The Paleo Diet might be the best muscle building diet plan around. It changes everything, but its core philosophy is quite simple: eat and live like a caveman.

During the paleolithic era, our ancestors lived as foragers and hunters, finding protein and nutrition based on wild fruits and vegetables, seeds, nuts, and wild animals… Continue reading | 1 Comment

If you’re serious about building muscle, you need a high protein diet that will actually work for you.

GOMAD is one such idea. Out of all the relatively new diets that work, GOMAD is perhaps the most promising in its simplicity. It’s designed more as a muscle building diet option than as anything for losing weight, yet it can work for cutting fat effectively as well. In… Continue reading

Y0u may have tried before, or you could be just considering your first attempt at losing serious amounts of weight. Either way, you’ll be best suited to succeed at losing weight if you have some helpful advice on your side. Here are our top 4 easy weight loss tips for the new year:

1. You’re only as healthy as your environment. What you see is what you eat… Continue reading

Diets are generally associated with women, while attempts to build muscle are usually thought of as the domain of men. But here at Human Body Knowledge, we like to break down these social assumptions in order to cut through to what scientific evidence supports, what people want, and where the two intersect.

Case in point: weight loss… Continue reading

It’s true that your genetics have a lot to do with your natural metabolism, and how easily you gain and lose both fat and muscle. Your genetics aren’t the whole story, though. You can actually alter your metabolism in a number of different ways, using two main methods, one of which can actually result in fast weight loss… Continue reading

The problem with many weight loss tips is that they actually lead you in the opposite direction of where you want to be. They may make you thinner, but some will require crash dieting that deprives your body of vital nutrients, while others will tell you that you should be working out constantly, which… Continue reading

When people set out to build muscle, they often concentrate most on which workout routines will be offer the biggest gains, which exercise machines will result in the fastest improvements, and which gyms offer the best value for the money. And to be honest, it is important to work out in the right ways (here at Human Body… Continue reading

How many people do you know who have tried time and time again to reach a specific weight, only to fail repeatedly and eventually decide that it simply isn’t possible? It might just be those last five pounds, or it might be twenty or thirty pounds, but some people just can’t seem to drop down to what seemed at… Continue reading

To build muscle up the right way, forget most of what you’ve seen in books and on TV from professional bodybuilders. Their routines for building muscle won’t work for you because their bodies are much different from yours–physically, and probably genetically too. Obviously you shouldn’t start out with as much weight as the #1 international strongman, so why would you try his exact same muscle building diet and… Continue reading

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