In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

1. How Birth Control can reduce testosterone by 70%
2. Birth controls affects on your physique
3. How to pick the right birth control
4. What are drug induced nutrient depletions 
5. How to best handle menopause and andropause
6. What happens when you do not have a cycle for 5+ years
7. What is wrong with TRT and HRT
8. How heavy metal and toxicity affect your hormones

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Mike Matthews is a certified personal trainer and bestselling author of Bigger Leaner Stronger, Thinner Leaner Stronger, and Muscle for Life, as well as the founder of the #1 brand of all-natural sports supplements, Legion.

His simple and science-based approach to building muscle, losing fat, and getting healthy has helped tens of thousands of people build their best body ever, and his work has been featured in many popular outlets including Esquire, Men’s Health, Elle, Women’s Health, Muscle & Strength, and more, as well as on FOX and ABC.

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In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged we cover:

• A framework for understanding mental health and physiology

• The relationship between the mind and the body

• How physiology follows psychology

• How to turn your thoughts into character traits

• How come prescriptions and medications can make mental health worse

• How sleep is the gateway to improving mental health

• Blood sugar management and how it affects mood

• Why broad solutions to improve mental health will not work

• Coaching the person before you coach their mental health issues

• Supplementation that positively affect mental health

• The process of creating and excreting dopamine and serotonin
• The impacts of B6 and Magnesium for mental health

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Kirk Parsley served as an Undersea Medical Officer at Naval Special Warfare Group One from June 2009 to January 2013. While there, he led the development and supervised the group’s first Sports Medicine Rehabilitation center. He is a former SEAL, and received his Medical Degree from Bethesda, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) in 2004.

He interned in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Balboa Naval Hospital San Diego in 2005 and subsequently completed a Navy residency in Hyperbarics and Diving Medicine in 2006.

Dr. Parsley has been a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine since 2006 and served as Naval Special Warfare’s expert on Sleep Medicine. In addition he is certified in hormonal modulation (Age-Management Medicine).

After leaving the Navy he went into concierge medicine and consulting. He continues to consult for multiple corporations, and professional athletes/teams. Doctor Parsley lectures worldwide on sleep, wellness, and hormonal optimization and is currently completing a book on sleep and health optimization.

His philosophy for wellness is simple; in order to optimize our health and get the most out of our bodies and minds, we must live more closely to the way we evolved as a species. He believes that many diseases and disorders that we accept as “inevitable” in modern society are unnecessary complications of poor sleeping habits, living in a toxic environment, eating foods we were not designed to digest, and allowing stress to overwhelm us. His passion is to help his patients and clients achieve the highest quality of life possible, and realize their health, performance, and longevity goals.

Dr. Parsley spends as much of his spare time as possible with his wife Cindy, and his three beautiful children (Hayden, Cole, and Harper). He has been a competitive athlete his entire life, and enjoys nearly all outdoor activities and sports.

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In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged:

1. Why adding water can help eliminate constipation
2. Why “more fiber” may not be the answer to better bowels.
3. Which magnesium supplement is optimal for reducing constipation.
4. Why you need to buy a squatty potty for your best pooping position.
5. How exercise improves motility.
6. Why coffee and caffeine are important to morning movement
7. The best natural stool bulkers
8. Stool Softeners that you can get through your nutrition
9. What are the best stool lubricants
10. What are Osmotic Laxatives and how to add them to your nutrition
11. Saline Laxatives for improved bowel function

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Thomas P Seager is an associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University.

Seager leads research teams working at the boundaries of engineering and social science to understand innovation for resilient infrastructure systems, including the life-cycle environmental consequences of emerging energy technologies, novel approaches to teamwork and communication in socio-technical integrative settings, and engineering ethics education.

Current research sponsors include the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, and several industry partners. Seager is the faculty director of the Resource Innovation Solutions Network (RISN), a partnership of between ASU, City of Phoenix and other local municipalities for fostering circular, closed-loop economies.

RISN operates a vertical incubator to nurture entrepreneurs that will accelerate the transition to a Circular Economy. Additionally, Seager serves as chairman and CEO of eXperiential Sustainability Ethics Training (XSETGames, LLC), which creates digital simulations for examining economic and ethical dimensions of wicked problems including pharmaceutical pricing, technological innovation, intergenerational equity and the Tragedy of the Commons. 

These simulations have been used by corporations, government agencies, and higher education clients, including dozens of Universities on three different continents.

Lastly, Seager founded the non-profit Sustainability Conoscente Network as a mechanism for sharing knowledge related to systems approaches to sustainable technologies. The Conoscente holds the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology in May of every year.

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In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged:

1. The Thyroid’s impact on weight gain
2. What is the function of the thyroid
3. What causes thyroid dysfunction
4. The relationship between hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and thyroid
5. Thyroids role in autoimmune diseases like Hashimoto’s and Grave’s disease
6. How gut health affects the thyroid
7. How Vitamin A regulates the thyroid
8. Parathyroid and thyroid connection
9. How birth control can affect thyroid function
10. Thyroid’s role in impacting brain chemistry
11. The thyroid’s role in your menstrual cycle

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Dr. Donald Layman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition.

