The concept of BioSignature was developed by world-renowned strength coach Charles Poliquin after noticing trends and correlations while working with athletes for nearly 30 years.
BioSignature is a system based on scientific evidence that where you store your body fat is an indication of your hormonal profile. It’s the best non-invasive way of finding out what’s going on inside the body by looking at what’s happening outside the body.
This means that your body fat levels and corresponding imbalanced hormones can be effectively managed through a combination of diet, exercise, a targeted supplementation program, and lifestyle modifications.
There’s 10 sites measured, and 8 of the sites are correlated to a specific hormone. If you want to know what each site is correlated to, check out this video.
I’ve been using BioSignature on my clients now since 2004, and I’ve seen some unbelievable results with it.
If you’ve been following my blog then you probably know who Cliff is. If not, Cliff has been training with me since September 25th for the next season of “The Ultimate Fighter”, and in this short time he’s shown some phenomenal changes with his BioSignature.
Here’s a quick run down on those changes.
Cheek: ↓ 16%
Chin: ↓ 15.8%
Tricep: ↓ 20.4%
Pec: ↑ Went up slightly
Mid-axillary: ↓ 25.8%
Subscapularis: ↓ 16.3%
Supra-illiac: ↓ 29.7%
Umbilicus: ↓ 27%
Knee: ↑ went up slightly
Calf: stayed the same.
His total body fat dropped 2.6%, he didn’t lose any muscle (in fact, it went up slightly even though gaining muscle wasn’t our goal), and he lost roughly 6 to 7 pounds. And we haven’t done any supplement protocols yet. Just made some changes to Cliff’s diet and his training.
So hormonally speaking, Cliff has increased insulin sensitivity, raised his natural testosterone, and has lowered cortisol by cleaning up his diet.
The two main areas Cliff needs to work on is better sleep quality, and cleaning up his liver. This is correlated to his knee and calf readings. It’s no surprise that these two areas need work. Cliff is a manager of a bar and customers often want to buy him drinks, and he always doesn’t have good sleep hygiene from working late hours.
As soon as we put him on a supplement protocol for this, he will see significant progress. But I’m still very pleased with his progress so far.