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Aspartate+NaHCO3 Maintain Muscle Contractility: Plus 14% Rate of Force...
The combination of aspartate + bicarbonate may make an involuntary rest phase on the floor of the gym obsolete. It has been while that sodium bicarbonate, aka NaHCO3, or (pure) baking soda has made the...
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Coconut Oil 'Pure Poison' or 'Superfood'? These 2x5x PRO vs. CON Human...
Coconut oil yay or nay? Not the B vs. W question Michels' lecture made it.I am pretty sure you will have read about or even seen the lecture by Karin Michels, the director of the Institute for...
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Acute Effects of Stretching Before Workouts and Long-Term Effects of Separate...
I am not aware of studies on intra-workout stretching as joggers do it sometimes.I've recently overheard a discussion about stretching between the two other members of my gym. Both of them were...
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Postpone Breakfast, Prepone Dinner (Each 90 Min), Eat How Much & Whatever You...
The great strength of the study, the leeway the subjects had in terms of what and how much they would eat would, is also an important weakness because it would require a much more thorough monitoring...
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Bicarbonate + Beta-Alanine Supplementation, HIT Exercise Performance and...
If there's one take-home message from the study at hand, it is: While both SB& BA work, it depends on the sport/exercise test if the effects will be significant.If you've been following my articles...
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MTHFR Mutations, Cardiovascular Disease, and Riboflavin (B2): Scientists Zone...
You can test your MTHFR gene either directly or by plugging your raw data from 23andme, or another provider into evaluation tools such as Genetic Genie.If you have no idea what #MTHFR means, here's the...
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Sucralose: Study Seems to Confirm Pro-Diabetic Effects (-18% Reduced Insulin...
What's the verdict on sucralose?You will have read it in the SuppVersity news on Facebook (Sunday, September 16, 2018): Scientists from the Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Metabólicas,...
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Can Sandalore®, a Cheap Synthetic Replacement of Sandal-wood Extracts in...
It's not clear if natural sandalwood extract will do the same as the synthetic sandalore that's used as a cheap sandal-wood replacement in perfumes (for more info on the difference read the green...
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'Native' Whey, the Superior Whey? Transient Benefits on 'Recovery', No Size...
'Natural' whey is filtered right out of skim milk, 'regular' whey from the liquid 'waste" that accumulates in the cheese production - that's at least how the scientists in the study at hand define...
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Under Pressure: What's New on BFR & Compression Gear? Of Swollen Legs,...
Is it all about pressure? Compression stocking and BFR cuffs revisited.You will remember that I've covered the use of #BFR, i.e. blood-flow restriction in several articles over the past years. The...
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Eccentric Cycling Doubles Fat Loss: 24 Obese Teens Lose -3.4kg ('-10%') Body...
This is how ecc. cycling works + it also happens to show the bike used in the study!Eccentric cycling? How does it even work? I admit that I was asking myself the very same thing when I hit on Valérie...
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MCTs and High Protein - One Will Turn You into a Metabolic Furnace, the Other...
It's about time for some nutrition science news.For today's installment of the #ShortNews, I've picked two hitherto unpublished studies the main results of which have been presented recently as part of...
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If the Androgen Receptor Response to Training Determines Your Gainz, the...
Your androgen receptor status may not just determine how much muscle you gain - the data from Morton et al. seems to suggest that it even determines if you make visible muscle gains, at all.Unless...
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'Survival of the Fittest!' Large-Scale Study Backs Classic Evolutionary...
Even the difference between having 'below ' vs. 'above average' fitness levels amounts to the same 1.4-fold increase in mortality risk the scientists calculated for smoking cigarettes.When I first read...
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There's Microplastic in Our Poop! Wait,... Do We Even Care? An Evidence-Based...
It's impossible you haven't read or heard about this study!I guess by now, all of you will have heard that an internationally covered pilot study by Austrian researchers (Schwabl et al. 2018) that was...
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Peak & Mean Power + Power Capacity Increase (5-8%) in 11 Trained Women W/ OTC...
While there's some evidence that other plants from the genus "Rhodiola" may have similar effects, you want to rely on the std. exctracts from "Rhodiola Rosea" that were used in several studies if you...
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5% Faster W/ 135ml of Red Blood Cells - Transfusion Works Within 2h! Plus:...
Welcome to today's installment of "on short notice"You may remember from the SuppVersity news on Facebook that the use of cobalt supplements can indeed (as it has long been touted and doubted) have...
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Sodium-/Potassium-Bicarbonate (+Mg, +Ca) Supplement ➡ Improved 6x30m Sprint...
The stack (ingredients on the right) was ingested twice daily.It has been a while since the last study on sodium bicarbonate's usefulness has found its way to the SuppVersity.And, technically speaking,...
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AM Cardio for Fat Loss W/ 25g Casein vs. 25g Whey Isolate, 25 g Maltodextrin...
Don't believe a word when someone tells you that a new study would show that you can burn extra body fat if you consume a casein shake before your (by then no longer fasted) AM cardio workouts.While...
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Magnesium Could be in Charge of Your Vitamin D Levels: Supplements Lower High...
D3 and Mg Supplements not mandatory w/ sun + balanced dietIf you subscribed to the @SuppVersity Facebook Page, you will have read the news, already: "Magnesium status and supplementation influence...
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