an undiagnosed mineral deficiency.

We develop pica or cribbing; our body craves food in the vain, futile attempt to fulfill the mineral need. This will never be satisfied by eating food alone because if the soil doesn't have the minerals we need, the plants grown in that soil (like tomatoes) won't have the minerals we need either.

This is why it's very hard for people to lose weight, even if they exercise. Exercise makes them sweat more, which makes them lose more minerals, so after exercise, they're hungrier than they were before. They're more depleted, so around and around we go. We force ourselves to eat a calorie-restricted diet, but three months later, the weight comes right back because the mineral deficiency that causes the whole thing has never been satisfied.

But there's an easy fix. When you take the proper vitamin supplementation that gives the body all 60 minerals it needs (and there are indeed 60 essential minerals that the human body needs to intake every day), guess what happens? Within about three days, your cravings disappear. You start to eat half as much as you did before. When you've done that for about six or seven days, the switch in your central nervous system gets flipped the other way, and you start burning fat.

In a situation like this, once you're remineralized and your stores are back to normal, if you then exercise, that's a deal-breaker. That's the game-changer, that's the cat's meow, that's the icing on the cake. That changes everything, and that's when people experience unbelievably rapid weight loss. Their body comes back to a normal, healthy weight, and they're not even trying. You don't have to portion-control your food anymore because you're just not hungry. You know when to stop eating.

Ironically, it's crazy when you think about it, but livestock farmers know more about weight loss and weight control than any doctor in the United States. That's a tragedy because obesity is rapidly becoming the number one disease in the United States. Doctors aren't telling their patients this because doctors aren't trained in clinical nutrition.

Now it's time to do something better: flip that switch and burn fat without even trying."

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