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Sleeping Like an Athlete: Supplement Smart to Complement Your Diet, Periodize Your Training, Practice Sleep Hygiene

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Blindfolds and earplugs can improve your sleep quality significantly. The special beauty of blindfolds is: unlike earplugs, blindfolds may also be used to refresh 'other things' you may be doing beneath or on top of your sheets, which in turn will help those who are struggling with getting restorative sleep ( learn more ) While every idiot will tell you that ZMA is "the shit" (it indeed is, literally ) its purported benefits are either insufficiently proven or even disproven, as it is the case for the alleged  anabolic effect of ZMA, which clearly don't exist (Wilborn 2004) outside of the "alternative facts" supplement companies use in pamphlets people call "write ups". Obviously, this won't stop the bros at the gym from telling you: "Dat ZMA gives me an amazingly anabolic sleep, bro!" The reasons ZMA (unfortunately) hasn't disappeared, yet, is still in the TOP10 of an unfortunately high number of supplement retailers...
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Vitamins B1, B2, B5 & B6 & Glucose Management | Part VII of the "There is More To Glucose Control Than Low Carb"- Series. Any Real Benefit From Supplementing With "Bs"

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Funny or obscene? A woman w/ low vitamin B and thus fortified cornflakes is among the "top images" Google will show you, when you search for B-vits There is an often overlooked reason I am addressing thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), panthotenic acid (B5) and pyridoxine (B6) in one installment of the "There is More to Glucose Control Than Carbohydrates"-Series (read previous installments ): They are all necessary to store glycogen in the liver (Supplee. 1942). In general, a whole foods diet, as recommended in previous SuppVersity articles will easily cover the B-vitamin needs of the average sedentary and physically active individual - in spite of minimally increased requirements for B2 & B6, in particular (Manore. 2000; Woolf. 2008). You can learn more about this topic at the SuppVersity Proteins, Peptides & Blood Glucose SFA, MUFA, PUFA & Blood Glucose Vitamin D & Diabetes Glucose Manager Calcium? Flush & No-Flush Niacin ...
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Leucine + B6: 82% More Weight + Twice As Much Body Fat Loss in First 12 of 24 Weeks on -500kcal/day Diet W/ 2.25g Leucine + 30mg Pyridoxine - To Good to Be True?

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Check your nutrition labels, I bet you get 2.25g+ leucine and 30mg of B6 from one of your supps already I am sorry to say that and actually this is usually something that goes into the bottom line, but I do have serious doubts whether the results reported in this study can be replicated in any of you. Yes, it is a human study, but (a) the subjects, 12 men and 12 women, were obese (34.76 ± 2.57) and (b) if the mere addition of 2.25 g leucine and 30 mg vitamin B6 would have such profound effects, everyone who has ever taken a commercial BCAA product would have noticed a doubling in fat loss, already, as almost all of them contain 2.25g+ of leucine and tons of pyridoxine (B6). So what are you saying here? Is this study a fraud? I have no evidence that the study was a fraud and I am certainly not implying this, but you must wonder about the magnitude of the weight loss and fat loss difference between the regular and the NuShape supplemented dieters (-500kcal from baseline energ...
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Ask Dr. Andro: Are Vitamin Supplements Bad For Me (2/2)? 3+1 = 666! The Raw Data Truth about the "Vitamins Kill!" Offspring of the Iowa Women's Health Study

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Image 1: "Please Dr. Andro tell me I can keep taking my essential multivitamin! I am just too busy to eat healthy..." I must admit that I feel kind of awkward as I am about to defend one of those supplements, I consider to be the most dispensable within the dietary regimen of a physical culturist: the so-called multi-vitamin! In essence these small, and lately more often than not large pills do not even fall into the category supplement. With dose-equivalents way beyond what you would actually need, "multivitamins" are not even "replacements" , they are madness or, I should say, the mad outgrowth of the prevalent "more is more" mentality that is beginning to harm us on every level of our society... but I am digressing, here. Let's take a look at the actual study which brought about such an upheaval in the supplement-addicted health community on the Internet. Dietary Supplements and Mortality Rate in Older Women Image 2: Is this yo...
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Energy Drinks Increase Resting Metabolic Rate, But Do Not Influence Energy Expenditure During Exercise

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Ever wondered, whether the drink that was once rumored to contain "taurine from bull sperm" and similar fashionable "energy drinks" are of any use? Well, a recent study ( Nienhuesser. 2011 ) coming from an international team of scientists showed that the consumption of each and every of the three energy drinks used in this study lead to a statistically significant increase in resting metabolic rate (RMR). [...] in a randomly assigned cross-over design, the subjects consumed 473 ml of one of three commercially available energy drinks or a placebo and then RMR and RER [respiratory exchange ratio; i.e. a measure of the relative amount of fat/carbs that is used as fuel] were measured 1 hour later.  The subjects then engaged in 15 minutes of treadmill exercise at 50% of V02max, during which RER and oxygen consumption (VO2) were measured. RMR was not changed by placebo, but increased (P<0.05, means ± se) above baseline by 10 ± 2.5%, 15.0 ± 2.9%, and 15.3 ± 2.9%...
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