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The importance of physical activity
The role of genetics in lifespan
How to maintain a healthy diet
There's a group of people who think "if I could just fix my testosterone, everything will be better." But actually, that's not true at all.
The only purpose of fixing testosterone is to give you the capacity to work harder. It's really going to help you recover more from your workouts. This should just give you a greater ability to experience muscle protein synthesis.
So if you get a bunch of testosterone and you sit on the couch and your nutrition doesn't change and you're not exercising anymore, you're not going to experience any benefits of this thing.
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Smoking is approximately a 40% increase in the risk of ACM (all-cause mortality). It means at any point in time, there's a 40% greater risk that you're going to die relative to a non-smoker and a never-smoker.
It doesn't mean your lifespan is going to be 40% less. It means ...
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An annual DEXA scan is a more comprehensive measurement than BMI – but you certainly want to monitor weight.
A DEXA is a moving x-ray. So you lay down on a bed and it takes maybe 10 minutes and this little, very low power x-ray goes over your body. It measu...
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Augmenting acetylcholine through nicotine (not by smoking) is effective for enhancing concentration and focus.
On the list of things that you can do to make your brain a little more focused, this is infinitely safer than what a lot of people are doing, which is using st...
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Metabolomics is just the study of metabolites. Metabolites can be defined as endogenous compounds such as amino acids, lipids, sugars, organic acids, etc., which are routinely being formed in the anabolism or catabolism process.
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The 2 vectors of longevity: lifespan (whether you are alive and breathing) and healthspan (how many healthy years you live).
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A marginal decade is the last decade of your life. So everyone will have a marginal decade. And outside of people who die suddenly or through an accident, most of us know when we're in that marginal decade.
Until a person can tell you what it is that they want to be doing in that last decad...
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... you're less of what you just ate. Factors that make muscles less sensitive to protein signalling is ageing. Much of the muscle loss takes place during short periods of inactivity, such as bed rest after a knee replacement.
A simple fix is never to feed...
There is a clear advantage for eating before and during longer duration exercise. Using nutrition to strategically recover is essential for those who want to maximise their workouts.
When resistance training, consuming a combination of mainly carbohydrat...
Since cortisol is catabolic – breaks down molecules – it can inhibit protein synthesis, which means your body will find it harder to build muscle.
“Cortisol can also accelerate the breakdown of protein into amino acids and sugar, which means that you start to use muscle as an
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