Hormones, Youthfulness and Longevity

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Have you ever wondered why some people can eat all the junk food they want and never gain a pound?

The human race is so special because each one of us is built slightly differently with our own chemistry, look, size, color, structure and everything else inbetween.

Our sexual steroid hormones play the largest role in our body composition and is the answer to the above question. People with higher levels of sex hormones (mainly estrogen for females, and testosterone for men) will automatically be leaner, hold less fat content and tend to have better overall mood, longer lifespan, less illness, stronger bones and more.

The problem with most people, and its not always their own fault, is the food we eat is no longer healthy like it once used to be (I'm talking even carrots for example). The chemical makeup of our food is causing imbalances in our metabolism and then the body must compensate by altering the hormonal structure. If you test the compounds found in vegetables grown today compared to 50 years ago, the nutrient levels are completely different. Changes in raw elemental components in the soil our food grows in, genetic modification, environmental stressors etc can all be to blame for the changes our food has undergone over time.

Every illness or condition we can have as a human is caused either by a deficiency or too much of something. In the case of having a balanced endocrine system and proper levels of hormones, our intake of certain nutrients plays a huge role in whether or not our bodies can make the appropriate amounts of each hormone to maintain their delicate balance. We simply are getting too much of some nutrients, and not enough of others for our bodies to assemble the respective hormones out of the ingredients.

This has caused a huge varience in people who have issues gaining weight especially when they attempt to work out or become more healthy.

The body ends up fighting back due to its lack of hormones and the person ultimately fails to maintain their routine because the results are not happening.

I always tell people who I help with fitness to first figure out if there are hormonal imbalances in their body before attempting to lose weight. There is no way to maintain weight loss if every calorie you eat attaches itself directly to your hips instead of burning it.

Apart from weight loss, hormones play a huge role in bone density, mood and lifespan.

As we age, naturally our hormone levels start to taper off meaning less testosterone and thus more estrogen for men, and less estrogen, more testosterone for women. See, those two hormones much like other balanced chemicals in our body are inversely related. When the body creates less testosterone in men, the body becomes estrogen dominant because the balance is thrown off. Men get mood swings, are more prone to heart disease, illness, they lose muscle mass, and even experince hair loss. In women, when their estrogen levels drop during menopause, the balance again is thrown off and they become more testosterone dominant. Females and males become a closer matching hormonal structure from eachother where all the health problems arise. Aging is accelerated, mood changes, and inevitably, we get closer to death.

The huge worry I see happening now is that people in their 30s are starting to exhibit these same changes at a much earlier age due to these long parasitic imbalances in horomones causing premature aging.

Our goal as humans should be to always maximize our health, horomones and to live a vibrant life. With higher horomone levels comes all the good things for our lives from overall health, strong bones, happy mood, low stress, higher libido, leaner and thinner, less aches and pains.... You name it.

Scientists are currently in the process due to advances in stem cell technology of looking into ways to extract a horomone from the body, de-age it, multiply it and put it back into the same body. The ongoing issue with horomone replacement therapies has always been the way the body sees synthetic horomones and does not react properly to them. They have gone as far as trying to biomatch the horomones to the body to help this problem, but with this new technology, you could have higher levels of your own horomones that your body once made!

It is estimated that by the year 2034, life expectancy will be going back up at nearly the rate of 1 year per year. This means much longer life spans, better genetics and more happy, healthy people.

Horomones are the key to youthfulness, energy and longevity.

I hope this article has been helpful in understanding the body on a deeper level.

Cheers,

Chris

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The chemical makeup of our food is causing imbalances in our metabolism and then the body must compensate by altering the hormonal structure. If you test the compounds found in vegetables grown today compared to 50 years ago, the nutrient levels are completely different. Changes in raw elemental components in the soil our food grows in, genetic modification, environmental stressors etc can all be to blame for the changes our food has undergone over time.

WOW

Also super Interesting about Stem cell thereapy/treatment. Mesenchymal cells are specific cells that are super interesting in terms of body maintenance and repair. There's a lot of work with them being don with regards to alternatives to invasive surgeries. The FDA cracked down on the cultivation of the cells in a petrie dish...as that was was being done to provide stronger concentrations when stem cell procedures were being administered as alternative to surgeries. My research has mostly to do with knees and shoulders...ligament stuff and also stroke stuff.

You've peaked my interest in further understanding the science of the physical body. it is indeed a fascinating series of communication relations!

I'm sure the FDA would try to stop any of this new technology from being in the hands of regular people because it could end a lot of ailments that the medicinal industry makes a lot of money from. No matter what, it's too late to stop some of the advancements that have happened with stem cell research. We are just about at the point of being able to receive therapies for de-aged horomones so it's all really exciting!

100% Agree - Soon enough - enough people will be in tune with the DIY of these things.

And by enough - I mean - first wave of educators who will spread the info - which will cause for bigger waves to follow. Like everything else - technology/medicine/information/money is becoming..and is realized that open source is the way to prevent such corruption - and actually have integrity and accountability in best practices

I'm hoping to help do my part however small it may be in reaching people to educate them about it all so we can move a step closer to that!

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Food is one factor but stress in life is to blame as well due to increase in cortisol levels.

Ya definitely stress plays a role in horomone production as well, but it's all connected

By the way, Rhodiola acts on the enzymatic process that turns pregnenolone into cortisol and inhibits that process leaving it open to be converted into useful steroid horomones. There's always an answer to every problem with natural supplements

Guess I'm a sex machine bwahahah!

Hahaha

Excellent post my brother. Go ahead, always say hello to me

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It's so scary to find out all the stuff that's going on when you finally do find out all the stuff that's going on. This is a great post thank you for all the information. I love being in the know and I love that we are on the same wavelength thanks so much.

There's a slow shift happening for this generation of adults where the thought of being able to control your own health is a possibility. My parents though for instance don't believe anybody but a doctor knows anything so they just take medications to try to bandaid problems instead of being proactive. Really sad that people don't want to get with the times, but we all have the ability to be strong, healthy individuals well into our 90s now if we can just learn a different way

Nice info and inspiring to keep in the healthy track