Thursday, January 25, 2018

Ursolic acid and testosterone and strength training for fat loss….
                                                            Today's post:  Thursday, 1-25-2018

Tuesday, 1-16-2018 we posted on taking ursolic acid plus strength training as a way to prevent frailty and muscle wasting after age 65 to 85. (Note this does NOT require taking anabolic steroids.)

This post and the one on Tuesday, 1-23-2018 & the comment I added to it describe ways to slow or even partially reverse aging to enable you to have up to decades more life worth living.

Almost all of those methods also help you lose fat and keep off fat you lose!

Initially, it looked like taking ursolic acid was also a way that men over 45 & women past early menopause could strength train well enough to keep and gain enough healthy bones and muscles to enable you to eat more and still lose fat AND keep it off even better by being less hungry.

Since then my research found that it may be that ursolic acid appears with other factors that are aromatase inhibitors to prevent testosterone from converting to DHT and those that prevent testosterone from conversion to Estradiol -- both of which increase the net or free testosterone that IS a natural anabolic steroid.

The herb Holy Basil was tested by Doctor Al Sears to reduce estrogens from aging and ingesting pseudoestrogens like BPA with a net gain of free testosterone. He found research showing this and was able to get this effect for his patients!

Holy Basil also has ursolic acid.  But these other factors that prevent the increase in things that reduce free testosterone that go up with age otherwise and these effects may be the effective anabolic factors.

*Note that exercising your larger muscles in your legs and buttocks and lower back and the larger muscles in your upper back and chest with heavy weights tends to increase testosterone release.

So does eating enough high quality protein with whey being most effective.  So does taking zinc and fenugreek and Tongkat Ali and enough vitamin D3.

Taking creatine helps you to lift more weight and recover in a way that builds muscle also.

For men, taking DHEA and tribulus seems less effective than once thought for boosting energy and testosterone.

Women have less testosterone than men and after early menopause even less; but surprisingly, for women, taking  DHEA and tribulus has been reported to be effective for boosting energy and testosterone.

*Growth hormone release, separate from testosterone, also prevents frailty and keeps you strong and competent. 

Doing the heavier strength training with enough weight for you that you have to pause to catch your breath at the end of the set releases growth hormone. 

So does pushing your limits a bit on vigorous cardio enough to have to rest or slow down to catch your breath. 

Ursolic acid itself may work. Some evidence says it does. 

But the natural spices that contain it plus the exercises we know slow aging may increase their anti-aging effects with these factors – AND they each prevent frailty!


AND, they also allow people over 45 to add or keep bone and muscle for their fat loss effects.  

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