How Toxins Are Causing Hormonal Imbalances

How Toxins Are Causing Hormonal Imbalances

November 13, 2023 5 min read

There are key things causing hormonal disruptions in men and women today, even in our children, affecting their overall growth.

Testosterone levels have been dropping for decades while estrogen levels have risen sharply. Levels of growth hormone and progesterone are lower and cortisol levels are too high. And hormonal imbalances are now much more than just being deficient in one or another hormone.

There are exact chemicals in the environment today which block hormones from being created, block them from being used, disrupt their normal action, or impersonate them entirely.

And they're increasing each year.

While this affects muscle-building and fat loss significantly, its effect goes far beyond this to our sleep, stress levels, overall health and how fast we age.

In this article we cover what's happening and what you can do about it.

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Healthy Saturated Fats vs Toxic Trans Fats

Healthy Saturated Fats vs Toxic Trans Fats

November 13, 2023 5 min read

In this article we covered the link between cholesterol and heart health or, more specifically, the lack of any link.

Now I want to go a bit further here, because there is something else that has gotten confused in this subject: saturated fats.

There is an idea that saturated fats raise cholesterol and so blood pressure, and this isn’t the case.

Your body needs saturated fats. About 25% of each of your cells are made from saturated fat. And they wouldn’t function without it.

Even more, it’s necessary if we want soft, healthy skin.

But there is another type of fat which has been confused with saturated fats, and which is very destructive: Trans Fats.

We aren’t hearing as much about them today, but they exist in many processed foods and we need to check for them as they cause inflammation in the blood vessels that does lead to high blood pressure.

So let’s see what these are and what they do.

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The Truth About Cholesterol & Heart Health

The Truth About Cholesterol & Heart Health

November 13, 2023 4 min read

You’ve probably heard of the Cholesterol Hypothesis.

This is a hypothesis that higher levels of cholesterol, particularly LDL Cholesterol, are associated with higher rates of Heart Disease.To prevent heart disease then, we take drugs known as statins that lower our liver’s ability to produce cholesterol.

This hypothesis has been so deeply ingrained in our understanding of how the body works, that the idea of challenging it is almost laughable. (Even though it’s still just a hypothesis after all these decades.)

 

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