Metabolic Flexibility

There are many different diet styles you can read about but most are very restrictive and teach an exclusionary style

Metabolic Flexibility

Metabolic Flexibility is something most of us don’t think about when we’re considering a diet plan of the concept of flexibility in general.

of eating. The typical marketing rhetoric finds one or two food groups or perhaps a macro nutrient (like carbs in the atkins approach) to demonize and lay all of the ills and evils of our western society on these few nutrients.

The dietary advice that follows is to cut all of said nutrient out of your diet forever.

This same tone is taking in blood type diets, or diets that purport the concept that a person has a ‘metabolic type’. These theories are great marketing speak but have no basis in physiology or science.

All humans are highly adaptable and can eat whatever foods happen to be available at a given time.

The concept that there is a right way to eat, or that you have a metabolic type is naive and a convenient argument to make in modern western affluent societies where you can just stroll down to the grocery store and decide on a whim that today you will be a protein eater!

Most people around the world do not have such a luxury and must eat what is available, and most cultures around the world have their fair share of vigorously healthy people as well and this is because of metabolic flexibility and adaptability.

Your body can learn to eat and function on whatever food you can give it. In our societies we have the good fortune to experiment with seemingly limitless food combinations and mix and match just about any degree of foods, meal timing and meal composition we wish.

In todays uncensored podcast we’ll explain how being metabolically flexible and adaptable is the real answer to long term health and part of what makes a diet program successful.

In today’s uncensored podcast, we’ll explain why getting locked into one way of eating can lead to inflexibility if you ever try to change that pattern, indeed it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy if you become too restrictive with your dietary patterns.

We’ll also explain how being metabolically flexible and adaptable is a much better answer for long term health and part of what makes a diet program successful.

John

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Inflammation and Testosterone’s Effects On Depression

The rate of depression is growing and the numbers are likely even higher than we think because many cases go unreported.

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Can testosterone help with depression?

Common therapy for depression includes things like serotonin specific re-uptake inhibitors, monoamine oxidase inhibitors as well as other drug therapies.

But one link that has yet to be fully explored is that of inflammation and depression, and a therapy that is showing good results is simply low dose testosterone.

In today’s uncensored podcast we discuss the global prevalence of depressive disorders in both men and women and some of the potential causal links.

We’ll also delve into the research on inflammation and depression and the effectiveness of testosterone therapy for depression in both men and women.

Finally we’ll also discuss how bodyfat might be affecting depression and why getting in shape might be even more critical to your mental and emotional health than you ever thought.

John

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Black and Grey Market Drugs

The market for supplements and drugs isn’t as black and white as you might think. There is also a significant ‘grey’

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At some point these items weren’t on the black market.

market of items that are not yet categorized as legal or illegal. In many cases a new and controversial supplement may technically be part of the grey market until it gains a working legal definition.

If you’ve been actively taking or trying supplements for the past 10 years you may very well have taken something that used to be part of the legitimate market and now exists on the grey market or even the black market now.

Many items go through a life cycle from the legitimate market to the grey market and end up in the black market.

The markets themselves are determined by political ideology and pressure and have little to do with the quality or inherent or perceived danger of the items in question.

We’ll look into the history of the black market for performance enhancing drugs and examine how a drug or supplement can start out as a legitimate market item and end up on the black market.

When you look at it from this standpoint you have to consider that being on an illegal drug is more a matter of a moment in time and a geographical location vs doing something that is universally right or wrong as the media would portray it.

John

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Inflammation, Bodyfat, and Muscle Growth

This is the first uncensored Adonis Index podcast and today Brad Pilon and Brad Howard get into the specifics of inflammation, bodyfat, muscle growth, and working out.

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Frank Zane has “the look”

We know that as bodyfat increases so does systemic inflammation. It has been shown that bodyfat itself secretes inflammatory molecules and this is one of the reasons carrying excess bodyfat is a major risk factor for diabetes and heart disease, but what you didn’t know is that it may also kill your ability to gain muscle.

It could even be said that diabetes and cardiovascular disease are secondary diseases to being obese, and the extra body fat itself is causes multiple inflammatory problems all over your body.

Leptin became popular in the mid 90’s and early 2000’s as a potential target for a pharmaceutical solution to weight loss, but it failed to produced an answer.

Now we are discovering that leptin may be a signal of systemic and acute inflammation due to changes in both caloric intake and body fat levels.

In todays uncensored podcast Pilon will dig deep into his inflammation theory and tie in body fat, leptin, testosterone, calorie intake and inflammation and even vitamins and antioxidants. You may not have even consider this but a simple anti inflammatory might actually help with muscle building if you know what you’re doing, but if you take them incorrectly you could ruin the effect of your workout (this is based on the principle of hormesis).

The answer to muscle building and fat loss is multi factorial and this podcast will give you a taste of how many things that are really going on in your body when you’re trying to get a lean muscular physique. It’s just as straight forward as many people and marketers would have you think.

They discuss why there is a gap in muscle building research and why our culture of performance enhancing drug denial is keeping it that way.

You’ll also discover the chronic and acute effect of working out on inflammation and whether or not pre and post workout nutrition has a measurable positive effect on your workouts.

John

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