THYROID, ESTROGEN & PROGESTERONE: SPEEDING FAT LOSS & LEAN MUSCLE CREATION
If we want to slim down while gaining lean muscle or toning our muscles, we need to address our hormones.
This is because achieving hormonal balance allows our body to fully and correctly utilize the nutrients we’re consuming for what we do want and not for what we don’t want.
We’ve already covered how high Cortisol hinders fat loss and slows muscle growth. As well as how Growth Hormone, Testosterone and IGF help to speed fat loss and muscle growth.
But there is another aspect to this balancing act: Estrogen, Progesterone and Thyroid.
These hormones exist in both women and men, and are each necessary in proper amounts.
But when they go out of balance, they can create a vicious spiral that raises cortisol and cravings for junk food, lowers growth hormone, testosterone and IGF (our main fat loss hormone), and makes fat loss and muscle gains much harder all around.
This is a longer article, but one of the most important. It hasn’t been cut up into individual articles only because each part needs to be examined with each other part.
And it's vital to not just fat loss and lean muscle, but to overall health.
So let’s take a look at what’s happening here.