These Three Simple Rules of "Sensible Supplementation" Will Help You to Save Truckloads of Money, Achieve Your Aims and Maintain and Improve Your Overall Health

Image 1: This "supplement based" breakfast is not the breakfast of a champion, but the one of a complete moron who disregards th...

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Does the Usefulness of Vitamin E Supplementation Depend on Your Activity Level? Profound Decreases in Baseline and Peak Exercise Induced DNA Damage Would Suggest So

Image 1: If you are an athlete, let's say a competitive rower who trains 3+h per day, it appears as if 400IU of vitamin E would be nothi...

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Intermittent Thoughts on Building Muscle: A Preliminary Conclusion - Exercise, mTOR/AKT/MAPK, IGF-1, Testosterone, Estrogen, DHT, Nutrition, Supps & Sleep

Image 1: Arnold obviously is flabbergast that neither of the factors mentioned in the title of this blogpost was necessary to build the impr...

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A Fat D-Ficiency! Do You Really Need More Vitamin D or Simply More Fatty Foods? Study Shows, Even 50.000 IU of Vitamin D3 Useless, When You Ingest It Without Fat.

 Image 1: Fatty fish and organ meats aside, whole eggs and full-fat dairy are your best food choices to raise vitamin D levels - I would e...

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Ketogenic Dieting and Vitamin & Mineral Imbalances!? Differential Effects of Classical Ketogenic and Medium Chain Triglyceride Ketogenic Diet on Vitamin and Mineral Status in Children

"Keto diets are unhealthy! You simply do not get enough quality nutrients if you do not eat your healthy pasta, bread and other starchy...

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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 + ...

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Ginkgo, Ginseng, Green Tea: Only one of the G's may be worth Supplementing

In the most recent episode of their supplement review (which is usually very critical) the British Journal of Sports Medicine ( BJSM Review...

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Resveratrol Fails to Ameliorate inflammatory response and Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness After a Marathon

Resveratrol , an antioxidant polyphenol from the skin of red grapes, has now been around for quite a while and as it was in the case of almo...

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And again: Vitamin E Supplementation has no Effect on All Cause Mortality

I suppose, only few of you will be surprised to read this: A very recent review by scientists from the University of Kentucky ( Abner. 2011 ...

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Role of Magnesium in Blood Sugar Management

In a recent study ( Guerrero-Romero. 2011 ) a group of scientists from the Research Group on Diabetes and Chronic Illnesses from Durango, M...

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Low Iron Still an Issue in Professional Athletes

Despite the fact that most of you are probably weekend-warriors or recreational athletes, I suspect that some of you expose their bodies to ...

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Oral ATP Supplementation Proves Completely Ineffective Even at Very High Doses

I think most supplement companies have hitherto given up on convincing you of the use of oral ATP supplements. About 2 month ago, I did howe...

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Absurd: Will Supplemental Zinc Gluconate Deplete Your Zinc Levels?

Normally, I restrict myself to very recent studies, but the results of this 2007 ( Tompkins. 2007 ) study on the bioavailability of zinc-enr...

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Zinc Supplementation Works Within Days

Zinc is probably among the most popular bodybuilding and fitness supplements on the market. Thus, it may interest you that a recent study b...

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Pre-Workout Supplementation with BCAAs Attenuates Muscle Damage from Squats

We all know it, the squat, the king of all exercises is notorious for inducing deep onset muscle soreness within the next 48 hours. While, a...

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"Pecs Like A Chicken?" Chromium Improves Body Composition (in Broiler Chickens)

Some supplements have been there forever, eg. creatine , others re-appear from time to time. Chromium is among the last group of supplement...

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Caffeine & Exercise Performance: Is it all Placebo?

Lot's of recreational athletes (me included) swear by it: caffeine before workout! Now, a study by Micheal ( Michael. 2010 ) is suggesti...

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Athletes May Benefit from Supplemental Calcium Immediately Before or During Workouts

Calcium is one of the main minerals in the human body. It is not only necessary for teeth and bone health, but is also critically involved i...

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Zinc, a BodyBuilder's Favorite Mineral: All That Glitters is not Gold

I know, you think you can hardly get enough Zinc and have to supplement 30mg+ of zinc in the form of highly bio-available (and expensive) su...

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Vitamin D Deficiency Impairs Learning

They keep coming, and I keep repeating myself: vitamin D is the most interesting "novel" supplement out there. A recent study Mohs...

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