Can You Trust Your Doctor To Look Into Research?

Yesterday I was scrolling through my Facebook Feed and landed upon sponsored video from a ‘Doctor Aric Sudicky’ who I didn’t full agree with his points on Intermittent Fasting due to the understanding I currently had in regards to it’s effect on greatly increasing natural levels of Growth Hormone and in turn affecting muscle growth.

After challenging him and seeing his response I heavily question if he has even dove into the research he is using to justify his claims as I show that the research he displays actually supports MY claims more than his own!

Due to this and him having the designation of authority as a doctor I responded that I am giving him 7 days to properly research and rebuttal my points or else I would be creating a YouTube video for my channel featuring his name and highlighting our discussion in an effort to justify why people shouldn’t be trusting him and taking his advice as a doctor…..

This blog post is to document our interaction on Facebook:

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What Makes Us Human?

I find it insane how serious we take things as human beings sometimes.

I often will see people out in the world who are so easily upset or offended over the views/opinions of another and as well I see those who get so locked up in their own views and opinions of themselves that I don’t believe they realize what they are emotional or upset at.

They are getting mad at a walking contradiction, a human being….

Let me explain.

As a human being we have these bodies that are naturally hard-wired to survive, thrive and reproduce. There are these drives within us that keep us moving forward every day that we need to satisfy or else overtime they begin to take hold and dominate our bodies and our minds.

The need to eat and nourish the body, the need to sleep and recover the body, the need for competition and togetherness with others, the need for sex and reproduction, the need to be physical and active and the need to be mental and intellectually creative.

Stop eating for longer then your body is normally used to and your stomach sends signals to the brain which will cause you to lose focus, become irritable, experience light-headedness and will even cause physical reactions like gurgling or rumbling in the gut. Skip a few hours of sleep or even a whole night and you can experience a depressed mood, difficulty learning new concepts, forgetfulness, irritability and fatigue. Get trapped on a deserted island or be thrown in solitary confinement and overtime you will literally lose your mind.

These needs of the body can ‘dominate’ and control us as human beings by dictating our actions and behaviours OR we can learn to control and ‘conquer’ these instinctual drives but, nevertheless, they are a need that at one point needs to be addressed and satisfied.

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I call these needs: Animalistic Instincts

Animalistic Instincts are the physical & instinctive characteristics of animals that are hard-wired within our bodies as humans that cause us to have fixed behavior patterns in response to certain stimuli.

For example, if you smell a certain food and immediately get hungry and transfixed on food you are dominated by that instinctual drive. Or let’s say you see an attractive person and lose focus on the task at hand you are dominated by that instinctual drive.

By giving in and allowing an instinctual drive to dominate over you, you are no less animal then a shark on the hunt after the scent of blood or a male baboon transfixed by the swelling backside of a female while in estrous.

Look at any commercial or advertisement, any product or service, any business or establishment.

Almost ALL are connected to these instinctual drives in some way or another. Either to satisfy it or to conquer it (and sometimes even to allow it to temporarily or continually dominate us).

So what is it that makes us human?
What separates & makes us different from the animals and our animalistic instincts?

The only difference between us as human beings and animals is the ability to perceive time. [I won’t dive deep into this here but check out Sex, Time, & Power by Lenoard Shalin if you are interested in learning more on this subject] Knowing and understanding the concept of time allowed us to post-pone rewards that our instinctual drives satisfy. This is called Delayed Gratification that most (if not all) animals can’t & don’t do.

Delay of gratification, is the act of resisting an impulse to take an immediately available reward in the hope of obtaining a more-valued reward in the future. The ability to delay gratification is essential to self-regulation, or self-control.

Delayed gratification allows us to have intellectual desires that we want to accomplish and achieve that stem beyond these animalistic instincts, this is what makes us human! It’s what allowed agriculture and civilization to grow and occur which eventually lead to the ability for you to be reading words on a screen and being able to understand those words you are reading. EVERYTHING. Literally everything you know about life is because of delayed gratification or else we would still be living as hunter and gatherers.

Now I know this might sound bad to say but, most people are animals…..

