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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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Both men and women experience changes in hormone levels with age. As we age, many hormone levels are not where they should be, with some commonly imbalanced hormones are estrogen and testosterone. Sometimes those changes result in unpleasant symptoms that require a strong attention. Some of the most commonly shared symptoms include fatigue, skin problems, acne, mood swings, weight problems, diminished sex drive, and spotty memory. There are several ways to measure your hormone. However, one of the most reliable way to measuring hormone levels is through Saliva hormone test. We practice the saliva test to measure the biologically active fraction of hormone at the tissue level in the body. This helps us determine what kind of therapy is needed to cure each symptom.

Check out some of these great articles to learn more about hormone optimization:

Hormone Health for Men

Managing Menopause

How are Hormones Related to Weight Gain

Breast Health for Women

Adrenal Dysfunction

Craving Something Sweet

Neurotransmitters

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The word hormone comes from the Greek word Hormaein - meaning to excite. Hormones are potent chemicals produced from endocrine glands which secrete the hormones into your bloodstream. The hormones serve as messengers from your brain, telling your interal organs how to function.

Sex hormone imbalances can occur at puberty, after childbirth, in midlife, after tubal ligation or hysterectomy, while taking birth control pills or counterfeit female hormones, such as Premarin and Provera.

Female hormonal balance between the estrogen hormones and progesterone is essential in order for women to obtain and maintain health and wellness. The three human estrogen's require the balance of progesterone to prevent the hyper effects of estrogen which can lead to a host of health problems. Good health occurs when the hormones in the body are produced in adequate amounts and are in proper balance. Think of this as hormonal harmony.

The estrogen hormones and progesterone decline as a woman ages to around 35. But progesterone declines much more rapidly than do the estrogen hormones.

We listen to your unique description of symptoms and then prescribe the appropriate natural hormones to achieve hormonal balance in order to resolve your symptoms. Natural hormones are derived from plants and then molecularly changed to be authentic, biologically identical hormone molecule which your body used to produce prior to menopause, or which is currently producing but in less than adequate amounts to provide hormonal balance.

Depending on the degree of the progesterone deficiency, estrogen dominance may manifest itself with one, some or all of the following hyper effects:

Although progesterone and estrogen are the two dominant hormones that women produce, it is important to remember that women also produce small doses of testosterone. For women, the production of testosterone peaks at ovulation in order to stimulate a woman's desire for sexual relations.

Testosterone has the following effects on the body:

Men's testicles produce both sperm and testosterone, the male hormone. The presence of this hormone creates the physical, emotion and male mindset that dramatically differentiates men from women. Review the following list of effects that the hormone testosterone has in men.

By the time a man is 40 years old, his testosterone level will be approximately what it was when it peaked in his twenties. By the times a man is 50 years old, it will be 1/3 of its peak; at 60 it will or less of its peak level.

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