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Apr 18 7 tweets 3 min read
Eating vegetable and seed oils is bad enough, but eating them when they've been reused in deep-frying is even worse. A new study suggests that long-term consumption of food cooked in deep fryers is linked to serious neurological damage. 👇
Image Researchers divided female rats into five groups that each received either standard chow or standard chow supplemented with either a) 0.1 ml per day of unheated sesame oil, unheated sunflower oil, or b) reheated sesame oil or reheated sunflower oil for 30 days. The rats that consumed reheated sesame or sunflower oil showed increased oxidative stress and inflammation in the liver. These rats also suffered significant damage to the colon that caused changes in endotoxins and lipopolysaccharides—toxins released from certain bacteria. "As a result, liver lipid metabolism was significantly altered, and the transport of the important brain omega-3 fatty acid DHA was decreased," explains one of the researchers. "This, in turn, resulted in neurodegeneration, which was seen in the brain histology of the rats consuming the reheated oil as well as their offspring."
Apr 6 7 tweets 3 min read
AUTISM AND GUT FLORA.

Yet another study has linked disturbed gut flora in early life to later onset of autism and ADHD. This one is a large-scale study of over 16,000 children born in Sweden in the late 90s. 👇 Image Over 16,000 Swedish children born 1997–1999 have been followed from birth into their twenties. Of these, 1,197 children, corresponding to 7.3%, have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, communication disorder or intellectual disability. Image
Apr 2 10 tweets 4 min read
THE GIRONDA APPROACH TO AB TRAINING.

"Sharp, well-built abdominal muscles are worth a king's ransom. To my mind, there is no more treasured possession," said Vince Gironda. Here are the fundamentals of his approach to training the abdominals. 👇 Image 1. NO SPOT-REDUCTION.

Sorry, but no amount of sit-ups will burn the fat off your stomach. Fat loss doesn’t work like that: it isn’t specific to the region that is being worked. Vince knew this way back when, and it’s been wholly substantiated by scientific studies as well. Image
Apr 2 6 tweets 2 min read
BREASTFEEDING AND EXERCISE

Ladies: Want to supercharge your breast milk to provide baby with even more benefits and help stave off obesity? Exercise directly before you breastfeed and your milk will be packed with even higher levels of a powerful metabolic hormone. 👇 Image Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology collected 240 samples of breast milk from 20 new mothers before and at intervals after two HIIT exercise sessions. They then compared these with samples taken at the same intervals after periods of sedentary behavior.Image
Mar 26 7 tweets 3 min read
Eating vegetable and seed oils is bad enough, but eating them when they've been reused in deep-frying is even worse.

A new study suggests that long-term consumption of food cooked in deep fryers is linked to serious neurological damage. 👇 Image Researchers divided female rats into five groups that each received either standard chow or standard chow supplemented with either a) 0.1 ml per day of unheated sesame oil, unheated sunflower oil, or b) reheated sesame oil or reheated sunflower oil for 30 days.

The rats that consumed reheated sesame or sunflower oil showed increased oxidative stress and inflammation in the liver. These rats also suffered significant damage to the colon that caused changes in endotoxins and lipopolysaccharides—toxins released from certain bacteria.

"As a result, liver lipid metabolism was significantly altered, and the transport of the important brain omega-3 fatty acid DHA was decreased," explains one of the researchers. "This, in turn, resulted in neurodegeneration, which was seen in the brain histology of the rats consuming the reheated oil as well as their offspring."
Mar 23 7 tweets 3 min read
New research has shown that too much exposure to a growth factor called activin A in the womb prevents the proper development of the testes in male fetuses. And what increases activin A production in women? SSRIs. Women are generally told SSRIs are safe during pregnancy. 👇 Image The research, published in Frontiers in Endocrinology, is the first to show that increased exposure to activin A leads to some of the worst effects caused by endocrine-disrupting substances.Image
Mar 22 11 tweets 4 min read
VINCE GIRONDA SHOULDER TRAINING.

"Was there ever a hero who didn't have broad shoulders?" Vince Gironda knew that the shoulders could make or break a man's physique, as this image of Steve Reeves (far left) shows. Let's dig in to Vince's approach to shoulder training. 👇 Image The quote below is from Vince's 1984 book The Wild Physique. Vince's main emphasis with the shoulders, as with every other body part, is proportion. You need to work with your body's natural endowment to ensure you maintain balance even as you add mass.Image
Mar 15 7 tweets 2 min read
SIMPLE MEMETIC WARFARE.

It all started with a few soyjak stickers. Here's a great recent primer from 4chan on how to wage a successful low-intensity meme warfare campaign in your local town. 👇 Image Image
Mar 14 16 tweets 6 min read
VINCE GIRONDA CHEST TRAINING.

One thing you probably know about Vince Gironda is that he didn't like the bench press. It's true, but he had good reason. Let's look at Vince's unique approach to chest training. 👇 Image Gironda believed that the bench press is more a shoulder than a chest exercise. Simply put, it's not specific enough to be used as the main exercise for building your chest--if your goal is to build a rounded, aesthetic physique. Obviously, if you're a powerlifter you have to focus on bench press.

