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Ab-ra Cadabra! Weightlifting’s Magical Chemistry Means Incredible Things For Your Looks And Lifespan!

Filed Under: Exercise

Ab-ra Cadabra! Weightlifting’s Magical Chemistry Means Incredible Things For Your Looks And Lifespan!
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Exercise Is A Powerful “Drug”. That Keeps Getting Truer With Time:

So even though the show “Aerobicise” was a masterpiece, not all thinking in the 1980s was genius.

For example: Exercise is just simple movements that do simple things.

But it seems the Ancient Greeks were cleverer than Ron Harris.

It was their idea that The Ideal Man, should be both yoked and shredded.

And since it was Aristotle who solved nearly-everything when it comes to personal psych, anxiety, friends, etc.

We shouldn’t be surprised that their keen intuitive sense caught-on to another implicit truth.

-That modern researchers are just catching up to, with surprising work on just how good weightlifting can be for you…

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Captain America’s Super Serum Isn’t Here Yet. But It Could Be. Exercise Protein May Be A Fountain Of Youth!

Filed Under: Exercise

Captain America’s Super Serum Isn’t Here Yet. But It Could Be. Exercise Protein May Be A Fountain Of Youth!
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What If I Told You The “Steroids” Of The Future Have No Down-Side?:

Once upon a time, there was this comedian who made some dumb jokes about taking everything at face-value.

One of the things he said was, “Why would you eat vegetables? Do you really need that much chlorophyll?”

It may turn out that a lot of our assumptions, even the ones SCIENCE! makes, could be just as silly.

For example, recently, researchers have figured out that cardio helps clear Alzheimer’s junk out of your brain,

And also grow new brain-cells RIGHT in the memory-center!

A South Korean team might have the same kind of news for people who lift weights!…

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The Voodoo That You Do. How Intermittent-Fasting Plans Can Affect Muscle & Fat-Loss In Surprising Ways

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

The Voodoo That You Do. How Intermittent-Fasting Plans Can Affect Muscle & Fat-Loss In Surprising Ways
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Has SCIENCE! Finally Found The One Plan To Rule Them All?:

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

Just recently, we discussed how people will torture themselves in interesting ways to accomplish their health goals,

Just like we did with crazy body-rollers, face-electrocutors, and tanning-bed forerunners ~100 years ago,

Same as it ever was: Live longer, Look better, Get healthy, & Lose Weight!

Well, now that we have something a bit closer to real SCIENCE!, instead of the “snake oil” from back then,

Researchers are finding valid data where there was once only quackery.

And this last bit shows once more that a recent “magic plan” for weight-loss pretty much is magic!…

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More Longevity Magic! Weightlifting Helps Zombie-Cell Clean Up With Tiny Trash Collectors

Filed Under: Exercise

More Longevity Magic! Weightlifting Helps Zombie-Cell Clean Up With Tiny Trash Collectors
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The Biochemistry Of Weightlifting’s Benefits Is Anything But Simple:

The straw-man. A gross oversimplification. Easy. Cheap. But inaccurate.

That’s how a lot of us deal with some ideas. It’s easier to oversimplify just so we can understand.

But the tradeoff is nuance and sophistication for speed and forward momentum.

And for decades, it seemed as if exercise nuts and gym-rats were just glorified meat-heads.

We also thought the exercise they did was just as one-dimensional. Overachieving for dimwit-narcissists.

But we were all wrong…

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The Freaky Benefits Of Lean Muscle Mass Can Go Straight To Your Head. -And Last For A Lifetime!

Filed Under: Exercise

The Freaky Benefits Of Lean Muscle Mass Can Go Straight To Your Head. -And Last For A Lifetime!
muscle mass alzheimer muscular woman in gym

Business Isn’t The Only Source Of Freakonomics. Now Gyms Are Too!:

A couple of themes that keep coming up in the H&W space are 1) How interconnected everything is.

And 2) How much deeper things go than just face-value.

For example, there are supplements for every specific you could think of. But most of them affect several things.

Researchers are also finding out pretty much everything that’s good for your heart is also good for your brain.

So it’s not surprising another team is finding out exercise is good for WAY more than just weight-loss and looking buff at the gym…

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Weightlifting’s Brain Benefits Surprise. So If You Lift, You Don’t Have To Be A Meat-Head After All!

Filed Under: Exercise

Weightlifting’s Brain Benefits Surprise. So If You Lift, You Don’t Have To Be A Meat-Head After All!
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The Amazing Biochemistry Of Muscle & Exercise Strikes Again!:
Most of us were raised to believe quicksand and sharks in swimming pools would be daily hazards in adult life.

Similarly, we were also raised to think that we’re born with a certain number of brain-cells and do nothing but lose them thereafter.

That may be true for “Florida Man”, but it’s not so for everyone else.

Dr. Sandrine Thuret showed us all a few years ago that we can grow new brain cells, with cardio and especially running.

The only downside to her results was that it appeared weight-lifting exercise didn’t help.

A team from IU looks like they might have a little light at the end of that tunnel…

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Lower The Bar: 20+ Big Picture Lessons From The Road To Weight-Loss And Gaining Back Lost Muscle

Filed Under: Thinking Out Loud

Lower The Bar: 20+ Big Picture Lessons From The Road To Weight-Loss And Gaining Back Lost Muscle
weight loss routine man with squat barbell gym


What’s Really Holding Back Your Results?:
Every once in awhile I get asked how to achieve weight-loss results.

Unfortunately, I get the feeling that many people are held up by something almost invisible.

Whether it’s bad habits, a lack of experience, or even just good-ole’ fear of the unknown.

When I get a chance to talk to them, I share whatever I can. (sometimes it feels like a bit too much)

But one of the ideas I keep coming back to parallels the whole range of Q&A.

Because I’m usually reminded of some part or another of my own journey.

So: Once upon a time, I got a little too chubby…

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Almonds & Exercise: Make Your New Year’s Workout Recovery Easier With Some Helpful & Healthy Biochemistry

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Almonds & Exercise: Make Your New Year’s Workout Recovery Easier With Some Helpful & Healthy Biochemistry
almonds exercise recovery woman lifting barbell squat


Almonds & Exercise. Ease The Pain Of New Habits With A Biochem Hack:
Part of everyone’s New Year’s Resolutions usually turn out to be Lose Weight & Get Into Shape.

But as the spectre of that strange space between Christmas & New Year’s Eve still hangs around, let’s get a little weird.

There seem to be a few main problems with New Year’s Resolutions about the basics of health.

Like the one where people refuse to lose weight by counting calories (even though it works), because it’s hard.

The other problem with “New Year’s Health” is that discipline is hard and exercise seems even harder.

But a weird little bit of biochemistry might make it a bit easier…

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