Many people I meet in life have intellectual desires but are so dominated by their animalistic instincts that they are predictable like an animal and fail to accomplish them. Their regular patterns of satisfying their instincts allows them to be tracked and predicted. They sacrifice their intellectual desires in order to regularly satisfy their instincts which I believe causes them to be dominated by them.

Maybe they aren’t dominated by ALL of their animalistic instincts but usually a couple of them have a severe hold on most people. So much so that they are willing to justify ridiculous notions in life which make them contradict their own morals/values and their intellectual desires or they go out of their way in life in order to satisfy these instinctual drives.

And honestly, it’s not a bad thing. Self-regulation and self-control is an extremely hard thing to manage across all areas of life especially when these drives have such a hold over our bodies and minds.

It’s 100% understandable to me that we as humans need to give into these animalistic drives to optimize our bodies and brains or else over-time they will take hold and cause us to be unnecessarily more ‘animal’ then we need to be. Whether this is accomplished by conquering and satisfying them at our own will by our own choosing or possibly even allowing them to dominate us in the heat of the moment.

I personally find it hard to be concerned about the opinions and views of another human being enough that it would overtly control and dominate my emotional and intellectual state. I mean, we are part animal.

To me it’s understandable to contradict our intellectual desires at times in order to conquer and satisfy our animalistic instincts. I mean, these instincts are a major factor of our lives and just like preventative maintenance on a vehicle or piece of machinery I believe our bodies and minds need preventative maintenance especially in this modern day world where we’ve taken ourselves so far away from our natural lives.

I regularly question what life would be like for us as humans if we didn’t have these instinctual drives within us. If all we had were intellectual desires and we had no instinctual drives what would we be?

So I believe what makes us human, is that we are part animal….

I think if more people understood this and avoided denying this fact, if more people understood that within themselves (and others) there are these instinctual drives that are very animal in nature that we have to satisfy, I believe more people would understand why themselves and others carry out most of our actions and behaviors.

I mean, you wouldn’t get mad at an animal for doing what it naturally does, so why get mad at a human being that on top of having these natural drives, has to cope with the ability to perceive time and make decisions that very regularly contradict each other.

I think a big part of what makes us human is this contradiction between our intellectual desires and our animalistic instincts….

Why You Need To Pay For Russian Women: Traditional Vs. Modern Culture Gender Roles

Fascinating video documenting the Russian Ideology between the gender roles of men vs women!

Some interesting quotes from the video:

'People prefer security over freedom.'

‘there are many women in a female body, but they are actually man.
I’m talking about European women, they don’t have feminine energy,
they are not trained in being a woman......
It’s not their fault, it happens to be that European women basically forgot who they are, they got lost, they don’t know what it is to be a woman,
They don’t have sensitivity so how could they give it to a man?’

Some interesting comments:

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I find many people living the ‘new modern’ North American lifestyle look to traditional cultures and values as inferior or primitive and although I believe there are definitely some unnecessary aspects that are held onto over the generations due solely to tradition I question why we have SOO many issues in North America in regards to physical and mental health yet many people from traditional cultures generally appear more ‘happy or content’ with life and tend to have the longest living people who live well into their 90s-100s.

Why Millennial's Are Stupider Then Previous Generations : Generational Degradation

'...paternal physical activity is a direct factor driving the offspring’s brain physiology and cognitive behavior.'

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/04/17/1816781116?fbclid=IwAR3mb3FRRFWWzFLEAhVE2L4wQCsRQaS_FLi9VT_A6AVsJLlsRXugCID53Zs

‘Behavioral, stereological, and whole-genome sequence analyses reveal that paternal cognition improvement is inherited by the offspring, along with increased adult neurogenesis, greater mitochondrial citrate synthase activity, and modulation of the adult hippocampal gene expression profile.

These results demonstrate the inheritance of exercise-induced cognition enhancement through the germline, pointing to paternal physical activity as a direct factor driving offspring’s brain physiology and cognitive behavior.’

The results from this study displays that the physical activity of parents have a direct effect on the brain physiology and cognitive behavior of the offspring in mice. If these results are similar in humans then that means that the physical activity levels of humans directly affects the mental aptitude of the their kin.

