Highlights in the Podcast:
- What foods you can eat to lose fat from your arms
- Why you put weight on with age, but how it doesn’t have to be that way
- How sleep can be your savior
- What supplements can help you sleep – naturally
Hello and welcome to another episode of the TheDVCC.com podcast. I’m Mark, hello!
Stephen: And I’m Stephen.
Mark: So, Today we are going to follow one from actually a previous podcast where we were talking about fat distribution and what you can eat to try, not actually try but to reduce the fat in certain part of your body. We focus on thighs, stomach and hips the last time. Now we will discuss the types of foods and the things you can do to spot reduce and lambast me if you will. You can’t spot reduce with exercise but you can with food.
Stephen: And supplementation as well.
Mark: And supplementation as well. We are going to focus on, what should we discuss then? What body part?
Stephen: Well, we got really good response, quite few people who mentioned that they listened to the podcast and said they find it really interesting and a lot of things applied to them. Then, a couple of body parts came up, there where people take the interest to it. I think the first one we probably need to discuss is the chest.
Mark: As in the chest muscle?
Stephen: As in why you get fat around your chests, often applies more to men. Generally as you get older, I don’t even want to use the words but the words that we use to me where things like
Mark: “Man boobs”
Stephen: “Man boobs” things like that, basically where you store fats around your chest.
Mark: Right! And you know what, all I can say is that the traditionally men don’t really talk about their feelings, how they are feeling and the emotional state0en: You are not to be the first to get cry are you?
Mark: I’m a metro sexual.
Stephen: You don’t mind to get cry?
Mark: Oh! No I don’t spend a chance crying but I’m a metro sexual. Metro sexual?
Stephen: Metro sexual, that’s what you were.
Mark: I moisturize you know, once every three days, that kind of thing. I’ve been known to style my hair once in a while. But, anyway, what we are talking about?
Stephen: Chest.
Mark: Chest! Right chest! So it have effects right? You don’t want to be on the beach, you feel like as a man that you got a flabby chest or that you are not looking as good as perhaps you could and like I said chest is one of the main.
Stephen: But this actually not only for men but it does actually has effect on female as well. I know few women that say more around towards the armpit area I think they store fat around the area
Mark: Okay, so what caused it?
Stephen: Well, it’s actually caused by something called aromatization, basically aromatization of testosterone.
Mark: Men and women testosterone?
Stephen: Yup, women have testosterone as well as men.
Mark: I just want to you to know, I knew that.
Stephen: Yeah, you tried to test me. Women have testosterone as well as men. Now, they actually don’t have the same amounts but they still do require and do have testosterone. So what happens is the testosterone aromatizes and changes into
Mark: So aromatization is basically changing?
Stephen: Changing basically into estrogen and that aromatization that causes storage of fat around your chest.
Mark: So basically estrogen is a great thing especially for men, you don’t want to have too much estrogen. So how do you stop that?
Stephen: You should be saying what causes it first?
Mark: Okay, yeah, what causes it?
Stephen: Well there are actually quite a few different causes but the basic one if we were talking men would be for me is beer. Beer can really caused the aromatization of testosterone so don’t worry about just getting a beer belly from drinking a lot of beer, you actually going to find that you stored fat around your chest. And things like libido will all going to be affected when your testosterone is actually being change into estrogen, you are going to find out, not only you stored fat around your chest, things just aren’t as responsive shall we say and say they would be when it not aromatizes.
Mark: What do you mean Stephen? I don’t know what you are talking about.
Stephen: Just things are not quite the same as they used to be possibly. You know how you went through that issue a while ago. (Laugh)
Mark: Oh! I guess.
Stephen: Basically, joking aside.
Mark: Ladies of the country that is an incorrect and sluggish comment.
Stephen: One of the serious note you’ll find that your body is not as healthy, you cannot function the same way when you are turning your testosterone into estrogen and actually things like prostate cancer and hormonal cancer like that are actually shown to be that if you are aromatizes a lot of your testosterone then you’re at a higher risk of something like prostate cancer. So, beer would be one cause what would be another course then Mark?
Mark: Plastics.
Stephen: Plastics, plastics and what you mean?
Mark: Food, there’s the answer.
