THAT’S the unifying stimulus.

It’s is well documented that lack of sunlight not only puts you to sleep — but it can even trigger depression.

Having white skin helps stave this off — but not entirely.

The critical light frequencies that regulate mode and appetite are not produced by fluorescent rays, nor LEDs.

Only the scorned incandescent bulb produces the spectra similar to the Sun: blackbody radiation.

This impact is hormonal. The lack of the sun’s rays is a mammal’s universal queue to STORE FAT: winter is dead ahead.

Now you know.

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The modern American woman is much more likely to be house bound/ office bound/ under the lights than today’s man.

Even an hour of good sunlight, per day, is enough to re-jigger the hormones.

It’s notable that software engineers, prone to the late hours, are also at risk of ballooning up. PBS had a whiz who’d reached two-stool status — and he was not even thirty-years old!

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Of course, all modern laboratories are going to be illuminated via LED or Fluorescent lamps. The CFL, alone, must be adding tons per hour to the national waistline.

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The above is also why tanning beds took off. They used lamps that made every attempt to replicate the Sun — on the hurry up.

Unfortunately, they’re way too heavy with the UV; and must age the user mercilessly.

Creatine is ATP, adenosine triphospate, which enables our muscles’ contraction. We produce less as we age, which is part of the cause of sarcopenia. Boosting the ATP and adding CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) has been shown, in randomized placebo-controlled trials of older subjects, to increase muscle strength by 15%. That’s in a group of people who were working out for 6 months, compared to another group in the same age cohort on the same training regimen. All benefited from the exercise, but the creatine + CLA group got an afterburner kick that was worth another 15%!

The guy at GNC said women won’t use it because it can make you bloat. But it’s been 2 weeks, and no bloating: also, the water weight it does make you retain is in your Muscles, not in the Fat cells. By my third workout, I was keeping up with the kids!

Mechanism: ATP makes the muscle fibers “fire,” so you are, so to speak, firing on more cylinders, and the gains are genuine, not transient.

Check it out. 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi69utdvDcA

Still gives me goosebumps when those kettledrums start to pound!