A decade ago the average personal training client was looking to lose 15-30 pounds.  People could actually fit into the machines at the gym.

Today being 15-30 pounds overweight is considered “carrying a few extra pounds.”  Most of the average personal training clients can’t even fit into the machines at the gym.

It’s sad…. really sad.

Do you know what’s going on?

Let me show you….

I’ll bet some of the people in these pictures have kids.  What kind of a message are they sending?

Why are all of these people eating themselves to death?

I don’t know. 

Maybe they blame someone else.  Maybe they think there’s no hope for them.

I don’t know what the problem is.

But I know that most fat loss programs won’t cut it anymore.

One of my classmates in exercise science did a 12 week project training his obese mother.  He put her on a TEXTBOOK low fat diet and aerobic training program.

He got an A on his paper.

His mother died of a heart attack a week later.

His exercise program failed her.

Knowing what I know now, I could have taken 30 pounds off of her in those 12 weeks and probably saved her life.

She could be hanging out with her 2 young grandkids right now.

But she’s not.  Why not?

Because 95% of what they teach you about exercise and nutrition is DEAD wrong.

Most fitness experts approach fitness completely backwards.

Don’t listen to them, listen to me.

I’m giving you the first page of the manual from last Saturday’s Rules of The Game Seminar.

You’ll see WHY most exercise programs are doomed to fail you.

And you’ll see what I’ve decided to base all of my fat loss programs on (it’s in bold, so you can’t miss it).

 UNSTOPPABLE FITNESS FORMULA – RULES OF THE GAME

FAT LOSS FACT: 56% of Americans are currently “dieting”

One third of Americans are obese
Two thirds are overweight

In year 2000, obesity caused 400,000 US deaths – 16% of all preventable deaths and number 2 behind smoking (which caused 435,000 deaths – 18%)

This is due to the FAILURE of the fitness professions.

Despite fat loss, body composition, and physique transformation being the number one fitness goal of most people, this is actually a very new concept. 30 years ago we didn’t really need fat loss programs.

30 years ago the purpose of exercise was to ENHANCE an active lifestyle. But now we have to create programs specifically designed to enhance fat loss.

Exercise science has focused on aerobic training for HEALTH – not fat loss. Actually, the idea of training just to lose fat was an alien concept until the 1980’s.

Fitness guys knew it was time to create fat loss programs. They just didn’t know where to start. The first fat loss programs were designed by copying endurance athletes and hoping that somehow the program of a marathon runner would help a fat lady lose weight even when the program was cut down to 20 minutes 3x a week.

Problem: Fat loss was never the goal of endurance athletes. It was a side effect.

Then fitness guys turned to bodybuilding. Remember “Body For Life”? Another failure. To take the program of a full time, genetically gifted bodybuilder and use it to design a fat loss program for Mrs. Krensky was nonsensical.

But hey, at least they were trying something.

Bodybuilders are some of the most dedicated and driven people on the planet. They also devote ALL of their life to bodybuilding.

Then supplement companies (grandchildren of the traveling snake-oil doctors of the Midwest) jumped on the bandwagon and told us their miracle powders could give us the benefits of drugs without actually using the drugs.

This approach was closer. Fat loss WAS a goal for bodybuilders. But the low levels of bodyfat they achieved was a result of their increased muscle mass and metabolism.

Here’s the basis of my Unstoppable Fitness Formula: Before we start to program for fat loss, we have to understand exactly HOW it occurs. Then we design a program based on these principles – not on tradition, junk, or outdated beliefs.

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Now think back on all of the exercise programs you’ve seen or tried.  Were they just bastardized, watered-down versions of bodybuilder routines mixed with endurance routines?

I’ll bet they were.

If you’re serious about speeding up your metabolism, losing weight, and looking so good that you’re confident in your appearance everywhere you go, a lame edurance program or scaled-down bodybulding routine won’t do it for you.

You need something designed SPECIFICALLY for your goals.

