After last weeks "bad" news on L-Cartinine L-Tartrate the supplement industry, which is still promoting various kinds of l-carnit...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Endurance Athletes Benefit from Anti-Oxidant Supplementation (Vitamin E, Vitamin C & beta-carotene)
Lately, the discussion about the benefits of anti-oxidants has taken a turn. Studies and reviews have questioned the use or necessity of sup...
L-Ornithine HCL as an Ammonia-Buffer for Hard Training Athletes
Figure 1: Chemical structure of L-ornithine (HMDB v2.5) Habitual readers of the SuppVersity will be familiar with the ergogenic effects of l...
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Do Your Sperm a Favor: Eat Salmon not Soy!
In a recent investigation Brazilian scientists (Moraes. 2010) found that vitamin E from salmon, but not soy oil, has beneficial effects on s...
No Short Term Effect on Energy Expenditure by Consumption of Green Tea Extract (Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate)
Figure 1: EGCG molecule ( HMDB v2.5 ) Lonac et al. ( Lonac. 2010 ) recently investigated the effect of supplemental Epigallocatechin-3-Galla...
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Don't Blame Your Parents for Getting Fat: N-3 Fatty Acids May Save You!
Figure 1: Chemical Structure of Alpha-Linolic Acid ( HMDB v2.5 ) It has been assumed that bad dietary habits of mothers-to-be increase the r...
Prepare for the Winter: Get your Supply of Vitamin D Supplements
Figure 1: In Great Britain Vitamin D3 supplementation appears indicated at least in the winter month A recent study by researchers ( Webb. ...
Friday, August 27, 2010
Want to Relieve Insulin Resistance? Eat your Blueberries!
Scientists from the Center for the Study of Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisia...
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Arginine Supplementation For Endurance and Intensity
A few days ago, my collegues from the Dutch version of Ergo-Log reported on an older study (Esporte. 2007) which showed improvements in str...
Eggs & Whey: Building Muscle and Losing Fat with Protein Sources Which Are High in Leucine
Eisenmann et al. report on the effects net effect of feeding rats with different protein sources on changes in body composition and muscle m...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Glucose Intolerance in Obese Rats Due to High Carb Not High Fat Diet
While common wisdom tells us that a high carbohydrate + high fat diet will make us fat and sick. A new study by Fleur et al. ( Fleur. 2010 )...
Cortisol Lowering Effect of Moderate Intensity Resistance and Aerobic Exercise Training
In the May issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise a group of American scientists ( Jaggers. 2010 ) report on the beneficia...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Rat Study Suggests: Hypertrophy Oriented Training Has to Be Strenous
In their contribution to the Georgia World Congress Schoepe et al. ( Schoepe. 2010 ) pose the question: "DOES EXERCISE ALWAYS CAUSE PH...
mTOR/MAPK Hypertrophy Signaling in Muscle Greater After 5x10 RM Than After 15x1 RM
A study by Hulmi et al. ( Hulmi. 2010 ) confirms conventional wisdom that doing 5 sets of 10 reps is a better way to trigger muscle growth t...
Monday, August 23, 2010
Time To Say Good Bye! Mr. Average 1975 is Out-Of-Date.
A recent article in Nature ( Later. 2010 ) emphasizes the need for a new "Reference Man" for men (and women). The authors studied...
Cable Curls: Elastic Straps on Pulleys Increase Exercise Intensity
Scientists from the Laboratory of Physiology, European University Miguel de Cervantes in Spain ( Garcia-Lopez. 2010 ) studied the effect of ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Chronic L-Carnitine L-Tartrate Supplementation Increases Exercise Induced Carbohydrate Oxidation in Men
Figure 1: Molecular structure of L-Carnitine ( HMBD v2.5 ) Carnitine supplementation is commonly advertised as a means to shift substrate m...
Ephedrine: New Study Confirms Metabolic Effects of Forbidden "Weight Loss"-Drug
Its August 2010, years after Ephedra has been banned from the supplement marked, the words "ephedrine" and "ECA" can sti...
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Vitamin C Against Infections? For Men Only!
Researchers ( Constantini. 2010 ) from the University medical center in Jerusalem found that contrary to popular believe, vitamin C will not...
Nitrate Supplementation Lowers Blood Pressure and Exercise O2 Costs
The hype around creatine and amino acid nitrates already calmed down. For many costumers (me included) real world results could not keep up...
Friday, August 20, 2010
Pardoxical: L-tryptophan Supplementation Increases Time to Exhaustion
Molecular structure of l-tryptophan ( HMDB v2.5 ) In view of the generally accepted paradigm that BCAA supplementation exerts its beneficial...
Afraid of Prostate Cancer? All Your Vitamins Won't Help You!
