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Muscle Rejuvenation vs. Muscle Buildup (You Need to Decide What’s Your Main Goal…Getting Your Muscle Big or Keeping Your Muscle Young? Apparently You Can’t Have Both.) If you follow conventional fitness guidelines- train hard and eat many protein meals throughout the day- good chance you’ll gain muscle size and strength. There is only one problem: As you get older, most likely you’ll lose all these hard gains. The reason: Conventional fitness is not set to keep your muscle biologically young. Physical rejuvenation requires a different strategy than that of the common fitness/bodybuilding approach. And that strategy might seem as a slap in the face of all current fitness concepts. So how do you rejuvenate your muscle? And can you really keep your body biologically young? Read More Can you stop physical aging? Since oxidative stress has been found to be the main cause of aging, it gives that preventing oxidative stress will stop the aging process… But apparently that’s not the case in real life. In reality your body is designed to actually thrive under oxidative stress. Yes, this seems a bit tricky…but that’s what’s fascinating about biology, it’s full of contradictions. Apparently, there are two kinds of oxidative stress, chronic and acute…and they have opposite effects on the aging process. Read More Is Your Food Making You Old? What you’re about to read here may change the way you think about food. Yes, once you see the facts, you’ll realize that most of the products on the grocery shelves don’t fit your biology. Most of today’s dietary products are not designed to keep your body young. The genes that regulate your biological age are highly sensitive to your diet – as they’re triggered or inhibited by what you eat, how much you eat and how often. The point is: You need to know how your diet affects your biological age. You need to know what food keeps you young and what food is making you old. Read More Two Eating Tricks that Will Prolong Life Despite rapidly accumulating data on human nutrition, there has been great confusion as to what diet benefits human longevity most. To address this issue properly, we need to look to evolutionary biology. Like other species, we are originally programmed to benefit from specific foods and a specific eating cycle - these factors are inherent to our biology and certainly affect our health and life span. Read More Ultra-heated Proteins Cause Colon Cancer – Particularly Casein Ultra-heating makes proteins less digestible as a consequence of cross-linking and racemization – which involve formation of unnatural peptides and amino acids. As a result of decreased digestibility, more proteins escape from the stomach to the large bowel, where they’re fermented into tumor promoting waste products such as ammonia and a variety of toxic phenols. The colonic protein fermentation could explain several known associations between diets rich in fried food, roasted meats or ultra-heated cheese and colon cancer. Read More Whey Protein Stimulates Muscle Buildup More Effectively Than Casein Recent data suggests that muscle protein synthesis depends on the quantity and the type of protein ingested. Previous reports indicated that whey protein ingestion results in greater postprandal (post-meal) protein retention than does casein ingestion. Casein is a “slow protein” that allows a long lasting release of amino acids to the muscle. In comparison, whey is a “fast protein” that releases amino acids to the muscle instantly and rapidly.The greater anabolic properties of whey are mainly attributed to its faster digestion and absorption kinetics. Whey yields a greater increase in circulating amino acid availability and thereby further stimulates muscle protein synthesis. Read More The Origin of the Human Diet Based on fossil evidence, physical anthropology points to several features that distinguished the evolution of humans from other apes. These evolutionary features give us a great indication as to what our original diet was. And they tell us what makes our diet different from that of other apes. Read More How Your Calorie Intake and Meal Frequency Affect Your Longevity The relation between calorie intake and human longevity has been a subject of great scientific interest. Based on animal studies, the most proven approach to counteracting aging is calorie restriction. Aside from genetic manipulation, calorie restriction represents the only proven record for prolonging life in animals. And that's not its only benefit. Read More