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Take This to Change White Fat to Brown Fat

TC Luoma — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Brown Fat vs. White Fat If you're relatively lean, you probably got that way with exercise and good eating habits. But some people don't train hard or watch their diets and they're even leaner than you! How's that happen? Well, naturally lean people often have superb insulin sensitivity and a generous heaping of something called

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Bad Sleep Makes You Fat, Kills Testosterone

Chris Shugart — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:50:00 +0000

Bad Sleep Makes You Fat Have you noticed that when you get a crappy night of sleep you tend to eat more the next day? It's not in your mind. Bad sleep can be the catalyst for developing a bad body. A new study (a meta-analysis) published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found

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Take This to Stay Lean After Dieting

TC Luoma — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Stay Lean With Curcumin Being lean, really lean, is usually a transient state as all severely restrictive diets eventually come to an end. On one hand, the end of a diet is good: it gets easier to put on muscle. The bad side? Your V-taper starts to soften, blur, and spread out until it's kind

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Lower Blood Pressure With This Tasty Food

TC Luoma — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:59:00 +0000

Lower Blood Pressure Naturally Large humans often have elevated blood pressure. At least, that's what we've seen in large, obese humans. The data on large, muscular humans is mostly lacking, but generally speaking, having more muscle (and the exercise that led to it) is usually associated with a lower blood pressure reading. Still, it's not

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Resveratrol Benefits: Body Composition and Health

TC Luoma — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Polyphenol Power: Resveratrol Benefits It's been proven to boost testosterone, build muscle, and burn fat. But resveratrol's benefits go far beyond that. First, you need to know a little something about polyphenols. As a reminder, polyphenols are plant metabolites that generally protect plants from ultraviolet radiation or attack by pathogens. Historically, they were only thought

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Polyphenols: Benefits, Foods, and Supplements

TC Luoma — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Polyphenols: The Overlooked Plant Chemical For a long time, dietitians told us we needed 4 to 6 servings of fruits and vegetables a day to stay healthy. Then, a couple of years later, they changed that number to 10 colon-busting servings a day. Now, some of those dietitians are telling us to have just 4

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The Mineral Deficiency That Kills Your Gains

TC Luoma — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Can a Mineral Deficiency Lower Your T Levels? If you're an athlete or lifter, you sweat and thus you're likely deficient in zinc, which, along with selenium, maintains high testosterone levels and the immune system. That's a mineral deficiency you certainly don't want. If you're a plain old human, you're also likely deficient in magnesium.

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Build Muscle: Increase Androgen Receptor Density

TC Luoma — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Why Can't You Build Muscle Like Those Other Guys? You lift hard and heavy. You make sure you get your protein every day and you even keep a food log. You use the right supplements. In short, you do everything you can to build muscle. Despite all this, despite the sweat, the commitment, the yearning,

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Nootropics: The Supplements That Make You Smarter

Chris Shugart — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Drugged Out On Nootropics Back in college I got into drugs. No, not weed and coke, but a group of substances called "smart drugs" or nootropics. Back then, there wasn't much of a US market for them, and some were technically illegal to buy over the counter. But you could order them from other countries.

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Anxiety & Depression Treatment: Can a Mineral Help?

Chris Shugart — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000

A Cheap and Simple Depression Treatment? A while back, 126 people diagnosed with mild to moderate depression were each given a bottle of pills. They were told to take one tablet per day as a depression treatment. Two weeks later, half of those people reported feeling a little better. Four weeks after that, those same

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