Ori Hofmekler - Unlock Your Muscle Gene: Trigger the Biological Mechanisms That Transform Your Body and Extend Your Life

Other Books by Ori Hofmekler

The Warrior Diet

The Anti-Estrogenic Diet

Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat

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Unlock Your Muscle Gene: Trigger the Biological Mechanisms That Transform Your Body and Extend Your Life is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit educational corporation whose goals are to develop an educational and cross-cultural perspective linking various scientific, social, and artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of arts, sciences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the relationship of mind, body, and nature.

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MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: The following information is intended for general information purposes only. Individuals should always see their health care provider before administering any suggestions made in this book. Any application of the material set forth in the following pages is at the readers discretion and is his or her sole responsibility.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hofmekler, Ori, 1952
Unlock your muscle gene : trigger the biological mechanisms that transform your body and extend your life / Ori Hofmekler; foreword by Joseph Mercola.
p. cm.
Summary: Written in the authors trademark paradigm breaking style, Unlock Your Muscle Gene succinctly describes how we can activate the innate mechanisms that help us build muscle, become leaner, stronger, and healthier, and live longerProvided by publisher.
eISBN: 978-1-58394-339-7
1. Physical fitness. 2. MusclesPhysiology. 3. Nutrition. I. Title.
RA781.H619 2011
613.7dc23

2011012765

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We have an epidemic of chronic degenerative disease in the United States:

• Two out of three people are overweight.
• One in three have diabetes or prediabetes.
• One in two will come down with cancer in their lifetime.
• One in three will experience diminished brain power as they age.

These are tragic statistics, and they are largely related to lifestyle choices that have worsened dramatically as a result of corporate interests that use media to effectively persuade and convince us to choose cheap, nutritionally bankrupt foods that accelerate our path to the above diseases.

The truth is that it simply doesnt have to be that way. The foods you eat have substantial impact on your fitness and weight, and if you are armed with the truth about the way your body works and how food and exercise can positively influence your health, you can eliminate virtually all disease.

The challenge is that these large corporations have enormous resources to invest in marketing strategies that impair your ability to make wise choices. In addition, healthier options are typically not as convenient as processed foods that have been altered with chemicals to provide tasty flavors.

Besides food and nutrition, exercise plays a considerable role in our overall health and fitness.

I have been passionate about exercise for many years and first started exercising in 1968 by running long distances. I continued running for more than forty years, until I realized that it wasnt the best exercise for staying healthy. While running is certainly better than nothing, newer research clearly indicates that running can cause long-term heart damage.

Recent studies show that other exercises, such as high-intensity training and others that Ori Hofmekler promotes in this book, are far superior. Unfortunately, I wasted four decades of my life doing the wrong types of exercise.

The good news for you is that you dont have to make the same mistake made by over 90 percent of those who exercise. Simple cardio is something you want to avoid in exchange for far healthier forms of training, ones advocated by Ori.

Amazing results can occur when you combine the powerful tools of nutrition and exercise to optimize your health. You can induce shocking improvements and changes in your body. The challenge required to achieve this magic, however, is more complex than initially thought. It is not as simple as eating healthy foods and working out.

That is where Ori comes in, providing instructions to help you understand not only the details of the right types of exercise and food, but also the importance of sequencing to make it all work well together.

Like in so many areas of life, you can have the right ingredients, but if you put them in the wrong order, the end result will not be what you are looking or hoping for. Timing truly is far more crucial than most people realize.

Yes, keeping your bones healthy and strong is important, but what many people fail to appreciate is the emerging epidemic of sarcopenia, or low muscle mass, that predisposes one to injury and falls and that increases the risk for fracture.

Ori does a magnificent job of reviewing the new scientific research in this area and condensing it for you in this reader-friendly, easy-to-understand book. The information provided here will give you the practical details you need to maximally leverage your exercise and diet in order to improve your health and longevity and to gain muscle mass that is crucial for you to maintain as you age. It is not any fun to merely survive as you grow older; you have to age gracefully and retain as much function, movement, and strength as you possibly can.

Oris program will allow you to do just that. Unlock Your Muscle Gene breaks new ground in defining the origins of human diet and training, digging into evolutionary biology and anthropology science to identify the authentic criteria upon which humans are destined to eat and exercise.

Ori has refined the concept of manipulating hunger and satiety peptides to boost your metabolism and thyroid while optimizing hormones like testosterone. He does this by helping you understand how you can shift from hunger-promoting foods to satiety foods. This helps train your body to endure hunger as a natural means for weight management and a powerful anti-aging strategy that will help trigger stem-cell activation, reduce telomere shortening, and enhance multiple biochemical pathways that will help decrease the rate at which you age.

Ori played a major role in helping me understand the details of how to accomplish all of this, and for many of you, the information you learn in this book will directly translate into getting leaner and stronger than you have ever been in your life.

Joseph Mercola, DO, founder of Mercola.com

Our common approach to fitness has been failing miserably. Most people attempt to get less fat or less unfit rather than lean and fit. Most aim at getting less unhealthy rather than healthy. Perhaps you too have become accustomed to accept failure as the norm. Our society is now getting fatter and sicker than ever in spite of the ever-growing number of dieters and gym members among us. Something is very wrong with our fitness concepts, and most of us arent even aware of that.