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Today on our Weight Loss Wednesday show, we're gonna get right into how you can increase your own natural

fat loss hormone. So the hormone that we're going to talk about today, maybe

you've read about it online before or even seen it in some of the more popular

weight loss books is a hormone called lepton

so lepton is an actual hormone in your body

that when functioning well signals your body

to lose weight and to drop weight. So essentially what happens is this.

As our bodies get inflamed, as we start to add even more weight and how we have hormone imbalances in general with

higher levels of estrogen from certain foods that we eat as well as the environment as well as

our natural hormones we also start to produce less lepton So when our bodies produce less of this hormone

lepton, we actually start to gain weight. So that's the amazing thing about this, is that

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