Those of you who follow the publications in the field of nutrition in general and the issue of carbohydrate (over-)feeding, in particular, w...
Saturday, April 30, 2011
The Australian Sugar Paradox: Aussies Get Fatter and Fatter Despite Decreasing Sugar Consumption
Friday, April 29, 2011
Exogenous Leptin Works! At Least in Already "Normal" Weight Exercise Junkies - 19% Body Fat Reduction in 10 Weeks on Metreleptin
In view of the promising results from early rodent studies it came as a surprise that leptin, a "16 kDa protein hormone that plays a ke...
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Teaching New Tricks to an Old Dog: Erythropoietin (Epo) "Doping" to Treat the Metabolic Syndrome!?
Figure 1: Schematic illustration of the molecular structure of EPO ( Wikipedia ) Have you ever wondered, why there are no obese competitive ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
XS® Energy Drink Practically Useless for Athletes: Not Even eXtra Small Improvements in Exercise Performance
XS Energy Drink. 0 sugar, only 83mg caffeine. Probably tasty, but not ergogenic. If you believe the marketing campaigns of supplement manufa...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Human Data! Fish Oil During Lactation Reduces Cognitive Capacity at Age 7. Impairements in Processing Speed and Working Memory.
Supplemental fish oil: Panacea or rat poison? Well, I know you all love your fish oil. And you probably know I don't ;-) And this is why...
Monday, April 25, 2011
Epigenetics - From Mother to Child: Retinoid X Receptor-α Methylation "May Explain >25% of the Variance in Childhood Adiposity"
A few blogposts "ago", I reported the negative influences maternal (over-)nutrition may have on the unborn child . A recent study ...
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Exaggerated mTOR Response in Patients With Metabolic Syndrome. Does it Blunt AMPK-Mediated Improved Insulin Action after Exercise Training?
You've heard about it in several blogposts within the last week: mTOR, the short form of "mammalian target of rapamycin" and m...
Saturday, April 23, 2011
BCAA Ward Off Body Fat Gain on Hypercaloric High Fat Diet: Branch-Chained Amino Acid Feeding Triggers Favorable Metabolic Changes in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
When it comes to BCAA products, stick to the basics. There is a reason nature has them in the 2:1:1 ratio. Science is more and more beginnin...
Friday, April 22, 2011
Binging Counter-Indicated Not Even, but Especially in Pregnancy: Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Associated With Higher Body Fat in Infants
A recent study conducted by a group of researchers from New York ( Hull. 2011 ) found that excessive gestational weight gain in already over...
BodyRx Show #018 – The High Cost of Low Energy and High Intensity Training.
Despite me not being able to make it to the round-table at the end of the show, this is the best BodyRX Radio ever - tune in and listen as ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
High School Athletes on Dope? Not Really, But Roughly 1/3 Uses "Performance Enhancing Supplements"
"Don't you take those steroids!" Does this remind you of your mother, when, back in high school, you bought your first tub of ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
More Than Protein Anabolic: Post-Workout Protein Supplementation Up-Regulates Muscle Glycogen (Re-)Synthesis, As Well.
As an avid reader of the SuppVersity, you already knew that post-workout protein supplementation increases protein synthesis via mTOR-signal...
Is Most of Our Science False? A Radio Lesson (12PM EST) on Biases, False Positives and Reading Between the Lines of Scientific Studies
Just in case you got nothing else to do: Tune in live and listen to me @ Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio to learn whether or not Mr I...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Set to Be Obese!? Dopamine Turns Out to Be Another Major Player in the Neurological Orchestra of Obesity
As I promised, I am trying my best to keep up with current research on the neurological aspects of obesity, I also talked about on Carl Leno...
Monday, April 18, 2011
Leucine the Natural Anabolic: Roughly 10% Higher Strength Gains, Improved Body Composition and Fat Loss in Previously Untrained Men Receiving 4g of Supplemental Leucine a Day
These days it is hard to visit any bodybuilding or fitness related website without noticing a blogpost, news-item, article or product recomm...
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Vanadium for Type II Diabetes!? Beneficial Effect of Trace Element on Blood Glucose Management in Rat Model.
Some of you may remember that vanadium has once been hailed as nutrient repartitioner (it has been shown to increase glucose uptake into mu...
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Vitamin(S!) E, The Whole Picture: Delta Tocopherol a Rising Star in Cancer Protection
Those of you who have attentively followed my dissertation on fish oil (cf. SHR: ProfDrAndro talking on the Pros & Cons of Fish Oil ) ma...
I-Force Dexaprine Ingredient Write-Up.
Figure 1: I-Force Nutrition's newest fat burner Dexaprine Just received an email from the marketing guys @I-Force Nutrition informing me...
Friday, April 15, 2011
Algae Cake: Delicious & Healthy!? Wait Until You Learn that it is a Waste Product of Biofuel Production
Despite the Fukushima disaster and the possible contamination of seafood and algae from the pacific ocean, seaweed still has a very good rep...
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Save Our Children: No more "Obeldickses" - Lifestyle Intervention, Not Rigorous Dieting Key to Solving Childhood Obesity
What is good for adults cannot be bad for children!? Right so in the case of turning a sedentary life upside down: Changing the lifestyle, i...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Fukushima & You: Understand What's Going On & How to Protect Yourself.
I am back on SHR - this time talking about a very serious topic: The meltdown at the nuclear power plant(s) in Fukushima. "What the Fuk...
Calorie Restriction vs. Exercise for Optimal Body Composition? Exercise Preserves Muscle Tissue and Prevents Metabolic Downregulation.
Those of you who listened to my comments on set points and reasonable weight loss on Super Human Radio , will already know that - other tha...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
TARFU: LaBrada Nutrition Financed Study Finds no Effect of Super Charge Xtreme N.O. on Training Induced Increases in Muscle Size. Minor Effects on 1RM Max.
As mentioned in previous blogposts, I highly credit all supplement companies which - instead of just putting out untenable claims about the ...
Monday, April 11, 2011
Beet Root Juice Supplementation Improves Exercise Performance. Nitrate Content of the Beets Decreases ATP Turnover in High Intensity Exercise.
Nitrates have long been decried as toxic and dangerous and I bet, before their latest appearance to the supplement market, none of you woul...
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Taking a Week Off? Sudden 7-Day Exercise Cessation Perceived as a Strain by Highly Trained Athletes. Overtraining is the Culprit!
Did you ever decide to take a week off and felt like hell? Did you feel how the gym, a place of which, only two days before, you thought you...
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Confusing Study Results: Saliva Testing "Adequate" For Free Testosterone, Yet Way Off For Cortisol!?
Many of us spend a fortune on "hormone optimization", but when it comes to actually testing our levels, most of us are pretty chea...
Friday, April 8, 2011
DHEA the Slimming Hormone? Study Finds: Dehydroepiandrosterone Directly Inhibits Cortisol Synthesis in Rodent Adipocytes
After initially being hailed as the fountain of youth, the pharma-financed medical sciences dropped DHEA, when investors realized that a nat...
Thursday, April 7, 2011
There Are Two Sides to Each Coin: Vitamin D Increases Insulin Sensitivity in Obese, Yet Decreases it in Lean Mice
I am probably repeating myself, but I cannot emphasize enough that a common fallacy of medical research is the focus on pathologies. A recen...
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