tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44472491235196583472024-03-16T08:08:59.659+01:00SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for EveryoneWhere BRO- and PRO-Science Unite in the Spirit of True WisdomAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-6737750621504049752017-07-08T01:35:00.000+02:002017-07-08T01:52:18.916+02:00Green Tea Lipids + Statins, PWO CHO + Glycogen, Visceral Fat, Heart Health + Anthrax - Research Update July '17
Matcha releases more antioxidants than tea leaves (Fujioka. 2016).
Only recently, you've read the "Caffeine June 2017 Research Update" [(re-)read it] here at the SuppVersity. Some of the effects of green tea have thus already been discussed. After all, caffeine is one of the health-relevant ingredients of tea; it is, however, not the most important one.
As Yuan Fen et al. explain in Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-41354013962512213212017-03-18T03:58:00.000+01:002017-03-18T03:58:13.313+01:00May I Salt & Roast My Nuts? Plus: If Catechins Boost One's Energy Expenditure by 400% Why Don't They Work for Me?
One article, two questions, two science-based answers.
If you're like me I bet that you've been asking yourself previously, whether the cheap roasted nuts at the supermarket have the same health benefits as the expensive "raw" nuts from the health-food store... guess what: a recent study by scientists from the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences and the University of Otago Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-37892395588949911072017-02-01T04:17:00.000+01:002017-02-09T08:09:14.685+01:0026% Body Fat, Zero Lean Mass Loss W/ HIIT + 3x500mg Green Tea Supp in 10Wks | Is EGCG Liver-Toxic?
Lean, not skinny: In the long run HIIT + GTE could take you there, but there's one caveat... at least w/ the green tea.
The social networks are full of women complaining that they are not losing fat. If you ask them what they have tried to ignite body fat loss, the answer usually is: reduced energy, fat/carb intakes and, if any sport at all, endless cardio sessions... now, while studies Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-77488617410890449692016-10-30T04:10:00.000+01:002016-10-30T04:16:31.311+01:00Green Tea Extract Reduces the Amount of Insulin You Need to Store Your PWO Carbs by ~20% + Discussed: What are the Potential Benefits During Bulking and Cutting?
The beneficial effects of green tea won't occur if you just put some GTE into your post-workout shake... well, at least they didn't occur in response to acute supplementation in the study at hand, where 3x350mg/d consumed for 7 days before a std. exercise + oral glucose tolerance test did the insulin lowering trick.
While green tea has a record of promoting the metabolic and overall Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-74943239609118555072015-12-03T17:11:00.001+01:002015-12-04T05:27:50.848+01:00Caffeine + Green Tea = Plus 10% Fat Oxidation & Energy Expenditure at Rest and During Sprint Interval Exercise
From a health perspective it may be good that green tea does not contain all-too much caffeine. From a fat loss perspective, it clearly lacks caffeine.
When it comes to dietary supplements, people like to pay tons of money for unproven ingredients with funky names and dubious or non-existent safety profiles; agents that have been scientifically proven to work, are safe and cheap, on the other Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-32304333215128163422015-11-21T07:20:00.005+01:002015-11-21T07:29:24.860+01:00Fat-Blocker Effect of Tea Catechins Confirmed (?) in Man - Sign. Abdominal Fat Loss (5-8%) in 12 Weeks W/Out Diet
Tea catechins (which can also be found in black and jasmin tea | see Figure 3) can help you keep particularly unhealthy abdominal fat (Després. 2012) at bay.
It is one thing to have in-vitro and rodent data that green tea can inhibit the digestion of dietary fat (reported previously in the SuppVersity Facebook News); it is another thing, however, to have a human study like the one Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-14092197958330387342015-07-19T15:40:00.003+02:002015-07-19T15:45:05.936+02:00Green Tea Supplement Boosts Resting & Exercise-Induced Fatty Acid Oxidation + Energy Expenditure - How Relevant is This for Losing Fat + Will it Impair Training Adaptations
"Yes", GTE will increase your total energy expenditure (TEE) and decrease the ratio of glucose to fat you're burning at rest and during your workouts, but "NO", it won't make your abs appear w/out dietin'.
You will remember that I am not exactly a fan of green tea extracts. In spite of the fact that there are studies that suggest reductions of both thyroid hormone and testosterone production, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-64224529293443862792015-06-26T13:35:00.000+02:002015-06-27T12:56:10.076+02:00To Boil or Not to Boil? What's Going to Make Your Tea the Healthiest? Recent Study: It Depends on the Type of Tea
Hot or not? That could be a matter of health or ah... well almost death ;-)
Usually a "tea" is a hot beverage, right? No? Well, ok there's ice-tea, but even the coolest of all teas is initially brewed with hot, sometimes almost boiling water. A practice of which a recent study from the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná in Brazil suggests that it may actually impair Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-20875895257591799802015-06-20T13:17:00.000+02:002015-06-20T15:35:45.285+02:00Study Confirms: Excessive Green Tea Consumption (1-2L) May Reduce Your Thyroid Function (T3, T4) by Almost 50%
If you drink green tea 24/7 you don't have to wonder if your thyroid is sluggish and your belly growing.
