Most people reading this will be pleased to learn that fat gain may not be their fault. Quite often it is caused by a parasite that interrupts our metabolism of hydrogen.
In this article we will examine the parasites that cause fat gain, how they do it, and a little more technically, how to do a few muscle tests to see if this applies to you. If you have been gaining weight, or can’t lose it, this may save you hundreds of hours of dieting and exercise.
Here is a quick summary of the sections that follow.
1. How Fat Cells Work
2. Hydrogen as stored energy
3. Carnitine as a Fat Carrier Protein
4. Parasites that Use Hydrogen and Carnitine
5. Testing For Fat Gain Parasites
This will take about 10 minutes to read.
1. How Fat Cells Work
We know that too much fat is unhealthy. But what actually is it? Where does fat come from? 
Body fat is called adipose tissue. Adipose tissues are collections of cells called adipocytes. Seen in this image to the right, they are cheerful little guys with many of the commonly known organelles (cell structures) that other cells have, such as a nucleus, mitochondria, Golgi bodies and a membrane. What makes adipocytes unique is that each of them has a small mass of fat in their center, referred to as a droplet, and this gets inflated or deflated like a balloon.
Our bodies inflate or deflate the fat mass in the center of an adipocyte to deposit or withdraw energy. Adipocytes work just like a bank account. They help us so that we don’t starve in the next famine. In history, every time a famine came along the person with the largest adipocyte fat stores died last. Thus over time a predisposition to store fat in adipocytes has been selected for.
Energy is stored in the fat mass at the center of an adipocyte in the form of hydrogen bonds.
You already know that fat energy is stored using hydrogen, even if you don’t realize that you know it, as we will see in the next section.
2. Hydrogen as Stored Energy
Hydrogenation. You will have heard of a hydrogenated vegetable oil. These are solid oils sold as butter replacements, food additives and baking ingredients. Manufacturers start with liquid vegetable oil and run hydrogen gas through it. The hydrogen atoms stick to open bonding sites on the oil molecule (called a fatty acid chain) and as more of them stick, the chain becomes more hydrogenated. All the sticky hydrogenated fatty acid chains then stick to each other and this solidifies them.
Structurally, a partially hydrogenated fatty acid chain is bent and slippery. Thus it would be a liquid at room temperature like olive or canola oil.
A fully hydrogenated fatty acid chain is straight and sticky. It would be a solid at room temperature, like butter or lard. Having more hydrogen bonds, a hydrogenated oil contains more energy. In nutritional language, it would have more calories. A calorie is a term that refers to chemical energy.
Saturation. You may also be familiar with the concept of hydrogenation through a different word: saturation. Fats are often classified as unsaturated fats, whose fatty acid chains don’t have all of their bonding sites filled, and saturated fats, whose bonding sites are all filled. The thing a bonding site on a fatty acid chain is or is not saturated with is a hydrogen atom.
So these two words saturation and hydrogenation mean the same thing. Just so that you can visualize the chemistry, in the diagram below we can see an unsaturated fat with some of its bonding sites empty, and a saturated fat with all of its bonding sites filled with hydrogen atoms.
Hydrogen fuel cells. A
hydrogen fuel cell is a piece of electrical technology that converts the chemical energy stored in hydrogen bonds into electricity using an oxidation reaction cycle. This is an example of a common pattern we see, where the biological roles of all of the elements are mirrored in their industrial usage in the modern technological world. It makes sense. Why reinvent the wheel?
In the same way that fuel cells store and release energy using hydrogen, so do our bodies. In our bodies, as excess calories from food are A-consumed or B-not burned off, the energy in the calories is converted into hydrogen bonds that get added onto a fatty acid chain, and leads to an inflating effect on the droplets of fat inside our adipocytes.
The more the adipocyte inflates, the more fat we gain. What we are seeing on the bathroom scale is in fact a buildup of hydrogen bonds being stored in adipocytes for future use. We become living, walking hydrogen fuel cells.
And don’t think you’re going to avoid hydrogen. Among other things, it’s in water (H2O).
