Here is the original piece on BioSignature Modualtion:

Men’s Fitness readers are a canny bunch. You know that it’s impossible to spot reduce those love handles. Every expert you have ever read has told you that spot reduction is impossible and that fat is lost from all over the body and never from one localised place. Only a dummy who buys those “electro stimulation for lean abs” kits on the Shopping Channel would ever think otherwise.

Yet stop and think for a minute. Never automatically buy into anything a so-called expert tells you, let’s use a bit of logical reasoning. Some of you will want to drop fat from the belly, other from the love handles. And no doubt there are some of you with the dreaded man boobs – you guys have got bigger problems than ugly fat deposits, squatting to pee and needing cuddles after sex to name but two. Now if all fat is the same and you can’t selectively “burn it off”, then why on earth does it sit its lardy self at different speeds, in different quantities, on different parts of our bodies? If all fat is equal then it would be laid down in a nice even layer everywhere on everybody.

Which raises the subject of the second aspect of fat distribution that I’d like you stop and ponder awhile on. When you see Betty, sorry I mean Benny, sashaying across the football pitch with his training bra firmly holding his mighty “pecs” in place, what do you automatically think to yourself? If it’s “this poor chap has localised body fat distribution patterns consistent with female hormone issues, most notably the aromatisation of testosterone into estrogen” and /or “Benny is turning into a bird” then full marks and go to the top of the class. It shouldn’t then take a genius to figure out that if we address Benny’s hormonal issues then his man boobs should thankfully become a thing of the past. And if we can apply this theory to one area of local fat distribution, then we can also apply it to all the other areas too. And hey presto, spot reduction is therefore possible.

Nature versus Nurture – we are slaves to both

Any disproportionate distribution of body fat is caused by a combination of your own genetics and unique biochemistry interacting with your environment. In other words, nature and nurture combining. This is because different genotypes mean differing hormonal reactions and this in turn means a different distribution of body fat. The lesson here should be obvious – he who controls hormones controls body composition.

BioSignature Modulation – you can control your hormones

The credit for formulating the system that has allowed us to dissect fat distribution patterns, their hormonal causes, and the ways to then modulate the hormonal profile so as to optimise body fat composition (spot reduce in other words) goes to Charles Poliquin. This hormonal optimisation system, known as BioSignature Modulation, is, in the hands of a skilled practitioner with experience of fine tuning body composition, the single most effective way to get in shape because everything is tailored to the individual’s unique biochemistry. Modulating endogenous hormonal levels takes skill and all aspects of an individual’s physical and mental influences need to be scrutinised – gym and diet are important yes, but the chain being only as strong as its weakest link cliché holds very true also. An optimal hormonal profile is only achieved via a balanced approach that covers every permutation of the correct and highly individual-specific protocols for exercise, nutrition, supplementation with herbal and other related products, sleep, digestion, relaxation, and any other lifestyle factor that can impact upon physical, emotional, and mental energies.

Lessons to be Learned

Always question what you are told and think through the logic in everything that is “supposed” to happen to your body. Look to the real reasons as to why your body behaves differently from that of your friends, and remember that the optimal hormonal profile for both muscle building and spot reduction is within your control.

About the Author:

Glenn Parker is a personal trainer and BioSignature coach with Nick Mitchell’s London based Ultimate Performance Team (www.UPFitness.co.uk)

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The health of your gut and proper digestion are intrinsically linked to your overall health and the proper function of your immune system. It has actually been estimated that the gut is responsible for over 80% of your immune system response and a gut health check should always be the first thing checked whenever an ongoing illness or a negative health condition hits.

Over on our main London personal training website we are lucky enough to have published a new article focusing on “gut health and the immune system” by Ohio based personal trainer and BioSignature Modulation coach Anthony Castore. Anthony is as smart as he is strong and powerful in the gym (in other words, very) and meticulous in his attention to precise detail. He has studied nutrition, fat loss personal training, BioSignature programs, and of course gut health, with some of the leading brains in the business such as Charles Poliquin and Dr Eric Serrano and it shows in the protocols and explanations given in his new article.

I won’t spoil your fun by rehashing Anthony’s words here, but my take home points on enhancing gut health for the immune system are:

1) Focus on establishing and maintaining healthy bacteria via a pro biotic (I like the pro biotic product put out by Welsh nutritional supplement company Aliment) and a pre biotic (most easily found in a good fiber supplement such as Poliquin Performance’s Primal Fiber series).

2) Establish your stomach HCL acid levels and where necessary add a product such as Poliquin Performance HCL to your list of essential supplements. In fact I have a piece on this in May’s Men’s Health magazine.

Gut health is absolutely essential to the support of a healthy immune system and let’s not forget just how critical that is to both living longer and living beautifully! You can train like a Mr Universe bodybuilder and diet for fat loss until the cows come home but you will never make any real progress until you are healthy and functioning properly.

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First off, Biosignature Modulation is a trademarked term that refers to a system of hormonal optimisation created by the man whom I consider to be the world’s number one strength and conditioning coach, Charles Poliquin.

We utilise the Biosignature protocols extensively at our London personal training facilities as it is unquestionably the fastest way to get in shape – be that through fat loss, muscle gain, or both – as it works with and improves your own unique biochemistry. Good personal training and coaching should never ever be about the cookie cutter, one size fits all approach, which is why it always beggars belief when I observe other training establishments offering generic advice that is tailored solely to the man on the Clapham omnibus (thats to the average person for those of you who didn’t have the overwhelming joy of studying English common law at University!). Look at your neighbour, look at your friend -see how their body fat is distributed differently from yourself. This is all due to the difference in the way your hormones (via your unique genetics) react with your own unique environment. Biosignature looks at all this and establishes protocols that modulate your endocrine system, rapidly accelerating body fat composition changes (spot reduction can actually work!), all of which make every single client feel and look younger, more vibrant and healthy!

Yes, I know that in a way this sounds too good to be true, but take a look at our client list and see for yourself how bona fide this is.

Nick Mitchell

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