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...

Irrespective of the fact that gains and losses in LBM have minimal effects on either metabolic rate or BF%, there are still many reasons...

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...

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...

Continuing from the last blog, let's look at some of the practical aspects involved in both measuring and tracking changes in body...

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...

Having examined the normal menstrual cycle and the most common hormonal modifiers, I want to discuss the topic of body composition for...

Obesity The next hormonal modifier I want to address is obesity, focusing here on the negative hormonal changes that occur as body fat...

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...

Growth Hormone (GH) Growth hormone is involved in many processes in the body but a primary one in adults is the mobilization of fat....

Going back to the latest blogs, let's now summarize the changes that are occurring. Early and Late Follicular Phase After menstruation,...

Progesterone is the second primary reproductive hormone in women and is released from the corpus luteum that develops after release of...

The two primary female sex hormones are estrogen and progesterone and you've seen in the last blog how they change across the menstrual...

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...

Women can be very complicated, many women aren't familiar with their own phases of the menstrual cycle or how their hormones physiology...

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