Do you like your 0.1% yogurt? No? Well, what if I told you that it ain't even healthy? A recent study from Sweden ( Warensjö. 2011 ) sho...
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Licorice for Diabetes!? Licorice Extract Reverses (!) Diabetic Nephropathy in Rats
Diabetes is the big "D" in the metabolic synDrome and probably the most destructive of the various faces of the plague of the cent...
Saturday, February 26, 2011
9.600 IU Vitamin D Required to Get 97.5% of a Study Population to Serum 25(OH)D Levels of At Least 40ng/ml
I refrained from posting each and every study on vitamin D that has been published within the past weeks - nothing new or exciting there + ...
Friday, February 25, 2011
Hungry? Better Eat Whey than Soy! Rats Receiving Soy Supplement Consume More Calories.
Lately, whey protein is all the rage. Rightly, as it seems! A recent study on the effect of protein supplementation on appetite and calorie ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011
High MUFA Diets are (Heart-)Healthy and Probably Superior to High PUFA Diets
Ever since the "Mediterranean Diet" was/is the talk of the town, more and more people become aware of the potential benefits of th...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Overweight Korean Adults Benefit from Protein Rich "Oriental" Diet - More than from Conventional Diet Program.
Americans and Europeans are by no means the only people with unhealthy weight problems. Korea, where the traditional diet is gradually repla...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Acquittal: Anti-Oxidants do not Blunt the Beneficial Effect of Endurance Training on Insulin Sensitivity!
Regular visitors of the SuppVersity will remember that there has been and still is a controversy about whether or not athletes and average g...
Monday, February 21, 2011
Want to Stay Lean on a High-Fat Diet? Consume Whey Protein Everyday.
Listeners of Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio already know: Dr. Paul Arciero of Skidmore College is going to publish a study the results...
Sunday, February 20, 2011
1000mcg Oral Vitamin B12 do not Bring Low Plasma Levels Back to Normal
You probably take a multivitamin , do you? Well, you eat healthy, as well? But does this mean you get enough of all nutrients? Maybe... mayb...
Saturday, February 19, 2011
L-Arginine Biscuits Exhibit Ameliorated Insulin Response. A Viable Alternative for People with Metabolic Syndrome!?
"L-Arginine ameliorates insulin resistance and has beneficial effects on blood pressure", "Fat people love cookies and tend t...
Friday, February 18, 2011
Burn Additional 27 kcal with 6mg/kg Caffeine Pre-Workout
Caffeine is the cornerstone of almost each and every fat-burner on the market. But how effective is it in raising your energy expenditure? ...
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Lose More than 2 Pounds of Fat-Mass in Less than 30 Minutes: The Illusiveness of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis
Wouldn't it be nice to burn more than 2 pounds of body-fat within 30 minutes of exercise? Well, according to your body impedance scale t...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
5α-androstane-3,6,17-trione - Kneller's Trione: Newly Patented Aromatase Inhibitor that Raises Testosterone Without Lowering Estrogen Levels!?
I happened onto an interesting patent ( Kneller. 2011 ), published on 02/10/2011 the author of which, Bruce Kneller, who was arrested in the...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Vitamin K for Healthy Bones & a Lean Physique: Rat Study Finds Phylloquinone (K1) & Menaquinone (K2) Ward off Fat Gain and Cut Triglycerides by Half
Until not too long ago, scientists thought vitamin D was all about bone. Every follower of this blog knows that this is a way too narrow per...
Monday, February 14, 2011
Glycogen-Depleted Athletes may Benefit from 0.3g/kg BCAA Supplementation: Improved Endurance & Lipid Oxidation
If you have ever read up on the general recommendations concerning "cardio on an empty stomach" you will most likely have encounte...
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Grass-Fed Beef: Does CLA make the difference? Probably Not.
You certainly have heard of the benefits of the meat of grass-fed, i.e. naturally nourished, cows. Well, although I do not want to question ...
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Macronutrient Ratio of a Meal does not Impact Psychological and Physiological Stress Response
Many people say: "I need my carbs to relax!" But is it actually true that high-carb meals facilitate better stress management? Acc...
Friday, February 11, 2011
3g BCAA + Arginine + Carbs Pre-Workout Modulates Hormonal Response to Single Bout of Treadmill Running to Exhaustion
BCAAs + Arginine + Carbohydrates before workout!? Sounds familiar, doesn't it? In fact many of the first generation preworkout produc...
Thursday, February 10, 2011
L-Citrulline Improves Sexual Performance: 50% Chance of Improvement with just 1.5g/day
You probably receive the same amount of daily spam mails trying to refer you to dubious viagra retailers somewhere on the Cayman Islands, or...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A Natural Cure for Obesity and Insulin Resistance!? Promising Results from Animal Experiments with Bitter Melon Bioactives
In a very recent investigation, researchers from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center ( Wang. 2011 ) found that high-fat diet fed mice...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Scientific Evidence Links High Carbohydrate Intake to the Development of Alzheimer's and Other Neurological Diseases
"Fats are bad, carbs are healthy!" I hope nobody out there still believes this late 20th Century slogan. If you do, chances are yo...
Monday, February 7, 2011
Go for Gold: Golden Kiwifruit Outperforms her Green Sister in Terms of Antioxidant Potential
Groundbreaking research ;-) at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan, did now reveal that Kiwis, ...
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Even Low "Normal" Plasma Testosterone Levels Associated with 2.5x Higher Risk of Insulin Resistance
"Your levels are in range!" Did you ever have your doctor say that to you? It appears as if next time you hear that sentence, you ...
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Pot Belly and High Triglycerides Indicative of Low LDL & HDL Particle Size
A recent study by scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota ( Irving. 2011 ) found that the most reliable indicators of LDL & HDL pa...
Friday, February 4, 2011
Zinc + Multimineral Supplement May Improve Glycemic Control & Lipid Levels in Adult Diabetics
Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes are omnipresent in today's food-abundance. Healthy, wholesome and nutrient dense foods, on the other hand are ...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
1.5g of Vitamin C do not Alter Neutrophil Function in Athletes: ROS & SOA Elevations Remain Unchanged
The verdict is still out there on whether antioxidant supplementation before or around exercise is a good or a bad thing for professional at...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The (Re-)Discovery of 17{beta}-hydroxyestra-4,9,11-trien-3-one: Low Dose Trenbolone Safely Promotes Myotrophic Actions in Skeletal Muscle and Provides Partial Protection Against Bone Loss and Visceral Fat Accumulation
Sometimes it is interesting to see how agents that have been around all along reappear back on the medical scene, all of a sudden. A recent ...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
News on USP Labs' "Pink Magic": High Dose Massularia Acuminata Increases Testosterone and Makes Bucks Horny as Hell
Faithful readers of the SuppVersity will probably remember my short write-up on USP Labs Test Booster " Pink Magic ". Now that t...
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