I’m going to share my “master system” for rapid weight loss in the posts on this blog, so be sure that you’re subscribed by entering your name and email address in the box below:

Pretty much everyone has heard of the great Jack LaLanne.

He started his first health clubs back in the thirties (30s!).

He invented many training tools and techniques that we still use today.

Well, Jack used to have his own health and fitness tv show.

My Grandma Margie used to work out with Jack every day.  And my mom remembers seeing grandma doing handstands along with Jack on the show!

I could go on and on about how neat Jack is, but I’d rather share some clips of the man himself….

Have you ever noticed that everyone you see looks like the picture on their driver’s license?  Why is everyone so unhappy all of the time?  Here’s Jack’s take on unhappy people:

If you haven’t heard, besides running Wold Fitness and Fit Body Bootcamp, I’m also the strength and conditioning coach for Capital City Volleyball Club.

The volleyball club has several hundred female athletes, mostly between 12-18 years old.

Coaches have noticed that even in the last few years athletes are getting softer, they just LOOK different.  Jack says they look like sugar because they EAT sugar.  (It’s true, these girls eat nothing but candy and nasty-sports drinks on their breaks)

Of course, I’ve noticed that while the girls are getting softer around the middle, their PARENTS are getting even WORSE.

What does Jack have to say about “sugarholics”?

The other day I wrote an article about how to Have More Energy. Of course, Jack has his own techniques and they’ve kept him going like a rocket well into his ninth decade!

Here are his energy secrets:

This is a great story and a great analogy, Life Is A Battlefield. Make up your mind to win!

A lot of people don’t do well in life because they don’t FEEL well. Here’s how to feel good and deal with problems:

The problem with being fat and having poor health is that it doesn’t happen as a single, cataclysmic event. It is the results of just a few errors in judgment, repeated every day for years. And that’s how we end up where we do. (I love the part of this video where Jack says that most people think the body is made up of coffee and cigarettes…)

Are you a slave to your body?

Lots of people I know spend all weekend shuttling back and forth to home depot to make their house look BETTER THAN NEW. Why don’t you take some time to remodel your body?

Jack LaLanne was wayyy ahead of his time. And I love the way he talks to us like we’re all his best friend.

And so we’ll end with a quote from the man himself:

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

One of the topics I’ll be covering during my next seminar is my “Fat Loss Time Machine” nutrition path.

Basically, the further you go back in time with your diet, the healtheir you’ll be and the better your body will look.

So if you cut out modern foods like McDonalds and chips and cookies, you’ll have sort of an “Amish” diet.

This has lots of whole grains, meat, milk, vegetables, and is a pretty good plan.

If you want to take it to the next level, you’ll go even further back to a “caveman” diet.

One of the cool things with a caveman diet is that you naturally eat all sorts of fruits and vegetables.  You want a big variety, that’s why you hear me saying “Eat a rainbow”

Well, thanks to the sorting programs on microsoft excel, I’ve ALPHABETIZED a caveman diet shopping list.

Now you can eat the rainbow AND eat the aphabet!

Pretty neat.

Here’s a crazy list of natural foods that can fit right into your fat loss nutrition plan.

(But I won’t ask you to eat all of them, I mean I don’t like fenugreek, and I don’t think I’ve ever had kangaroo…)

A:

• Asparagus
• Agar
• Arame
• Artichoke
• Alfalfa Sprouts
• Avocado
• Apple
• Apricot
• Almonds
• Allspice
• Anise
• Ajowan

B:

• Boar
• Bison
• Brazil Nut
• Been Sprouts
• Beetroot Greens
• Broccoli
• Brocolini
• Brussel Sprouts
• Bok Choy
• Berries
• Banana
• Bell Pepper
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• Black Currants
• Basil
• Bay Leaf

C:

• Camel
• Cow
• Chicken
• Crocodile
• Calamari
• Caviar
• Clams
• Crab
• Coconut
• Coconut Oil
• Cod Liver Oil
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Carrot
• Celery
• Collard Greens