All quotations are from Vince's book The Wild Physique (1984), by the way.Image
Mar 6 8 tweets 4 min read
TRAIN LEGS FOR BIG ARMS!?

Vince Gironda had this one weird trick for boosting your arm development, and it looks like it really does work. 👇 Image Gironda claimed that training your legs before your arms could result in a 15% increase in arm size. Leg work stimulates the nervous system more, because of the size of the muscle groups involved, and that boost helps stimulate growth in smaller groups like the arms. Image
Mar 3 6 tweets 2 min read
Two very important new studies of microplastics have just been released. They implicate microplastics in two of the main prevailing diseases of modern life: heart disease and cancer. 👇 Image The first study shows not only that microplastics are to be found in human arteries, but, more importantly, that the concentration of microplastics in arteries containing atherosclerotic plaques is much higher than in arteries that don't contain atherosclerotic plaques. Image
Mar 2 10 tweets 3 min read
People sometimes ask me, "Is there anything worse than plastic?" My answer would be, "Of course!" One thing that's definitely worse than plastic is... recycled plastic. Let me tell you why. 👇 Plastic recycling is bad because it contaminates plastics with even more harmful chemicals. Paper recycling does the same. Mineral oils used in printing inks are known to be estrogenic and they contaminate all recycled paper stocks. Image
Jan 26 8 tweets 3 min read
Having blood drawn is an extremely effective way to get harmful chemicals out of your body, and that would almost certainly include microplastics in your blood (though not necessarily microplastics in your organs). 👇 Image The benefits of blood donation are shown by this study of Australian firefighters. Firefighters face chronic high-level exposure to chemicals like PFAS in fire retardants. Image
Jan 4 8 tweets 3 min read
It shouldn't be a surprise for you to know that commercial diapers contain significant quantities of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). In fact, they contain EDCs at levels far higher than those found in other commercial plastic products. 👇
Image The average child that wears diapers for the first two years of its life will wear as many as 4800-5000 diapers, day in, day out. This is tremendous exposure during a crucial period in a child's development.
Jan 1 6 tweets 2 min read
Want a testosterone boost for your afternoon workout? (More T = more muscle.)

Well, maybe you should wake up and sprint, as this study shows. A morning sprint session increased T levels in the afternoon by 11.6% for young elite soccer players. 👇 Image Because the subjects were soccer players, their performance in the afternoon was notably impaired, but sprinting in the morning before an afternoon upper-body workout (chest, arms, shoulders, back) won't negatively affect the performance of the target muscles.
Dec 22, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Further strong evidence that cholesterol is a powerful anabolic substance comes from what happens to people's muscles when they take cholesterol-lowering drugs (i.e. statins). 👇 Image Since their introduction in 1987, the use of statins has grown to over 100 million prescriptions worldwide per year. It's reckoned that at least 1.5 million people a year on statins will experience some kind of muscle-related side-effect.
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Dec 5, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
ANNOUNCING THE MAN'S WORLD PULP FICTION PRIZE.

I'm proud to announce the inaugural MAN'S WORLD Pulp Fiction Prize. We're offering a $1k first prize for stories in the classic pulp-fiction style. The best 3 entries will all be in the 2nd physical issue of the mag next year. 👇 Image The conditions of entry are simple: write a maximum 5k-word story in the pulp-fiction style. It can be any genre -- a noir detective story, a sci-fi tale, a fantasy hack-and-slash romp, a ghost story -- so long as it has that classic "pulp" feel. But what does that mean? Image
Dec 1, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
We already know that grandma's chicken soup is what you need when you've got a cold. But what if it could also serve as a performance-boosting pre-workout? 👇 Image In this 2021 study, researchers investigated the effects of drinking a bowl of chicken soup before cycling. 14 athletes cycled as fast as possible for 8 minutes on two occasions. On one occasion, they drank chicken soup before; on the other, a bowl of vegan soup. Image
Nov 19, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
According to a new study out of Duke, nanoplastics (plastic pieces that are even smaller than microplastics) interact with a protein typically found in the brain and create changes linked to Parkinson's and certain types of dementia. 👇 Image Parkinson's is now the fastest growing neurological disorder in the world. Rates of dementia, including Alzheimer's, continue to rise dramatically. 1 in 9 over 65s now has Alzheimer's in the US alone. Image
Nov 14, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
People sometimes ask me, "Is there anything worse than plastic?" My answer would be, "Of course!" One thing that's definitely worse than plastic is... recycled plastic, as this new study shows. 👇 Image Experts believe there may be as many as 13,000 different chemicals involved in the manufacture of plastics, the vast majority of which are totally unknown to us in terms of their safety and potential toxicity.

Nov 8, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
BIRTH CONTROL IMPAIRS WOMEN'S ABILITY TO FEEL FEAR.

A worrying new study suggests combined oral contraceptives shrink a region of the brain associated with regulating emotions and processing fear signals. 150+ million women worldwide use oral contraceptives. 👇 Image The research is published in the journal Frontiers of Endocrinology. Existing studies had already suggested that oral contraception might tamper with fear processing in women, but more rigorous research was needed. The new study aims to provide this. Image