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    Changes in fat and fiber intake have been found to alter a woman's hormonal profile.
    Helder Barroso
    • Jul 3, 2019
    • 3 min

    Changes in fat and fiber intake have been found to alter a woman's hormonal profile.

    A low-fat/high-fiber diet lowers levels of both estrogen and progesterone compared to a high-fat/low-fiber diet. To little saturated fat...
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    Gaining and Losing Lean Body Mass
    Helder Barroso
    • Apr 25, 2019
    • 4 min

    Gaining and Losing Lean Body Mass

    Irrespective of the fact that gains and losses in LBM have minimal effects on either metabolic rate or BF%, there are still many reasons...
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    The Best Way to Alter Body Composition
    Helder Barroso
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 6 min

    The Best Way to Alter Body Composition

    Technically, any given reader of this blog could have one of two primary goals. The first would be to gain muscle. While the process may...
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    Diet Categories
    Helder Barroso
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 10 min

    Diet Categories

    While estimating BF% is important for many reasons, at least one of those is for you to determine what dieting category you are in. This...
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    Measuring and Tracking Body Composition
    Helder Barroso
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 15 min

    Measuring and Tracking Body Composition

    Continuing from the last blog, let's look at some of the practical aspects involved in both measuring and tracking changes in body...
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    What Kind Of Weight Are You Losing/Gaining?
    Helder Barroso
    • Mar 15, 2019
    • 8 min

    What Kind Of Weight Are You Losing/Gaining?

    Although it has been changing in the last decade or so, the reality is that most people (women or men) tend to focus only on changes in...
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    Womans Body Composition
    Helder Barroso
    • Mar 13, 2019
    • 10 min

    Womans Body Composition

    Having examined the normal menstrual cycle and the most common hormonal modifiers, I want to discuss the topic of body composition for...
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    Other Hormonal Modifiers
    Helder Barroso
    • Mar 5, 2019
    • 9 min

    Other Hormonal Modifiers

    Obesity The next hormonal modifier I want to address is obesity, focusing here on the negative hormonal changes that occur as body fat...
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    What can modify a woman's physiology
    Helder Barroso
    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 8 min

    What can modify a woman's physiology

    Having looked at in the last few blogs at the normal menstrual cycle in detail in terms of the major hormonal changes that occur and how...
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    Other Important Hormones
    Helder Barroso
    • Feb 26, 2019
    • 5 min

    Other Important Hormones

    Growth Hormone (GH) Growth hormone is involved in many processes in the body but a primary one in adults is the mobilization of fat....
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    An Overview Of The Menstrual Cycle Changes
    Helder Barroso
    • Feb 19, 2019
    • 5 min

    An Overview Of The Menstrual Cycle Changes

    Going back to the latest blogs, let's now summarize the changes that are occurring. Early and Late Follicular Phase After menstruation,...
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    Progesterone
    Helder Barroso
    • Feb 12, 2019
    • 6 min

    Progesterone

    Progesterone is the second primary reproductive hormone in women and is released from the corpus luteum that develops after release of...
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    Estrogen
    Helder Barroso
    • Feb 7, 2019
    • 7 min

    Estrogen

    The two primary female sex hormones are estrogen and progesterone and you've seen in the last blog how they change across the menstrual...
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    The Menstrual Cycle
    Helder Barroso
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 5 min

    The Menstrual Cycle

    The menstrual cycle derives from the Latin word for month and refers to the roughly one month (28 day cycle) that a woman goes through...
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    Coaching Females
    Helder Barroso
    • Feb 4, 2019
    • 3 min

    Coaching Females

    Women can be very complicated, many women aren't familiar with their own phases of the menstrual cycle or how their hormones physiology...
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    The Role of Hormones in Females and Males
    Helder Barroso
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Role of Hormones in Females and Males

    Other than genetics and the difference in genitalia, arguably the largest biological difference between women and men is in the relative...
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