Stephen: Plastic, so if you’re eating lots of microwave food, most people heat Mac in plastic. Plastic leeches in to the foods and gosh we’re under attack, all our phones are going off. They leeches the food also,
Mark: Bad foods eventually.
Stephen: So, processed foods?
Mark: Process foods, yeah.
Stephen: So, high sugar and processed foods will also cause Aromatization, which is what we know now causes that fat storage around your chest. So, what could we do to avoid it? So we talked about what causes it. What can someone actually do to get rid of fat around that chest effectively?
Mark: Well, obviously you want to stop it, like the stop the, well not the symptoms. Stop the actual cost. You not eat ready meals from plastic. You wouldn’t eat processed foods.
Stephen: And the beer, don’t forget the beer.
Mark: And the beer of course, so that would be my first thing at kind of stop the actual cause of it but then to aid in reducing it, you would do what?
Stephen: A lot of retouched on the last episode when we’re talking about pretty fat and ways to store it. Any sort of food that you can eat that will help clear out estrogen from your body would be very effective so any sort of [inaudible 00:06:41.3] which are green. Green leafy vegetables will help you clear out.
Mark: So, fibres?
Stephen: So, yeah. So, fibres containing food but naturally fibres containing foods which are specifically green, green vegetables are very, very good.
Mark: So, we talked about this to reduce fat around the butt bottom and the legs. So, that’s was getting the estrogen as well this is going to help your lower body.
Stephen: Yes, this, yeah they will help both and your chest and your lower body as well.
Mark: And you know what guys, I just want to have a little thing in to there. I just said the word butt and I’ve got a dirty, dirty look from Stephen. Now, like I move in to the opinion we want. This is a conversation we just trying to give some information. It’s free which means it we can kind of, if went to swear Steve; I could swear but keep it real. This is how I speak, what’s beyond is no need for those dirty looks thank you very much. I hope you’re not offended by that word.
Stephen: Fine, what else can we do to help get rid the fat from the chest? What about Zinc?
Mark: Very Good, so, Zinc is a mineral in your body which is naturally occurring. And a lot of people are deficient in Zinc. Now, that means you’re not going to produce enough testosterone or they won’t use testosterone naturally, but it also effects the Aromatization.
Stephen: So, one of the best supplements to take when we’re looking to lose fat specifically from your chest would be Zinc that will really, really help. Another great supplement.
Mark: Zinc is a supplement right? You can buy it in your normal health store.
Stephen: You can buy; yeah you can go to your normal health food shop and get Zinc. It’s not a problem. And a thing to mention about supplements is a lot of people trying to get the cheapest that they can but really there’s something’s in life you shouldn’t scrimp on and when I was thinking when something’s going into your body and obviously you’ve only got one body and one life then you really want to make sure that you’re getting good quality and with supplements is not always a 100% true but most of the time. The more you pay, the better the product.
Mark: So, basically buy what you can afford, the best you can afford.
Stephen: Best you can afford.
Mark: If you can afford the best, don’t you know
Stephen: Don’t scrimp if you can avoid it. So, can you think of any other supplements? This is where we discover the honest market guy cause I’m the one with all the answers.
Mark: All came up with the questions. What you can buy things like D.I.M.
Stephen: D.I.M, yes the one you got there.
Mark: Which stands for diindolylmethane.
Stephen: I can’t remember.
Mark: It’s really long word. D.I.M, another supplement and it’s really good like getting rid off
Stephen: Naturally caring actually in vegetables so it’s not a man-made thing as such. It’s actually naturally occurring vegetables. Is just that when you can take it in a concentrate it into the mouth you’re able to take larger amounts, so that you can do more good for you. You actually get the best results.
Mark: That’s a tough one to buy, oh it is.
Stephen: You can get it at health food shops now as well. DR is D.I.M I can’t remember the exact what it stands for but it shortens to DIM; and that, those would be my 2 top supplement recommendation for losing the fat from your chest.
Mark: Okay, great. So, moving on we are going to talk about your triceps. So, your arms basically.
Stephen: Basically, a lot of people ladies especially conscious that they if store fats in their arms, it could not, they are not looking as sturdy as much as perhaps they want. Actually as you get older, you are more likely to have stored fats at the back of your arms or your triceps. And I know for a fact, this is for a lot of ladies… the issues or the points, the point on their bodies they love to change. So, this is not a testosterone site right?
Mark: It is!
