Sugar Burner:
  Sugar burners tend to be overweight, often from a young age and easily develop metabolic resistance. It is very difficult for them to lose fat; the traditional low-calorie diet and aerobic exercise regime actually worsens the problem. Sugar burners have a primary defect in insulin metabolism and tend to either overproduce and/or be resistant to the action of this powerful fat-storing hormone.

Mixed Burner:
Mixed burners use sugar and fat as their sources of fuel, and their lifestyle choices largely determine whether they burn sugar or fat. If they stay up too late, they are tired. If they work too hard, they get sick. If they overindulge in food and drink, they gain weight. Most of the people who come to us are mixed burners and their metabolic tendencies are influenced by their chosen lifestyles.

Muscle Burner:
Muscle burners are the envy of their friends. They tend to be thin; even though it seems they can eat anything they want. Despite their thin appearance, they have little, if any, muscle tone and loose, sagging skin. We call these people “skinny-fat,” because they have a low muscle-to-fat ratio. They burn sugar from muscle tissue due to an over secretion of stress hormones cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline. This gives them energy and can often make them high strung and anxious.