GPLC is certainly among the more promising carnitines marketed for their ergogenic effects in professional, as well as recreational athlete...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
No Influence of Rest Between Sets on Creatine Kinase and Lactate Levels
Probably, you would assume that the reduction of rest in between sets from 3 minutes to 60 seconds would have an effect if not on creatine k...
Friday, October 29, 2010
Zinc Supplementation Works Within Days
Zinc is probably among the most popular bodybuilding and fitness supplements on the market. Thus, it may interest you that a recent study b...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
High Fat, Low Protein to Induce Ketosis
Truly ketogenic diets have recently lost much of the attention they received at the beginning of the 21st century. And today, many people re...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Can Vinegar Increase Resting Energy Expenditure? In Mice it can!
Apple cider vinegar is sometimes recommended to improve digestion, all claims that it also helps with losing body weight have yet hitherto r...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Men More Prone to Lipid Induced Insulin Resistance than Women
Regardless of the low-carb-craze of the last years, there is still plenty of scientific evidence that an overtly high fat intake (especially...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Healthy Aging: Multitude of Health Benefits from Growth Hormone Supplementation
We all do get older and, with that, our hormone levels start to decline. I know, dependent on your gender, you are most probably thinking of...
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Caffeine, Creatine, and Amino Acid Combo for Anaerobic Training Only
Most of the currently marketed preworkout products contain "the famous three", i.e. caffeine, creatine and some sort of amino aci...
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Neptune Krill Oil Effective for Athletes, as well
As a reader of the SuppVersity, you already know about the positive effects of Krill Oil on blood lipids and glucose homeostasis. A very re...
Friday, October 22, 2010
Vitamin D Levels Associated with Adipose Fat Mass
Today is the day for our weekly news on vitamin D (never hard to find some ;-) Sciencists from Atlanta ( Lin. 2010 ) recently found that th...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Neptune Krill Oil, the "New" or "Better" Fish Oil?
Its not yet in everyone's mouth, but its gaining public interest: Krill Oil , i.e. fatty acids derived from the foodstuff of whales. In ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Dietary Fiber Does not Significantly Reduce Mineral Absorption from Food
Other than common broscience tells you, the inclusion of healthy dietary fiber into your diet will not hinder mineral absorption. This is th...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Vitamin D Does not Improve Muscle Strength
In view of all the hype surrounding vitamin D , I think it is my duty to report on "negative" or inconclusive results of the ongoi...
Monday, October 18, 2010
Poly-Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFA) Alter Glucocorticoid Action on White Adipose Tissue
A very recent investigation found a possible explanation for the protective effects of high PUFA consumption against adiposity and the metab...
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Possible Side Effects of 17β-estradiol and Tamoxifen Treatment
Treatment with estrogens, mainly in women, and selective estrogen modulators (SERMS), which are also interesting for the average juicer, may...
Saturday, October 16, 2010
L-Carnitine Changes Gene Transcription in Muscle - After all, it Works!
L-Carnitine has long been among my favorites of expensive supplements with ostensibly conclusive scientific background which are pretty wor...
Friday, October 15, 2010
Fish Oil Makes You Lean and Healthy
In a very recent study, which is going to be published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition Noreen et.al. investi...
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Marathon Runners do not Benefit from Concurrent Strength Training
If you are an avid reader of fitness magazines, you will certainly be familiar with the advice not to neglect strength training, even if you...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
2g Arginine /Day Induce Vasolidation and Increase VO2Max in Male Soccer Players
Regular readers of the SuppVersity will know that - despite the recent bashing of arginine by the some supplement producers - I like this u...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
DHEA Protects Rat Livers on a High Fat Diet
First of all, rats are not a particularly good model for DHEA metabolism in human beings. Nevertheless, the results of a study by Magyar et ...
Monday, October 11, 2010
Zinc and Vitamin A Can Protect Your Testis Against Alcohol
While most gymrats abstain from alcohol, anyway, some do not mind the occasional binge drinking and other consume drugs and "supplement...
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Coffee Manooloigosaccharides Augment Weight Loss in Overweight Men
Certainly, you have heard that coffee is supposed to help with weight los; conversely, you probably won't have imaginged that it may not...
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Leucine + Whey = Upper Body Strength and Mass Gains
In a very recent study, Walker et. al. ( Walker. 2010 ) investigated the effect of 8 weeks whey-Protein and leucine Supplementation on physi...
Friday, October 8, 2010
Pre-Workout Supplementation with BCAAs Attenuates Muscle Damage from Squats
We all know it, the squat, the king of all exercises is notorious for inducing deep onset muscle soreness within the next 48 hours. While, a...
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Pseudo-Ephedrine Improves Cycling Performance in Trained Athletes
As Wikipedia knows, other than its banned brother "real" ephedrine, "pseudoephedrine sulfate are found in many over-the-count...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Bench Press Before Triceps Extensions: Conventional Wisdom or Conventional Bullshit?
It is set in stone that you first do your bench presses and then finish up with some sort of triceps exercise. A group of scientists from Br...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Whey Protein Isolate Increases Strength Gains over Carbohydrate Control
Regular readers of the SuppVersity, won't be surprised to hear that Cooke et al. ( Cooke. 2010 ) found that supplementing a group of 17 ...
Monday, October 4, 2010
EPA Reverses Insulin Resistance by Modulation of Adipose Tissue Inflammation
If you are about my age, your mother probably did not tell you to have your *yummie* cod liver oil , did she? Turns out, that was a bad mist...
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Magnesium Absorption: Better Use Tablets Than Caps
The Internet is full of bro-scientific advice on which form of supplemental minerals is the best for you. The form, i.e. tablet or capsule, ...
Saturday, October 2, 2010
"Pecs Like A Chicken?" Chromium Improves Body Composition (in Broiler Chickens)
Some supplements have been there forever, eg. creatine , others re-appear from time to time. Chromium is among the last group of supplement...
Friday, October 1, 2010
Caffeine & Exercise Performance: Is it all Placebo?
Lot's of recreational athletes (me included) swear by it: caffeine before workout! Now, a study by Micheal ( Michael. 2010 ) is suggesti...
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