Category: nutrition
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The Incredible Effect of BFR on Anabolic Hormones!(Testosterone, Growth Hormone, IGF-1, Thyroid Hormone)
Aloha my friends! Training while using professional-grade Blood Flow Restriction (aka occlusion) cuffs provides a HUGE variety of benefits. The one that people will be most familiar with though is that it allows you to use really light weight, but trigger the same (or greater) strength and size gains and fat burn that you’d achieve if you had been lifting extremely heavy weight! Nobody knows…
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Why 1 Minute of Movement Every 30 Min is FAR Better for Metabolic Health than 1 Hour Straight of Exercise!
Aloha my friends! 9 out of every 10 chronic diseases are downstream consequences of poor metabolic health. How effectively we can build muscle and lose fat are also largely dependent on our metabolism. So it’s fair to say that metabolic health is almost synonymous with overall health and fitness. And probably the biggest single factor that determines our metabolic health is…
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Sunscreen is Killing Your Testosterone or Estrogen!(The Traditional Chemical-Based Kind)
Aloha my friends! For this week’s tip I’ll be continuing to share some of the content that I had to cut from my upcoming YouTube video on how to naturally optimize your anabolic hormone levels (because it would’ve been far too long). When sunscreen was first approved by the FDA (it’s considered an over-the-counter drug and is…
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Brain Hack for Smashing Goals WITHOUT Relying on Willpower: Probability Discounting & the Intrinsic Motivation of Competence
Aloha and Mele Kalikimaka! Like most people, I set goals for myself each year. Unlike most people, I almost always achieve them! But it’s not just out of pure willpower. Rather, I use neuroscience-based strategies that “hack” into how my brain works to generate long-term motivation and habit formation without relying on willpower. And for today’s tip I’ll share one of those…
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Boost Testosterone by Eating Orange… PEELS???
Aloha my friends! For this week’s tip I’ll be continuing to share some of the content that I had to cut from my upcoming YouTube video on how to naturally optimize your anabolic hormone levels (because it would’ve been far too long). This time it’s to eat orange peels!!! Or the peels / rinds of any citrus fruit (e.g.…
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Workout Timing: Is Morning or Evening Better??
Aloha my friends! I’ve been working for several weeks now on my next YouTube video, which will be on all-natural strategies for optimizing each of the 8 anabolic hormones that determine how easy or hard it is for us to gain muscle and lose fat! There’s so much to go over though that I eventually realized if I covered…
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The Incredible Health Benefits of Gratitude!!
Aloha my friends, and Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! I hope everyone who celebrated it had an incredible day yesterday. In honor of the holiday, I wanted to re-share a short list I created of some of the incredible health benefits that come from simply having an “attitude of gratitude”, which I first shared in this newsletter exactly…
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The Food Item that Triggers Fast-Twitch Hypertrophy & Conversion! (& More)
Aloha my friends! Apologies for missing last week — I was vacationing with my family in Hawaii! In honor of the spearfishing I did while I was there (there are few things as deliciously satisfying as eating fresh fish you speared yourself from the ocean just hours before), I thought I’d share some of the incredible fitness…
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The Most Important Supplement You’re NOT Taking: MAGNESIUM!!
Aloha my friends! The benefits of magnesium supplementation are wide-ranging and incredibly powerful — especially for weightlifters! To name just some of them: Most people do NOT get enough magnesium from their diet, and therefore need a supplement. And on top of that, studies show that weightlifters or anyone engaged in consistent training should be consuming at least 20% more magnesium…
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Does the ORDER You Eat Your Food Matter?? (Should Veggies Really Come First?)
Aloha my friends, and Happy Fitness-Tip Friday! The answer is YES! While what you eat in the first place is definitely more important… research shows that the ORDER or sequence in which you eat it also has health-related ramifications! That’s good news, because it means you can improve the quality and “healthiness” of your diet WITHOUT requiring any change at…
Dr. Gains 