General health: The Circadian Rhythm and Why It Is Important

The Circadian Rhythm

I guess most of you guys have heard about the Circadian Rhythm, mainly through your parents, but mostly big mama. Well I know everything about it, because my mother would always haunt me at nights, wanting me to hit the bed and stop playing computer... She always talked apon how I messed up my natural clock.

NATURAL CLOCK? I was like, what the fuck is she talking about, big mma must be smoking grass... I assume the Circadian Rhythm lies in the shelf along side ( Eat your greens) ( Soda is bad for you ) ( Drink enough water during the day).

- Now that I have been within the fitness industry for about 7years, and truthfully n honestly researched every area within muscle building, getting stronger and losing weight..The Circadian Rhythm aka Natural Clock is real.

We all have our periods. We extend our night stays and tend to watch TV and sit in front of the Computer. For everyday that we extend our owl tasks we often tend to feel less tired, and therefore tend to have worse sleeps. These worse sleeps eventually lead to tired morning, morning with alot of coffe, and much shit-visits on the toilet.

What is the Circadian Rhythm and how does it affect us (performance wise)?The Natural Clock is a biological process that can be found within everything living, from plants, animals, humans and cells. Lets start at 21:00 or 9PM at this certain time the sun is slowly starting to go under, it becomes dark and cold. Our brain starts to produce melatonine a hormone that makes you tired, aswell as lowers adrenaline, lowers body temperature, and decreases metabolism. The body turns off alot of its activities to put us into sleep. During sleep we enter 3 stages of it, these 3 stages must be optained to experience a full recovery of night. When we sleep our body goes through our day, our thought, and eventually adapts by increasing or decreasing different hormones so that we can adapt to our daily needs easlier.
(bodybuilding / strength-training ) pushes testosterone - igf1 - and growth-hormones these optimizations of hormones occur as a self-defense mechanism. The body is actually trying to become strong enough, so that the daily tasks will not become hard any longer...
(worker - stress) the opposite way around our body can decrease hormones such as testosterone or estrogen, increase cortisol and thereby leaving us in a state of (STRESS) (ALERT) within this state the body shuts of many normal functions to focus on one (Health and well-being) a stressed person might experience lowered concentration, work capacity, focus and energy and thereby leaving the person in a more stressfull state...

But why is the body working with us or against us? Well in the situation of stress (high cortisol) The body is actually trying to tell you RELAX, SLEEP, EAT, FOCUS ON YOU, RETHINK, READJUST and this basically takes time to learn.
7:00 - 8:00 So during the night and apon waking we have the highest amount of testosterone, due to the work out brain has done with our testicles.
10:00 The sun is shining, cortisol from night is lowering ( you can feel this, as you slowly start to function properly, think clearer, and become more energetic)
12:00 - 15:00 Highest sun, brain produces more nor adrenaline, which eventually helps us focus, be energetic and make us perform the best ( best time to hit the gym)
16:00 - 19:00 Body is slowly starting to slow down, getting ready to produce melatonine and eventually reset for the next day.
21:00 - 9PM Melatonine secretion

The Carcadian Rhythm is our natural given clock. It basically how we are ment to function and perform our best. By following it and listening, it will help us become better in every aspect ( gym, health, happiness, energy) it is how we functioned before, it is how we still function, and it is truly needed to be researched more. To become human again we have to understand that listening to our body, the feelings, hormones and enviroment is as important as the goals we want to achieve. Why? Well by doing so it will help you reach those goals and become human once again. Along side the Circadian Rhythm comes perfect timing of food, skipping early morning meals to leap over high morning cortisol levels (lowered energy, low metabolism, higher fat storage from carbohydrates. By listening to our body we will be able to achieve higher levels of strength, energy, muscle mass, health, performance.....

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General health: Why you should become vegetarian

Why you should become vegetarian for muscle building.

1. First off being vegetarian is a healthier option then eating an overall meat based diet, that not only slows down muscle-building but to some degree also you're overall health. Meat based diets have been shown to increase cancerous diseases and the statistics do not lie. Cancer is found in abundance in western developed countries such as America, Denmark, Germany and England. One of the reasons is meat, but with large amounts of meat consumption comes Wealth. With wealth I am stating that we often tend to waste our money on garbage such as bad meat, low quality due to high quantity, cigarettes. alcohol, steroids, perfumes and more modern-man created products that comes along with having money.

2. Being vegetarian is a cheaper option then being vegan and a meat eater. You are combining easy and cheap sources of protein through (Vegan means: Soy, Tofu, Beans and alike) with (Meat means: Milk, Fish, Yogurt and Eggs) a vegetarian diet is a healthy choice, due to the cheer amount of antioxidants consumed by large quantities of vegetables and fruit, and supported by QUICK,EASY and CHEAP protein short-cuts with milk and eggs.

3. By focusing on a plant based diet we ingest large amounts of strong minerals, such as iron, magnesium, calcium, zink ect. By strong i mean minerals that have not been damaged such as mineral pills or vitamin pills. Next to our focus on vegetables, fruits will be our workout fuel as-well as energizer. Fruits contain antioxidants, oxidizing damaged cells and thereby creating proper apoptosis (cell-death) sometime that is needed to create a healthy environment within the body to fight off cancer formations. In general fruits and vegetables will clear out the body from toxins that are found throughout our regular diet, medicine, air and water. - When the body has obtained a clear state of alkalinity and cleanse, regular and easy body tasks such as building muscle, brain function, immune system, health, and overall function will be no problem at all.
- The body will always concentrate on the most important, and that is plain survival. A diet containing pouted meat, medicine, minerals, cigarette, alcohol will therefore slow down normal and basic tasks such as building muscle and strength, and most of all general health. Once these objects have been cleared out of the way, the body will rapidly adapt to what it needs for survival (knowledge / immune system / muscle) depending how and what you want to achieve.

I advocate a vegetarian based diet, with supported proteins through milk and eggs. As a former bodybuilder that consumed nearly 1-2kg of meat everyday, drinking 7 different muscle building supplements, and hitting the gym 7days out of the week. I became strong, fit and THATS IT ( it rimes)
Throughout 6years of bodybuilding i gained respectable amounts of muscle and strength with PR of :
Benchpress 145kg
Squat 210kg
Deadlift 210kg
My lifestyle, my choices, my diet and my personality eventually lead me into a disease with cancer. A disease that almost killed me, and took me 2-surgeries and 3months of harsh chemo to survive! A disease that I eventually had created myself, and a disease that I myself had to figure out how to beat. (What you create, you shall desecrate)

 I immediately bought every book on the planet about vegetables, fruits, antioxidants, and natural medicine such as herbs and teas. Reading a book a day I was challenged apon my own knowledge? A knowlegde that I would apply in my life, the gym, and future choices.. A knowlegde that I blinded believed in because the media and science advocate, but a knowlegde that eventually slowly killed me.

I applied everything the books said, I quit eating meat, I became vegan, I drank abundance of teas, I started juicing fruits and vegetables and I would slowly start to reinstall what I once thought was correct.

Today I am a flexitarian ( vegetarian consuming fish, eggs and milk on special occasional days) I drink flesh made juice everyday, I have fruit pre-workout, I have shifted from clean square based bodybuilding to capoeira, yoga, strengthtraining, endurance running and much more in a combined complex. And most importantly I am a 2-year cancer survivor that was miss-diagnosed for 7months spreading the disease to a complicated state, a state that should have left me for dead, but of unknown reasons looked like a case of simple cancer? Why and How come...... Well the choices I made healed, strengthen and saved my life

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