In today’s society, emphasis is placed on work and productivity over anything else. This could mean sacrificing quality of nutrition to save time (fast food), and/or sleep deprivation, whether it be on purpose, or due to parties/late night gatherings, stress etc… The single factor that will have an impact on the widest array of health […]
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What if I told you that most exercise does not cause long term weight loss? This is a secret the fitness industry of gadgets, DVDs, and commercial fitness clubs don’t want you to know. In their defense though, few of them may understand just how wrong they are and why. Let’s start with a simple […]
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Fat loss is the ever-elusive conquest of anyone and everyone who is into health and fitness. Observationally I also think it is one of the most misunderstood and challenging topics for most people to tackle due to the sheer amount of miss-information out there with the added perpetuated myths we have all heard when embarking […]
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By Roland Pankewich If you have read the first installment (Read Part 1 Here) you were introduced to the idea that fat loss is a catabolic process which must be contextually supported if your goal is to lower your body fat percentage. We also mentioned that the mitochondria in our cells are the only cellular […]
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By Roland Pankewich Read Part 1 HERE Read Part 2 HERE So far we have outlined some basic principles that determine fat loss; mainly that fat loss is a catabolic (to adipose tissue) process that is supported metabolically via mitochondrial beta oxidation (fat burning). To completely paint the picture we must examine the other side […]
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By Roland Pankewich Fat loss is the ever-elusive conquest of anyone and everyone who is into health and fitness. Observationally I also think it is one of the most misunderstood and challenging topics for most people to tackle due to the sheer amount of misinformation out there with the added perpetuated myths we have all […]
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The problem with body fat is that when you start to accumulate it in large quantities (more than 20lbs), it actually changes your physiology and makes it harder to get rid of. The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to gain even more fat because adipose tissue in abundance makes you fatter! […]
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Did you know that your body is approximately 90% bacteria and only 10% human? From birth to death, our gut health is affected by various environmental factors. New cutting-edge research suggests that simple changes in gut bacteria may actually lead to drastic weight gain and increase markers of disease! Here’s what you need to know to be on the right side of gut health for improved wellness and body composition…
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Part 2 of good cop versus bad cop in the fat loss hunger wars – this time we’ll focus on the ‘bad’ hunger hormone ‘ghrelin’. Ghrelin is the offender causing you to feel so ravenous that you fall spectacularly off the wagon and hammer down enough food in one sitting to feed a small family! Read more about ghrelin here, along with some strategies you can use to keep it at bay and achieve success on your diet…
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When starting a diet, have you ever wondered why exactly hunger and cravings suddenly sky rocket? Obviously a reduced food intake ‘leads’ to these sensations, but the actual root cause can be attributed to two key hunger hormones, the first of which MI40 Science Editor Rudy Mawer will break down for us here…
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The ‘BURN’… both masochistically loved and hated at the same time. We’ve all felt it. We’ve all heard varying opinions about it… but is it actually beneficial, or should it be avoided like the plague? MI40 Science Editor Rudy Mawer expertly breaks things down while revealing a surprising truth about it’s relationship to lactic acid, and how this knowledge can be used to enhance your results…
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We’ve all seen the Bruce Lee-types, the small men with profound strength, and the contrary, muscle men that are all show and no go. Well it turns out there’s a likely reason for this paradox, and it lies in the physiology of muscle hypertrophy…
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