You’ve embarked on a lifelong journey of strength—one that will inevitably improve the quality of your health for decades to come. We’ve all come to know and appreciate the fact that strength forms the ... Continue Reading
Obesity, Appetite, and the PYY Hormone
By now it should come as no surprise that there exists a very serious worldwide obesity epidemic. After all, television’s hit show “The Biggest Loser” is centered around people whose weight has become a ... Continue Reading
Looking for Gains? Manipulate Your Training for Hormone Optimization
With the rampant use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs, it’s easy to get caught up in the latest and greatest product or “aid” that just might give you the edge you’ve been looking for. But ... Continue Reading
Control Your Athletic Destiny With Hormone Replacement Therapy
Hormone replacement therapy. That’s a scandalous topic, isn’t it? While some people scoff at the idea of replacing hormones as we get older, saying we should “run on our own steam” or “age gracefully,” I ... Continue Reading
Blood Analysis: Unlock the Body’s Secrets to Reach Peak Performance
In a recent article in FastCompany, Brian Kamenetzky shared how professional teams are looking to reduce injuries by predicting them. An approach that I strongly agree with. To predict injuries, you ... Continue Reading
Adiponectin: The Magical Fat-Burning Hormone?
Whether you want to stay lean for your sport or just to look good, it's important to understand how the body burns fat. For athletes, it also helps to understand how fat is used to fuel activity. The ... Continue Reading
What You Need to Know About Hormone Testing: Which Test to Get and Why
What Hormones Do We Want To Check Levels Of? The health and fitness world has been abuzz with talk about adrenal health and hormonal balance. This has left many of us looking for ways to get our hormones ... Continue Reading
Hormones and Muscle Growth: An Overrated Correlation?
The belief in the importance of anabolic hormones is central to most athletes, coaches, and researchers. The depth of the belief extends to pretty much everything we do in the gym. For example, most ... Continue Reading
What You Don’t Know About CRH Can Kill You
As humans, we are all subjected to challenges, emotional, physical, metabolic, or psychological, that require our body to adapt and change in order to survive. Most people refer to these challenges as ... Continue Reading
Understanding Our Adrenal System: Norepinephrine
There is a lot of talk about adrenal health lately, particularly adrenal fatigue. Most of us get the gist of it. If you stress your body out too much, for too long your adrenals just up and quit on you. ... Continue Reading
Doing Cardio First Lowers Your Testosterone and GH
A few weeks ago I presented a study that looked at exercise order. It asked the question, “If you plan to perform both strength and conditioning workouts, which should come first?” The study found that ... Continue Reading
