With Beetroot Juice to the SuperBowl XLVIII: 490ml Beetroot Juice Will do the Ergogenic Trick in Team Sports. Plus: Brief Research Overview to Identify Who Else Will Benefit

There are a couple of important confounding factors which will determine whether or not you or anyone else can benefit from nitrate suppleme...

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22g Baking Soda 60min Before a Old-School 4 x 12RM Leg Workout Allow for a 22 Rep Volume Increase on Hypertrophy Oriented Squat + Leg Press + Leg Extension Quads Routine

Image 1: Squats, 8 x 12, Leg Press 6 x 12, Leg Ext. 6 x 12; that's the Quads routine Serge Nubret trained twice a week in conjunction wi...

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Maximal Intra- & Post-Workout Fat Oxidation With Pause or 90min LISS Between 2x40min Incremental Exercise Bouts?

Image 1: You better don't even think about losing fat, while you cycle! As a regular reader of the SuppVersity  you know that I don'...

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Fructose Impairs Fatty Acid Oxidation: Replacing 26g of Starch and Lactose in low GI Meal by Fructose Decreases Postprandial and Exercise Fatty Acid Oxidation by -21%

Image 1: With just bacon and eggs for breakfast you would not run the "risk" of reducing fatty acid oxidation. A carby meal, i.e. ...

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HIITing Diabetes With the Hammer: 20min of Low-Volume High-Intensity Interval Training is Enough! + Metabolic Benefits and Optimum Interval-Format for Healthy People!

Figure 1: Number [in millions!] of prediabetics and diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetics in the USA according to data from the American D...

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Beta Alanine Suffocates Cardiomyocytes, Taurine Lets Them Breath Again: Taurine Regulates Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis and Protects Mitochondria Against Superoxide Generation.

Image 1: Beta alanine and taurine; the former interferes with uptake and reactions that involve the latter. Having listened to the last inst...

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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 ...

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NAC Improves Markers of Oxidative Stress Induced by High Intensity Exercise

The word "anti-oxidant" has lost some of its glory within the past couple of years. In absence of overt deficiency, the real-world...

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Baking Soda for Tennis Players

Regular visitors of the suppversity might ask themselves "What the hell does the Prof have with his baking soda?" - well, I guess ...

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