• Cos Lettuce
• Cherries
• Cucumber
• Cranberry
• Cardamon
• Cayenne Pepper
• Celery Seed
• Chamomille
• Chili
• Chives
• Cilantro
• Cloves
• Cumin
• Curry Leaves
• Cocoa

D:

• Duck
• Dates
• Dandelion
• Dill
• Dulse

E:

• Eel
• Eggplant
• Eggs

F:

• Fowl
• Flounder
• Fish Oil
• Flax Oil
• Fennel
• Fig
• Fenugreek

G:

• Goat
• Guinea Fowl
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Grapefruit

• Grapes
• Guava
• Ginger
• Ginko
• Ginseng
• Green Tea

H:

• Hare
• Hazelnuts
• Herring
• Hijiki
• Honey
• Honeydew
• Horseradish

I:

• Any suggestions?

J:

• C’mon, any paleo foods that start with J?

K:

• Kangaroo
• Kale
• Kelp
• Kombu
• Kiwi Fruit
• Kumquat

L:

• Lamb
• Lobster
• Leek
• Lettuce
• Lemon
• Lime
• Loganberry
• Lychee
• Lavender
• Licorice

M:

• Mackerel
• Mussels
• Macadamia Nuts
• Mushrooms
• Mango
• Melons
• Marjoram
• Mint
• Mustard Seed
• Myrtle

N:

• Nectarine
• Nashi Pear
• Nori

O:

• Ostrich
• Octopus
• Oysters
• Olives
• Olive Oil
• Onion
• Okra
• Orange
• Oregano

P:

• Pork
• Poultry
• Pheasant
• Prawns
• Pecans
• Pinenuts
• Pistachios
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Pepper
• Pumpkin
• Papaya
• Peach
• Persimmon
• Pineapple
• Plum
• Pomegranate
• Passionfruit

• Paprika
• Parsley
• Peppermint
• Poppyseeds
• Pomegranate seeds

Q:

• Quail

R:

• Rabbit
• Radish
• Red Cabbage
• Raspberries
• Phubarb
• Rosemary

S:

• Salmon
• Sardines
• Scallops
• Shellfish
• Shrimp
• Snapper
• Swordfish
• Sesame Seeds
• Sunflower seeds
• Scallions
• Shallots
• Squash
• Spinach
• Sprouts
• Strawberry
• Star Fruit
• Sea Palm
• Safflower
• Saffron
• Sage
• Sea Salt
• Spearmint

T:

• Turkey
• Trout
• Tuna
• Tahini
• Tomato
• Tangerine
• Tarragon
• Thyme
• Tumeric

U:

• Any “caveman” U foods out there?

V:

• Veal
• Venison
• Vanilla

W:

• Walnuts
• Wakame
• White Fish
• Watermelon
• Watercress
• Wasabi

X:

• This is a hard one…

Y:

• Yellow Squash

Z:

• Zucchini

That’s a looooong list of foods, and you probably aren’t familiar with all of them (I’m an expert and I had to google some of the ones off of my list!)

Which ones are you going to try next?  And can anyone fill in those few missing alphabet categories for me?  Please!

Leave a message below!

(And if you’re not already a member of my Bootcamp In Carson City leave me a comment why not!)

You and I both know that a great body doesn’t happen overnight:

Here’s the thing: a lot of people email me about my bootcamp and tell me they have something like a wedding or high school reunion in 10 days and want to lose 3 dress sizes by next Thursday.

Ummmm….

I have a special plan I use for getting people “photoshoot ready”, but it doesn’t work if you have 30 extra pounds of fat hanging off of your sides: 

That being said, there ARE some things you can do to look better and leaner in just a few days.  This is just a quick list to get you started, if you want SIGNIFICANT and LASTING change, give my morning bootcamp a try (I’ll even give you a week free, just to try it out!)

Ok, here are 21 Ways To Look And Feel Better!