Dr. Layman served on the faculty at the University of Illinois from 1977 – 2012. Dr. Layman has been a leader in research about protein, nutrition for athletic performance, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular health. Dr. Layman has over 120 peer-reviewed publications.

He has received numerous awards for his research from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) including election as an ASN Fellow.

Dr. Layman served as Associate Editor of The Journal of Nutrition and the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior and on the editorial boards of Nutrition & Metabolism and Nutrition Research and Practice.

Dr. Layman has an extensive consulting background including work with NASA, the Shriners Children’s Hospital, the US Air Force plus numerous food companies and organizations including Kraft Foods, Nestlé, Danone, Agropur, the American Egg Board, and the National Dairy Council. He is also active on social media and widely sought as a keynote speaker. Dr. Layman earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry and biochemistry at Illinois State University and his doctorate in human nutrition and biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.

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In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged you will learn:

1. The internal mechanisms that create your sex drive.
2. How psychological, hormonal, and functional dysfunction impacts sex drive.
3. The biochemistry of boners
4. The nervous system’s response to sexual arousal
5. The psychology of porn addiction
6. Supplementation that can improve your sex drive
7. Impacts of chronic fatigue on sex drive
8. How estrogen and testosterone influence sex drive
9. Hormonal changes during pregnancy that heighten sex drive
10. How aging affects your libido
11. They affect of marijuana and alcohol on sex drive
12. Hair loss medication and erectile dysfunction symptoms

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Chiropractor to Congress, Supreme Court, and the White House, Parker University’s Seventh President, Active Texas Chiropractic Association Member, and proud Texan

Dr. Morgan has a long history of serving in military healthcare.

At age 17, he joined the Navy and served with a Marine Recon company as a special operations technician hospital corpsman. During that time, he qualified in parachuting, military diving, submarine insertion, jungle warfare, combat swimming, explosives, mountaineering, winter warfare and Arctic survival. Additionally, he attended anti-terrorist training at the FBI Academy. After leaving active military service and transferring to the Navy Reserves, Dr. Morgan began his educational journey to become a Doctor of Chiropractic. While at Palmer College of Chiropractic-West, he transferred to a Naval Special Warfare platoon as the unit’s primary hospital corpsman.

In 1985, Dr. Morgan received his Doctorate in Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic–West and soon after, married fellow Palmer graduate, Clare Pelkey. They practiced for thirteen years in California. In 1998, Dr. Morgan was chosen to establish the first chiropractic clinic at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, which later became Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. In 2015, Walter Reed recognized Dr. Morgan with its highest honor for clinical excellence, the Master Clinician’s Award. During the last 18 years at the military’s most prestigious medical centers, he practiced in an integrative setting, providing chiropractic care to the injured troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the year 2000, Dr. Morgan was appointed as the Chiropractor to Congress at the U.S. Capitol. At the Office of the Attending Physician to Congress, doctors of many specialties care for members of Congress and the Supreme Court. In 2007, Dr. Morgan began serving as the White House Chiropractor. He was appointed chiropractor for the United States Naval Academy football team in 2009 (which never lost to Army while under his care).

In 2011, Dr. Morgan was appointed to the United States Navy Musculoskeletal Continuum of Care Advisory Board, an entity created to address the prevalent injuries sustained by U.S. Armed Forces Personnel during active-duty operations. Dr. Morgan also served on the Spine Subcommittee, which helps develop care algorithms for treating spinal conditions and determining the future of musculoskeletal management in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Upon arriving in Texas, he became an active member and supporter of the Texas Chiropractic Association (TCA). Almost immediately, he organized a leadership summit to establish a legislative agenda strategy for chiropractors in Texas. Texas Chiropractors had not won a significant legislative victory in two decades, but in 2017 four bills advantageous to the chiropractic profession passed. Additionally, Morgan has assisted in fundraising, membership recruitment, and awareness for the TCA. As lifetime member of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), he has also held several leadership positions in the organization and continues to serve on the Advisory Board and Ethics Committee. He is also a board member of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges.

Dr. Morgan is the recipient of many prestigious awards, namely:

• The American Chiropractic Association Chairman’s Award of Valor, 2003

• Chiropractor of the Year from the American Chiropractic Association, 2003

• Doctor of Laws, L.L.D. (honoris causa), National University of Health Sciences, 2004

• Master Clinician Award, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 2015

• The Keeler Plaque: “Chiropractor of the Year” awarded by the Texas Chiropractic Association in 2018

• TCA President’s Award, 2019-2020

• 2022 Congressional Veteran Commendation for the Twenty-Fourth Congressional District of Texas

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In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged you will learn:

1. How to determine total calories for your goals
2. Why maintenance calories are important for body composition and health
3. Why calories determine the size of your body
4. Understanding energy balance and finding your activity multiplier
5. How to properly increase and decrease your caloric intake to reach your goals
6. Macronutrient breakdown for aesthetics and performance goals
7. Why macros determine body composition
8. How to find the right amount of protein for your goals
9. Why micronutrients are so easily overlooked and what you are missing
10. How to get all your vitamins and minerals even if you hate vegetables

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