Lately, you learned at the SuppVersity that Broccoli has preventive effect against prostate cancer , now a new report by Beilby et.al. ( Bel...
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Clenbuterol as Libido Booster? Not really...
Figure 1: Chemical structure of clenbuterol ( R )-Isomer (top) and ( S )-Isomer (bottom) ( wikipedia.de ) In a 1989 study Benilla et.al. (Be...
Anti-Androgenic Effect of ATD
A few month ago a study by Svensson ( Svensson. 2010 ) caused quite a fuss in the supplement world. The scientist had injected huge amounts ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Decreased Catecholamine Release in Obese Individuals: Another Weight Loss Obstacle
Jabbour et. al. ( Jabbour. 2010 ) found that the exercise induced stress response in obese individuals is significantly reduced. The amount ...
Impressive Blood Work on Brassaiopsis glomerulata, i.e. DS Triazole. Less Test Boosting Than ATD, Though
Figure 1: Driven Sports new aromatase inhibitor Triazole This is no typical SuppVersity stuff, because it is an N=1 sponsored "invest...
Taurine Increases Fatty Acid Oxidation During Aerobic Exercise
Figure 1: Molecular structure of L-Taurine (HMDB v2.5) Regular readers of the this blog, will already be acquainted with the various benefic...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Juice Plus: Less Oxidative Stress No Increase in Performance
Fruits in a pill!? No panacea, after all. Its always nice to see studies done on real world supplements, such as the one published by Goldfa...
Estrogen and the Male Athlete: Why Not to Avoid it at All Costs
If we believe in what supplement producers tell us, estrogen is to be avoided at all cost, to maximize strength and lean mass gains in male ...
Monday, August 16, 2010
Going Vegan? Better Get Some B-12 Lozenges
While my personal credo is: "Man is made for eating meat." I respect everyone who - for ethical or whatever reasons - refuses to d...
Non-Negligable Loss of Minerals & Trace Elements With Sweat in Healthy Boxers
Turkish scientists ( Saraymen. 2010 ) analyzed the sweat of 21 male cross-country boxers and found only a minor loss of trace elements coppe...
Sunday, August 15, 2010
High GI Foods Will Make You and Your Children Fat
Recently, Italien scientists ( Barba. 2010 ) published findings from an investigation on the effects of glycemic index (GI) on body fat dist...
Low Carb or Low Fat Equally Effective in Weight Loss, BUT Only Low Carb Favorably Changes in Cardovascular Disease
A paper by Foster et.al. ( Foster. 2010 ) in the Annals of Internal Medicine reviews the outcomes of a 2-years dietary intervention employin...
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Protect Your Testes! Beware of These Plants and Plant Products
According to a very recent review from D'Cruz et. al. ( D'Cruz. 2010 ) you better avoid the following 15 plants and plant products, ...
Rat Study Suggests Increased Selenium Requirements in Athletes
Calcium and magnesium , zinc and maybe chromium those are the top sellers among minerals and trace-minerals. Others, such as selenium are...
Friday, August 13, 2010
Lycium chinense: Another Anti-Lipidaemic Herb
I must admit that I start to believe that if scientists are only clever enough, they will be able to find a lipid lowering effect for any he...
Brassaiopsis glomerulata: Novel Natural Aromatse Inhibitor in Driven Sports Triazole
Figure 1: Chemical structure of selected components of Brassaiopsis glumerulata ( Balunas. 2009 ) Now, that the craze about USPs Pink Magic ...
Cystoseira Canariensis: Alleged Myostatin-Binding Supplement Ineffective
Darrin S. Willoughby ( Willoughby. 2010 ) did us all a favor, when he studied the effect of 1200mg/day Cystoseira canariensis , which is mar...
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Cool Training Techniques: Cryostimulation Improves Anaerobic Exercise Capacity
Are you training to gain strength? If so, you might be interested that Polish scientists ( Klimek. 2010 ) found that cryostimulation, i.e. s...
The Wunderous Effects Of Creatine - Good for the Heart, but Strength Improvements are Restricted to Large Muscle Groups
Molecular structure of creatine ( HMDB v2.5 ) Recent research confirms: If you had to pick a single supplement, you'd better choose crea...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
L-Ornithine: Arginine's Overlooked Metabolic Child
Molecular structure of l-ornithine ( HMDB. V2.5 ) Ornithine is an amino acid produced in the urea cycle by the splitting off of urea from a...
Unstable Squatting = Dangerous Bogus
Some strength coaches like being different and advice their athletes to perform squats and similar exercises on instable grounds. A recent s...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Further Evidence: Sunlight Alone is Insufficient to Rise Vitamin D Levels in Non-Western Immigrants
Wicherts et.al. ( Wicherts. 2010 ) published the results of an investigation into the effectiveness of a) sun exposure or b) supplementation...
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