1. Double the amount of water you drink.  This will heep you from being bloated. (You WILL have to pee more often though)
2. Sleep at least 8 hours a night.
3. Exercise first thing in the morning and you’ll have a glow that lasts all day.
4. Strengthen your core muscles with exercises like planks and you’ll stand straighter.  Having good posture can take ten pounds off your waist and ten years off your looks.
5. Cut out processed carbohydrates.  I give clients a two week challenge with no alcohol and no pre-packed carbs (such as bread) and they often lose 7 pounds in the first week!
6. Eat every 2 to 3 hours.  This will raise your metabolism and give you tons of energy.
7. Eat enough protein.  This means at least 30% of your daily calories come from protein.
8. Stick to a proven exercise plan, don’t jump from system to system.  You’ll make faster progress by following a good program for 6 months than you will switching to something new every week.
9. Don’t “Start Over On Monday.”  If you screw up your eating plan on Friday night, don’t declare the weekend a bust.  You’ll just dig a deeper hole to work out of.  Admit you made a mistake and get right back on track.  (More about this idea in a few days…)
10. Drink a post-workout shake that has the right mix of fast-acting carbs and protein.  Your muscles will recover faster and you’ll burn more fat.  Win-win.
11. Eat enough fat.  Healthy fats will help your hair and skin look soooo much better.  Plus they fuel your body and taste great!

That’s it! 11 easy ways to look better almost instantly!

Leave a comment below with YOUR favorite “look better” tip!

When was the last time that you accomplished something huge?

That’s an easy question for Helen Phillips.

Last month Helen wowed the world with her dramatic transformation on the NBC show The Biggest Loser. At 48 years of age she is the oldest contestant to win the weight loss competition, shedding 140 pounds and 54.7% of her body weight.

I’d call losing more than half of your body weight a huge accomplishment – wouldn’t you?

The crazy part is that Helen was clearly the underdog. She was simply too old and too fat to win. At least that was what the other contestants thought.

And that’s what Helen thought too.

“I never believed in myself in the beginning,” she admits. However when a doctor told her that she was living in the body of a 60 year old woman, Helen got serious.

“I’m tired of doubting myself,” she decided and something inside of her head clicked into place. “The minute I started doing that, things changed for me.”

And, oh, how she changed.

Helen buckled down and made losing weight her only focus. Her hard work paid off, giving her the prized title of the Biggest Loser.

She accomplished something huge and now her life is vastly improved. “I feel so good! I feel like I can do anything,” she told reporters with a huge smile.

Helen also had a message for you. “If I can do it, you can do it.”

I have to agree with her.

If a 48 year old, 257 pound woman can transform her body from a size 22 to a size 2, then anyone really can do it. Think for a moment of that huge accomplishment that you haven’t made. Maybe it’s a weight loss goal that you’ve had for years. Maybe it’s something completely unrelated to your weight.

What’s holding you back?

Are you afraid you’ll fail?

The fear of failure is a powerful thing. No one likes to fail, and repeat failure is even worse. So what can you do to conquer it?

• Realize that failure isn’t the worst outcome. Not trying is.
• You only fail when you decide to give up. Get up and try again!

Are you afraid you’ll succeed?

You may not realize it, but most people fear success. Success means change and change can be scary. It is important that you embrace the idea of success and ditch any negative self talk.

• Close your eyes and picture yourself accomplishing your goal. What will that accomplishment do for your life? List the benefits you’ll enjoy.
• Spend a few minutes each day visualizing yourself accomplishing your goal. How great does it feel? Savor those victorious emotions and use them to drive your motivation.

Helen didn’t believe in herself, until one day she decided that she was done doubting.

Are you done doubting?

When you’re ready to transform your body, like Helen did, I’m here to help. Is NOW a good time? Call or email, and let’s get started on a program that will really improve your life.

It’s your turn to accomplish something huge.

It happens to everyone. That moment when you realize that it’s time to do something about your weight.

It may happen when you’re looking in the mirror or standing on the scale.

