Stronger at 40+. How to Take Back Control of Your Hormones
I used to think feeling tired, losing muscle, or carrying extra belly fat in my 40s and 50s was just “aging.” That it was out of my control. But the more I dug into the science, the more I realised that hormones aren’t fixed by age. They respond to how you train, eat, sleep, and recover. That was a game-changer. It meant decline wasn’t inevitable. It meant I had tools to reset my body and feel strong again.
Here’s how strength training + recovery can reboot your hormonal engine.
My 2025 Functional Blood Work: High-Performer’s Guide to Sex Hormones & Adrenals – Part 5
This week, I’m diving into sex hormones and adrenal function. Interestingly, this category didn’t come back with a scary dysfunction score, it was flagged at around 45% probability. But there were still patterns worth paying attention to. Patterns that a conventional doctor might completely ignore, but functional medicine digs deeper to connect the dots.
Recreational Athletes, Stress and Protein Intake
If you’re chronically stressed, your fat-free-mass literally start to break down. Stress researchers call this wear and tear allostatic load. The fat-free-mass breakdown is caused in part by collagen proteins being used faster than they can be replaced. More preliminary research suggests that chronic stress may also contribute to obesity through direct mechanisms (causing people to eat more unhealthy foods) or indirectly (decreasing sleep, decreased exercise tolerance, blood sugar management issues).