Want to Increase Your Testosterone? Better Have Your Right Answers

Although this is not a typical SuppVersity-study, it is yet related to both education and endocrinology: Flegr and Priplotova from the Charl...

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Body Fat Measurement by Hand to Hand Impedance Underestimates Fat Mass

I have been preaching that for years: "Do not trust in body fat monitors". Those things will give you one of their random numbers ...

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Exercise! Beneficial Effects of Resistance Training on Variables of General Health

A recent investigation by Croymans et.al. ( Croymans. 2010 ) confirms, what I keep preaching day by day. There is nothing like exercise when...

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Exercising in Warm Environment is More Stressing As Measured by Cortisol And TNFα

As Hosick et.al. found ( Hosick, 2010 ) the exaggerated core temperature response to exercise in warm water environment triggers a significa...

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Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Low-Intensity Exercise

A novel study by Yakeu et.al. ( Yakeu. 2010 ) found beneficial effects of an 8 week low-intensity exercise program on 17 sedentary individua...

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D-Aspartic Acid-"Inventors" Say: It Is Safe For Long Term Use

Although this is no official statement of PharmaGuidia, the producers of DadaVit and the financiers of the study ( Topo. 2009 ) that starte...

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Want to Improve Strength and Power Performance? Beet-Root or Rather Betaine Is the Way to Go!

Molecular structure of betaine ( HMDB, v2.5 ) Two month ago, another out of a handful currently available studies on the positive effects of...

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Sodium Bicarbonate: An Ergogenic Supplement From Your Cupboard

Fig. 1: Chemical structure of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) (wikipedia.com) In a recent post I informed you about the cumulative effect ...

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Further Evidence: High Intensity Exercise Elevates Plasma Testosterone and Growth Hormone

A recent study by Shark, et.al. ( Shark. 2010 ) found that a 30 minute (or time to exhaustion) submaximal 55' climbing route significan...

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16 Weeks Vitamin D @ 2.000 IU per Day Effective Against Artherial Stiffness, But Without Effect on Body Composition

Although news on possible benefits from Vitamin D supplementation crowd in on a daily basis, trials, not done with post-menopausal women, ar...

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Getting Old? Try Some HMB Against Loss of Lean Body Mass

While the effectiveness of the leucine metabolite b-hydroxy-b-methylbutyrate (HMB) in athletes is debatable, its usefulness in geriatric sc...

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American Ginseng: Mediocre Effects on Markers of Oxidative Stress After Downhill Run

In the West ginseng is by now almost more popular than in China, where it has been part of the traditional medicine for hundreds of years. I...

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Caffeine Activates Mainly AMPK-alpha1

The ergogenic effects of caffeine (structure, see image on the right; HMDB v2.5 ) have in parts been established to be AMPK-dependent. AMPK ...

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The OxyElite-"Scandal"? USP Labs Responds

USP Labs refutes the rumors of Oxy Elite Pro being spiked After yesterday scare about USP Labs' newest fat burner Oxy Elite Pro bein...

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GlycoCarn Alone Beats the TOP PreWorkout-Matrices by Lengths

Primordial Perfomance , among others, has been selling GlycoCarn (R), i.e. Glycine Propionyl-L-Carnitine, for some time now. Recently, Bloo...

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Vitamin D Deficiency in Athletes: Stress Fractures & Cancer

A very recent investigation by Naama et.al. ( Naama. 2010 ) found that, even in the sun-blessed middle east, there exists a high prevalence ...

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Beta-Alanine vs. L-Taurine: Study Establishes Inverse Relationship

Image 1: Beta alanine It is not new that there exists an antagonistic relationship between muscle carnosine (M-Carn, which is increased via ...

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OxyElite Pro: Anonymous User Posts Lab Report at BB.COM

Normally this would not be a topic for SuppVersity, but with my personal OxyElite Pro -experience being surprisingly productive (i.e. far mo...

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Beta-Alanine: Positive Effects on Exercise Performance Augmented by Sodium Bicarbonate

Every fitness enthusiasts knows that beta-alanine via an increase of muscle carnosine, a major H+ buffer, increases time to exhaustion and ...

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Positive Effect of L-Glutamine on Insulin Sensitivity

A recent review on the effects of glutamine in obese and diabetic subjects Molfino et.al. ( Molfino. 2010 ) cite (among others) the results...

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Cirsimarin: An Almost Completely Overlooked Lipolytic Agent

It is interesting that, with the exception of USP Labs , who happen to have a talent to find "unorthodox" ingredients for their pr...

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Glutamine: Alanyl-Glutamine or L-Alanine + L-Glutamine - Is There a Difference?

Some athletes, mostly bodybuilders, swear by it, yet the results of studies on the ergogenic effect of l-glutamine supplementation are quite...

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DHEA: Overlooked or Overrated?

With DHEA (structure of DHEA-S, see image on the right; HMDB. V2.5 ) having been mentioned in a few of the last posts as a precursor to othe...

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USP Labs "Pink Magic": Ingredient Write-Up

Although USP Labs has a long history of using strange or at least unorthodox herbals in their products. Their recently released testosteron...

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