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Increasing lean muscle mass is probably the best way. Adipose tissue aka fat doesn't respond as well to insulin. Also, 15-30 min of light aerobics or resistance training following meals can help blunt post-prandial glucose spikes. Adopting a high protein/fat and low carb diet helps but only so much as your liver will…

Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin so if you're taking a supplement make sure you take it with a meal containing some fat (butter, peanut butter, olive oil, coconut oil, etc.) Usually recommend to start with 5000 IU or so a day if you know your levels are low and then get follow up labs done in a few months. As per your…

Pre-jym from bodybuilding.com has been one of the best preworkouts I've ever taken. No crash, no proprietary blends and every Ingredient is included at a dose that's been shown in publications to enhance performance. I agree most PWOs are pretty much just a ton of caffeine and some snake oil but I respect the transparency…

Favorite bulking post workout snack = protein shake and two warm chocolate poptarts with chunky peanut butter slathered all over em

Did you ever do any physical therapy or rehab for your quads/hip flexors or did you just rest? If it's the latter, they probably atrophied and are not strong enough to accommodate activity like football anymore. Either way, stretching and strengthening exercises should help.

Almost doc here. Back injury coinciding with urinary/bowel symptoms definitely raises some red flags, namely cauda equina syndrome, which is a medical emergency. You need to get to the ER and get it checked out ASAP. At the very least they will be able to give you some flexeril or robaxin to help out with any back spasms.

As someone going through the process of becoming a physician right now I can tell you that we learn the nuts and bolts of nutrition but the amount of material that is already squeezed into a med school curriculum is so immense I find it hard to imagine they could squeeze an entire traditional nutrition course in. I always…

I'd say it's definitely possible for almost everyone to squat low with the caveat of everyone will need a slightly varied stance to have full ROM. Femur length and the amount of anteversion/retroversion of your femoral head are major determinants of your optimal squat stance. Sounds like you have longer legs like myself so…

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If by anterior knee you mean your patella are located in front of you, then that's usually a good sign. Carry on wounded soldier.

Have done it several times. Great for cutting but my strength went to **** in a hurry everytime

Garcinia cambogia and raspberry ketones come from plants too and those work wonders...oh wait. I agree lots of plants can have medicinal benefits but a lot are worthless or even harmful. Try it out I suppose but go see an actual doc that specializes in hormone disorders.

You may have polycystic ovarian syndrome. Go see an endocrinologist and not a witch doctor prescribing magic berries.

Just my two cents as to what it could be 1) Psychogenic polydipsia. Some people just have a compulsion to drink water excessively but if you are deprived of water for a few hours then your urine should start to concentrate again and turn yellow 2) Diabetes mellitus (most likely type 1 since you are young). Your body can't…

Squats and deadlifts. No "ab work" holds a nickel next to those two for core strength. But regardless of whether you're doing crunches, yoga, Pilates, or compound lifts, the only way to make your abs really show up is to reduce your body fat percentage and that's done primarily through diet.

I would guess low calcium or magnesium may be to blame as well. And as stated before it's actually quite hard to develop a potassium deficiency or significant hypokalemia if you eat a balanced diet and aren't taking any meds like insulin, albuterol, or diuretics.

All denaturing means is that the protein comes out of it's naturally occurring, 3 dimensional folded structure. It is still the same polypeptide chain though. Seeing as your body doesn't absorb polypeptides but breaks every piece of protein down into single amino acids or very short chains of 2-3 amino acids before it is…

Stay away from fruit and anything with sucrose aka table sugar in it which is a disaccharide consisting of glucose and fructose. You get bloated because the fructose that doesn't get absorbed is being fermented by bacteria in your colon. Because fructose is a monosaccharide there is no way for your body to break it down…

If either the powder or bars had sugar alcohols in them then I'd bet on those contributing to GI issues, at least in part.

Are you taking metformin currently? That would give you more wiggle room in the carbs department. As for diet, the key is protein. Fruit, while better than candy or sodas, still contains a pretty good amount of sugar. For someone with PCOS/Type 2 diabetes you want limit your carb intake, and the carbs you do get should be…

Did you get an actual xray of your foot or did you get a whole body bone density (DEXA) scan done? If it's the latter I doubt the resolution would be good enough to pick up a small stress fracture in your heel.

If it works for you then do it and forget what anyone else thinks. In my opinion the only "wrong" way to use a machine is one that's gonna land you in the emergency room

Ok champ. Guess the Olympians who clean weight off the ground and press it over their heads sans squat rack have been doing it wrong all these years. I'll let the IOC know so the situation can be remedied.

Do what you gotta do. I'm more speaking to the fact that a squat rack should not be a necessity for OHP, at least for the vast majority of people. If it's open then go for it but if it's taken I would just clean and press rather than wait around.

Overhead press shouldn't require a squat rack, I put that up there with curling in the rack. Just clean it from the floor up to your shoulders and do your set then set it back on the floor. As for squatting, whenever the racks are taken and I need to squat I just work on mobility stuff and stretch until one opens up.

It doesn't make you actually lose potassium, it causes the potassium that is floating around outside your cells to shift inside your cells thus causing hypokalemia without a true potassium deficiency. I'll spare you the lecture on cell membrane physiology but electrolyte imbalances such as this can lead to problems in…

Timing is whey (sorry couldn't resist) less important than whether or not you are getting it at all. Take it right after, 45 minutes after or whenever you can. People will talk about optimal timing with insulin/glucagon/cortisol levels but unless you are trying to be the next Mr. or Mrs. Olympia then worrying about the…

Unless you are on a diuretic for hypertension, take albuterol or insulin, or never eat anything with potassium then you aren't likely to develop any significant hypokalemia. If you're worried about it, eat a banana every couple of days and you should be fine.

From my experience it is way more difficult to gain weight both in terms of training and diet. Losing weight is fairly quick as all you have to do is expend more calories than you take in. It may take me 6 months to a year to put on 20 lbs but only 6-12 weeks to lose that much.

I tend to use about 5g per 100lbs of body weight. See as the creatine has to accumulate to a certain level in your muscle tissue in order to be effective, it stands to reason that people with more muscle mass need a larger dose to be effective. A 230 lb guy is gonna need to use more than a 150 lb guy, just common sense in…