Free Your Body. Free Your Soul.
The Matol Diet: it’s about living consciously and eating consciously. It’s about self-respect and self confidence. It’s about educating ourselves on the nature of foods and their effect on us. It’s about getting back control of our body and our life. It’s about revealing the beauty in us and all of the energy locked up inside of us. It’s about living life to the fullest. 

Claim to Fame
The Matol Diet can not only help you lose weight, it protects and maintains your muscle mass which most diets can’t guarantee. The Matol Diet also addresses the root of your weight problem and is capable of reversing the physiological mechanisms that predispose you to weight gain in the first place.

The Matol Diet consists of high biological value protein foods that are low in fat and carbs, specially formulated with just the right amount of protein to sustain your muscle mass, combined with select natural foods and a strict nutritional supplementation regimen. This regimen is spearheaded by Km®, our flagship botanical and mineral tonic for the blood, the engine that drives the Matol Diet. The results, as demonstrated by the testimonials on this website, are awesome: 3 to 4 pounds per week for women and 5 to 7 pounds per week for men.

Men lose weight more quickly than women because they have more muscle mass and muscle is the engine that burns fat. Keep in mind that muscle weighs twice as much as fat. You’ll not only see pounds melt away but you’ll be amazed at how your body reshapes itself, tightening up from within.    

Insulin dysfunction at the root of weight problems
Most weight problems have one thing in common: an overproduction of insulin caused by a dysfunctional pancreas. This dysfunction occurs over time as a result of a diet grossly disproportionate in its share of saturated fats and simple sugars, a.k.a. simple carbohydrates, such as those found in many commercial foods, including breads, cereals, muffins, cakes and pastries, pasta and pizza – much like the North American diet. This sort of diet causes the pancreas to produce an overabundance of insulin. This excess insulin stays in your system and puts your blood sugar level in a negative balance.

When your blood sugar level is in negative, you feel weak, sometimes irritated and hungry and what do you do? You reach out for more food, and so on and so on. It’s a vicious cycle that traps people, making them particularly dependent on certain foods. The need for sugar is very real when the sugar level in your blood is in negative.  

A well functioning pancreas will produce just the right amount of insulin to regulate your blood sugar level. A dysfunctional pancreas produces too much insulin, which stays in your system and puts your blood sugar level in a negative balance.

Understanding why, helps you break the vicious cycle
The Matol Diet teaches you important distinctions about your body and how it metabolizes nutrients. That knowledge is power because it will forever change the way that you look at food, empowering you to make healthier food choices, each and every day.

You learn about the pancreas, that little gland located just beneath your stomach, whose job is very important: to produce insulin, a hormone that not only regulates blood sugar levels in your body, it also makes you gain weight by transforming the fat that you eat into fat cells.
 
You learn which foods make you gain weight, which foods can prevent you from losing weight and, most important of all, which foods and food combinations to avoid, to stay healthy and fit, day after day.

So, how does the Matol Diet help you shed mostly fat?
The Matol Diet helps you shed fat by deliberately creating an imbalance in your food regimen, diminishing greatly, temporarily , the carbohydrates from your diet: breads, cereals, legumes, rice, even healthy fruits and certain vegetables that are high in sugar.

Why? Because as long as sugar, in any form, is entering your body, your body is simply not burning fat.

Live off of your body’s fat reserves
To breathe, to think or even to move, your body draws on its three energy reserves: approximately 1.5% of its energy is stored in glycogen derived from carbohydrates, the equivalent of 3-4 days’ worth of energy. 18.5% is from protein in muscle tissue and the remaining 80% is fat.

Another very important point is that the body’s first source of energy from food is its glycogen reserves. Only once the glycogen reserve is entirely depleted does the body turn, simultaneously, to its other two energy reserves, the protein in muscles and fat.

Think of it: if you restrict your intake of sugars in Stages 1 and 2 of the Matol Diet and if your body only stores 3-4 days’ worth of glycogen, this means that right from Day 4, your body will turn to its muscles and fat for energy.

The first 3-4 days on the Matol Diet are critical because a body that’s been accustomed to receive sugar, each and every day, for the last 20-30-40-50 years -- whether it’s in the form of table sugar, bread, cereal, potato or even rice, all of which are different forms of carbohydrates --may be craving for its sugar fix in the first few days of the Matol Diet. That being said, most people feel utterly satisfied with the foods provided during the Matol Diet and, as a result, experience no discomfort whatsoever. 

Lose fat, not muscle
How does the Matol Diet preserve and even enhance your muscle mass, if both fat and muscle energy reserves are depleted simultaneously? In a number of ways. First, the potassium in Km® is a key ingredient in muscle building and development. Secondly, you eat delicious Matol Diet protein foods that average 19 grams of protein of a very high biological value per portion, are 95% absorbable and are complete with all 9 essential amino acids that your body does not manufacture and which must come from food or supplementation. These amino acids are the building blocks of your body.

The protein in our Matol Diet foods is derived from whey isolate, soy isolate and/or albumine from eggs, with only select amino acids extracted from these protein sources and none of the other constituents. Best of all, Matol Diet foods are delicious. Choose among Matol Diet soups, beverages, puddings, pancakes, oatmeal, even a scrumptious Matol Diet protein bar.

And just in case you wondered why eating protein foods is so important, remember that protein is the fabric of your muscle tissue, vital organs, eyes, hair, nails, even your cells, hormones, enzymes and immune system.

And don’t forget that muscles are the engine that help you burn calories, hence the need to feed your fire, throughout the day.

Km®: the engine that drives the Matol Diet
The engine that drives the Matol Diet is Km®, our pH-regulating, detoxifying and energizing health tonic. Keeping the acid in check while the body is metabolizing fat is critical to healthy weight loss. Km® also nourishes, maintains and protects your muscle mass, as potassium is a main ingredient in muscle building and development and the main ingredient in Km®. Km® also provides essential minerals and phyto-elements, most of which have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, not to mention its detoxifying properties. For all those good reasons, we double the dose of Km® during Stages 1 and 2 of the Matol Diet.

The three other Matol Diet nutritional supplements, Matol Calcium & Magnesium, Matol Omega 3-6-9 and Matol MegaVitamins, provide you with all of the essential vitamins, minerals and trace minerals normally added to the foods that are temporarily restricted on the Matol Diet like breads, pastries, cereals, pastas and fruits. Without these 4 supplements, your body would be lacking essential nutrients that it needs in order to shed fat, maintain your muscle mass, rehabilitate your pancreas and properly feed you.

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