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Natural Migraine Prophylaxis & Treatment: Riboflavin, ALA, Magnesium, CoQ10, Feverfew, Melatonin, Butterbur & Co.

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Natural migraine protection: Even if supps won't cure it, they can at least reduce the number of "bad days" and the severity of the attacks. In the last installment of the " Short News " you've learned about the enormous costs chronic pain produces on an annual basis: Roughly $300 billion for its treatment and another $300 billion in form of economic damage. No wonder pain killers, Cox inhibitors and & co are among the top selling and drugs in the world. Now, migraine is unquestionably among the most debilitating forms of chronic or rather cyclic chronic pain and while women are much often hit by the pain from withing (21.8% v.s 10.0% of the US citizens suffer; NHS 2009). And while I cannot tell you how much of the $2,000 bucks each of you is "spending" on an annual base on treating the pain of his / her fellow citizens, I believe that both of you, my dear mal and female readers, may benefit from the information in today's installment...
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300mg CoQ10 Boost Peak Power Increases in Young Elite Athletes. Plus: 140ml of Beet Root Juice, That's all it Takes to Minimize the Oxygen Demands During a Workout

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Athletes from various sports train at the Olympic Camp, where the CoQ10 study was conducted. As unfortunate as it may sound, the number of "next big things" in the area of performance enhancing (legal) substances - at least in large parts - a line-up of supplemental non-starters. Against that background it is all the more surprising that today' SuppVersity article features not one, but two already available supplements that could in fact make a valuable contribution to your workout regimen. And while we are going to take a brief look at the latest research on the ergogenic effects of beet root juice later, we will start out with a study the results of which did actually surprise me - in a positive sense, that is. Reduced CoQ10 (ubiquinol) increases peak power in trained athletes (Alf. 2013)  -- While previous studies on the efficiacy of CoQ10 demonstrated at best inconclusive and statistically, but mostly practically insignificant benefits, the latest study from t...
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Antioxidants For Lazy Rodents: Alpha Lipoic Acid + CoQ10 + Vitamin E Work Mitochondrial Wonders On Untrained Female Mice... And ONLY On Untrained Female Mice!

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ACE!? Are alpha lipoic acid, coQ10 and vitamin E good for them or not? With all the bad press on anti-oxidants, you could actually get the impression that performance and longevity should be a function of the amount of oxidative stress you're exposed to. Despite the fact that this hypothesis may have it's merit, the "True or False" item on the negative side effects of eccentric training should probably have reminded you that keeping a balance between the constant oxidative assault from our environment (in the broadest sense) on the one hand and our bodies' continuously evolving defense system is what we should actually be aiming for. Whether or not we will benefit from an increase in exogenous anti-oxidants like vitamins, will therefore always depend on both the stressor and the state and performance of our anti-oxidant defense system. A recent paper that has just been published in the peer-reviewed online journal PLOS-ONE does actually appear to confirm...
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Grass-Fed Pork? Not Really. Still the Difference in Fatty Acid Composition & Micronutrient Content Are Profound & Not Accounted for by Food Databases - Let Alone Epidemiology

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You often hear that pigs are pretty closely related to us humans, but "are all pigs created equal"? Or what may be a more appropriate question for the SuppVersity: Is all pork really created equal? If you like databases like nutritiondata.com or the USDA's very own detailed nutrient database in order to evaluate whether your diet is actually delivering all the nutrients you need you are probably missing half of the picture. At least as far as the more sophisticated details go, a recent paper from the Instituto de Ingeniería de Alimentos para el Desarrollo at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia clearly indicates that you would at least have to consider what the animals, in this case pork, were fed and from which muscle of the animal the piece of meat you are eating has been cut, in order to get an approximate idea of how much of unquestionably health relevant micronutrients, such as coQ10 , carnosine , anserine , taurine , creatine glutamine or haem you get - a...
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Bigger, Stronger, Faster: CoQ10 for Brain & Muscle in Young & Old. The Optimal HIIT Regimen for Fun & Fat Loss - 8s at 100% 60s Idling! Protein Power From Oats? Plus: Rest Times, Clusters, Form & Hypertrophy Training

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I decided against calling this the "Get Big, Green and Look Like the Hulk Quickie" (img. Paramount Pictures) In view of the fact that most of you apparently enjoyed the "Get Lean and Stay Lean Quickies" I posted in the last weeks, I thought you may also be inclined to read a "Get Big, Green and Look Like the Hulk Quickie", but then decided that the name was too long for the headline and "big, green" and maybe even "hulk" in conjunction with "quickie" may have had the SuppVersity turn up on google and other search engines in too close vicinity to websites I do not exactly want this blog to be associated with (just kiddin' ;-) Be that as it may, enjoy the ride and let me know whether you do prefer this thematically structured approach over the classic news-potpouris ala On Short Notice . I mean you can obviously argue in favor of both and since this is a place I want you to look forward to visit everyday, I would be...
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CoQ10 for Ultra-Endurance Athletes: 150mg of Ubiquinone Reduce Stress & Inflammation and Stabilize Cell Membranes in 52.4 Mile Torture from 640m to 3,393m!

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Image 1: Susan Kokesh, blogger and the Crazy Running Mum at the Sierra Nevada ultra-endurance run a 52.4 miles "double marathon"   in September 2010; I probably would not even have survived this torture - respect! As a health conscious physcial culturist, you are probably aware that the vitaminesque nutrient CoQ10, which, due to its ubiquitous presence in all living beings, is also known as ubiqinone , plays a fundamental role in cellular bioenergetics . It is a necessary cofactor in the mitochondrial electron transport chain (i.e. your cell's way of "breathing", its respiratory chain) and is therefore essential for the production of ATP, the fundamental energy unit your cells are operating on. In that, CoQ10 works as a mobile redox agent that shuttles electrons and, interestingly, also protons (those little blue and red balls from Bohr's atom model ;-) in the electron transport chain. Within the health and fitness community, it is however better known...
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