As I’ve mentioned in the past on my YouTube Channel, I heavily question how the sedentary North American lifestyle (along with many other factors that come along with the lifestyle such as poor nutrition/diet, a lack of traditional values, etc) may be negatively affecting the following generations both hormonally and mentally.

Now, I find my Journey in life unique because my mom came to Canada from Hungary when she was pregnant with me. For generations my family held extremely traditional values which were passed down to me but being born in Canada I had the opportunity to see MANY different people’s lifestyles, both culturally from other areas in the world as well as those who’ve had descendants in North America for generations prior. For example, my step father, who married my mother when I was 2-3 years old and had my sister was a 3rd-4th generation polak.

I got to see how the North American lifestyle and mentality was passed down through the generations on my step-fathers side and how it heavily differentiated from the traditional Hungarian lifestyle and values they brought with them.

Over time as I began to get older, I watched many of my classmates, colleagues and co-workers whom I would heavily analyze their lifestyles, diets, physical activity and any factors I could visibly see while I would question them about their family and when they had come to Canada.

I believe we put a lot of weight on mental health and how to combat it in our society but I don’t believe we are considering how this is passed down through the generations as a result of a drastic change from traditional lifestyles that we had for centuries upon centuries and now we are manipulating it to this more ‘modern lifestyle’ we have in North America and 1st world countries.

I believe a lot of the issues we currently see in society are symptoms of generational degradation in regards to hormone optimization due to losing a lot of traditional cultural values and lifestyles that naturally and unknowingly optimized our bodies and minds.

If for several generations their descendants adapted and upheld the North American Lifestyle, Millennial’s were literally born into a lower mental and physical state compared to their parents and grandparents before them and I believe they will only continue to pass this degradation down onto the following generations unless we make a serious change in society and bring awareness to this.

With my personal experimentation on my own body and getting scientific testing done in regards to growth hormone and brain scans, where I prove you can naturally change and manipulate your hormone levels and rewire the neural pathways in your brain, I believe it’s 100% possible to optimize our bodies/minds and possibly even reverse or prevent the effects that were handed down to us to avoid this degradation for our children BUT I also believe we have to put more effort, energy and mental thought into overall optimization because these were issues the previous generations never had to deal with.

The purpose of this blog/video is because many people I’ve run into in life, believe they can’t make a change for themselves and the issues they were born with. I’ve had hundreds of discussions with people online and in person who doubt that they can make a change or that putting the effort in to make that change is redundant due to whatever issue they were born with.

I believe many of these people use it as an excuse to not have to work as hard because of these issues when in reality they need to work even harder. Yes, there is an extremely small percentage of people who are born with REAL issues that are natural due to birth defects or hormonal issues but I believe a majority of people are suffering from a lower mental and physical ability passed down from unoptimized parents and generations before them which they can improve and change over time to prevent passing it down further.

Neurohacking Experiments - EEG Reading Profile Report Analysis

Here is a comparison of the results from the two EEG readings I did before and after the 3 month Neurohacking Experiments:

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Pathology - 20% increase in Delta Power

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Arousal - 10% decrease in Low Delta Power
Arousal can be described as the activation of the autonomous nervous system (ANS) and the central nervous system (CNS). It is related to mental alertness and is reflected by heart rate, heart rate variability, pupil dilation and muscle tone. Arousal level is very important for mental performance.

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Default Mode Network:
Network Activity - 30% decrease in Hyper-Active & 30% decrease in Hypo-Active
Network Connectivity - 27% decrease in Hyper-Connected & 7% decrease in Hypo-Connected
The DMN is active during rest and is associated with self-reflective processes or mental stimulation. The DMN consists of frontal brain areas that are known to be involved in higher executive functions such as working memory, planning and cognitive control.