3. Carnitine as a Fat Carrier Protein
Fat isn’t all bad news. Our bodies have a way of withdrawing energy from fat cells. We do this using various specialized enzymes. Once withdrawn from the adipocyte bank account, we use an amino acid (a very simple type of protein) called carnitine to help to transport these long-chain fatty acids to our mitochondria so that they can be turned into energy. Carnitine can be thought of as a carrier protein.
Unsurprisingly it is sold as a fat burning supplement.
Without carnitine as a carrier, the inflated fat mass in the centers of our adipocytes would sit there, unused. This would create the appearance of maintaining a higher body fat level and it would show up on the bathroom scale as a higher body weight. It would also make someone unresponsive to fat burning exercise. An inability to lose weight is a symptom of an internal carnitine deficiency.
Technically body weight is not the right way to think about fat. It is a myth that muscle weighs more than fat. Think about it: 1 pound of muscle weighs exactly as much as 1 pound of fat. What is actually happening to create that stark visual contrast between someone carrying more fat versus someone muscular is that muscle tissue is much more dense than fat tissue, so that someone with a higher lean muscle percentage would appear to be physically smaller than someone with a higher body fat percentage, even if they weighed the same number of pounds.
As a common reference, men should be 12-18% body fat (the rest is muscle, bone, skin, organs, blood and water) and women should be 18-24%. Someone above these ranges is building up too much stored hydrogen (as fat) and/or having a problem with carnitine.
This isn’t always a matter of what you are eating. You can eat healthy and still gain fat. There are parasites that can do this to you.
4. Parasites that Use Hydrogen and Carnitine
Parasites can most simply be divided into single-celled and multi-celled organisms.
Hydramoebas. The single-celled parasite that causes fat gain is an amoeba. There is a particular type of amoeba that metabolizes hydrogen inside the human body. That explanation is a mouthful so let’s agree to call it a hydramoeba. There are actually many different types of hydramoebas, the microscopic world is incredibly diversified.
One type of hydramoeba has a hydrogenating effect on our dietary fats. They solidify our fat and causes it to be deposited in our adipocytes. Thus a hydramoeba can cause us to gain fat. Someone with a high enough burden of hydramoebas could gain quite a lot of fat, and sometimes quite quickly.
Short Case Study: I once tested a woman who had started gaining 1 pound of fat per day. By day 90 she had retained 90 pounds (40.8 kg) of fat in addition to her original body weight. She had even tried eating nothing for a week and drinking only water. This didn’t work, that week there was still a 7 pound weight gain. A muscle testing analysis indicated a high burden of hydramoebas. Once these were eliminated, the weight gain stopped and a month later instead of being up another 30 pounds she was in fact down 20 pounds with a total weight gain now of only 70 pounds. Upon examination of the dietary history in the week before the weight gain had started, it became apparent that she had eaten undercooked pork but never thought to associate that with the weight gain that followed.
Hydramoebas can be picked up from dirty water or undercooked pork or beef.
Understanding that the hydramoeba only requires hydrogen to make us gain weight, it would explain why someone only drinking water could still gain weight. The chemical formula for water is H2O. When you have a high burden of hydramoebas, you can gain weight even from water.
Roundworms and Flukes. While larger intestinal and lung parasites like roundworms and flukes do not interfere with our hydrogen, they do 
interfere with our carnitine. Remember that carnitine helps us to lose fat. In history, people that had the most carnitine would lose the most fat and in a famine, they would die first. Our parasites don’t want us to die first, they want us to die last so that they can live as long as possible and hopefully, infect the next host. Better an overweight host than a dead host: that’s how parasites think. They do not share our concern about cosmetics and appearance.
Now, in the developed world at least, we do not die of famines so we can afford to carry less fat and utilize more carnitine. But we still have these parasites in us. They are passed down through the generations or picked up from beef, pork, fish and manure. Here’s a link to the top 10 food sources of parasites.
