Exercise boosts testosterone right? Not exactly. Exercises that are catabolic, meaning they lead to tissue breakdown, can actually reduce testosterone rather than increase it. That is why we want to focus on anabolic types of exercise to maintain healthy testosterone levels.

Getting the right types of exercise can have dramatic positive effects on testosterone levels. We also want to make sure that we balance this with proper recovery (aka sleep) to get the full anabolic testosterone boosting effects.

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Food is always first. Food can help you to drop body fat and provide the building blocks and cofactors to help your body produce optimal levels of testosterone. You can give your body a major boost by strategically choosing some testosterone boosting foods.

In this episode I will discuss the foods that will give you the zinc, healthy fats, and aromatase inhibiting nutrients to help you optimize your testosterone level.

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The body is an intelligent system that tightly regulates hormone production, including testosterone. If your hormones are out of balance (too high or too low), there is likely one or a few underlying reasons why the body is producing less testosterone.

In this episode I discuss some of those reasons which include excessive cortisol production, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and too much conversion of testosterone into estrogen. Understanding WHY testosterone can be low, is important to understanding HOW to increase it. Tune into this episode to find out more.

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Do you have low T? Since 2001 the number of men on testosterone replacement therapy has tripled. Testosterone replacement can improve energy, mood, and sex drive but is it safe? Why is testosterone low in the first place? What else can be done to boost testosterone besides replacement therapy?

This week I am going to answer all of your questions on testosterone in this 5 part series on Optimizing your Testosterone Naturally. If you or someone you know is dealing with symptoms of low testosterone such as low energy, low sex drive, low mood, please tune in and share this podcast with them. You don’t want to miss this potentially life changing information.

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I cringe every time that someone tells me that their weight loss plan consists of exercise without a change in their diet. While you can definitely will your way towards weight loss with exercise, it is very challenging to truly “melt the pounds off”.

Most of us overestimate the number of calories that we burned through exercise and then tend to overcompensate with our eating. We are also more hungry when we do high levels of exercise, and our bodies even adapt to unconsciously move less throughout the rest of the day. Tune into to today’s episode of Your Nutrition Prescription to learn more about why exercise is a bad weight loss strategy and what you can do instead.

 

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Broccoli is one of the healthiest foods on the planet. It is rich in chlogophyll, indole-3-carbinol, carotenoids, vitamin K, and the powerhouse nutrient sulphurophane. The combination of nutrients in broccoli make it a powerful food to protect against the development of cancer and to aid the liver in detoxifying the blood.

However, if you don’t eat broccoli right you will be missing out on a lot of the benefits of this amazing superfood. In this episode I am going to share with you how to get the most nutrition from your broccoli and tell you about another food that is related to broccoli and is actually a lot more nutritious ounce for ounce.

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You don’t have to spend 90 minutes in the gym 6 days per week to get great results from a fitness routine. Believe it or not, you can get pretty good results in just 3 hours per week. The key is to focus on the types of training that are going to give you the most bang for your buck and change your metabolism in a way that getting and staying lean becomes easier than ever before.

In this episode I will briefly outline the training routine that I shift to when I am low on time and the same type of routine that I recommend to clients who have very little time to devote to exercise, or just want to make their routine more efficient. 

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Zinc is involved in hundreds of processes in the body from protein synthesis, to DNA repair, to immune system function. To carry out these functions at optimal capacity, it is important that we are not lacking in zinc. This is especially important since the body has no zinc storage mechanisms.

In this episode of Your Nutrition Prescription, I will cover zinc needs in the human body, primary sources of zinc, and recommendations for who might want to use a zinc supplement. You don’t want to miss this valuable information about one of our body’s most important minerals.

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If you are trying to lose weight, you have to eat less calories than you burn, it is that simple. To maximize success, we want to stack all of the chips in our favor. In this episode, I talk about some extremely simple ways to help you create the negative energy balance that leads to weight loss.

Things as simple as using smaller plates, and utensils could mean the difference between finally making progress towards your goals continuing to ride the weight cycling roller coaster.

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On this episode of Your Nutrition Prescription we are going to discuss a report published in 2016 in the British Medical Journal by researchers out of Johns Hopkins University that examined the leading causes of death in the US and found that medical error was #3 on that list.

In this episode I discuss this finding and how understanding this about the medical system is what led me to follow the career path that I am on today.

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