Stephen: I mean it’s the real mother sit and you can tell how much testosterone someone is actually producing by generally how lean that position is, the back of your arms compared to other parts of your body. So men always generally have leaner back of their arms due to the fact that they naturally should produce more testosterone than in women.
Mark: But on that point, you know as they say that, British men are becoming less manly over the years. We’re not as manly as our father who is as manly as his father.
Stephen: It’s an interesting stat that, what happened is that, over the years, rather than showing everyone to have lower testosterone, it always happens is that the normal range is, let say for a testosterones for a man being decreased so that basically we are all that wimpish. But it doesn’t say that we are all really low in testosterone we just normally, we’re roughly normal but at a lower scale. So, if they measure us by standards forty years ago, we’ll be actually considered, yeah very low.
Mark: So anyway, it shows the production of your testosterones like Stephen says. The triceps area, the back of the arm of the Ladies normally has a higher fats and tissue naturally than man. And obviously as you grow older your testosterone you produce gets less.
Stephen: Decrease…
Mark: Also you’re going to think, you have more chance to do a body damage you know. If you’ve had twenty years eating your ready meals and microwaving things or whatever or eating process foods your testosterones production is going to be a lot less and therefore you will store more fats on the back of your arms
Stephen: However, it’s never too late to be able to change that.
Mark: No, but that is the reason, so you know, and when the ways of reversing this I guess basically producing or increasing the testosterone. And like we said, women, you don’t have to be afraid of that, you will not turn into Arnold Schwarzenegger unless you inject a lot of steroids like he did. Can I draft a disclaimer on that?
Stephen: Probably…
Mark: But, anyway, the food that you can eat to help you are.
Stephen: Well, I just want to keep on saying vegetables, but, green leafy vegetables are actually beneficial.
Mark: Well, actually we don’t really have to, you say, I don’t know the point of eating vegetables, however I think if you, speaking to you, the listener. What’s the one thing you probably don’t probably get enough of if you were actually honest to yourself? It would be green leafy vegetables.
Stephen: Right. And even if you think you’re having enough I’m sure you can probably have more always.
Mark: Yeah.
Stephen: And you’ll find it’s actually amazing how much a difference that makes to your body. So when we specifically saying is, if you want to lose fats from your arms, if you increase the amount of green vegetables that you have you’ll find that your arms actually decrease. Again, when we’re talking about supplements, zinc again, because we mentioned it already will have a very very positive impact on losing fat from your triceps, the back of your arms as well. Again, any undeem like we mentioned before any anti estrogen will affect your arms while helping you lose fat from there.
Mark: What I’m going to do is , we’ll get these transcribed. So, anything that we’re saying will be transcribed. What I’m saying right now will be written down and we will be able to link the supplements to places we purchase ours, the good retailers, where you would be able to buy them if you wish, Zinc and DIM and other things, now looking the best stuff because obviously we spent years and years researching for the good supplements to take. So, yeah anyway that’s all of the exciting things that this podcast will be transcribed so you can…
Stephen: Oh and I wish to mention that, we’re actually now finally been able to get into iTunes.
Mark: Oh, iTunes at last, this has taken me many nights, but it is on iTunes and you are in to subscribe to it and I will be sending you if you put your details down. There is Lucas in the background. Sorry about that, it’s just strange that it’s all natural with this kind of…
Stephen: Who would’ve thought to take the phones off when you know…?
Mark: Who would’ve thought? Anyway, it would be on iTunes and I’ll send out the link if you put your details actually to get the podcast and there’s a box I believe on the top of this site. You’ll be able to, I’ll send it to you so you can subscribe and then you’re just kind of whatever of these ones to get these info. And I think there is one final discussion I want to have, just because I’ve been speaking to a lot of people recently and I don’t think enough people realized how important sleep is to help you actually to lose weight and it’s underestimated. So, you know how the “Oh yeah did yah, I can survive, I work on four hours sleep”, it’s just great but not very good for you. It’s not great.
