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Eight Ways To Lower Your Testosterone Levels

Today I want to look at eight easy ways to get rid of that pesky hormone known as testosterone.
What Is Testosterone?
I’m sure most of us here know that testosterone is the primary mammalian male sex hormone. While it is a male sex hormone, ladies you have some testosterone coursing through your veins as well, [...]

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Childhood Obesity and Sleep

Here are two related articles regarding the effects of lack of sleep on the bodyweight of children. First, Less Sleep Packs More Pounds on Young Children
Young children who sleep less than nine hours a night have triple the risk of being overweight and have about 3% more body fat than children who get nine [...]

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How Sugar Affects Your Sex Hormones

Here is yet another way that too much sugar in the diet causes disease: Too Much Sugar Turns Off Gene That Controls Effects Of Sex Steroids
Glucose and fructose are metabolized in the liver. When there’s too much sugar in the diet, the liver converts it to lipid. Using a mouse model and human liver cell [...]

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Ditch the Soy - It’s Really Not Good For You

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A few weekso ago, New Scientist reported that Eating soya could slash men’s sperm count. I posted a link to an article a long time ago that declared a Soy-cancer warning.
Men who eat just half a serving of soya a day have drastically fewer sperm than those who do not consume [...]

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Sleeping Less Means Gaining More Weight

Did you know that Less Sleep May Expand Kids’ Waistlines? I’ve written before about how lack of sleep affects children and you all know that I’m in favor of getting as much sleep as possible, up to 9.5 hours per night in the winter.
Most promising, these study results show that for every additional hour [...]

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