Author: johnbarban
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Semen Volume as a marker of Health
If you’ve followed my work over the years, you know I’m usually interested in understanding why the body does what it does. Whether it’s nutrition, energy balance, metabolism, recovery, hormones, or training, I’m always looking for useful physiological signals that tell us what’s actually happening beneath the surface. Years ago I was writing about intermittent…
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The Ultimate Stress Test
The response to the coronavirus has presented us with what could be considered the biggest stress test of ourselves individually and of our societies collectively. On one hand our life stresses have increased due to a lack of certainly about our financial futures, the political future, and what the future holds for our families, friends…
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How Much Protein Is In An Egg?
Eggs are an excellent source of protein and relatively cheap too. They have a very high biological value and a full complement of essential and non-essential amino acids. In short, if you wanted a complete and easy to absorb protein source look no further than eggs. With that said there are a few considerations you…
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Weight Loss Fallacies: 2lbs per week and 1200 calories per day
I received an email the other day that sums up how popular diet/fitness misinformation can leave people frustrated, upset, angry and eventually to flat out give up on the idea of getting in shape. So the email went something like this: “I just read your book and it says my RMR is approx 1250 calories.…
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Steroid Muscle vs Natural Muscle
So I guess the general theme this week is “hormones”. So the next topic that we’re going to cover was sent in by Jason and this is about steroid muscle vs natural muscle. This is a tricky topic because most celebrities, athletes and bodybuilders don’t admit or disclose the drugs they use so it’s hard…