Stephen: It’s not great. Being realistic you’re not actually going to function properly and your body can’t function. And when your body is not functioning correctly it won’t allow you to lose fat. It’s going to have safety mechanisms built when we’re cavemen and it won’t allow you to lose fat if it’s not functioning correctly. So, going over, I think the top 3 tips just to remind you for having a great great sleep will be, you’re looking to aim for roughly between seven or an eight hours any less and you risk for a long period of time you risk a making it harder to you to lose fat and actually, any longer, for a long period of time is also studies have shown that it won’t help, and it actually make it harder to lose fats. You want to make sure that you’re curtains are always really really closed that there’s no light coming in or whatsoever. What is literally being like a bat cave? Also try not to have any light coming in, also no digital clock, also your phone or anything like that. Try not to have any of those in your room and if you have to cover them up your lamp or whatever. So, there is literally like a bat cave. Also I spoke to you literally; someone just yesterday and they are saying how they struggled to sleep. That’s funny because, see when I was in Bedford I was able to move to Keynes and I had a very similar conversation with another lady who, I wouldn’t say her name but, she drank, we’re talking about water how it’s very important to drink she said that she drinks half a litre of water in the night. I was kind of a bit confused, obviously how you do that while sleeping, but she’s up and above, up and down sorry, in and out of bed as she asleep and she drank that much during th night. You know that may seem alien to me because I hit the pillow and I wake up the next day. And that what she should be doing, that’s what we’d be working on getting her towards. I think you have a very similar conversation.
Mark: So, you shouldn’t really be drinking any water two hours before going to bed. Anyway, you should’ve got all your water down on at least the first half of the day really. Then if you find it you’re struggling to actually to get sleep and your minds racing around, it’s normally a sign that ‘you’re stress hormone is too high it should be very very low before you go to sleep and high in the morning. So, a lot of people find that, it’s inverted for them. So just for this conversation I had, it was basically the other way around. So, the stress hormones was too high at night and too low in the morning, so it was a struggle to get up in the morning and struggle to sleep, which doesn’t really make any sense , because most people think that they’ll be tired by then. So, one of the best supplement I recommended to these person I was discussing with was magnesium, so if you struggle to get to sleep and you’re going to bed say a normal, you’re roughly normal time which generally 10 o’clock for most people, and you’re actually struggling to get to sleep stay for a sort of forty five minutes or an hour before you actually get to sleep. Then I highly recommend that you try magnesium that would be my number one recommendation for supplements. Now, just before you cut me offline, it’s important to know that it’s going to take a few days for the magnesium to replenish and actually to have an impact on you. Probably you’re going to fight the first three or four days your sleeps worse until you find basically your bodies assimilated on magnesium and you are able to sleep much much better.
Stephen: You know what, what I’ll recommend Mark, I’m going to ask people make sure you comment and put your points of view if you found it helpful and below you’re going to have a comments section below each podcast. But you’re going to get some reckons and people say you’re just, you know, it actually happens all the time… that if you eat… these supplements can’t get you anything from nutrition. I disagree with them, unless you eat perfectly then you will not get enough vitamins and minerals and good nutrition from the food that you eat if you’re exercising, if you’re you know, stress in life, if you work, if you have children and these things that deplete all these minerals and cause stresses in your body that’s why you need to supplement and the basic words of supplement is, supplement nutrition, so you should always focus on nutrition first, the foods that you put in your mouth is the most important thing but then you’re going to need a little bit of help with magnesium things like that. I just want to put that in.
Mark: Right, yeah, because obviously this goes worldwide so this is going to be going out to everyone, whether they’re in Timbuktu…
Stephen: Where is Timbuktu I never know?
Mark: I think somewhere in Africa? I’m sure it’s a real place.
Stephen: Right!
Mark: Right, anyway, I think we’ve covered it hopefully a couple of bits of new useful information there. So, look forward to the next episode which will be coming next week. We’re constantly finding new inspirations and conversations with people and trying to make it as applicable to everyone as possible covering everyone’s main issues are with their health and weight loss and all the different things like that. So, bye for me!
Stephen: Before we say goodbye.
Mark: I want to say, share this on face book and tweet it, RT it, say, re-tweet, send it to your friends because like I said it’s pretty much going to help by just chatting and giving.
Stephen: Send this to your friends anywhere you are.
Mark: And in Timbuktu!
Stephen: If you have friends in Timbuktu.
Mark: Comment if you have friends in Timbuktu! Because then we can see…
Stephen: Comment if it’s actually a real place, it will be useful tonight!
Mark: Right! So, see you next time!
Stephen: See you. Bye!
