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Danger Metabolism Slowing Ahead

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Unless you have a degree in human biology ...and in many cases even if you do... you do not understand what "metabolism" means. This word gets thrown around the fitness and diet media and is used to scare people into thinking there is a dangerous level of calories that will destroy their metabolism. This of course is a false premise considering your 'metabolism' isn't a … [Read more...] about Danger Metabolism Slowing Ahead

Overeating Anything Is Bad – The Devil is in the Dose

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If you browse around the cyber-inter-web-o-sphere and look around for 'healthy nutrition' information you'll likely find a big list of  "items to avoid". Here are some of the common ones I can think of off the top of my head: Saturated Fat Trans Fat Sugar Artificial Sweeteners Genetically Modified Anything (which is ridiculous considering about 80% of the … [Read more...] about Overeating Anything Is Bad – The Devil is in the Dose

Thyroid Hormone and Weight loss

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Sticking with the hormone theme we're going to discuss thyroid hormone today based on a request from Lillea. I'll try to knock this out in a way that makes sense without leading to more questions but rather leading to at least some sort of understanding. Thyroid hormones T3 and T4 are released from your thyroid gland (located in your neck) and they affect all cells of … [Read more...] about Thyroid Hormone and Weight loss

Hormones and Weight Loss

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Certain hormones have become buzz words in the diet and fitness media and I get a lot of questions about them. People want to know more about each hormone that they've heard of like, insulin, glucagon, growth hormone, leptin, ghrelin etc. But my question back would be...what for? Having a technical explanation of the workings of a particular hormone (which btw is … [Read more...] about Hormones and Weight Loss