High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS

Serum creatinine is an indicator of lean body mass and muscle quality, new studies find.

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00:00 Creatinine is independently associated with lean body mass, muscle strength, and muscle quality.

00:25 Serum creatinine is a marker of impaired kidney function.

00:40 Creatinine is a normal waste product of muscle metabolism.

00:50 Levels can be impacted by declining kidney function, inflammation, and blood pressure reduction medications.

01:00 Concentrations are impacted by age, sex, and body size.

01:30 Average muscle protein per kilo of body weight was higher in omnivores.

02:10 Serum creatinine is significantly lower in vegetarians.

03:00 There are statistically significant differences in hand grip strength between omnivores and vegetarians.

05:10 Creatinine levels over 1.4 mg/dl may be a marker of chronic kidney disease and poor kidney function.

06:00 Abnormal urinary creatinine to albumin ratio is a marker of kidney dysfunction.

07:05 Low serum creatinine can indicate acute illness, severe liver disease, loss of muscle mass, malnutrition, muscular dysfunction, dehydration, or sarcopenia.

07:30 Vegetarian diet, low body mass, and reduced strength are linked to low serum creatinine.

08:30 There is a correlation between quality of protein, quality of muscle tissue, and serum creatinine.

09:05 Omnivores have significantly greater dietary protein intake, serum creatinine levels, and grip strength.

09:45 Increasing protein above the RDA has beneficial effects on strength level in vegetarians.

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Let's discuss ways to keep belly fat off as you get age and why protein paired with exercise is so critical when you diet to lose weight.

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Show Notes: 

00:00 Intro
2:49 There is a cycle with aging of reduction of muscle mass and increase of fat mass. 
3:30 Hormonal changes of aging change body composition, leading to the acceleration of muscle loss.
5:00 Diets should be paired with resistance and aerobic training.
6:00 Changes in muscle precedes fat gains. 
7:30 Focus on muscle and protein intake.
9:55 Adipocyte number is set during adolescence. 
10:10 Health at any size is a fallacy.
10:51 Fat cells become hypertrophied and become necrotic and die.
11:30 Excessive amounts of energy cause fat cells to become inflamed.
12:05 Overfilled fat cells spill lipids, and greatly affect your liver.
12:45 Dead fat cells cause metabolic immune debris.
14:00 Immune cells infiltrate your fat, creating inflammation.
14:45 Exercise helps prevent fat cell inflammation.
15:30 Belly fat is not benign.
15:50 Obesity causes changes in muscle tissue.
17:30 Walking builds capillary and mitochondrial density in muscles.
19:00 Leg training provides greater anabolic responses.
20:00 Age-related loss of muscle strength is 3x faster than loss of muscle mass.
21:30 Compound movements move 2 or more joints at the same time.
22:40 Combination of diet and exercise may be the most effective intervention.

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Dr. Elly Michelle discusses the importance of tracking ovulation and using your cycle to gauge exercise volume and intensity as well as prioritizing protein for body composition.

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00:00 Intro
02:50 The phases of a menstrual cycle
03:50 Ovulation requires a rise in LH and a rise in estrogen. 
04:50 The drop in progesterone causes the shedding of the uterine lining. 
05:15 You are only fertile for a 6-day window. 
06:00 Basal body temperature is an accurate method for tracking fertility.
10:00 An anovulatory cycle is when a woman does not ovulate. 
11:10 Signs of ovulation 
15:50 You have to ovulate to have a true period. 
17:15 Unopposed estrogen is linked to gut issues. 
19:30 Hormonal IUDs only have synthetic progestin. 
22:45 Hormones influence your overall wellbeing, mood, and sense of vitality. 
23:45 Going off hormonal birth control 
24:45 Your brain controls your hormones and your ovaries.
27:10 Pharmaceutical substances are not hormones. 
28:00 Progesterone keeps estrogen in balance.
28:15 Ovulation is about more than reproduction. 
29:00 Testing hormones
38:10 Low progesterone can be caused by stress, poor nutrition, and over training. 
42:40 Estrogen is anabolic and helps build and maintain muscle mass. 
44:20 Post menopause
44:40 Muscle building and recovery in a cycling woman 
48:50 Anti-mullerian hormone 
52:00 To support hormones, prioritize consuming protein. 
55:30 Adaptogens can be useful, but they are not the magic fix.

