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, 20193 min read
Inflammatory Foods & Foods That Feed Gut Bacteria
Eating to reduce inflammation is more important than eating to feed your gut bugs A great way to reduce inflammation is to minimise...
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Helder Barroso
Mar 19, 20193 min read
Losing And Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm
How does your body know when it is time to sleep? There are two main factors that determine when you want to sleep and when you want to...
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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 14, 20193 min read
To Sleep......
Do you think you got enough sleep this past week? Can you recall the last time you woke up without an alarm clock feeling refreshed, not...
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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 13, 20192 min read
Carbohydrates and IBS
SIBO & SIFO Small-intestine bacterial overgrowth SIBO & Small-intestine fungal overgrowth SIFO Why does this matter? It has been shown...
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Helder Barroso
Mar 6, 20194 min read
All Guts Are Not The Same
Gut Evolution Those in non industrialized parts of the world, like rural Africa, have healthier guts, microbiotas, and immune systems...
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Helder Barroso
Mar 5, 20194 min read
The Small Intestine
The small intestine accounts for over 56% of our intestinal tract. The small intestine is a key area of our digestive tract , in fact,...
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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
Mar 3, 20192 min read
The Ecosystem
The gut and gut microbiota Think of the gut and microbiota as a life system just as complex as a rainforest. This ecosystem lives in the...
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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 27, 20192 min read
The guts defense system
if you read my last 2 articles under gut health you now know exactly what happens from the time you consume food until you poop it out....
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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 26, 20192 min read
Get To Know Your Gut
As a coach I see so many people who suffer with constipation, IBS, diarrhea, bloating, acid reflux. Another thing that led me to really...
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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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