Your first thought is to go on a ‘diet’ but as quickly as that enters your mind the ghosts of a hundred diets past return…along with all the frustration.

Then you wonder, why bother?

The weight will come back, as it always has. Then you’ll be back in front of the mirror as discouraged as ever.

The answer is not to go on another diet.

The answer is to change your lifestyle.

You’ve heard this before, and it makes sense, right? So why haven’t you done it?

Your Lifestyle Obstacles. Most people resist changing their lifestyle for two reasons.

1. Change is scary. Whether you realize it or not, your life is in a constant state of change. Though you cling to the familiar, it’s a futile struggle. Change always wins.

The most consistent thing in life is change. Since you’ll never escape it, you might as well channel it. It’s time to make the change in your life purposeful and positive.

2. Lifestyle misconception. How many times have you heard the term ‘healthy lifestyle’ only to picture a health nut with celery sticks in one hand and tofu in the other? The truth is that most people think that changing their lifestyle will be an extreme and unpleasant experience – and that’s not true.

Improving your lifestyle does not mean swearing off chocolate or living in the gym. You don’t have to eat wheat germ for lunch and you can still enjoy a nice plate of pasta. The key is moderation.

Making the Change. It’s time to lose your ‘all or nothing’ mentality. Embrace simple, small changes that will add up to big improvements in your lifestyle. These are your main venues for change:

• What You Eat. Let’s face it, most of the foods you eat aren’t the healthiest. Some are downright terrible (the burger and fries you had last week). While others are simply excessive (the snacks you eat while watching TV).The solution to cleaning up your daily diet is NOT to go back on a ‘diet’. In fact, I never want you to go on a ‘diet’ again. (Yes, you heard me right!) Instead I want you to make permanent healthy changes to your eating habits.

  Here are some practical examples:

  • Choose salad over chips or fries
  • Don’t add butter to your food
  • Eat fresh produce with every meal
  • Purchase fat free dairy productsM
  • Limit desserts to one or two per week
  • Cut out mindless snacking
  • Drink water, not soda

  I don’t expect you to eat a perfect diet every day of the week – that’d be ludicrous. You should, however, make MORE healthy choices every day than unhealthy ones.

• What You Do. Exercise is a huge component to a healthy lifestyle, and quite frankly you’re not getting enough of it. How often does an entire week go by without you ever lacing up your tennis shoes? Don’t disregard the importance and power of a good workout.Your new healthy lifestyle means exercising on most days of the week. This may seem tough, but I have the perfect solution – my training programs were created for busy people just like you who only have so much time to dedicate to exercise.

  I understand how hard it is to find the motivation to stay consistent and to push yourself. Make exercise a no-brainer – contact me to get started on a lifestyle enhancing program today.

  Here are simple ways to move more:

  • Watch less TV
  • Stretch stiff muscles every day
  • Play at the park with the kids
  • Go for a jog
  • Do some pushups every morning

  While none of the above are meant as substitutes for a solid exercise routine, they are great ways to become more active and to improve your lifestyle.

Your lifestyle is the balance of all the choices that you make regarding your body. Swing the balance in your favor – make a majority of your choices health conscious.

So the next time you’re in front of the mirror you won’t worry about your weight.

You’ll relish it.

Your doctor feels like a broken record.

That’s right – he’s sick and tired of telling you how important exercise is to your health because YOU DON’T LISTEN.

He’s sick of explaining how so many of your health problems will improve or even disappear as the result of a consistent exercise program.

He’s tired of tallying your controllable risk factors which include physical inactivity and obesity.

So why does he continue to give you the same lecture?

Because he’s seen exercise change lives.

He’s even seen exercise save lives.

A Doctor’s Perspective

Dr. David Shilling MD has been a family doctor for over 30 years. In that time he’s given a fair number of patients the exercise lecture…with good cause.
He’s seen firsthand the healing power of exercise.

