Andrew Huberman· PhD
For hormone health, specifically resistance training is particularly helpful.
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For hormone health, specifically resistance training is particularly helpful.
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in women we tend to see this balancing out of estrogen and progesterone and we tend to see these more youthful levels of growth hormone and a better cortisol response
building muscle requires anabolic hormones right it requires in men testosterone it requires better insulin sensitivity it requires a balance of estrogen and progesterone it requires more youthful levels of growth hormone
resistance training kind of normalized to use a broad strokes term the estrogen and progesterone balance and women
in women we tend to see this balancing out of estrogen and progesterone and we tend to see these more youthful levels of growth hormone and a better cortisol response
we can pretty i think we can pretty safely characterize resistance training is a pro-tissue form of exercise and we could safely cardio exercise as a anti-tissue exercise okay so we know the studies show that people lose muscle pretty consistently with cardio being the form of exercise that you know their cornerstone of their routine and we know pretty reliably that resistance training builds muscle pretty consistently again if it's the cornerstone of their routine building muscle again pro tissue pro muscle building muscle requires anabolic hormones right it requires in men testosterone it requires better insulin sensitivity it requires a balance of estrogen and progesterone it requires more youthful levels of growth hormone
resistance training kind of normalized to use a broad strokes term the estrogen and progesterone balance and women
um that the resistance training like you said in your experience will not make women into overly muscled you know mustachioed people you know they're not going to turn women into men by having you lift weights it's just going to you know probably be good because it builds muscle which is important for as we talked about insulin sensitivity glucose disposal metabolism and it's going to probably do really great things for your estrogen and progesterone balance