This is a guest review post written by Chad Cilli:

In an era riddled with bad diet advice, bogus supplements, and fitness gimmicks promising miraculous results with no effort, Mike Mahler is a breath of fresh air. I first became familiar with his work a few years ago when I started researching natural testosterone boosting protocols. Since then, I have followed his YouTube videos, training advice, and hormone optimization articles. One thing I can tell you is that Mike Mahler practices what he preaches, and that in itself should tell you something. Unlike some fitness experts who recommend one thing to the masses and do something completely different themselves, Mike delivers big on quality information as he recommends training programs, diet, and supplements that he utilizes himself.

Most recently, I had the opportunity to enjoy his course, The Importance of Optimizing Hormones provided through the Entheos Academy. The textbook for this class is Mikes book Live Life Aggressively. The course was a series of 4 classes, each covering one of the master hormones as Mike calls them. Too often we become overly focused on a single hormone like testosterone for example. I cant count the number of ads I see these days about Low T and testosterone replacement therapy. These ads and propaganda miss the mark by failing to address why you might have low testosterone in the first place. Mike offers a natural approach to optimizing all of your hormones by focusing on optimizing the 4 hormones that control the rest of our bodys hormone production; leptin, insulin, adrenaline, and melatonin.

By optimizing those hormones, your own natural levels of other hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, growth hormone, prolactin, dopamine, and so forth will naturally fall into place without having to take expensive pharmaceutical products that can come with unwanted side effects. In this course, which is still available for download, Mike addresses each hormone individually and how to improve deficient levels. He covers what that hormone does, the negative effects of that hormone being deficient, and how to optimize it through lifestyle, diet, and supplementation. Mike always makes the point that you do not have to supplement, but if you want to supplement, you should take the lowest dose needed to elicit the results you are trying to attain. The take away message is that hormones are optimized when we do many things correctly and not just one thing will be a miraculous fix-all.

Mike addresses in detail what he refers to as the Master Control Hormones. Leptin is arguably the most important of the Master Control Hormones. Recently there has been some discussion about leptin resistance. Leptin receptors become fatigued and worn out from all the garbage like high fructose and overly processed ingredients of modern diets. You may hear people say Im always hungry, which is a result of the brain no longer picking up the signal from leptin that you are satiated.

Obviously, as Mike points out, the first line of action is to make better food choices. Especially better food choices that are specific to you. Mike makes the point that no one size fits all diet is going to account for individual variability. You must choose foods that you are not sensitive to. Eat quality food, and especially when eating meat, you should eat the highest quality meat. Eating sick animals is not conducive to good health.

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