SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

Image 1: Don't worry one thing is sure - GPC won't give you a gut like that ;-) A couple of days ago, I have written about the exorbitant choline consumption of some of bodybuilding legends, Randy Roach writes about in his Muscle Smoke & Mirrors Vol. II   and to be honest, I was quite surprised that among the many responses I got, none broached the issue of the latest and greatest supplemental choline spin-off: Glycerophosphocholine, or short GPC - a supposedly superior, because fat-bound (hence "glycero" as in "glycerol) and highly bioavailable bean-derived form of choline. Whatever the reasons may be, I suppose you still won't mind to hear that a recent experiment that was conducted at the Faculty of Sport and Health Science of Ritsumeikan University in Shiga, Japan, yielded quite interesting results with respect to the endocrine and metabolic short-term effects of 1,000mg of GPC in 8 healthy male (25+/1y) subjects (Kawamura. 2012). 19x more gr...

Image 1: In 2009 10% of all US children had at least a mild form of asthma. 57% of these children had had at least one asthma attack in the year before. And in the year 2007, 9 people died of an asthma attack on each of the 365 days of the year ( CDC. 2007-2009 )... yet our understanding of the nutrition-cleanliness-autoimmune axis is still in its infancy while millions of dollars are spent on a non-sensical "war on cholesterol", every day.    [Note: This is a direct sequel to the last installment ] There she is, Mrs Youesdeay... you hated her. Her and her healthy greens: "Good morning my dear! I see your mommy is in a hurry today?... Good morning Mrs. Singleparent!" Mrs. Youesdeay was standing there, her usual half-anorexic vegan self, staring right into your eyes." It was as if she was saying: "Gimme those peanut-butter sandwiches my dear !" To escape this fate, you had made it a habit to hurry right past her and into the grey building with its...