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Science Round-Up Seconds: Vitamin E Succinate, How It's Extracted from Barley Leaves, Kills Cancer, Ramps up Growth Hormone & Spikes Prolactin. Plus: Testostosterone & Thyroid Hormone Decline Due To Plyometrics & HIIT

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Regardless of all the hypocritical hoopla around his persona, Lance Armstrong has always been able to push himself like no one else. No wonder that intense plyometrics were part of his regimen. If the SuppVersity Science Round Up was a meal, I guess you could say that Carl Lanore and I were sort of gluttonous, yesterday ( click here to download the podcast, if you have not already done so). We almost raced from one topic to another and therefore all the good stuff from the list is gone already and I am a bit pressed on time to get some "private life" in, so that I am not psyched about the idea of writing about auxiliary stuff. Against that background and in view of the fact that I felt that the pace of yesterday's show did not really leave enough room for some important details, I will stick to rehashing and expanding on the stories about Vitamin E succcinate and the detrimental effects of beating the crap out of yourself doing plyometrics or crazy HIIT workouts (...
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Chronically Fatigued? Taking a Meditative Time-Out With Qigong Twice Weekly Will Improve Mental + Physical Symptoms by ~50% & Increase Telomere-Length by 75%!

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Image 1 ( myrtlebeachalternatives ): This picture captures the essence of Qigong artistically. Adelfo took the word "holiday" to the heart and totally forgot about his blogpost, today. I guess this means I will have to pull something of interest out of my hat (or head?) and what would be better suited than a post about taking timeouts, well sort off... In a recently published paper in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine , R.T. Ho and his (or her?) colleagues from the University of Hong Kong report on the truly amazing progress a group of chronic fatigue patient s made in the course of a 4-months Qigong intervention program (Ho. 2012). Qigong means "life energy cultivation" and that's exactly what it does - it helps you cultivate the life energy that's so easily lost in our hectic and allegedly productive lives. The participants in the intervention study took part in supervised Qigong exercise training (Wu Xing Ping Heng Gong, 五行平衡功) twice a week for...
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Cardio Before or After Weights? While Both are Suboptimal. Greater Reduction in Leptin With Cardio Before Strength Training Would Yet Suggest "Weights First!"

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Image 1: Spinning before or after weights? While none will be "optimal" the leptin and cortisol responses in the study at hand would suggest that lifting weights first, will produce more favorable results - especially with respect to improvements in body composition. "Cardio before or after strength training?" This was and still is one of the most debated questions among both amateur and professional trainees who want to combine the muscle building effects of weight lifting and the fat burning effects of classic cardio ( LISS ) or high intensity interval training ( HIIT ). And although it may be debatable, whether or not this practice is advisable, or generally inferior to doing "cardio" and "weights" on seperate days, it does stand to reason that for most non-professional athletes and those, who cannot make of living off their passion, daily, let alone morning + evening sessions, are simply not feasible. And while the difference between t...
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Gingko Biloba, Your Dopaminergic Brain Viagra. Plant Extract Stimulates Sexual Arousal via the Paraventricular Nucleus and the Mesolimbic System.

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Image 1: Gingko biloba trees are one of a kind, with no close living relatives (image Schwabe Pharm .) I bet you got one of those Viagra spam mails, today, as well, didn't you? Well, although I assume you would not need the small blue pills, anyway, you may be interest to read that researchers from the People's Republic of China may have found a viable Viagra alternative in a longstanding (pun intended ;-) ingredient of Traditional Chinese (and meanwhile also Western) Medicine : Gingko biloba . In order to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of previously ( Yeh. 2010 ) observed beneficial effects of Ginkgo biloba extract on noncontact erections in male rats, Yeh et al. ( Yeh. 2011 ) recorded both copulation, as well as non-contact erections in a group of 20 male Long-Evans (telling name, isn't it?) rats, which had been randomly assigned to a treatment ( 50mg/kg body weight Gingko biloba extract [EGb 761 from Schwabe Pharmac...
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