Your body needs cortisol to function correctly.
It’s a stress response hormone that helps regulate metabolism, immune response, and blood pressure while providing quick energy when needed in challenging situations.
The problem is when cortisol becomes chronically elevated.
Chronically high cortisol breaks muscle down.
Also makes it hard to lose body fat.
When cortisol remains high for too long…
Your body converts the amino acids that should be used for building muscle – and breaks them down to glucose to be used for energy[1].
There’s a lot of things that cause high cortisol.
Lack of sleep is a big one.
Chronic stress is another.
And even cutting out carbs and following an idiotic carnivore and keto diet is another thing that can elevate cortisol.
Don’t ever cut carbs completely.
Your body needs protein, fats, AND carbs.
If you cut fats -or- carbs it messes with your T levels too.
Don’t follow some lame, restrictive diet.
- Hit your protein numbers for the day
- Hit your calories
- Then get a balance of carbs and fats.
No need to track macros.
Just pay attention to calories and protein, and the carbs and fats should naturally fall into place.
But back to cortisol…
Chronically elevated cortisol levels not only impair your ability to gain muscle, it can destroy your ability to lose body fat[2].
It can make you insulin-resistant.
Insulin resistance from high cortisol levels makes it much more likely that any food you eat will get stored as body fat.
Here are some symptoms of high cortisol.
- Fat gain around your midsection
- Muscle weakness
- Severe fatigue
- Problems concentrating
- Trouble sleeping
As I mentioned, getting sleep and eating a balanced diet will lower cortisol.
But there’s also impressive research on Tongkat Ali.
This study[3] showed Tongkat Ali reduces cortisol by 16% in just 4 weeks.
This study used 63 moderately stressed subjects (32 men and 31 women).
Subjects were given either 200 mg/day of standardized hot-water extract of Tongkat Ali root or a placebo for 4 weeks.
Stress hormones and moods were observed after 4 weeks.
The Tongkat Ali group increased testosterone levels by 37% and reduced cortisol levels by 16%.
The combo of high T and low cortisol will turn your physique around.
This is why Kino Mojo, which contains 400mg of Tongkat Ali, works so well.
In 6 months, Butnashyov from Hong Kong went from 180 lbs and 5’7 down to a chiseled 150 lbs.
He did this with Kino Mojo and the Movie Star program.
He lost 30 pounds in 6 months.
This is exactly 5 pounds of fat loss each month.
The combo of reduced cortisol and increased T can get guys past fat loss and muscle gain plateaus.
What is even better is that we have recently improved the Mojo formula.
- Magnesium, Zinc (higher dose), and Boron (higher dose) to naturally unlock more free testosterone.
- Forskohlii to burn fat and boost T.
- Tongkat Ali (higher dose) the ultimate T-boosting hero ingredient.
- Added Vitamin D3 and K2 to optimize recovery, health, and even improve your bones and teeth.
If your physique has looked the same for 6+ months.
You need to get this!
You can look dramatically better by summer if you lock in now.
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Greg O’Gallagher
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