Most PreWorkout products are loaden with caffeine. The reasoning behind that is twofold: Firstly, the caffeine will spike you up and thus m...
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Exercise at the Anaerobic Threshold Increases GH Release and Burns Fat in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Scientists still argue about the most important contributing factor to the ever increasing obesity epidemic in the Western World: Is it bad ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Dietary Oxidized Frying Oil Impairs Pancreatic Insulin Release. Vitamin E Helps!
It certainly is no coincidence that a recent study on the detrimental effects of oxidized frying oil (OFA) was published in the British Jou...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Brewing the Perfect Green Tea: Best Brewing Time and Temperature for Optimal Potency
Here is something for all of you who have always asked themselves how to prepare their tea to "get the most out of it". Well, I kn...
Monday, December 27, 2010
Vitamin E Exerts Positive Effects on Various Health Markers in Recreational Trainees
A study from scientists from the Azad University in Iran ( Naghizade. 2010 ) shows that supplementation with 500mg vitamin E (~750IU) over ...
Sunday, December 26, 2010
1.86 g EPA + 1.5g DHA Augment the Hyperaminoacidemia-Hyperinsulinemia–induced Increase in the Rate of Muscle Protein Synthesis
MPS, the acronym for "muscle protein synthesis", certainly is an eye-catchers for everyone interested in building sleeve bursting ...
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Loss of Trace Elements not a Concern in Well-Hydrated Athletes
If you are a hard-training athlete you need more than "trace amounts" of trace elements, don't you? No, actually not. You may ...
Friday, December 24, 2010
High Dose Fish Oil NOT Effective in Promoting Weight Loss on a Professionally Monitored Weight Loss Regimen
Those of you who visit the SuppVersity pretty regularly will have noticed that I am reluctant to buy into all the hype about omega-3 fatty a...
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Anti-obesity & Anti-diabetic effect of Trehalose in Rats on a High Fat Diet
I know, I know, rats on a high fat diet are a topic on their own: "Are they a valid model for metabolic disease in man?" etc. - Be...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Vitamin D Supplementation(!) Increases Testosterone in Men
Thanks to Dashforce from the MindAndMuscle-Forum we finally have evidence for the direct effect of vitamin D3 supplementation on testoster...
A Scientific Approach to Bodybuilding: Measuring the Quality of Execution to Predict Hypertrophy
This post is a little different from what you normally find on this blog. This time I'd rather invite you to read a study on your own, t...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
BAT: Brown Adipose Tissue in Humans - An Update
In the latest edition of Current Opinion in Lipidology we find a mini-summary ( COL. 2010 ) on current findings on the existence and metabo...
Monday, December 20, 2010
Hydroxycitrate (HCA) for Weight Loss - Revisited
The hype around hydroxycitrate (HCA) as a remedy for obesity and general weight problems has long abated. Nevertheless, in a recent review (...
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Leptin & AMPK Activation in Muscle - Did Scientists Investigate the Wrong Species?
Actually, this is something I have been reminding people of for years: Human beigns are no mice and although some people may be rats, geneti...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Both, Protein and Carbohydrate After Workout Ineffective in Ameliorating CK-Response and Muscle Soreness After Exercise
While people keep debating, whether you need or you do not need carbs post workout, a very recent US-study (Dahlstrom Burnley. 2010) shows t...
Friday, December 17, 2010
Potratz on SHR: Grape Fruit Oil for Enhanced Oral Steroid Resorption
Just for those of you who are not yet addicted to the Super Human Channel , i.e. Carl Lenore 's radio program on exercise, nutrition and...
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Melatonin for Patients With Metabolic Syndrome!?
When was the last time your mother asked you, whether you would get enough sleep? Can't remember? Well, a recent study by scientists ( K...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Positive/Negative Effects of Normal/High DHT on Metabolic Pathways
Regular visitors of the SuppVersity will certainly remember some of my previous posts about the false demonization of DHT. A new study comin...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) as a Natural Test Booster and Ergogenic
A very recent study ( Saddiq. 2010 ) published in the Journal of the International Society for Horticultural Science found that the seeds o...
Monday, December 13, 2010
B-Vitamins & Diabetes: Protective or Causative?
In a very interesting study, scientists from China and Japan ( Zhou. 2010 ) found that " long-term exposure to high level of the B vita...
Sunday, December 12, 2010
New Study Says: Boron Does Indeed Raise Free Testosterone
There have been rumors on the Internet for quite some time - "Did you hear? Boron increases testosterone!" Hitherto, however, the...
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Chromium Ain't Dead Yet: Positive Effects of Chromium Glycinate on Glucose Metabolism and Memory Acquisition in Rats Fed High-Fat Diet
" Chromium "? Sounds familiar, eh? Not too long ago, everybody was all over supplementing with chromium picolloniate to improve in...
Friday, December 10, 2010
Eat Rice, Stay Healthy!?
A recently published study ( Fulgoni. 2010 ) analyzing data from 25 374 eligible participants identified as rice consumers study on the corr...
Thursday, December 9, 2010
An In-Depth Look at How You Get Fat: You Acquire More Rather than Bigger Fat Cells
Scientists from the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland ( Jo. 2010 ) have investigated the exact cellular pathways of weight...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Viscous Circle: Low Testosterone > Increased Visceral Fat > Insulin Resistance > Even Lower Testosterone
E.J. Hamilton and colleges (Hamilton. 2010) investigated the effect of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in prostate cancer patients on sub...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Opposing Effects of Resveratrol Depend on Dosage
While the hype about resveratrol appears to be over, it is still one of the cornerstones of many people seeking to improve health or promote...
Monday, December 6, 2010
Absurd: Will Supplemental Zinc Gluconate Deplete Your Zinc Levels?
Normally, I restrict myself to very recent studies, but the results of this 2007 ( Tompkins. 2007 ) study on the bioavailability of zinc-enr...
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Vitamin D & Insulin: A Question of Race?
Could it be that vitamin D intake is more important for people with an African American (AA) background than for their European American (E...
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Omega-3 Fatty Acids PRO(!)-Inflammatory in Athletes
Although I am aware of the magnitude of studies providing evidence for the positive effects of omega-3 fatty acids in general and EPA and D...
Friday, December 3, 2010
Overweight Boys More at Risk of Obesity Related Health Problems than Girls
In a recent study from Egypt, Hassan et.al. took anthropometric measures of adiposity from 150 pupils between the ages of 7 to 18. Along wit...
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Mitochondrial Density in Muscle is Key Determinant of Metabolic Flexibility
If you happened to have listened to Carl Lenore's interview with Mike T Nelson's on SuperHumanRadio , last week, you will be familia...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Dieting: Nutrient Composition Probably Less Important than On-Going Low vs. High Carb Debate Suggests
In a soon to be published study Kerksick, et.al. ( Kerksick. 2010 ) investigated the effect of 6 dietary regimens on weight loss in 141 obes...
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