I've alluded to the anti-thyroid effects of green tea extracts in previous articles. That simply drinking green tea (albeit excessively) would trigger the exact same effects, though, is news. News I got from a very recent study from the Zagazig University Faculty of Medicine in Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-35948117894705230442015-06-03T15:23:00.000+02:002015-06-03T15:23:43.603+02:0060%+ Reduced Absorption of EGCG if You Consume GTE W/ Food - Better Take Your Green Tea Caps On Empty
Green tea smoothies - If you don't want to waste more than 60% of green tea's precious EGCG content, you better don't blend it with too much other stuff
While the previously discussed effect of milk on the bioavailability of the polyphenols from green tea (the beverage) is probably negligible, a recent study from the University of Cranberra suggests that the inhibitory effect of food on Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-13274417938368974392015-02-06T14:45:00.000+01:002015-02-06T14:54:54.285+01:00Caffeine not Required for Performance Enhancing Effects of Green Tea in Recreational Athletes - 25% Increase in Fatty Acid Oxidation, 11% Increase in Maximal Endurance
It may come as a surprise, but for the chronic, endurance enhancing effects of green tea supplements caffeine obviously isn't necessary. It appears, though, as if the effects were mediated solely by increases in fat oxidation.
Green tea supplements are all over the place... as fat burners, not performance enhancers, though. Against that background it's all the more surprising that researchers Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-61004651170481004702015-01-21T14:32:00.000+01:002015-01-21T14:42:39.996+01:00Looking for Supplements to Fire Up Your Fat Loss? Caffeine Mixed W/ Green Tea Catechins is Still the Go-To OTC Stack
Caffeine + catechines - the CC fat loss stack is the best we've left.
I know people often laugh, when they realize that "Fatburner X" contains mostly caffeine, but if you look at the research that's out there, caffeine is actually the most potent and best researched over-the-counter (OTC) "fat burner" the FDA has not banned, yet.
Let's take the results of a recent study in the Journal of Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-89621196881972796182014-11-27T14:15:00.000+01:002014-11-27T14:29:21.425+01:00Green Tea for Muscle Protection? GTE Increases Satellite Cell Proliferation & Differentiation, Slows Disuse-Related Atrophy, Does not Promote Hypertrophy in Aged Rodents
Green tea as a magical muscle preservative for injured athletes?
"GTE increased satellite cell proliferation and differentiation, decreased oxidative stress and the abundance of Bax, a proapoptotic protein" (Alway. 2014) - that's the initially exciting result of a recent study from the West Virginia University School of Medicine and Abbott Laboratories. What is not exactly as exciting, though,Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-28698183977334472342014-10-30T15:42:00.001+01:002021-12-05T06:52:41.446+01:00Curcumin, Genistein, Pomegranate & Co. - A Dirty Dozen of Supplements & Foods to Keep Your Prostate Cancer Free
Which of the dirty dozen of supplements and foodstuffs in today's SuppVersity review can really help you to make sure, you're not the one out of those nine men who develops prostate cancer?
Supplements that are supposed to protect you from developing prostate cancer and/or agents that may help patients with existing prostate issues are - obviously - in high demand. And as W. Merkle points out Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-71517905293008662152014-09-06T13:17:00.004+02:002014-09-06T16:29:20.453+02:00Sufficient Sleep & 6 Cups of Green Tea - Proven Ways to Increase Your Energy Expenditure & Conserve Your Resting Metabolic Rate While Dieting | Part II of A Multipart Series
I suppose you will have known that sleep hygiene & green tea help, but did you know the exact numbers when it comes to their effects on your resting energy expenditure, as well? No? In this case, today's SuppVersity article is for you!
In the first installment of this new SuppVersity series, you've learned about the pro-metabolic effects of eating less frequent large(er) meals and the Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-123076030730537682014-08-20T14:41:00.000+02:002014-08-20T14:45:25.622+02:00Green Tea Extracts, Athletes and a Preliminary Answer to the Question: "Are Anti-Oxidants For Athletes Not?" No True Benefits or Negative Effects of 1g GTE in Sprinters
The supplement that was used in the study at hand was a commercially available product from Olimp Labs, a Polish producer of bodybuilding and fitness supplements.
Before I even go into more detail, I would like to point out that the study today's SuppVersity article will talk about is not able to answer the question whether anti-oxidants are for athletes once and for all. Why? Well, the Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-39510530177984210102014-05-14T19:17:00.002+02:002014-05-14T19:20:53.194+02:00Can An OTC Supplement Quadruple Your Weight Loss Success? Recent Study Says: Yes It Can! But The Absolute Improvements in Body Composition Are Still Pathetic
I am sorry, but I have to tell you: Significant weight loss does not happen without effort. Even if you take a pill that comes with just this promise.
