Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha

boy. We’ll admit that we have an array of skin products that we use to look good. But that’s not the first step to improving your skin; instead that’s the final line of defense. If you have a bad diet, you produce toxins that ruin your appearance.
    Sure, you could take products, but that will only address the symptoms of bad skin. Having great skin starts from the inside; it’s a by-product of increasing GH, optimizing insulin sensitivity, and reducing your cortisol. These changes will not only reduce pimples; they will also improve elasticity, which helps you look younger as you age.

    WHY AM I ALWAYS HUNGRY?
    Now is not the time to get sensitive, but we’re about to point the finger at you.
    If you’re like most guys who struggle with their weight or simply have difficulty looking the way you want, odds are, you have an eating problem. And it’s not necessarily that you eat the wrong foods—it’s that you eat too much. And why do you eat too much? Well, it’s because you’re always too damn hungry. Whether you wake up needing food, scavenge for snacks at work, or come home famished, your stomach seems to be in perpetual starvation mode.
    And that’s because it is.
    Recent research has found out one of the main reasons why you’re always hungry, and it has nothing to do with what you’re eating. The problem is how you’re sleeping. Research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that a lack of sleep impacts your brain in a way that pushes you toward a “see food” diet, which explains why you always want to eat.
    Just how bad is it? Only one night of insufficient sleep (fewer than six hours) triggers an area in your brain that is involved with your need to eat. Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg. A lack of sleep also increases ghrelin, a hormone that increases appetite, while decreasing leptin, the hormone that keeps you feeling full. This is what allows you to keep on eating . . . and eating . . . and eating . . . even as you put more energy (food) into your body.
    It’s mind control, and you have no solution other than to get more rest. Or you’ll be forced into a world where you desire more food when you don’t need it. Focus on getting at least six hours of sleep. Make it a priority as part of your program, and you’ll quickly find that your hunger pangs will subside after each meal.

    As you might know, many people consider GH to be the fountain of youth. But the benefits aren’t limited to less fat and more muscle; it literally makes you look younger. So if you improve your hormonal environment to produce even more GH, then you can slow the visual effects of the aging process. This is the reason most men look younger than women as they age—they naturally produce more GH.
    And the benefits don’t just directly influence how you look. As we mentioned before, proper hormone balance facilitates better sleep quality. And when you sleep better, your skin also improves. And that’s what we call a win-win situation.
    Fight Diabetes, Cancer, and Heart Disease
    As you’re sitting reading this book, you might be increasing your risk of diabetes. No need to read this book standing, but it is a good reminder that seemingly everything we do these days increases our risk of disease or shortens our life.
    Which is why you need to do everything you can to combat a lifestyle that is literally killing you. Before you head to the doctor and file for your hypochondriac’s license, how about you try something a little cheaper and research-supported to build armor against the world’s most dangerous diseases?
    You see, researchers at Harvard found that combining weight training and cardio in the right doses—which we followed for the programs in this book—can reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes by more than 59 percent. The reason is insulin sensitivity—which we’ve already mentioned as one of the most important hormonal factors you need to control. Insulin sensitivity reduces insulin resistance. And reduced insulin resistance has been strongly linked to avoiding disease. We’re not talking about the common cold. Insulin resistance may be the key to preventing prostate and pancreatic cancers—two of the most common forms in men—and warding off diabetes and heart disease.
    Anyone can claim that exercise fights off disease or that they are combining cardio and weights in the right doses. But we’ve gone a step farther to create a synergistic