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If you ask your doctor about prohormones, he will tell you that they don't work and make you sick... don't argue with him, 'cause that's his job and believing in this half-truth is certainly good for your health. Published ahead of print in the Journal of Applied Physiology is a paper on the ergogenic and healht effects of 3b-hydroxy-5a-androst-1-en-17-one aka 1-ANDRO . According to Jorge Granadosm, Trevor L. Gillum, Kevin M. Christmas, and Matthew R. Kuennen, the authors of the said paper, this is the first official evaluation of the viability of prohormone supplements ever since the Anabolic Steroid Control Act was amended in 2004 (Granadosm. 2013b) - a statement of which you as a SuppVersity reader know that it is true only if we are talking about the experiments, noto about the papers, though. The one at hand, is after all paper #2 Granados et al. are publishing. "I knew I know this study!" Yes, you heard me right. The researchers from the West ...

Believe it or not a soon-to-be published study that was sponsored by a the German LBS and presented to the public two days ago found that 1 out of 20 German kids below the age of 14 thinks about having liposuction done (figures based on LBS Kinderbarometer. 2013). 5% that's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and it's the percentage of German kids below the age of 14 years who are thinking about getting liposuction done. I am not sure, whether I should feel sorry or enraged... not about the kids obviously who probably feel miserably in their own skin, but for the parents, the food industry and the government with their "expert" advisers whispering into their left ear and the junk food industry lobbyists who are holding a megaphone to the politicians right ear and a razor-blade to their throat. I guess, I'll settle for both, feeling sorry for the kids and being mad at the adults. But enough of this let's get to some recent science news. Let's see....