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Women’s Fitness: Should It Change with Age?

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Generally speaking, the basic Primal Blueprint for fitness and physical activity applies equally to men and women of all ages. Lifting heavy things works in everyone. Sprinting is a fantastic way—for anyone who’s able—to compress workouts and improve training efficiency. Improving one’s aerobic capacity through easy cardio doesn’t discriminate between the sexes. And everyone should walk, hike, garden, and perform as much low level physical activity as possible. These basic foundations—the 30,000 foot view of fitness—don’t really change across age or sex. But the details do, especially for women. You see, women are in a unique position. As men age, the hormonal environment degenerates. They still make the same basic hormones in the same proportions, only the absolute numbers decline. As women age, the hormonal environment  shifts dramatically . The menopausal ovaries no longer produce enough follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) to regulate estrogen, testos

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5 More Meal Prep “Rules of Thumb” + Giveaway

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I love a good meal prep day, but I do everything in my power to fly through it as quickly as possible. I generally enjoy the process, but I’d much rather spend my time with family and friends, especially since my prep day often falls on the weekend. Plus, with the warmer weather on the horizon, I know I don’t want to be trapped in my kitchen prepping food! With the start of the  CNC Nutrition Spring Nutrition Challenge less than a week away (woohoo!), I wanted to share another post about my favorite meal prep “rules of thumb” that help me cruise through my weekly prep. (If you missed the first blog post, you can read it here .) I hope you find these tips helpful and try them out during your own meal prep! Tip #6 (continued from this blog post ): Super short on time? Grab a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. There is no shame in taking advantage of already prepared healthy options. Rotisserie chicken ca quickly be paired with steam-able rice and veggies for a meal that’s r

Clean Eating Chickpea Flour Flatbread Recipe

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Also known as Socca, this clean eating chickpea flour flatbread is wonderful for almost any meal! Flatbread is wonderfully versatile. I’ve always enjoyed it. But the more I tweak and change my diet… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry https://ift.tt/2JhScpk

Episode 389 – Robb & Nicki Q&A #3

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  Hey Folks! We’re back with another Q&A episode! If you have a question for a future episode, especially questions for Tyler and Luis of KetoGains on the next Q&A, submit them here https://robbwolf.com/contact/submit-a-question-for-the-podcast/ Show Notes:   (2:49) 23 and Me Kristin says: Robb and Nicki! Loved the first q&a back! I wanted to ask an expansion on the FTO gene Polymorphism question. I my self also ran my 23andme data through FoundMYFitness as a Rhonda Patrick follower and I have the similar FTO well several FTO genes came up but also the PPAR alpha gene came up that I know is a big part of ketosis. My question is can I attempt and Keto diet and Ketosis with using mainly PUFA and MUFA and still achieve ketosis with this polymorphism or am I better off to not focus on achieving ketosis?Thank you for all that you put in the world I just received you Wired to Eat book and started reading it! Love it so far!Kristin NOTES: FTO: https://academic.o