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February 17, 2016 by Michael Behar

Men’s Fitness | March 2016

Protein ThumbnailYou’re Not Eating Nearly Enough Protein. Period. Download PDF

We all know protein is the single most important building block of muscle growth. But, amazingly, science is only now discovering exactly how much protein we should be getting and—just as important—when we should be getting it.

A small plastic pouch filled with dark brown, organic matter arrived at my doorstep today. No, I didn’t immediately bolt down the stairs in hot pursuit of some teenagers. Instead, I took a closer look and found that the bag actually contained something else entirely: dead crickets. Continue reading →

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February 17, 2016 by Michael Behar

Men’s Fitness | December 2015

Killer in KitchenKiller in the Kitchen? Download PDF

Meat causes cancer, at least according to a shocking report from the World Health Organization. But there’s one big problem with that—our muscles argue otherwise. 

The founding father of modern dietary science was a German chemist named Carl von Voit who loved to dispense advice on how to build big muscles. His favorite maxim: “Flesh makes flesh.” In the mid-1800s, physician von Voit made discoveries that led to what every bodybuilder now knows: Consume animal protein, or “flesh,” and your muscles grow. To the recent World Health Organization (WHO) report villainizing red meat, von Voit would have declared bullshit. (That’s quatsch in German.) And his outrage would’ve been justified.  Continue reading →

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November 30, 2014 by Michael Behar

Men’s Fitness | December 2014

Muscle Matrix ThumbnailHarness the Power of Your Muscle Matrix Download PDF

Want huge biceps, six-pack abs, and perfect pecs? Then it’s time to rethink everything you think you know about muscle building. Because new evidence suggests that it’s not actually your muscles but your connective tissue—the muscle “matrix” that holds your muscles together—that triggers strength and size. The good news? You can exercise it, too.

Picture a medieval torture rack for Smurfs. The device, called a uniaxial tensile tester, is about the size of a shoebox. With long tweezers, a doctoral researcher at the UC Davis Functional Molecular Biology Lab plucks a freshly grown, two-week- old anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, from an incubator and clamps the ends to anchors on the tensile tester. A USB cable then hooks it to a laptop, allowing the researcher to tweak how hard and fast the tendon gets yanked, and for how long— hours, sometimes days. Continue reading →

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June 23, 2013 by Michael Behar

Men’s Fitness | July 2015

Stress ThumbnailWhen Stress Doesn’t Suck Download PDF

What you think is killing you should actually make you stronger.

“You seem tense,” my iPhone texts me, and suggests I take a brief meditation break. Is it reading my mind?

No, it’s just a message from the two-inch-long gray orb attached to the waistband of my jeans, called Spire, which monitors my respiratory rhythms and alerts me whenever it senses a period of rapid, shallow breaths. Spire was invented by Neema Moraveji, Ph.D., a computer scientist who directs Stanford University’s Calming Technology Lab, where his team has studied prototypes like Mail0, touted as “the world’s first calming e-mail client,” as well as Morphine Drip, an app for injured athletes stressed out because they can’t play. “We’re also trying to bring natural elements into sterile work environments,” says Moraveji. “This includes outfitting desks with real grass.” Continue reading →

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