#929: How Hormones Influence Fat Loss & Muscle Growth
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Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we dive deep into how hormones can impact our goals, whether it is losing excessive fat or gaining lean muscle. We all know that in order to achieve fitness results, we can't focus only on exercise and diet and neglect all other things. It goes beyond that. Hormones play a crucial part when it comes to body composition, health, and performance, and throughout this episode, you will learn exactly how to optimize each one of them and how to take your fitness to the next level.
Timestamps
[01:31] - People take hormones for different reasons;
[04:31] - Why hormones play an important role in our health;
[13:21] - Introduction: highlighting each hormone;
[20:58] - The role of insulin in fat loss and muscle growth;
[30:53] - Cortisol's impact on body composition;
[40:01] - Testosterone is a key hormone for muscle growth;
[49:49] - Understanding leptin and ghrelin (the hunger hormones);
[56:14] - The relevance of estrogen and progesterone;
[01:00:41] - Growth Hormone (GH) overview;
[01:04:54] - Conclusion.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | hormones. It's a very complex topic. In fact, I think it's an inflated topic. And I have an |
| 0:05.9 | interesting take on hormones when it comes to health, when it comes to body composition, how hormones |
| 0:11.2 | influence fat loss and muscle growth. There is two sides to this argument. There's the side of |
| 0:17.1 | hormones or everything. Hormones matter a ton for body composition changes for health for all |
| 0:21.9 | this stuff, right? And they do. Your hormones play a vital role in your mood, in your health, |
| 0:26.0 | and your longevity, in so many different factors in your skin health, your metabolism as well as |
| 0:30.9 | the amount of muscle you maintain on your body as an age and testosterone dips down. Obviously, |
| 0:36.0 | they lose muscle tissue. As we get older and thyroid suppresses, |
| 0:38.9 | it becomes an influencing factor on our metabolism slowing down. |
| 0:42.1 | So it does matter. |
| 0:43.2 | However, on the same token, |
| 0:45.4 | if you have super optimal hormone levels, |
| 0:49.0 | but still within the normal average reference range, |
| 0:51.8 | it's not going to make a big difference. |
| 0:58.6 | Okay. the normal average reference range, it's not going to make a big difference. Welcome to the tailored life podcast. This is the podcast for average people who want to |
| 1:05.1 | achieve above average results, live above average lives, and do it all in above average |
| 1:10.7 | bodies. I am your host, Cody McBroom, an above average lives and do it all in above average bodies. I am your host, Cody |
| 1:12.9 | McBroom, an above average dude who has accomplished some above average things, but is constantly |
| 1:17.7 | chasing the above average life, and that is the tailored life. Today we're going to dive into |
| 1:22.9 | hormones. Hormones is a fun topic. It's an interesting topic. It's a very complex topic. In fact, I think it's an inflated topic. Maybe that's not the right word. What I'm getting at here is it's a topic that it's been a buzzword for a while. It's been something that people rant and rave about. There's a lot of gurus out there who talk about hormones quite a bit. |
| 1:45.5 | And I have an interesting take on hormones when it comes to health, when it comes to body |
| 1:49.8 | composition, things like that. Today we're going to be specifically talking about how hormones |
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