Middle-Aged Beer Belly Begone!

There are certain physical transformations we go through that we find bothersome at first, then grow to accept.

Acne is probably the first of them. As puberty sets in and the sex hormones begin to dance wildly in our young body, facial eruptions of acne seem like the mark of the devil and can be psychologically bruising for many teens. But for the most part, a marred complexion is a purely cosmetic hindrance.

Not so the belly fat that seems to begin accumulating in our early thirties.

If you enjoy the occasional beer or two you will likely begin to think of the fat around your waist as your "beer belly". This might even be quite an accurate description if you imbibe the brew with greater regularity than you know is good for you.

As it turns out, beer is quite good at making you fatter. For one thing, like all alcohol, it is not particularly calorie sparse. For another, it contains a class of substances called phytoestrogens. These are introduced to the beer through the hops that are used to brew it.

Phytoestrogens as so named because they weakly mimic the action of the female sex hormone estrogen. That is to say, they promote feminine characteristics, like an increase in the percentage of body fat.

In other words, drink beer in quantity and it will tend to feminize you.

But reshaping you is not all it will do. Your testosterone levels will be compromised too. Not that this was not already happening to you (it happens to all men as they age), but the effect will be accelerated. The result is lower testosterone levels than are good for both your physical and mental health.

If you are a guy and you have already put your 40th birthday behind you the news is not good on the testosterone front.

Your testosterone is on the decline, and by the time you have passed your 50th year you may be REALLY noticing the effects. Gone are the days when you feel as though you could conquer the world. Physically and mentally, you have seen better days. You may even be feeling like a shell of your former self. Except for that stubborn belly fat that just keeps growing, year after year.

So what should you do to combat this sad state of affairs - to reverse the trend that may seem to be dragging you down in every area of your life?

Well, for starters, you can try to kick the beer habit.

That will help. But it will only do so much. To really be able to pick yourself up and return to some semblance of the life you had before, you need to strip away the fat and rebuild the muscle it replaced.

To stimulate the production of testosterone there is probably no better approach than to begin a regimen of strength training (muscle building). If you want to do this properly, and in the shortest possible time, this may help:
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