Changes in fat and fiber intake have been found to alter a woman's hormonal profile.
A low-fat/high-fiber diet lowers levels of both estrogen and progesterone compared to a high-fat/low-fiber diet. To little saturated fat...
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Helder Barroso
Apr 25, 20194 min read
Gaining and Losing Lean Body Mass
Irrespective of the fact that gains and losses in LBM have minimal effects on either metabolic rate or BF%, there are still many reasons...
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Helder Barroso
Apr 10, 20196 min read
The Best Way to Alter Body Composition
Technically, any given reader of this blog could have one of two primary goals. The first would be to gain muscle. While the process may...
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Helder Barroso
Mar 19, 201910 min read
Diet Categories
While estimating BF% is important for many reasons, at least one of those is for you to determine what dieting category you are in. This...
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Helder Barroso
Mar 16, 201915 min read
Measuring and Tracking Body Composition
Continuing from the last blog, let's look at some of the practical aspects involved in both measuring and tracking changes in body...
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Helder Barroso
Mar 15, 20198 min read
What Kind Of Weight Are You Losing/Gaining?
Although it has been changing in the last decade or so, the reality is that most people (women or men) tend to focus only on changes in...
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Helder Barroso
Mar 13, 201910 min read
Womans Body Composition
Having examined the normal menstrual cycle and the most common hormonal modifiers, I want to discuss the topic of body composition for...
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Helder Barroso
Mar 5, 20199 min read
Other Hormonal Modifiers
Obesity The next hormonal modifier I want to address is obesity, focusing here on the negative hormonal changes that occur as body fat...
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Helder Barroso
Feb 27, 20198 min read
What can modify a woman's physiology
Having looked at in the last few blogs at the normal menstrual cycle in detail in terms of the major hormonal changes that occur and how...
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Helder Barroso
Feb 26, 20195 min read
Other Important Hormones
Growth Hormone (GH) Growth hormone is involved in many processes in the body but a primary one in adults is the mobilization of fat....
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Helder Barroso
Feb 19, 20195 min read
An Overview Of The Menstrual Cycle Changes
Going back to the latest blogs, let's now summarize the changes that are occurring. Early and Late Follicular Phase After menstruation,...
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Helder Barroso
Feb 12, 20196 min read
Progesterone
Progesterone is the second primary reproductive hormone in women and is released from the corpus luteum that develops after release of...
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Helder Barroso
Feb 7, 20197 min read
Estrogen
The two primary female sex hormones are estrogen and progesterone and you've seen in the last blog how they change across the menstrual...
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Helder Barroso
Feb 6, 20195 min read
The Menstrual Cycle
The menstrual cycle derives from the Latin word for month and refers to the roughly one month (28 day cycle) that a woman goes through...
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Helder Barroso
Feb 4, 20193 min read
Coaching Females
Women can be very complicated, many women aren't familiar with their own phases of the menstrual cycle or how their hormones physiology...
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Helder Barroso
Jan 30, 20192 min read
The Role of Hormones in Females and Males
Other than genetics and the difference in genitalia, arguably the largest biological difference between women and men is in the relative...
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