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  I read a post on FB recently indicating that BPC-157 MUST be site injected to work right. For those of you not familiar with BPC-157 can heal injuries faster. Much faster in fact. I suffered a small muscle belly tear in my right hamstring last week doing very heavy seated leg curls. I immediately went home and injected 1mg of BPC-157 into the area of the tear. The following day I had a small bruise from the little bit of blood let out of the muscle at the tear location. But my hamstring already felt better. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being very little recovery and 10 being completely healed it was a 7. I continued to inject 1mg at the site for the next 5 days taking 2 days off. I went to the gym today to train legs and using just 50% of my...

Dr. Anthony Balduzzi Ph.D and former national champion bodybuilder, is the founder of the wildly popular 'Fit Father Project’ which blends physical culture and science based medicine. with focus on hormones, nutrition and exercise. An early interest in health and fitness stemmed from watching his own dad get very sick, working himself to the bone to put food on the table for the family which meant missing out on healthy eating, skipping exercise, eventually getting a cancer diagnosis, and passing away at 42. Anthony was nine at the time and it was devastating to the family. He began studying everything he could about nutrition, exercise, sleep, the immune system, how to build muscle, and eventually was propelled forward into fitness, competitive bodybuilding, and then medical school. The Fit Father project helps busy guys in their forties, fifties, and sixties achieve and manage sustainable health routines where they can lose the fat, extend their...

There is wide variation in the time of day that people choose to exercise. The idea of performing fasted cardio training in the morning to accelerate fat burning is based on a key assumption that without food in our system and lower levels of glycogen available, our fat stores are the go-to energy source. This assumption was recently put to the test by researchers from Japan, who recruited 10 young, healthy, recreationally active (untrained but performed moderate-intensity exercise 2-4 days/week) men to perform four experimental sessions locked within a metabolic ward. This is a tremendous strength of the study, as the metabolic ward allowed for complete control and analysis of the participant’s life for the time they spent inside. Over the course of two months with at least 1 week between experimental sessions, the participants stayed within the metabolic ward for three days to allow for standardization of the experimental protocols....

Several studies have reported that physical activity prevents fructose-induced metabolic abnormalities. Young men who supplemented their regular diets with 40 ounces of soda per day, providing 75 g of fructose, showed increased triglycerides and signs of low-grade inflammation only when inactive (walking ~4200 steps per day). However, simply increasing the number of steps to about 13,000 per day protected against these changes. Another study demonstrated that performing two 30-minute cycling sessions before lunch and dinner in conjunction with a weight-maintenance diet providing 30% of kcal as fructose completely normalized blood lipids relative to consuming the same diet when sedentary. Most recently, Egli et al assessed how a single exercise session altered the metabolic fate of a pure fructose load in young healthy males with the use of isotopically-labeled fructose. The participants were studied for three 5-day periods in which they received a controlled, high-fructose (30% kcal as a beverage), weight-maintenance diet...

Among clinical trials investigating long-term weight loss, exercise as the only intervention is virtually useless. When total daily energy expenditure among industrialized societies is compared to contemporary hunter-gatherer tribesmen, they are similar despite the hunter-gatherers performing markedly more physical activity. The risk of dying is reduced dramatically as time spent being active each day increases towards 1 hour, after which it somewhat flat-lines (no additional benefit). Why? Shouldn’t being more active increase energy expenditure? According to the additive energy expenditure model, it certainly should (figure 1). However, as Pontzer et al show in their latest publication, the relationship between physical activity and energy expenditure is far more complex. They provide support for the constrained total energy expenditure model in which energy allocation among physiological tasks responds dynamically to long-term shifts in physical activity. As such, daily energy expenditure is maintained within a relatively narrow range. Five populations hold the answer In...