Insulin Levels and Fat Loss – Q&A

This is because, in a lot of ways, insulin is a schizophrenic hormone. Depending on what folks read (e.g. bodybuilding literature), they will be told that insulin is great, it’s the most anabolic hormone in the body, it’s key to getting big. And if you read other stuff (a lot of mainstream dieting literature), you’ll hear that insulin is the devil, it makes you fat and ruins your health. Who’s right? Well, everybody…sort of.

Flexible vs. Rigid Dieting

With the holidays looming, and all of the food and candy that that entails, I wanted to write a quick article post about a topic that I consider very important. In fact, it’s so important to the goal of long-term body composition changes that I wrote an entire book (My A Guide to Flexible Dieting) about it.

Welcome to the All New Bodyrecomposition.com

I wanted to welcome regular visitors (along with those who may be getting here from the now defunct blog) to the new site and new look of Bodyrecomposition.com. In order to make the information I have to offer easier to find, I’m consolidating the blog, old site, newsletter, etc. all into one place.

Muscle Gain Mistakes

Although it may seem strange to talk about how to gain weight as we approach the holidays (where people typically gain weight without trying very hard), the simple fact is that, for athletes and bodybuilders, the winter (when it’s cold outside and you’re covered up) has always been one of the primary times that trainees focus on muscle gain.

Bodyweight Regulation Wrap-Up: Other Hormones

I already talked a little about insulin in that series but there are still more hormones of some importance. With more likely to be discovered as time goes on. Oxyntomodulin, GLP-1, PP and others are being discussed in recent reviews and further research will go towards determining what in the hell is actually going on.

Tangentially, this is one of the big problems in trying to find a true ‘solution’ to the issue of weight loss and obesity: the human body has a number of overlapping, integrated and redundant pathways that all send signals to the brain. Fix one and something else eventually steps in to fill the role and cause problems.

IF’ing Roundtable

Since I mentioned intermittent fasting a post or two back, I wanted to point everyone to a short IF roundtable on another blog. Martin Berkhan of Leangains.com along with Brad Pilon, author of Eat, Stop Eat provide some good information on the topic. Go check it out if you have any interest in IF’ing.

A new interview with yours truly

Over the past several weeks, I’ve done an online interview with Steve Troutman for his body-improvements blog. You can read what I had to say below Body-improvements interview Part 1 Body-improvements interview Part

Part 3,4 of my interview at Body Improvements

We’re still working on the changes to the site/blog, please stay patient. IN the interim, you can read Part 3 of my interview at Body Improvements and Part 4 of my interview at Body Improvements

Why is Stubborn Fat Stubborn?

In general there are clear gender differences that show up at puberty, suggesting that sex hormones play a role in how fat cells develop. And there is much truth to this. It turns out that if you take a fat cell from a man’s thigh and a woman’s thigh, they are functionally identical and essentially indistinguishable physiologically. Even though the man generally has extremely low levels of estrogen.

Greg Everett’s Olympic Lifting Seminar DVD – Product Review

A few days ago, I did a review of Greg Everett’s new book on Olympic Weightlifting; as I stated, he has also done a DVD which I ordered shortly after getting the book.

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