Dorsal Attention Network:
Network Activity - 50% decrease in Hyper-Active & 34% decrease in Hypo-Active
Network Connectivity - 14% decrease in Hyper-Connected & 13% decrease in Hypo-Connected

The DAN consist of front and parietal areas which are important for higher executive functions, such as working memory, goal-directed actions and attention. The DAN consists of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC), which is associated with cognitive control, working memory and awareness. The Inferior Parietal Lobule, which is important for goal-directed action, creativity and reasoning and the Superior Parietal Lobule, which is known to be involved in imagination, advanced motor skills and visual attention.

The Emotion- Regulation Cortex:
Network Activity - 37% decrease Hyper-Active
Network Connectivity - 10% decrease Hyper-Connected 4% increase Hypo-Connected
The ERC plays a role in emotion regulation, empathy, risk assessment, decision making and fear processing. The ERC consists of the Middle Frontal Gyrus, which is involved in emotional decision making and the Orbitofrontal Gyrus, which is known for it’s role in the evaluation of emotional stimuli and the representation of the somewhat intangenable concepts of personality or ‘cognitive style’.

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The Sensory-Motor Complex:
Network Activity - 62% decrease Hyper-Active & 75% decrease Hypo-Active
Network Connectivity - 9% decrease Hyper-Connected & 7% increase Hypo-Connected
The SMC is responsible for somatosensory processing (the sense of touch) and preparing and executing motor actions. The Primary Somatosensory and Motor Cortices are involved in the sense of touch and executing actions, respectively. The Secondary Somatosensory Cortex is involved with higher level of somatosensory processing such as the integration of proprioceptive information with visual information to create a sense of the body in space. The Premotor cortex is resonpsible for preparing actions and also contains visumotor neurons that respond to viewing the actions of others. This system is called the ‘mirror neuron system’

The Memory Network:
Network Activity - 50% increase Hypo-Active
Network Connectivity - 5% decrease Hyper-Connected & 11% decrease Hypo-Connected
The MN consisting of Hippocampal areas located in the Medial Temporal Lobe is involved in encoding storage and retrieval of long-term episodic and semantic memory. The Hippocampal areas are known to be pivitol for encoding and retrieval of information about autobiographical events which not only include informaiton about the ‘who, what, where, when and how’, but also about the emotions that accompanied the event. It is also responsible for encoding and retrieval of semantic information which refers to ‘factual knowledge’

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The Visual Cortex
Network Activity - 17% decrease Hypo-Active
Network Connectivity - 7% increase Hyper-Connected & 27% increase Hypo-Connected
The VC is a group of occipital brain areas that is specialized in processing visual information. The VS is hierarchically organized with respect to the complexity of visual features that it processes. Low-level visual features, such as color, contrast levels and line orientations are processed in the primary visual cortex.

This is just a breakdown of the results and the percentage changes that occurred pre & post the Neurohacking Experiments.

A key concept to consider is that with neurohacking and attempting to improve your cognitive function, during the period of growth you may actually see a reduction/decrease/lull in some areas as conditions are improving. I like to think of it similar to a muscle group where following training there is soreness and pain during the recovery process that may seem to hinder or reduce your mobility/movement. Just because there are wild improvements or wild retrogression in certain areas it doesn’t mean these will sustain long term. Of course further testing would need to be done to get more conclusive information (I would like to see another EEG reading done 3 months after no Neurohacking and even every 3 months following) but in general I believe this displays that with Neurohacking and the factors I implemented during those 3 months (like meditation, nootropics, mindfullness, brain games, etc) quantifiable changes occur in the brain in many different areas as these results display after completing this EEG readings.

Neurohacking Experiments - Cognitive Battery Analysis Breakdown

Here is a comparison of the results from the two Cognitive Battery Assessments I did before and after the 3 month Neurohacking Experiments:




DEDUCTIVE REASONING
13% - 83%
Percentage Change = 70%
refers to the core cognitive ability to apply rules to information in order to arrive at a logical conclusion.  




RESPONSE INHIBITION
74% - 81%
Percentage Change = 7%
refers to the ability to concentrate on relevant information in order to make a correct response despite interference or distracting information.

Working Memory
53% - 89%
Percentage Change = 36%
refers to the ability to temporarily hold information in memory, and strategically manipulate or update it based on changing circumstances or demands.