I guess you will not have heard about "IQP-GC-101", before - right? Well, me neither, but it is obviously a patented blend of a bunch of very familiar weight loss adjuvants, namely Garcinia cambogia, Camellia sinensis, unroasted Coffea arabica (Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-60322144917981578542014-05-09T17:16:00.001+02:002018-12-26T04:20:22.870+01:00Chinese Black, Green & Oolong Tea is NO Health Beverage. Lead, Chromium, Cadmium and Potentially Toxic Levels of Manganese + Endocrine Disrupting PFCs Are the Rule
"Pesticide pollution: Chinese tea may not be safe to drink," this is what you could read on the website of Greenpeace in 2012, already and obviously this has not changed over the last 2 years | read more
I've actually written about the problem with toxins in tea, specifically green tea from China, before and I wouldn't be too sure, whether bad news like the previously reported "-20% Reduction Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-8502708500885327282014-01-27T18:30:00.002+01:002014-01-27T18:30:55.246+01:00Will Drinking Tea Solve Our Sugary Problems? Commercial Tea Preparations Contain Effective "Carb Blocker"
Tea: An anti-oxidant carb-blocker with class - The Britons do it right - the always have a cup of tea with their scones.
As a (hopefully) regular SuppVersity reader you will know that I don't buy into either the fructose or the sucrose theory of everything (diabetes, cancer, obesity, stupidity, etc.). This does not mean that I wouldn't understand that the average Westerner would largely Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-18230753782199602802013-12-11T18:00:00.000+01:002013-12-12T05:44:04.144+01:00Commercially Available Teas "Not Suitable For Human Consumption": Potentially Hazardous Amounts of Lead, Aluminum, Arsenic & Co in Every Cup
Would all commercially available teas have to be labeled like this?
I am usually not a fan of articles with titles like this one (see above) - they have what you call in Germany "Bildzeitungsniveau" (the German tabloid with news like "World about to disappear in a black hole, when CERN starts operating). It is however hard to resist the urge to use a headline like the one above, if the it fitsAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-82510950978727107362013-12-05T16:37:00.001+01:002015-04-27T05:34:23.360+02:00Weightloss Supplements Exposed: Green Tea & Probiotics. Fat Loss, Energy Expenditure, Fat Oxidation, Sex & More
Yesterday at Starbucks: "I just ordered a bottle of probiotics!"
In view of the fact that all the feedback I got in response to the re-installment of the Short News was positive, I guess you won't mind if I use the chance and bundle the two soon-to-be-published weight loss studies from the British Journal of Nutrition into a Weight Loss Supplement Mini-Special of the SuppVersity Short News.
Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-27685454194128242472013-11-25T17:48:00.001+01:002013-11-25T17:48:53.051+01:00Coffee Rules, Green Tea Sucks!? Study Links Green Tea to Insulin Resistance and Coffee to Insulin Sensitivity. Statist. Outlier, Long- vs. Short Term Effect or Heavy Metal Toxicity?
I can't tell if bathing in coffee is healthier than in tea, but my gut tells me that it is.
Coffee may rob your sleep (see "Sleepness Nights: Are Pre-Workouts and A Huge Cup of Coffee Messing With Your Sleep?" | more), but if you look at the currently available epidemiological data, the average coffee drinker is still a pretty healthy chap. Whether this is due or in spite of the stimulating Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-45397160856100942272013-11-05T16:31:00.003+01:002013-11-05T16:39:21.074+01:00Theanine or Caffeine? Soda, Black or Green Tea? What's Going to Get Your Brain Going? Plus: What About Sleep?
Caffeinated soft drink, coffee or tea, caffeine alone or caffeine + l-theanine what's going to yield the desired afterburner effect for your brain? The answer to this question came out probably less straight forward than you'd expected.
"L-theanine, coffee or both? What's going to get your brain going?" That's the question form the title of today's SuppVersity article and it's a question with Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-1814452020048896252013-10-07T15:57:00.000+02:002013-10-07T16:49:13.148+02:00Spot Reduce Abdominal Fat With Green Tea, Green Clay & Magnesium Sulfate Soaked "Plaster Body Wrap"... Really!?
No. Some green slime + cellophane is not going to make this possible within 5 weeks ;-)
I have been making fun of doing sit-ups to shed body fat in the midsection only recently on the SuppVersity Facebook Wall and what do I see today? A study that claims that a "plaster body wrap" could help you burn abdominal fat... what the f...at!?
First things first: In the "conflicts of interest" Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-65344824079871370402013-09-08T16:01:00.002+02:002016-08-20T10:52:24.237+02:00Alpha Lipoic Acid, GABA, Taurine, Green Tea, Gooseberry & Fenugreek. Plus: Metformin the No.1 Drug? Supplements to Improve and Restore Insulin Sensitivity - Serving #1
Don't forget, those caps and pills are not worth a penny without you committing to the all the lifestyle changes I outlined in episode one of this series.
I am well aware that you had to wait for a full week for this 2nd part of the "Restore & Maintain Insulin Sensitivity" Series (read part I), so I am going to make no words about it and get straight to the annotated list of useful Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.com