Dr. Barry Sears and the MedWell Weight-Loss Program are Featured on LovetoKnow.com
Dr. Barry Sears is an internationally acclaimed authority on hormonal responses caused by foods and considers dietary control to be vital to maintaining wellness to prevent illness. He bases his approach in the truest sense of its original meaning of diet, which translates into “way of life,” as opposed to concentration on short-term weight loss. His primary focus is on the reduction of “silent inflammation,” the underlying cause of most chronic diseases including obesity.
Dr. Sears is a famed author and a scientist and researcher on the hormonal consequences of food, which he considers the foundation of a healthy life. He founded MedWell 1-2-3 as a simple approach to control key hormonal responses using foods people like to eat.
LoveToKnow recently had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Sears about the MedWell Program to learn more about this innovative approach.
The MedWell Program Different from Other Diets
LTK: With all the diet plans out there, what makes the MedWell Program different?
Dr. Sears: The key factor in the MedWell Program is molecular insights that have been learned about how to control hunger using gastric bypass surgery. It's not the restriction of calories that makes it work, but the increase of certain hormones from the gut that go right to the brain that tell you to stop eating. If you're not hungry, then cutting calories becomes simple. On the other hand, if you are always hungry, then all you have is willpower that will last for about 2 hours.
MedWell Program was originally designed to help manage diabetes where losing weight is exceptionally difficult. Thus it is very successful for people who simply want to lose weight, but even more importantly, in keeping the weight off. What the MedWell Program offers is comfort foods that suppress hunger. This is the type of a diet that people will eat on a long-term basis.
2-Week Fast Track Weight Loss Program
LTK: I see you offer a 2-Week Fast Track Weight Loss Program. What purpose does this serve?
Dr. Sears: Most people who come to the MedWell Program have tried to lose weight 12 to 15 times only to rapidly regain the lost weight. What they need is a defined program that can be followed indefinitely. We offer the 2-Week Fast Track Weight Loss Program, with defined food meal choices using the MedWell products. By following a defined program, they can experience what they should feel like all the time. We give them instructions of how to reconstruct their diet. You have to give people the experience of "this is what life feels like without hunger."
MedWell for Women and Men
LTK: MedWell provides programs for women and for men and both say they are hormonally balanced. How do they differ and how do they work?
Dr. Sears: The difference in the men's and women's programs is that men require more protein due to their greater amounts of muscle mass. Both programs are designed to increase secretion of hormones after meals that suppress hunger. One of those hormones is, insulin, the other is PYY. Keeping 1-2-3 balance of fat, protein, and carbohydrate will stabilize insulin and increase PYY thus controlling hunger and making the reduction of calorie intake easy.
LTK: Along with the 1-2-3 Meals, tell us about your food products and the benefit people can expect when incorporating them in their diet.
Dr. Sears: The first thing is that people are more often willing to change religion than to change their diet. You can give people instructions and the first thing they will say is that they want to eat the foods they like to eat. What foods do people like to eat? The three Ps:
On the MedWell Program you continue to eat these foods while maintaining the appropriate 1-2-3 balance. This is possible by using a revolutionary new technology we have developed for making breads, pizza, pasta, brownies, etc that contain the necessary 1-2-3 balance for appetite suppression. 1-2-3 simply means for every one gram of fat you eat; you want to consume two grams of protein and three grams of carbohydrates. There is no one evil dietary entity. What you need is appropriate balance. That's the key factor to keep hunger under control. When people try doing it on their own it's either considered too difficult or they are forced then stop eating the foods they really like to eat. We developed ingredient replacements to what people are already eating, but now with a very different hormone response. MedWell meals containing these 1-2-3 ingredient substitutions will keep the key hormones necessary for appetite suppression under control for 4 to 6 hours.
MedWell Online Community Support
LTK: You also offer access to an online community where people on the MedWell Program can come together. Can you tell us a little bit about this and why it's important?
Dr. Sears: It is a critically important support mechanism for any successful dietary program. In an online community people can share not only their own experiences, but also offer helpful hints to others. We think it is a very valuable asset to not only help one lose weight, but also to maintain the weight loss.
Toxic Fat
LTK: Dr. Sears you've written a number of hit books, and you have a new book out called Toxic Fat. Does this relate to the MedWell Program?
Dr. Sears: Toxic Fat goes into greater detail of why Americans get fat, and how changes in our food supply have worked against us. Toxic fat is the problem. The solution is the MedWell Program.
In Closing
LTK: Is there anything else you think we should know about?
Dr. Sears: America is in the middle of an obesity epidemic that threatens our entire health care system. Unfortunately, we have a lot of wrong advice about its cause and how to reverse it. The MedWell Program is based on the newest research into how diet can activate the genes in those who are pre-disposed to become fat. With that knowledge and use of healthy MedWell 1-2-3 food products, you can change the expression of your genes. This is a powerful statement. Following the MedWell program you can have a gene makeover in your own kitchen to reverse the real cause of weight gain and the loss of wellness that goes with it.
Free MedWell Bun and Brownie
Dr. Sears is offering a FREE MedWell Brownie and MedWell Cinnamon bun for our LoveToKnow readers. When you receive it, the box will also contain a $70 coupon for one-week of MedWell 1-2-3 food sent to them FREE. It will be delivered via UPS. To receive your free brownie go to the MedWell website, click on the top banner for the Free brownie and bun, then register, and enter the code: sweets4health and you'll receive it soon thereafter by UPS.
If you have a problem, you can call 866-633-7898 for assistance.