Hormonal Changes During Exercise: Part 5 – Summary
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Hormonal Changes During Exercise: part 4 – Blood Sugar Control
We discuss how glucose is regulated during exercise. Understanding this helps you grasp why carbs are so important to fuel exercise and prevent muscle breakdown. We also discuss pre-workout exogenous insulin, junk volume, and how exercise duration influences carb vs fat burning.
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Hormonal Changes During Exercise: Part 3 – The Adrenals
We discuss how adrenalin, noradrenaline, and cortisol make exercise possible. We also go over some practical topics such as consuming food while you train and how cortisol impacts muscle breakdown.
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Hormonal Changes During Exercise: Part 2 – The Metabolic Response to Exercise
We begin our discussion of how exercise increases your metabolism and the hormonal changes that contribute to this. We discuss some the hormones released in the anterior pituitary to mobilize glucose, fats, and amino acids, then how thyroid hormone increases your metabolism. Lastly, we discuss how exercising in hot conditions impacts the number of calories you burn.
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Hormonal Changes During Exercise: Part 1 – Intro to How Hormones Respond to Exercise
We give you tables gland by gland, hormone by hormone, that overviews what hormones change when you exercise and how they change.
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Fluid and Electrolyte Maintenance During Exercise: Part 5 – Summary
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Fluid and Electrolyte Maintenance During Exercise: Part 4 – Hydration Recommendations
We tell you what research advises for pre, during, and post exercise hydration as well as give you our recommendations. We also discuss the physiology of thirst (real thirst, not what energy drink chicks embody when they post their raw cheeks to social media).
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Fluid and Electrolyte Maintenance During Exercise: Part 3 – Hormonal Protection from Dehydration
We discuss the hormones that get involved to minimize dehydration during exercise. This article really helps you understand the physiology behind conserving water anytime you're at risk of dehydration.
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Fluid and Electrolyte Maintenance During Exercise: Part 2 – Body Fluid Distribution
We discuss where we store fluids in our body, how fluids shift, why fluids shift, osmosis, and why blood pressure increases when salt intake rises.
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Fluid and Electrolyte Maintenance During Exercise: Part 1 – Dehydration Decreases Performance
Your level of hydration influences both endurance and strength training performance. Find out how hypohydration influences performance, how hypohydrated you need to be to see performance decrements, and review some sweat science.
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Leptin and Ghrelin, The Hunger Hormones: Part 10 – Summary
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Leptin and Ghrelin, The Hunger Hormones: Part 9 – How to Suppress Ghrelin and Hunger
We discuss the relationship among ghrelin, health, and food intake.
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Leptin and Ghrelin, the hunger hormones: Part 8 – Ghrelin Impacting Your Health and Body Organs
We learned that leptin impacts numerous hormonal axis and it is very influential in your health. We've also learned what hormones ghrelin can influence and now we expand on that by examining how ghrelin influences the entire body. We discuss the heart, stomach, pancreas, liver, intestines, adipose tissue, and general aesthetics.
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Leptin and Ghrelin, The Hunger Hormones: Part 7 – Ghrelin and Sleep
Ghrelin impacts the quality of your sleep. Ghrelin is also associated with growth hormone release and in brology, growth hormone helps you sleep. Let's address the roles of ghrelin, growth hormone, and cortisol in sleep quality.
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Leptin and Ghrelin, The Hunger Hormones: Part 6 – Intro to Ghrelin
We move onto ghrelin which is the primary hormone promoting hunger. We discuss the numerous factors that influence ghrelin and make you feel hungry as well as the elements ghrelin influences such as your response to stress, reward pathways, and carb vs. fat use to generate energy.
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Leptin and Ghrelin, The Hunger Hormones: Part 4 – Leptin, The Reproductive Hormones, and Body Fat
We get into the nitty gritty details of how leptin influences reproductive health and fat loss. We also discuss a very common issue making fat loss harder and why you think about food so much when you shred for a long time.
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