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Learn new strategies and tactics to slow the greying of hair and prevent hair loss as you age.

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References:

Fernandez‐Flores, A., Saeb‐Lima, M. & Cassarino, D. S. Histopathology of aging of the hair follicle. J. Cutan. Pathol. 46, 508–519 (2019).

 

Papaccio, F., D′Arino, A., Caputo, S. & Bellei, B. Focus on the Contribution of Oxidative Stress in Skin Aging. Antioxidants 11, 1121 (2022).

 

Williams, R., Pawlus, A. D. & Thornton, M. J. Getting under the skin of hair aging: the impact of the hair follicle environment. Exp. Dermatol. 29, 588–597 (2020).

Show Notes:

01:00 We may slow hair graying and hair loss by decreasing chronic inflammation.

02:00 By age 50, 50% of us will have 50% of our hair gray.

02:00 Over 1 year you lose .25% of your hair follicles.

03:00 post-menopausal women have a dramatic increase in follicle loss.

03:30 Oxidative stress can influence gray hair.

04:20 UV stress can affect the hair bulb.

04:40 There is a correlation between graying of hair, facial wrinkling, and crown top baldness and myocardial infarction in men.

08:00 With age, hairs are reduced in diameter and experience follicle miniaturization.

08:55 Chronic inflammation increases damage to DNA proteins and lipids within the hair follicle environment.

10:05 Collagen may be effective in preventing premature wrinkling of the skin and hair loss.

10:55 Bone mineral density correlates with hair loss and hair graying.

11:20 Slowing senescence and purging senescent cells happen with fasting and exercise.

12:25 Minimize exposure to pollution. Avoid excessive sun exposure. Avoid nutrition deficiencies.

13:30 Insulin resistance and PCOS can exacerbate hair loss.

14:00 Sometimes graying from environmental factors may be reversed.

14:30 52% of post-menopausal women experience hair loss.

14:40 Micronized progesterone can help women preserve the integrity of skin and hair follicle.

15:20 Lack of estrogen accelerates changes in hair follicle and skin aging.

17:45 Some shampoos can accelerate graying and hair loss.

18:35 Men with high levels of DHT, consider a ketoconazole shampoo.

 

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Let's discuss ways to prevent fat gain with age, focusing specifically on age-related hormonal and metabolic changes as well as fat cell physiology. 

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Show Notes:


01:00 There are cellular changes within adipose tissue and skeletal muscle linked with aging.

01:47 As fat cells get older, they hold fat more tightly.

01:55 There is infiltration of immune cells within fat tissue.

02:35 Mitochondrial function decreases with aging.

03:00 Exercise purges senescent cells.

03:50 Serum DHEA decreases with age.

04:52 Hormonal changes in aging cause fat cells to misbehave leading to metabolic derangement.

08:45 Reduced testosterone and DHEA effect post meal fat storage in men.

09:40 Your upper body is more sensitive to storing lipids after a meal but can become overfilled.

10:30 Fat tissue inflammation can be linked to reduced physical activity.

11:12 As you get older and stop exercising, decrease protein, your fat cells become infiltrated and enlarged.

12:25 The more body fat you have, the more proinflammatory immune cells you have within your fat tissue.

13:20 Overfilled fat cells cause muscle cells to onboard more fat.

14:00 Physical training has a huge impact on preserving muscle protein synthesis.

15:50 Exercised muscles become more sensitive to nutrients.

16:30 Increase your protein intake as you get older.

17:30 Protein intake should be between 1.2 and 1.5. Grams per kilo of ideal bodyweight per day.

18:10 Fast twitch muscle fibers are preferentially lost with aging.

Direct download: Preventing_Fat_Gain_with_Age.mp3
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