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Reducing Fat for Guys over 40: Important Hormones

These hormones are important to burning fat, especially belly visceral fat

  • cortisol: stress hormone, fight or flight response, should peak in morning, gradually reduce in evening, melatonin increases to aid sleep, decrease.
    -Long and slow cardio workouts boosts cortisol,leads to muscle loss, so avoid, increases cortisol levels, increases appetite
    -lack of sleep: increases cortisol
    -low carb diets increase cortisol

  • estrogen: female hormone, suppresses T, decrease
  • insulin: keep insulin levels low, reduce carbs and sugars. intermittent fast resets insulin levels
  • testostrone: burns fat, give us energy, builds muscle, boost
    -you need cholesterol, which turns into T; low fat diets shrink T
    -resistance training: short metabolic workouts, burns energy after
    -T is created at night, so need good night’s sleep

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Toronto Police Vulnerable Sector Screening Application: Males will fail

RCMP vulnerabile sector screening application for males will almost always result in requiring to submit fingerprints to the RCMP.

Recently for a volunteer position I was asked to provide a Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) application, or Vulnerable Sector Police Reference Checks (VSPRC), done by the Toronto Police. A long 8 weeks later a letter arrived stating that the RCMP requires my fingerprints due to a match of my gender and date of birth to the RCMP pardoned sex offenders registry.

2017 Pink Crabapple Tree in Bloom

Pink crabapple tree in bloom, 2017, Toronto, Canada. Photo by Don Tai

Pink crabapple tree in bloom, 2017, Toronto, Canada. Photo by Don Tai

Our male crabapple tree blooms almost every year. It is a somewhat late bloomer, but reliable. The male tree does not produce apples, so the mess is much less. The blooms only last 4 days or so, maybe a week at the most, after which our whole back yard becomes a lake of pink leaves.

The reflection from the tree casts our rear rooms into a lovely shade of pink.

Pink crabapple tree in bloom, macro, 2017, Toronto, Canada. Photo 2 by Don Tai

Pink crabapple tree in bloom, macro, 2017, Toronto, Canada. Photo 2 by Don Tai