TTA + Fish Oil - Fat Burning Superfats or Hepatoxic Pro-Oxidants? Why You Better Avoid Large Amounts of Omega-3 and Tetradecylthioacetic Acid in the Long Run

Image 1: Even if you align them like that, it is at least debatable whether capped fish oil is much more natural than the structurally modif...

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1.3g of Grape-Seed Extract Could Protect You From Oxidative Damage, Viral Infections, Obesity and Insulin Resistance, Reduce Your Heart Rate and Blood Pressure and Increase Your Nitric Oxide Production by >25%

Image 1: Bought in bulk, grape-seed extract is actually reasonably cheap... and it does not even taste as awful as some other herb / seed ex...

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CoQ10 for Ultra-Endurance Athletes: 150mg of Ubiquinone Reduce Stress & Inflammation and Stabilize Cell Membranes in 52.4 Mile Torture from 640m to 3,393m!

Image 1: Susan Kokesh, blogger and the Crazy Running Mum at the Sierra Nevada ultra-endurance run a 52.4 miles "double marathon" ...

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New Results From the "Test Tubers": Paleolithic Men Could Have Been Healthier Had They Microwaved Their Potatoes.

Image 1: Potato roasting caveman-style - probably not the best way to "cook" your potatoes As a non-native-speaker, I must admit t...

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Mitohormesis - Suffocated Mitochondria Live Longer: Scientists Probe Longevity-Effect of Low-Level Stressors.

Image 1: Walter Breuning died in April 2011at the biblical age of 114! And you bet that a man who has seen two world wars has had his share ...

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DHEA Revives Liver of Aged Rats and Improves Antioxidant Reserves and Akt Signaling in Young and Old Rats.

Image 1:  I don't think celebrities realize it, but there is more to anti-aging than an unlined face. New studies show that DHEA cou...

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Meat Science: To Cook or Not to Cook? The Raw Truth About Antioxidants in Raw and Cooked Meat and Fish.

Image 1: Now, that we know that meat is not bad for you. Let's get to the meat of the matter: Is raw meat better than cooked meat? ...

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Are You Stressed Enough for a Longer Life? Reactive Oxygen Specimen and Oxidative Stress May Contribute to Longevity

In June 2010 my fellow countrymen Michael Ristow from the Department of Human Nutrition at the University of Leipzig formed an interesting ...

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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...

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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...

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Further Evidence Against Anti-Oxidant Supplementation: Vitamin E + Alpha Lipoic Acid Reduce Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Biogenesis

Mass media and supplement companies will make you believe: " It is all about anti-oxidants " - Well, making money these days may i...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Bioperine: Why is it Part of Your Fat Burner?

Chemical structure of piperine from Piper nigrum (Wikipedia.com) More and more fat burners and other dietary supplement contain the patented...

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