I’ve been reading and learning about some things that might interest you, I’ve listed them below.
- If there is any hormone you want to optimize it has to be insulin first! The sugar from the food you take in inhibits your immune system. Everytime you eat food that has a high sugar content be it processed wheat, sweets/fruits or even grains, your blood sugar goes up. Your body’s natural response is to tell your pancreas to send insulin into the blood and send the blood sugar down.
The insulin forces your blood sugar down so low that you crave another meal or something sweet. You then make another bad food choice and end up in a nasty cycle. - Your metabolism does not speed up when you have 5-6 meals a day. Turns out to be a myth. Maybe a smart marketing ploy created to make you buy more food or products. The reason why it does work is because you are on a calorie deficit from the start, as well consuming fiborous vegetables and proteins keeping your blood sugar level, and consuming small meals will stop the need to binge eat.
However you are still on a deficit in the first place. Click here for the article, it’ll open up your minds.
- Missing a meal does not make you fat or make you lose muscle.
- Ghrelin (not to be confused with gremlin) is a hormone released in the stomach to increase your hunger and slows your metabolism decreasing your ability to burn fat.
- Leptin is a hormone released from the fat cells and switches off the signal that you are hungry.
That’s great right? so the fatter you are the more of this leptin stuff gets pumped out right? In obese men and women the leptin levels are high but the receptors aren’t responding and it never shuts down their appetite. - Protein powders could be bad for you……actually some of the big brands are…” All drinks in our tests had at least one sample containing one or more of the following contaminants: arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury. Those metals can have toxic effects on several organs in the body.” Click here for the article
- Sleep is important for proper hormone optimization.
- Topical magnesium absorbs better through the skin, taking this mineral gives you better overall sleep leading to optimized hormone levels, especially increasing free and total testosterone levels.
From Mike Mahlers Facebook post.
“Biol Trace Elem Res. 2010 Mar 30. [Epub ahead of print]
Effects of Magnesium Supplementation on Testosterone Levels of Athletes and Sedentary Subjects at Rest and after Exhaustion.
Cinar V, Polat Y, Baltaci AK, Mogulkoc R.
Karaman High Medicine of Physical Education and Sports, Selcuk University, Karaman, Turkey, bsyovedat@yahoo.com.tr.
This study was performed to assess how 4 weeks of magnesium supplementation and exercise affect the free and total plasma testosterone levels of sportsmen practicing tae kwon do and sedentary controls at rest and after exhaustion. The testosterone levels were determined at four different periods: resting before supplementation, exhaustion before supplementation, resting after supplementation, and exhaustion after supplementation in three study groups, which are as follows: Group 1-sedentary controls supplemented with 10 mg magnesium per kilogram body weight. Group 2-tae kwon do athletes practicing 90-120 min/day supplemented with 10 mg magnesium per kilogram body weight. Group 3-tae kwon do athletes practicing 90-120 min/day receiving no magnesium supplements. The free plasma testosterone levels increased at exhaustion before and after supplementation compared to resting levels. Exercise also increased testosterone levels relative to sedentary subjects. Similar increases were observed for total testosterone.
Our results show that supplementation with magnesium increases free and total testosterone values in sedentary and in athletes. The increases are higher in those who exercise than in sedentary individuals.
Mike Mahler
www.mikemahler.com”
That’s all I can remember for now.
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