Visual Spatial Working Memory
24% - 48%
Percentage Change = 24%
refers to the ability to temporarily hold information in memory, and manipulate or update it based on changing circumstances or demands.

Planning
37% - 86%
Percentage Change = 49%
refers to the ability to act with forethought and sequence behaviour in an orderly fashion to reach specific goals.



Episodic Memory
15%- 53%
Percentage Change = 38%
refers to the ability to remember and recall specific events, paired with the context in which they occurred, such as identifying when and where an object was encountered.



Spatial Short-Term Memory
42% - 66%
Percentage Change = 24%
refers to the cognitive system that allows for temporary storage of spatial information in memory. Spatial short-term memory deals with the relationships between objects in space.

Attention
71% - 36%
Percentage Change = 35%
refers to the ability to muster mental concentration and focus in order to monitor for a specific stimulus or difference.


Verbal Reasoning
62% - 55%
Percentage Change = 13%
refers to the ability to quickly understand and make valid conclusions about concepts expressed in words.

Verbal Short-Term Memory
33% - 6%
Percentage Change = 27%
refers to the cognitive system that allows for temporary storage of information like numbers or words in memory in a specific order


Mental Rotation
28% - 6%
Percentage Change = 22%
refers to the ability to efficiently manipulate mental representations of objects in order to make valid conclusions about what objects are and where they belong

Visuospatial Processing
87% - 27%
Percentage Change = 60%
refers to the ability to effectively process and interpret visual information, such as complex visual stimuli and relationships between objects.

AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT
Top = Pre-Neurohacking
Bottom = Post-Neurohacking

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AREAS OF RETROGRESSION

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This is just a breakdown of the results and the percentage changes that occurred pre & post the Neurohacking Experiments.

A key concept to consider is that with neurohacking and attempting to improve your cognitive function, during the period of growth you may actually see a reduction/decrease/lull in some areas as conditions are improving. I like to think of it similar to a muscle group where following training there is soreness and pain during the recovery process that may seem to hinder or reduce your mobility/movement. Just because there are wild improvements or wild retrogression in certain areas it doesn’t mean these will sustain long term. Of course further testing would need to be done to get more conclusive information (I would like to see another test done 3 months after no Neurohacking and even every 3 months following) but in general I believe this displays that with Neurohacking and the factors I implemented during those 3 months (like meditation, nootropics, mindfullness, brain games, etc) quantifiable changes occur in the brain in many different areas as these results display after completing this gamified assessment.

Why Growth Hormone & Not Testosterone?

Received a great comment/question regarding my Growth Hormone Experiments so let's just dive right into it:

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Before we go further, thank you so much Fabrizio for this great comment. I literally get dozens of comments a day (some-most of them are usually just nonsense) so when I get comments where I can tell people have put thought into their questions and are helping to challenge me it just makes me really appreciate the path I am on at this stage in my life. Thank you to everyone who engages thoughtfully, I am always willing to help those who are trying to get truly informed along their path.

Here is my response:
*NOTE: YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THIS!

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Video Mentioned:

I don't expect you to read all of my response but if you are interested in any of the questions he asked then it's all there for you but today I want to focus more specifically on his questions regarding why I chose to focus more on optimizing (or raising) my Growth Hormone levels over my Testosterone levels.

When I first started pondering the concept of hormone optimization and began doing my research on what the difference between Testosterone and Growth Hormone actually was, I found that it really wasn't easy to find information on the subject I was looking for, which goes to show me that:
1. There isn't a great understanding from the general public on the concept of hormones and how it affects the body
2. The understanding that is out there is heavily influenced by societal notions about what Testosterone and Growth Hormone are (basically they can be replaced/supplemented/injected/etc.)

So, in regards to these two points, almost everything I found online when I searched Testosterone or Growth Hormone (or even estrogen) either separately or together came up with people who had low levels or deficiencies and then how to try to recover from this which would be typically paired with a product, supplement, or 'booster' or they are just straight trying to sell steroids. Nowadays, when doing research A LOT of information is in regards to 'hormone replacement therapy' or people in the process of gender transition who are using hormones to facilitate the process.

