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Growth hormone may rise 300 percent with exercise: Acute increases also occur in cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline

The figure below (click to enlarge) is from the outstanding book Physiology of sport and exercise , by Jack H. Wilmore, David L. Costill, an...

Niacin is a very interesting vitamin. It is also known as vitamin B 3 , or nicotinic acid. It is an essential vitamin whose deficiency leads...

One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with intermittent fasting is an ...

Doing resistance exercise to failure is normally recommended for those who want to maximize strength and muscle mass gains from the exercis...

Low testosterone (a.k.a. “low T”) is caused by worn out glands no longer able to secrete enough T, right? At least this seems to be the mos...

The Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 was very interesting on many levels. Aaron Blaisdell and the team of volunteers really did a superb job...

Cortisol is a hormone that plays several very important roles in the human body . Many of these are health-promoting, under the right circum...

Cortisol is a hormone that has a number of important functions. It gets us out of bed in the morning, it cranks up our metabolism in prepara...

Cortisol is a hormone that does a number of different things; a jack of all trades among hormones, so to speak. It tells the liver to produc...