Here's why I'm so convinced that there is a way to lose weight fairly quickly and healthily, in case you're wondering why I keep posting hypotheses on this topic: While tracking my food and weight, I personally experienced it, and I feel that I have a duty to try to identify what I was consuming so that others can learn from it and be blessed by it.
When I soaked plain kelp ("kombu" in Japan) purchased from Asian markets in cold water, the water became viscous and brownish green. When I combined the kelp water with some kinds of vitamin pills, some "organic spices," or with a homemade lactofermented yogurt and oat flakes, I experienced an unusual decrease in weight and fat, especially if I also ate canned sardines, grape seed extract, or some imported cheeses.
However, the kelp changed within a year or two. I tried to buy it from the same markets and get the same kinds, but it all no longer made viscous water. The kelp water stayed mostly clear, and the kelp smelled "metallic."
I believe I recreated the "kelp water" by soaking banana leaves with celery stalk slices in sunlight. The liquid became rather viscous. When I drank the liquid dipped out of the banana leaf/celery water throughout the morning and then afterward ate some kinds of canned sardines or foil pouch tuna fish, I again noticeably decreased in weight/fat.
My current thought, based on these experiences, is that there was UDP-apiose (based on an less common sugar molecule) or a closely related molecule released into the kelp water and banana leaf/celery water. I think that a "wild" kind of bacteria (perhaps bacillus subtilis) in my homemade yogurt is helping transform the apiose into a related molecule (perhaps a condensed one incorporating As/Sb/Bi in place of the P in apiofuranosyl-1,2-cyclic-phosphate) that signals the body to use up and reduce fat storage. I think this related molecule might have a more dramatic effect if it contains arsenic/antimony/bismuth, based on the inconsistent results I see from inclusion of diverse brands of spices and supplements or usage of different brands of processed fish.
Update on 10/20/2021: An alternative hypothesis would be that UDP-apiose (or a related molecule) helps facilitate a fat-utilizing process that is helped along by the presence of propionic acid. Propionic acid would be expected to often be present in the canned fish (as a product of oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids with an uneven number--especially three--of carbons after the double bonds, especially in oil-canned fish high in unsaturated fat), the yogurt (as a product of some fermenting bacteria), and even the occasional chocolate products (again, a product of oxidation of some fatty acids) that I have seen associated with weight loss in me and my family. Propionic acid can activate AMPK, which has been referred to as a "master switch" for weight loss--https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003986119302966. It acts through G-protein coupled receptors (i.e., GPCRs or guanine nucleotide-binding proteins] 41 and 43, indicating a possible nucleotide connection, and UDP-apiose is a nucleotide sugar. I suspect that the UDP-apiose might interact with the GPCRs 41/43--a hypothesis supported by research findings: https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(19)80907-9/fulltext--in such as way as to alter their function when they are activated by propionic acid.
