Intermittent fasting — the practice of going without food for any period of time longer than about 12 hours, including sleep time — has many benefits. Among them are fat loss, better insulin
READ MOREAerobic exercise doesn’t hold a candle to weight lifting when it comes to fat loss, the reasons for which were explored in a previous post and in my book, Muscle Up. In a nutshell, only resistance
READ MOREHigh iron causes disease Body iron stores are correlated with and likely causative of cancer, heart disease, infections, and lots of other bad things, all of which I discussed in my recent book, Dumping
READ MOREMyostatin is a hormone that inhibits muscle growth, so that higher myostatin means less muscle. Weightlifting decreases the level of myostatin, which is to be expected, since weightlifting promotes muscle
READ MOREThe Most Important Anti-Aging Advice Once when I was talking to someone about my book on aging and the actions that we can take to slow it, this person asked me what was my most important piece of anti-aging
READ MOREI’ve written a lot about the dangers of excess iron. But what constitutes an “excess” amount of iron is key here. Ferritin is the most important measure of iron, but the normal range
READ MOREPolyphenols are plant compounds that are associated with good health.(1) “Polyphenols are secondary metabolites of plants and are generally involved in defense against ultraviolet radiation or aggression
READ MOREAwhile back, I discussed how I decided to raise my testosterone level and how I did it. Basically, my doctor prescribed me anastrozole (trade name Arimidex), an aromatase inhibitor which lowers estradiol,
READ MOREA scientist named C. D. Rollo has done extensive work on the ability of a complex supplement to combat aging. He uses a strain of transgenic mice that have high levels of growth hormone and IGF-1, which
READ MOREDo antidepressants actually work to treat depression? They do have some effect, although in most studies the effect is barely distinguishable from the placebo control. Irving Kirsch, a psychiatry professor
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