WHY CAN'T I LOSE WEIGHT AND WHY DO MY JOINTS HURT? HOW EVOLUTION HAS PROGRAMMED YOU TO BE FAT, SICK, AND ARTHRITIC AND HOW YOU CAN DEFEAT THE HUMAN HIBERNATION ... AND EASILY LOSE ALL YOUR EXCESS WEIGHT

by Jeff T. Bowles

Many people today are overweight and just can't seem to shed those extra pounds no matter what kind of diet they try. Often overweight people also experience bone and joint pain. These problems are caused by the newly described Human Hibernation Syndrome where your body, due to lack of sunshine, expects that it is going into winter/famine conditions. Obesity and arthritis rates have skyrocketed since 1980 when doctors began warning us to stay out of the sun and use suncreen. Now most US children are overweight. The advice to stay out of the sun has caused widespread Vitamin D3 deficiency. Vitamin D3 is actually a hormone, the sunshine hormone that tells us that summer is here and food is plentiful. Just like black bears, whose vitamin D3 levels drop dramatically before hibernation which signals them to increase their weight by overeating by up to 70%, humans also experience carbohydrate cravings when Vitamin D3 deficient. This book challeneges the current recommended daily D3 requirments suggested by doctors as so low as to be negligent! It also describes my "dangerous" experiment where I lost a significant amount of weight without even trying (from 198 to 179) by taking "dangerous" amounts of vitamin D3, and it also describes how these high amounts of D3 cured all my arthritic problems. Aftter further experimentation-I also discovered the amount of D3 I needed to completely suppress the desire to eat and share it with you in this edition.

133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 22, 2012

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 1 out of 5]

While much of this book is merely cut and pasted results of D3 articles on Medline, the author does make a compelling argument for D3 working as the inverse of the thyroid hormone. While I believe the author cured himself of old injuries, he downplays the danger and pain that this regimen caused him. He does bring up that as he went on doses of D3 above 10K ( it was probably 50K where he said this) , it gave him headaches, which he said he could knock out with OTC medication.

While I am not a medical professional and do not think anyone should start a regimen such as this without consulting their doctor, there has to be a reason to not take amounts of a vitamin that gives one a daylong migraine- worthy headache. Great concept, but one should not have to be in a ton of pain to pull it off.

Also, while he tells you to check your blood levels of D3 through a $60 test on the Internet, he does not provide such information.

So, a useful and potentially viable concept, but I'd like him to complete an actual double blind study of his ideas,instead of having the reader trust on faith what he has tried as a self imposed guinea pig. With such few results, this could be the placebo effect.

[Paula · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great information! Not the best quality for Kindle format. And over half the book is just copied articles from the web in support of how high doses of Vit D helps and heals. I would have loved to see more of his personal experience and journal. There is no link to a blog or follow up (which he said he might do and I was hopeful for). All in all a good read. But seems like a lot was copied and pasted from his other Vit D book. I was hoping for much more about the weight loss in this book, and this book only touches a bit on it.

[Shelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Free on kindle. The author is very enthusiastic. He has a hypothesis and some data from related-ish sorta-kinda experiments and anecdotal information, but really can't tie things together scientifically. Still, interesting.

[Rosemary Daly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Discusses vitamin d3 insufficiency and its effect on our mood, weight,and overall health.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of information....