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Calories Count, but Steps Count Too! From 10 to 5k Steps/d W/Out Effect on...

Trust me, once you try to match your intake to your alleged expenditure via apps and trackers you WILL fail if you're also working out regularly - so don't extrapolate the results to: "Oh, I'll just...

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Beta-Alanine, Widely Used, but Rarely Tested for Safety!? Individual Studies...

Reductions in muscle and especially serum taurine have indeed also been observed in humans, but the fact that they do not occur in lower dose studies and cannot be observed consistently in studies...

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Will Adding 100mg of GABA to Your Whey Turn You into GH-ulk? RCT Finds 10x...

Sometimes study results just seem too good to be true... I mean, who cares about total lean (including organ) mass when everything you can show off: strength, arms, and legs didn't grow appropriately?...

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10%(+) Reduction in Testosterone After Glucose and Whey Protein Shakes - Is...

We're talking about a cross-over study in adolescent subjects and acute changes but that's neither the only nor the most relevant reason you don't have to be afraid of the bodybuilding staple, now. In...

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Stevia: What's New in 2019? Appetite, Food Intake, Fertility, Metabolism,...

Stevia is available in all forms and combinations... often you don't realize before you take a look at the label that it was literally diluted with fillers and other sweeteners such as erythritol etc....

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Intermittent Fasting in Trained Women Adds Same Amount of Muscle, Strips...

HMB did matter, but not significantly; and fasted training was not involved in the extra-fat loss and improvement in body composition.While it has long been discussed if serious gainz are even possible...

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High CGA Instant Coffee for High Potency Fat Loss: Visceral and Total Fat...

Truth is in the numbers... the absolute numbers, not the impressive relative visceral fat loss that doesn't show on either scale, measuring tape, or mirror... and yes, that means that Kao's high-octane...

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Full vs. Half-Squats - Study Measures Actual Size Gains! A Tie for Quads, a...

The result, the full-squat is slightly superior, is not as clear as you may have expected it to be. Furthermore, the study suggests that you won't get away without an additional hamstring exercise if...

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Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) Works in Broad Cuff Pressure Range: Lower (40%)...

"Go super tight or go home"? Nope, we're not talking 'bout NC-17 rated websites... this provocatively phrased statement about how to wear your #BFR cuffs at the gym is probably as faulty as the notion...

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Baking Soda Loading Protocol Achieves 30% Higher Bicarb Levels W/ ZERO GI...

You will be pleased to hear that the 30% increase in serum bicarbonate observed in the loading study was achieved in the absence of gastrointestinal distress in ALL subjects.Sunday, September 22, 2019,...

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'Training Low[Carb]' Requires 0.12g/kg Extra-Protein | Fitbit Fitness Data...

Mixed news about nutrition, exercise, and supplementation.In the absence of game-changing nutrition, exercise, and supplementation science I decided to post one of the recently rare installments of the...

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New Barbell Design: ~20% Increased Pectoralis Activity, Dumbbell-ish +...

Don't pre-order yet: We don't know if you are a 'responder' and even if you are whether your gains will actually benefit from allegedly increased muscle activity (eventually it's not even clear that...

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In Triathletes, Marathoners & Co! Potato Purée Can Replace Conventional...

The gastrointestinal issues may have been a problem for a few of the testers, but some clever "natural workout nutrition" company is certainly going to eliminate this minor obstacle very soon... and...

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#Coffee & Related Research from Early 2020: #FilterHeight Matters | #Leaves...

Coffee junkies, recoice! The SuppVersity is back ... and how can this be celebrated? With a research update on ☕ - a review discussing the latest science from coarsness to leaf-extracts, and...

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The Latest on Artificial Sweeteners: #Sucralose Good for the Lean, Bad for...

Time to stop discriminating against low-calorie (#LCS) or artificial sweeteners as a category, time to start considering the molecule and subject-dependence of these substances and to get the research...

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Blood Flow Restriction Training 2020: What's New on Age, Sex, and...

It may sound awesome but eventually training only one arm is no viable long-term strategy. Having learned about the ability of BFR to increase/facilitate contralateral gains in today's SuppVersity...

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'Spiking' (not Replacing) Suboptimal Amounts of #Whey With #EAAs Yields...

You will probably have read about the results of this recent study from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences elsewhere already - hopefully in an article that applied the same rigorous...

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Alternate Day Fasting & Classic Dieting: Same >5% Weight Loss in 57 vs. 67...

ADF vs. continuous dieting in overweight/obese women: ADF marginally faster, about identically satiatin' but not per se 'superior'"When Weight Loss is Standardized (to 5%), Overweight / Obese Women are...

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Does Eating Beans W/B4 Meals Have the Same Blood Sugar Lowering, and Fat Loss...

Reader's question from the SuppVersity's Instagram page: "I wonder if just having a small serving of beans before a meal would have good effects also. Red velvet, black, etc." - JohanThose of you who...

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Freezing, Defrosting, Toasting, and Your Glucose Response to White Bread |...

Who would have thought that: More convenient, in the eyes of most people better tasting and still better for your blood glucose management: Take white bread from the freezer, defrost at room...

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Quick Take: Only 25% Putatively Anabolic Laxogenin Supps Contain Measurable...

You may find this supplement albeit with a less honest label at your favorite 'hardcore'-supplement store.You will have seen them pop up (and already begin to disappear again) in almost every...

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Scientists Find Whey to Significantly Boost D3 Absorption: Whey Isolate +50%,...

It's worth peeling the protective layer scientists use to cover up potential methodological holes in practical relevance. Studies usually make it to the SuppVersity news if they are educative,...

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Alkalizing Accelerates Fat Loss: Multimineral Supplement Boosts Fat Loss &...

Works, ... whether that's solely due to pH modulation is not clear. So we don't know if simply using bicarbonate as an alkalizer will do the sameLet's get this straight, right away. While the authors...

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Washing Down 6g/d of Beta-Alanine not Enough to Saturate Muscle Carnosine?...

Carnosine saturation!? It may occur (if at all) only at much higher dosages / longer supplementation periods  than they're currently recommended.If you've been a faithful SuppVersity reader for the...

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Probiotic Hair Care - Where is it, When You Need it? #SV Reviewing the...

The idea of probiotic shampoos has been thrown around for quite some time, now. Gonna get rid of the text-containing thumbs, btw.I've recently got a request by a SuppVersity reader suggesting I write...

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