To summarize this concept, large parasites that we host will inhibit our carnitine metabolism so that we can’t transport fat from our adipocytes to our mitochondria where it would otherwise be converted into energy. Instead, it stays lodged in our adipocytes and our body weight reading on the bathroom scale refuses to move despite hours of exercise.
The solution isn’t to supplement with carnitine. At best it would only pay the parasite mafia. At worst it would overfeed them and they would cause even worse symptoms than they already are.
In a clinical setting, about 20% of all parasites appear to interrupt our carnitine metabolism. There is a way to test for this.
5. Testing For Fat Gain Parasites
Medical testing for parasites is great when it finds something, but usually it doesn’t. Then, the main challenge when medical testing finds something is that it will give the organism a name from parasitology (e.g. entamoeba histolytica, dientamoeba fragilis) but there is no test that tells you that the amoeba is interfering with your hydrogen or carnitine metabolism. Finding a parasite at face value is useless without knowing what its metabolism is based on.
There is an architecture to this, it’s quite interesting:
Hydrogen (H#1) parasites cause low energy and fat gain
Helium (He#2) parasites cause acid reflux
Lithium (Li#3) parasites cause depression and mood disorders.
Element-specific symptoms apply to all elements from the periodic table from #1 (hydrogen) to #96 (curium). If you’re interested in this field, I would refer you to my groundbreaking book on the subject, Book 4: Muscle Testing for Metal Toxicity, due out later this year.
Getting back to the hydrogen and carnitine testing, there is no medical test in existence that analyzes the elemental or nutritional metabolism of any parasite, that’s just too specific.
Years ago I developed a process of muscle testing for parasites. It is quite simple if you know how to muscle test and have the necessary antiparasitic medications. Most people don’t, so I wrote a book about it, Experiments in Muscle Testing. Here’s a link.
In chapter 5, Muscle Testing for Parasites, I outline the logic of how to infer which parasite you are carrying based on which antiparasitic medication you are muscle testing for. The relevant page is printed here for your convenience.
Muscle Testing for Hydramoebas:
Get muscle tested for a pure element sample of hydrogen gas. Hydrogen in elemental (pure) gas form is dangerous and highly inflammable but a small glass-enclosed ampoule for testing purposes is safe and easily found. Various distributors around the world sell all of the elements in sample-sized form. If hydrogen provokes a weak MT you may have found a hydramoeba, if it doesn’t you haven’t and the above description doesn’t apply to you.
Note: In the muscle testing analysis, you would want to cross-test hydrogen with hydroxychloroquine to confirm the fat gain hydramoeba specifically, as opposed to a non-fat-gain hydramoeba. Cross-testing is a more advanced application of muscle testing and probably not suited to a person unfamiliar with the modality.
Muscle Testing for Carnitine Parasites:
Get muscle tested for the amino acid carnitine. This is easily found in any supplement store or online retailer. If some parasite or other was interrupting your carnitine metabolism, a pure carnitine sample would provoke a weak muscle test. Instead, if it fails to provoke a weak muscle test, you have not found a problem and there is no evidence that this applies to you.
Note: In the muscle testing analysis, you could cross-test carnitine with various antiparasitic medications: praziquantel, albendazole, mebendazole and ivermectin. You could also try niclosamide, which indicates some species of tapeworms. This would enable you to confirm what type of parasite was interrupting your carnitine metabolism. Again, cross-testing is a more advanced application of muscle testing and probably not suited to a person unfamiliar with the modality.
Medical disclaimer: I am not a doctor and do not recommend that you (the reader) consume any of the above antiparasitic medications for any reason.
Summary
If you are gaining weight for no apparent reason then you have probably picked up a hydramoeba. You can muscle test for this using a pure element sample of hydrogen.
If you find it impossible to lose existing weight despite a reasonable diet and exercise regimen then you probably have one or more parasites interrupting your carnitine metabolism.
If you had one or both of these organisms, and if you found a way to eliminate them, this should increase your odds of the symptoms resolving.
If you’d like to learn more about how to apply muscle testing to scenarios such as these, I suggest taking a look at my book Experiments in Muscle Testing.
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