This heavily concerned me because from all the research I had done prior to this, my theory was that you can increase/optimize/maximize your Testosterone levels naturally just by manipulating certain factors in your life like your food intake, physical activity, stress levels, etc, but I was still not able to explain how Growth Hormone fit into it. I knew and understood that they had an effect on each other but I didn't know how to explain it to others and couldn't find the information that allowed me to easily relay this concept. I believe part of my Journey while on this planet is to help people have a better understanding of how their bodies work and function, so,

Why Growth Hormone Over Testosterone Then?

After scouring the internet for hours and hours to find the most representative information I could find I landed on this:

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To put it REALLY SIMPLE, it's a big cycle but ultimately:

Growth Hormone is produced in the Brain (in the hypothalamus/pituitary gland) which signals the Testes (or ovaries) to produce Testosterone (or estrogen) which leads to a host of factors in the body.

To me, after seeing this, it just made sense that if I want to maintain a high natural testosterone level then I have to try to keep my Growth Hormone levels as high as possible by taking advantage of the factors in life that stimulate my body to produce more. To me it seems redundant to only focus on increasing my Testosterone levels because it's one of the last few parts of the cycle. Let's use a train for example, if a train is moving slow or not as powerful as it normally is you wouldn't focus on optimizing the caboose, there may be a problem there but first you would look at the engine room, the thing that is actually providing the power that moves the whole train along.

So, it's not that I'm using the term Growth Hormone interchangeably with Testosterone, the fact is, you just can't NATURALLY increase your testosterone levels without first affecting your Growth Hormone levels so I personally choose to not even talk about Testosterone. Raising your testosterone levels is a by-product of increasing your Growth Hormone levels which is what I want more people to understand by following my Journey.

Well, I hope this helped to explain why I choose to focus on Growth Hormone over Testosterone!
Ostinato Rigore World
 

The 60 Hour Fast Challenge - Are Long Fasts Safe?

This blog/comment is in response to a nurse who was deeply concerned of the length of hours that some of the members of our Fastletics Fitness Community group were partaking in.
This was my response:

To be honest when I first started experimenting with Fasting I was VERY CONCERNED about it. I took it very slow and easy on my own body so I would know exactly what factors were affecting me and my body. I wanted to know if I experienced fatigue or energy highs if it was from the fasting or maybe from my physical activity or from my food the previous day. I slowly pushed my breakfast forward an hour everyday, then brought my last meal back an hour everyday. It took me about 2 weeks until I was into a 16/8 eating window.

As time went on, I was experimenting with fasting for 17-24hrs on a daily basis and I wanted to push it. I wanted to see what my body/the human body could handle in terms of withholding from food. If Ghandi could fast for 14-21 days then could it really negatively affect the human body for doing shorter fasts? So I pushed it to 40hrs and documented the whole Journey on my YouTube Channel! I take you through different intervals to show you how my energy levels change and fluctuate and to be honest, even at a low body fat percentage (I hover around 10-12% year round) I had no 'negative' results. I actually felt AMAZING and a year later pushed it to 48 hrs!

At Fastletics we want each individual to leave with the skills and knowledge that will excel them along their own Journey in life. For some people they may have a couple hundred pounds to lose while some are just trying to reach their goal bodyweight and others are trying to increase muscle growth while maintaining their weight.

These long fasts aren't meant to be a long term fat loss solution. It's a way to shatter and break the chains that many of us in this society have built around food. That food is important and necessary on a daily basis when it's really only a basic animal instinct that we have to conquer within our lives. Some people have this chain built around sex or power or greed or a substance, some have it built around food. 

These Long Fasts are a challenge to your will power. To your body and your mind to push yourself beyond your basic instinct to eat.

Long fasts will help those who are overweight break those chains faster because it adjusts their bodies to experience ketosis FIRST before overwhelming their mind with information on nutrition and portion sizes and workouts and eating intervals. Once fasting is adapted and the body becomes a fat burning machine by regularly switching into a state of ketosis via carb depletion we introduce the concepts and knowledge to take advantage of your own lifestyle to optimize your hormone production through nutrition, exercise, fasting and other factors like sauna use!