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The Advisor, Dr. Ann Louise November 16, 2009

Dear Friends,
A revolutionary discovery hailed as a "new obesity treatment” was revealed last week by the New England Journal of Medicine. Brown fat, which burns calories effortlessly, keeps infants warm, and is activated by cold was the focus of the article. What the article forgot to mention is that brown fat is activated by an essential fatty acid known as GLA.

I had to chuckle because I wrote about brown fat in Beyond Pritikin over twenty years ago!  

Here's what I said: “As you now know, brown fat is a high-energy type of fat whose sole function is to burn calories for heat rather than depositing them for storage.  It is your personal fat burner.   Although brown fat comprises only 10 percent or less of total body fat, it burns one-fourth of all the calories burned by the other fat tissues combined.  Brown fat is brown because it contains numerous mitochondria, little fat-burning factories.  The rest of the fat in the body is white because it contains few mitochondria.  White fat is the insulating layer on the outside of the body, just under the skin.  Brown fat lies deeper, surrounding the organs such as the heart, kidneys, and adrenals, as well as the neck, spine, and major thoracic blood vessels.  While everybody has a fat burner, they are not all equally active.  The thin person who has an actively functioning fat burner can easily convert excess calories into body heat.  The obese person, eating the same number of calories, will store then as white fat instead.”

For years, David Horrobin, M.D., at the University of Montreal, wrote about GLA's role in brown fat mobilization. His work demonstrated that the key to brown fat metabolism lies in the ability of GLA to regulate brown fat through its prostaglandin (tissue like hormones) network. In the early 80's only evening primrose oil was available on the market.

The bottom line: you were born to be thin. You have the same amount of brown fat as you did as when you were an infant. The problem is you are not activating it.  Made from vegetable oils,  GLA synthesis is impeded by deficiencies in zinc, magnesium, B vitamins, selenium, diabetes, caffeine, saturated fats, and alcohol, among other factors.

That’s why a preformed GLA, like the black currant seed oil GLA-90 that are featured in the Fat Flush Kit, are your best friend for effortless weight loss. The GLA 90’s are the “exercise in a bottle,” the New England Journal of Medicine researchers are searching for.