Maximizing Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption aka EPOC | Run, Don't...
Bring the heart rate up with exercises that involve the whole body and do workout short, intense and frequent to maximize the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, but don't fall for the falls...
View ArticleAcute L-Carnitine Tartrate Supplementation Boosts VO2-Max, Fat Oxidation &...
The VO2-max boosting effects of l-carnitine tartrate can be beneficial for almost every athlete.After being the hype supplement in the 1990s, carnitine eventually sank into obscurity; and while the...
View ArticleRegular Ca-HMB Boosts Strength and Performance in Elite Athletes - Increased...
In my comparison of leucine and HMB I have hinted at the unique anti-catabolic affects of HMB, already. Now, the accumulating evidence appears to suggest that the prevention of muscle damage is in fact...
View ArticleSweetener Update: Chronic Aspartame & Acesulfam-K Use Doesn't Mess W/ Your...
There's no scientific evidence that any of the various forms of "natural" sugar replacements like brown sugar & co would be better than artificial sweeteners.Since artificial sweeteners their...
View ArticlePlacebo-Powered Turbo-Sprints - Study Confirms Possible Explanation for High...
If it's not cancer, but something as simple as exercise performance believing that a pill will fix it will often suffice to fix it ;-)Have you ever wondered why people spend bazillions of dollars on...
View ArticleD-Aspartic Acid (DAA): Does it Work, Not Work or Even Do the Opposite of...
If you do not like what you see, boys, you may already have taken too much testosterone reducing d-aspartic acid ;-)You will probably have read the most-read SuppVersity article of all time "When Hype...
View ArticleLow vs. High Load Resistance Training - Yes, You Can Gain Muscle W/ "Low"...
It turns out, the biceps may even benefit from higher rep, lower weight training.You probably remember my Facebook post about Brad Schoenfeld's then unpublished study which proves that you can gain...
View ArticleWill "Muscle Building Supplements" Give You Testicular Germ Cell Cancer?...
The study at hand makes protein and creatine look worse than prohormones - can that be right?Maybe you've already seen a link to this study on Facebook, maybe not: "Muscle-building supplement use and...
View ArticleMetabolic Effects of Total Fasting Suggest: You Better Eat "Nothing" Than...
It is hard and it will cost you muscle, but dieting as in simply eating nothing for a few days won't kill your metabolism and it will shed a lot of weight (assuming you're as obese as the subjects in a...
View ArticleNews Quickie: Regular Eating Patterns May Boost Weight Loss | Protein...
So you're eating "healthy"? Sure?Time to clean my "may be worth an article" folder by putting out another installment of the SuppVersity short news. Today with a colorful potpourri of studies and...
View ArticleWhey, Egg & Mixed Proteins - Effects on Muscle, Fat Cells and the...
Dairy or eggs? Why not just dairy and eggs - Protein mix exerts most promising effects on signalling proteins related to increased muscle mass and fat loss, analysis of the results of a study shows.You...
View ArticleToxic Fish Oils!? POPs Commonly Found in Comm. Fish Oil Supps Accumulate &...
You are probably popping POPs (per-sistent organic pollutants) with your fish oil supplements; and even if your blood lipids would suggest the pills are helping, you may slowly, but progressively be...
View ArticleShift Work, an Overlooked Motor of the Diabesity Epidemic? Revisiting the...
Stress at work only adds to the ill effects of shift work and night shifts will have on the health, body composition and life quality of people who work when they're supposed to sleep.You will...
View ArticleBroScience Research: "What do Bros Say About AAS Use and the Prevention of...
Are today's "muscle men" not going to be able to procreate?If you are frequenting any of the popular fitness and bodybuilding bulletin boards, you will know that "broscience" is a mixture of anecdotal...
View Article(Super-)slow vs. Traditional Weight Lifting Affects Satellite (=Muscle...
In know one could argue that you may see different results for other body parts than legs which were the only muscle group trained in the study at hand.While the overall majority of currently available...
View ArticleHMB + Whey = Useless? Performance Markers Up, CK, IL-6 and DOMS Down - Recent...
To actually confirm the marketed "more complete recovery", I'd like to see more relevant study outcomes (who does CMJs?) to be tested, EAS ;-)If you've read my comments on previous HMB studies you will...
View ArticleL‑Alanylglutamine Blunts Allegedly Catabolic Signaling Proteins After...
Can a few grams of Sustamine™, i.e. L‑Alanylglutamine, prevent protein breakdown after an intense workout? How significant are reduced AMPK and NF-kB protein levels? And lastly: Do we even care about...
View ArticleNutrition & Age-Related Muscle Loss - Overview of Some Recent Studies: It...
Ladies and gents, if you want to keep up with the youngsters and be able to play with your grand and grand-grand children you better put an emphasis on more than adequate protein intakes.Initially I...
View ArticleTrue or False? Your Back Pain Will Vanish Forever if You Train Your "Core"!...
Do people really suffer from back pain because they are not doing exercises like this everyday, or are we rather dealing with a more fundamental problem? One that is related to the general reluctance...
View ArticleBattling Fat W/ Fat: Subcutaneous Fat Implant Improves Glucose Tolerance and...
BMI is not a good predictor of metabolic health. One reason it isn't is the differential contribution of visceral and subcutaneous body fat on diabesity an CVD risk. The rodent study at hand...
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