Jessica Simpson was an unknown quantity until her 1999 single I Wanna Love You Forever reached the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, which turned her into a star overnight. Shortly thereafter, the already curvy, yet slim blonde, released her debut album Sweet Kisses, and touched the hearts of her fans with her flirtatious charms, despite pledging to remain abstinent until marriage…

However, since the 31-year-old, who endured a failed marriage and is now engaged to the ex-footballer Eric Johnson, gave birth to a baby daughter in May, she is suffering from stubborn post-pregnancy fat! The paparazzi have recently taken photos of the singer which make it clear where Jessica Simpson’s problems lie: Her black top is clearly stretched over her tummy, and her tightly fit sports pants prove that Jessica has also put on a significant amount of weight around her thighs.

Jessica has now declared a war against her weight – by setting an ambitious target: She wants to lose as much as 25 kilos in just five months. However, it is not just her own body she has in mind, as she will be rewarded with a four million dollar contract from Weight Watchers in case of success. This deal will make the singer even more committed to shredding the pounds.

But will Jessica Simpson achieve her goal and be able to shred these pounds for good?

According to the celebrity website TMZ, the singer is currently experiencing quite a bit of stress with her diet and is additionally attending the gym several times a week. If she is able to maintain this, you can assume that the pounds will start to shred quickly. However, you have to question whether this success will last permanently. Far too often, such a rapid loss in weight along with crash dieting and rigorous exercise is the start of a constant up and down, otherwise known as a yo-yo effect.

The question remains as to why the singer is still carrying all these pounds following her pregnancy. A reason for weight gain during pregnancy is the relative changes to the body’s hormonal balance, which affect many of the hormones. The thyroid often functions poorly following pregnancy. Since given thyroid hormones are essential for the body’s energy metabolism levels, a weakened thyroid hormone burns fewer calories, meaning women will constantly gain weight although maintaining the same kind of nutrition as before their pregnancy. In any case, Jessica Simpson is not alone, as many women complain about their excess weight following pregnancy.

For some women, the hormone levels will return to normal, and the fat from pregnancy will disappear as if by magic, while for others, these annoying fat pads will return even more quickly after having a strenuous diet program performed. In order to escape this vicious circle and to get to the bottom of her weight issue, it would be advisable to Jessica Simpson to undertake a Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) with an experienced physician.

There is a hormonal imbalance in virtually every case of obesity, which should be diagnosed and treated with bioidentical hormones before weight loss. Once the hormonal balance has been restored, the weight loss can be simply achieved by means of a tailor-made change in nutrition behavior and training program.

And how Jessica Simpson could benefit from this? Well, not only could she achieve her desired weight level in the short term while pocketing the huge sum of four million dollars, but she would also be able to enjoy something in the long term that money simply cannot buy: A great body shape and good health, which in itself results in mental wellbeing.

DDr. Heinrich, MD

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Read how human nutrition has changed over the past 200 million years of its existence and what conclusions can be drawn in terms of our health and beauty today.

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Today – Summary

Since the Neolithic Age, our diet has not changed much, aside from the fact that large quantities of refined sugar are consumed in recent years. For the first time since the Mesolithic period, meat is being heavily consumed again for a few decades in wealthier countries.

Our today’s diet: grain, sugar, meat, fat, dairy products

So, how does our summary look like? Is there really a species-specific diet for us humans? Basically, humans are very adaptable. In many countries, it led to genetic adaptations that enabled people to digest cow’s milk which made an important protein source to become available.

In general, humans are able to manage a great number of different types of food quite well.

However, it can also be observed that people function averagely well by consuming those foods who they had been used to over several million years:

The Paleolithic diet: Mainly meat, fat, and animal organs, including fried or boiled fish as well as insects, roots, vegetables, nuts, and fruits. The smallest part of the Paleolithic diet constituted of starchy crops and grain, as well as sweet occasional desserts made of honey, nuts, and flour.

Tribes who still subsist on this diet until today are largely free of diseases of civilization that keep on torturing us these days: diabetes, heart diseases, tooth decay, obesity. Even cancer seems to appear significantly rarer.

So, how does our ideal diet look like?

We should follow a Paleolithic diet in the closest possible way without falling into dogmatism: Even bears that live in Yellowstone National Park love pizza and burgers, if they are able to steal them from parked cars. Consuming pizza and burgers on an occasional basis also can do us no harm.

It is important to emphasize that when adopting Paleolithic diet, it means nose-to-tail eating and not just meat: intestine and stomach, inner organs, fat, brain, as well as genitals. In this way, our ancestors consumed a lot of substances that we are no longer able to get with our diet these days:

Bioidentical hormones are present in the brain, internal organs, and genitals, whose regular supply we have been used to for millions of years: pregnenolone, testosterone, DHEA, cortisol. These bioidentical hormones have probably been the reason why people of the Golden Age remained strong, juvenile, and attractive even in old age, except for gray hair, as Hesiod had told it.

Digestive organs, including the pre-digested chyme of animals, contain enzymes which ease our digestion and keep our digestive system healthy.

However, if we really do not want to return to those customs that rather take a lot of getting used to it, we should consume these missing substances in a different way. This would also have the advantage of a better therapeutic controllability:

Bioidentical hormones, the precursors of growth hormone, peptides, and amino acids, as well as extracts from internal animal organs and digestive enzymes were already contained in our food in the Paleolithic era and should be supplemented, where appropriate, with our today’s diet in order to keep us young and active.

At the end, a question of global importance: How can we create a foundation of a halfway paleolithic, protein-rich, and healthy diet for the huge population in the world?

Now, since there are no longer any mammoths around and we are also not able to produce enough beef or pork to adequately feed these billions of people, one must go back even a little bit further into the evolutionary history and remember what our ancestors ate during the dinosaur age: No, it wasn’t dinosaur eggs, but insects!

DDr. Heinrich, MD

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