Exactly what kind of healing? Dr. Shilling shared the top 5 benefits that he’s seen patients experience as a result of exercise…

1. Feel Great: The first thing that patients tell Dr. Shilling after starting an exercise program is how much better they feel. “People don’t realize how bad they feel. They get used to feeling bad. Then when they start exercising they feel so much better.”

Your energy levels boost and you feel great.

2. Pain Be Gone: Next patients notice a reduction in aches and pains. Chronic muscle and joint pain that they’ve lived with for years begins to fade. For some, joint replacement surgery is postponed. For others, arthritis pain is reduced.

Your muscles and joints feel better than ever.

3. Goodbye Coronary Heart Disease: While patients can’t feel this healing benefit of exercise, it is the one that saves lives. Exercise removes two of the major risk factors that lead to heart disease: 1) physical inactivity and 2) obesity. Exercise also increases your good cholesterol (HDL) and lowers your blood pressure.

Your risk of heart attack or stroke is reduced.

4. Goodbye Type 2 Diabetes: Patients with type 2 diabetes gain substantial benefits from exercise. Exercise improves the body’s use of insulin, and the related weight loss improves insulin sensitivity. Of course patients with type 2 diabetes need to get guidelines from their doctor before starting an exercise program.

Your blood sugar levels are better controlled.

5. Goodbye Sleep Apnea: Patients with sleep apnea are often caught in a destructive cycle. Their weight promotes occurrences of apnea then inadequate sleep promotes weight gain. Dr. Shilling has seen exercise break this cycle.

Your sleep becomes restful and weight loss becomes easier.

With all of these benefits it’s hard to see why anyone would avoid exercise. What’s your excuse?

• I know you’re tired…exercise gives you energy
• I know you’re in pain…exercise alleviates your muscle and joint pain
• I know you’d rather stay in bed…exercise makes your sleep more restful
• I know you’re pressed for time…exercise improves your efficiency and extends your life
• I know you don’t know where to start…that’s where I come in

Send me an email or call me and we’ll schedule a session where I can show you the fastest and safest way to reap all of the benefits of exercise.

Then the next time you see your doctor he won’t give you a lecture.

He’ll congratulate you.

Maybe even give you a high five…

The correct answer to the following question will shock you.

Would you survive longer on a diet of just water OR on a diet of water and refined sugar?

The answer: You would survive longer on just water.

Sound impossible? Just ask the five sailors who were ship wrecked in 1793.

The ship was filled with sugar, thus giving the marooned five a diet of sugar and water. When they were finally picked up, nine days later, they were in a wasted condition due to starvation.

The story of the five sailors intrigued French physiologist Francois Magendie to conduct a series of experiments in which he fed dogs a diet of sugar. All of the dogs died.

Magendie proved that as a steady diet, refined sugar is worse than nothing.

How can sugar be worse than nothing? Plainly put, refined sugar is an anti-nutrient.

It starts out as sugar cane, and then goes through an extensive refining process that destroys all of the enzymes, fiber, vitamins and minerals. What you’re left with are empty, naked calories.

The problem is that your body needs the enzymes, fiber, vitamins and minerals that were taken out in the refining process in order to metabolize sugar and use it as energy. So it takes those nutrients from your own body.

So while you are enjoying that chocolate bar, sugar is draining vital nutrients from your body. Like a sweet parasite.

And it doesn’t end there…

• Sugar creates false hunger (as a result of the insulin rush and then ensuing plummet in your blood sugar levels), which makes you overeat. This means a constant struggle with your weight in which you never seem to achieve your ideal size.
• Sugar promotes aging (due to the advanced glycation end products, or AGEs, that occur when insulin levels are consistently elevated as a result of eating too much sugar). Sugar has even been dubbed the negative fountain of youth.
• Sugar weakens your bones – making you vulnerable for osteoporosis, and weakens your teeth – making you vulnerable for cavities (both due to the calcium being pulled from your bones and teeth in order for your body to process sugar).
• Sugar in excess is stored as fat (after your liver has no more room to store it, sugar is converted to fat and deposited on your belly, thighs, hips and the backs of your arms).
• Sugar can impair brain functioning (as a result of depleted B-vitamin production).

