Stretching Helps Glucose Control | Curcumin Limits Weight-Regain |...
About time for another installment of the SuppVersity Short News. Isn't it? Today: Stretching + Glycemia, Curcumin + Weight(-Re)Gain, ARA + InflammationHave you been waiting for a new installment of...
View ArticleSugar - The Brainfood That's Making You Dumb | Surprise: Fructose and...
None of these qualifies as "brain booster".A few years ago the results of a recent study from New Zealand would probably have made the mainstream news: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over...
View ArticleBCAA Free = Body Fat Free | Do BCAAs Make Us Fat or Are They Elevated when...
First fat, then carbs and now protein? Are we ever going to stop pointing fingers at individual macronutrients and acknowledge that it's our caloric excess that's making us fat?As a SuppVersity reader...
View ArticleNutrient/Meal Timing: A Dozen Examples of Its Purported Impact on 'Ur Health,...
Everyone will know somebody who managed to build an impressive physique with meal-timing. The question you cannot answer, however, is whether that's due to the timing or rather his/her mindful eating...
View ArticleVitamins A, C, E + Glycine, Leucine, and Taurine: 6 Common Vitamins + Amino...
You may, in fact, already take these.In a recent systematic review, Christopher Tack et al. have recently analyzed "The Physiological Mechanisms of Effect of Vitamins and Amino Acids on Tendon and...
View ArticleCold Water or Whole Body Cryotherapy Which (if any) Shall You Use? Active...
The use of and effects of post-workout stretching and related purported recovery boosters on the adaptational response to sports is IMHO astonishingly under-researched (Barnett 2006).The latest issue...
View ArticleReplacing CHO W/ Protein Won't Impair Glycogen Resyn-thesis | Plus: RT+HIIT &...
If that's what your PWO meal looks like, you're doing it right.I am sorry it took me so long to complete the follow-up to last week's article about the latest "recovery science" - my real job took a...
View ArticleSerial Loading: Stomach NaHCO3 and Benefit from Baking Soda's...
You can sure get the cheap stuff from the supermarket, but if you realize it's working for you, buying several kg in bulk costs hardly more than the packets on containers you will find in the baking...
View ArticleNutrient Timing Less, Cyclic Dieting & Baseline Microbiome More Important for...
They may have been published in "Obesity" and observed in people w/ weight problems, but the results of these three recent papers are still relevant for lean, metabolically healthy people, too.Even if...
View ArticleWhole vs. Skim Milk -- Increased HDL and no Effect on LDL, Glucose and...
"Whole" or "skim" - eventually it may make much less of a difference than either low-fat or high-fat proponents may still believe.... that is if you're young and healthy and not doing the "1 gallon o'...
View ArticleInteresting: D-Allulose Promotes Fat Loss - Not Compared to Sugar, but...
The reduction in belly fat was significant - in the absence of dieting and compared to another zero-calorie sweetener, that is.D-Allulose is one of those purported weight loss agents with an impressive...
View ArticleWill Intermittent Fasting Make You Overeat on Non-Fasting Days? The Opposite...
Even though it could be worse, this is not what the subjects had to resist to avoid overeating on the non-fasting days... and yes, this and the fact that the subjects were exclusively female and...
View ArticleCapsaicin: 150kcal/d Extra Energy Expenditure, no Effect on Appetite/Hunger...
You will remember that this is not the first time capsaicin made it into the SuppVersity news - as a fat burner and potential ergogenic that is | learn more.That capsaicin is a relatively powerful...
View Article5 Take-Home Messages From the Latest Nutrition Science | Plus: Things You...
Simplified overview of whole body oral protein utilization at rest. Of the protein ingested, approximately 50% is extracted by splanchnic tissues before entering peripheral circulation. Interestingly,...
View ArticleEvery-Other-Day 'Fasting' in Trained Athletes: Effects Range from Fat Loss to...
ADF-esque diet strategy w/ dieting vs. fasting works for "athletes", too.Intermittent fasting in its various incarnation (aka "lean gains" = 6/18, "every-other-day", "2-3 weekly fasting days, etc.) are...
View Article2.5 mg Nicotine = Ergogenic - 18-21% Increase in Power in Crossover Study |...
While cigarettes are neither effective performance enhancers nor safe, nicotine, one of their key ingredients, may be the effective ergogenic aid with a reasonable sides/effects ratio you have been...
View ArticleMore Than a Diet Myth? Dark Chocolate/Cacao Won't Get You Jacked, but it May...
Dark chocolate & body comp?I am not a fan of referring to the hierarchy of evidence (Haidich 2010, Figure 1) to justify discussing a meta-analysis (in itself a mix of statistical data analysis and,...
View ArticleThe Vampire Approach to Longevity - Young Blood Revives Muscle, Brain & More...
Download the podcast this article relates to at superhumanradio.netYou will probably remember from the SuppVersity Facebook news (@SuppVersity | March 15, 2018) that scientists believe that they've...
View ArticleThe Overlooked Impact of Insulin Clearance on Your Health and Physique |...
A physique like this is partly a result of insulin management not of zero insulin!Insulin and cortisol... What do the two have in common? Yes, both are hormones. Yes, both are absolutely essential for...
View ArticleHot News About Cold Tea: Cold Maté Tea Increases Energy Expenditure 2x More...
I don't want to spoil your beloved maté tea for you, but if you expect it to shed slabs of body fat off your frame, this belief may well spoil your fat loss efforts for you ;-)I've previously addressed...
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