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  1. 01dragonslayer

    Eating Like a Lifter Makes You Age Faster

    The Downside to Multiple Daily Meals All those meals you eat every day to keep blood sugar stable? They're gradually causing you to become insulin resistant. Here's what to do. Whenever you cook a steak or burger, you’re witnessing what’s known as the Maillard reaction, which is simply the...
  2. 01dragonslayer

    The Bodybuilder’s Guide to Blood Work

    Why Your Doctor Thinks You're Dying Doctors often think lifters are sick because their physicals and blood tests yield scary results. Here's how to protect yourself from false positives. I’m going to venture a guess about what happens when you, a weight lifter, goes to the doctor to get a...
  3. 01dragonslayer

    Nattokinase: The Best Thing for Your Heart?

    A Supplement that Might Replace Many Drugs Nattokinase, a readily available, safe, inexpensive supplement, appears to have cardiovascular benefits that at first are hard to believe. I can’t do it. I just can’t stomach starting another heart disease article – as appears to be the custom – by...
  4. 01dragonslayer

    Two Things Steroid Users Need

    Using bodybuilding drugs can be risky. Here's what users need to do to stay as healthy as possible. Most people have no business using bodybuilding drugs. It’s just not healthy and it certainly doesn’t help with longevity. But many will do it anyway. Those folks should at least boost their odds...
  5. 01dragonslayer

    An Anti-Aging Supplement for Lifters and Athletes

    Resveratrol Grows New Capillaries We know that resveratrol minimizes negative estrogen effects and helps maximize natural testosterone. Turns out, it does even more. Everyone knows by now that resveratrol is something found in red wine and that it's somehow related to healthy aging. If you...
  6. 01dragonslayer

    Middle-Aged? The Health Supplement You Need

    The Effects of Lipidated Curcumin There are a few health supplements that nearly everyone should take, especially as they reach their middle years. Here's one of them. Western medicine has its problems. One of them is spending more time treating the symptoms rather than figuring out how to...
  7. 01dragonslayer

    The 5 Best Supplements We Don’t Make

    Health Supplements You Probably Need to Take It’s always amusing when some keyboard warrior, high on righteous indignation and faux outrage, prances onto one of our social media pages and says, “I found out that you guys sell Biotest supplements. That’s why you recommend them! I got you!” Then...
  8. 01dragonslayer

    The 6 Best Supplements for Heart Health

    How to Keep Your Ticker Ticking Most American men will die from heart disease. I’m trying very hard not to be one of them. As such, I research heart-healthy strategies that go beyond exercise and diet. I’m talking about chemical solutions: supplements that destroy plaques, energize the heart...
  9. 01dragonslayer

    The 4 Best Supplements for Steroid Users

    What to Take If You Take Anabolics If you choose to use, then be smart about it and take these supplements to reduce your chances of needing an extra-large casket before your time. Everyone should use health-boosting supplements. Before considering any supplement that helps you build more...
  10. 01dragonslayer

    Targeted Fat Mobilization

    Spot reduction is a myth... except when it works. Here's how target stubborn body fat stores with specialized training. Spot reduction is impossible. You can’t lose fat predominantly in a specific area just by training that area. This is something every personal trainer or coach who’s worth a...
  11. EG News

    Mayo Clinic study finds dysfunctional white blood cells linked to heightened melanoma risk

    ROCHESTER, Minn. — About 8 to 10 million Americans over age 40 have an overabundance of cloned white blood cells, or lymphocytes, that hamper their immune systems. Although many who have this condition — called monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL) — do not experience any symptoms, a new study...
  12. EG News

    Non-Ice Approaches to Healing: Electrical Stimulation, Immobilization, Cryotherapy, Blood-Flow Restriction Training & Anti-inflammatory Medications

    By Leo Shveyd, Co-Owner of Advanced Wellness Each of these topics deserve their own blog post. That being said, I thought I would be remiss if I didn’t at least mention them here. Electrical Stimulation Electrical stimulation uses electrodes that are connected to or around the injured site...
  13. EG News

    The Physiology of the Healing Process: Blood Flow and Inflammation

    By Leo Shveyd, Co-Owner of Advanced Wellness The Importance of Blood Flow in Healing In the simplest terms, healing happens when increased blood flow circulates throughout the body (especially when directed to the injured tissue/area). Blood brings healing nutrients to the site of injury and...
  14. 01dragonslayer

    Middle-Aged? The Health Supplement You Need

    The Effects of Lipidated Curcumin There are a few health supplements that nearly everyone should take, especially as they reach their middle years. Here's one of them. Western medicine has its problems. One of them is spending more time treating the symptoms rather than figuring out how to...
  15. 01dragonslayer

    High Lipoprotein (a): The Killer of Healthy Men

    The Dead-Man-Walking Cholesterol Lipoprotein (a), a type of diet and exercise-resistant cholesterol, can cause heart attacks in otherwise healthy men. Here's how to fight it. High Lipoprotein (a) – Dead Man Walking? Warning: Lipoprotein (a) and all this info is disconcerting stuff. You know how...
  16. 01dragonslayer

    Testosterone, Body Composition, and Sex

    A Doctor's Guide Tired? Getting fat? Having issues in the bedroom? Here's everything a man needs to know about hormones, drugs, supplements, and his willy. Dave is a lifter. He’s healthier than the average Westerner and he does most things right when it comes to training and diet. Sure, he...
  17. 01dragonslayer

    Partial Rep Arm Workout: Better Than Full Range?

    SHOULD YOUR ARM WORKOUT CONTAIN PARTIAL REPS? A cool study from 2019 should have changed the way all of us train arms (at least triceps), but for some reason didn't. It compared partial reps to full-range reps and found that the former seemed to duplicate the effects of occlusion training (blood...
  18. EG News

    Scientists Discover New Genetic Cause Of Obesity

    Maintaining a healthy bodyweight is all about balancing the calories we eat with the amount that we burn as energy, but new research has found a new genetic cause of obesity. Those with a genetic variant that disables the SMIM1 gene find it harder to reach this balance, because they expend less...
  19. 01dragonslayer

    Increase Insulin Sensitivity To Get Lean

    Without optimal insulin sensitivity, much of that protein (and everything else) you eat gets delivered to fat storage rather than muscle, and much of the time that fat happily resides around your waist. While your instinct might be to adopt a low-carb diet, it doesn't fix the problem. What's...
  20. EG News

    Jeremy Potvin Demonstrates Blood Flow Restriction Training

    As US Army veteran and IFBB Pro, Jeremy Potvin is recovering from a partial distal bicep tendon rupture with a technique known as Blood Flow Restriction training or BFR to get back into flexing shape, M&F takes a closer look. “Blood Flow Restriction training safely prevents low-oxygen blood...
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