If you’re still not convinced of the danger of sugar here are more ailments linked to its overconsumption: varicose veins, constipation, hormonal imbalances, ADD and ADHD, increased emotional instability, depressed immune system, increased risk of cancer and degenerative diseases.

The average modern person consumes 46 teaspoons of sugar every day. That comes out to roughly 175 pounds of sugar each year.

And it’s no wonder, since sugar industry is big business. They sneak sugar into any product that they can.

Go through the foods in your home and you’ll see that sugar has been added to everything from ketchup and spaghetti sauce to crackers, oatmeal, peanut butter and even ‘healthy’ items like weight loss bars.

Where does this leave you?

You are in a unique position. Your personal judgment determines the foods that you eat and the foods that you avoid. It is my hope that you approach sugar with new eyes.

While all other foods offer you caloric energy PLUS some nutritional benefit, sugar doesn’t. Sugar is simply caloric energy with a sweet habit forming taste, and a hoard of health risks.

Use your judgment wisely and limit your sugar consumption – you’ll love the benefits of low sugar living.

And while you’re at it contact me to start a training program that will turbo-charge your results.

(Oh and if you’re ever in a ship wreck with only sugar and water at your disposal – just drink the water!)

I’m writing a post about the evils of soy and don’t want to clutter it up with a bunch of study references.  So if you want to know more, check out www.pubmed.com and take a look at these studies!

(I’m using several of these in my next nutrition seminar, so stay tuned!)

Breinholt V, et al. “Estrogenic activity of flavonoids in mice. The importance of estrogen receptor distribution, metabolism and bioavailability.” Food Chem Toxicol 2000 Jul;38(7):555-64

Casanova M, et al. “Developmental effects of dietary phytoestrogens in Sprague-Dawley rats and interactions of genistein and daidzein with rat estrogen receptors alpha and beta in vitro.” Toxicol Sci 1999 Oct;51(2):236-44

Stahl S, et al. “Phytoestrogens act as estrogen agonists in an estrogen-responsive pituitary cell line.” Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 1998 Sep;152(1):41-8

Zhong, et al. “Effects of dietary supplement of soy protein isolate and low fat diet on prostate cancer.” FASEB J 2000;14(4):a531.11

Nagata C, et al. “Inverse association of soy product intake with serum androgen and estrogen concentrations in Japanese men.” Nutr Cancer 2000;36(1):14-8.

Habito RC, et al. “Effects of replacing meat with soyabean in the diet on sex hormone concentrations in healthy adult males.” Br J Nutr 2000 Oct;84(4):557-63

Strauss L, et al. “Genistein exerts estrogen-like effects in male mouse reproductive tract.” Mol Cell Endocrinol 1998 Sep 25;144(1-2):83-93

Santell RC, et al. “Dietary genistein exerts estrogenic effects upon the uterus, mammary gland and the hypothalamic/pituitary axis in rats.” J Nutr 1997 Feb;127(2):263-9

Harrison RM, et al. “Effect of genistein on steroid hormone production in the pregnant rhesus monkey.” Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1999 Oct;222(1):78-84

Zand RS, et al. “Steroid hormone activity of flavonoids and related compounds.” Breast Cancer Res Treat 2000 Jul;62(1):35-49

Nagel SC, et al. “The effective free fraction of estradiol and xenoestrogens in human serum measured by whole cell uptake assays: physiology of delivery modifies estrogenic activity.” Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1998 Mar;217(3):300-9

Aukema HM, Housini I. “Dietary soy protein effects on disease and IGF-1 in male and female Han:SPDR-cy rats.” Kidney Int 2001 Jan;59(1):52-61

Klein M, et al. “Energy metabolism and thyroid hormone levels of growing rats in response to different dietary proteins?soy or casein.” Arch Tierernahr 2000;53(2):99-125.

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