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Food is Medicine: Each 10g Fiber Reduce Mortality Risk by up to 34%! Phenols Battle Alzheimer's & Breast Cancer & Two Dozen Dietary GLUT4 Boosters Prevent Diabetes

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Hippocrates says: "Let food be thy medicine!" And he was right. Tons of food contain substances that would make pharmacologist proud and filthy rich if he invented and patented them. "Let food be thy medicine" Who said that... ha? Right. Hippocrates. He also said "... and let medicine be thy food." Well, he said it in Greek, but that doesn't make the last part less questionable. I do after all often get emails with "supplement lists" that look as if people would be eating nothing else but medicine. Since this would be a topic for another article, though I will postpone the scolding and get straight to the former part of the Hippocrates quote: "Let food be thy medicine!" If you subscribe to the old Greek's principle, you should also subscribe to the scientific journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research a journal "devoted to health, safety and all aspects of molecular nutrition such as nutritional biochemistry, nu...
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Fat Burning Silk Peptides From Korean Labs: You Don't Even Have to Eat Worms to Gear Your Personal Energy-In-VS-Energy-Out Equation Towards Weight & Fat Loss

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It does resemble a birds nest but what you see here are silk proteins not swallow eggs and birds poop. Let's first get two things out of the way: Yes this is yet again a rodent study and no, it has not been sponsored by BPI, who are trying to tell you that you should buy their silk protein based supplement instead of any other amino acid product if you want to get bigger, leaner, faster and... well, they don't say that, but obviously also poorer. Now that we have got the sarcastic introduction out of the way, let's get back to the facts the study at hand is not the first to describe beneficial effects that may be brought about by the consumption of silk peptides. Silk the traditional protein base fat burner from the far East? What may sound gross to some of you, does in fact have a longstanding tradition in the Asian countries and has already been shown to suppress adipogenesis in preadipocytes of rodents on high fat diets by Lee et al. in 2012. The mashes th...
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Leucine & HMB - Similar, Yet Different. BCAA, B6 & NAFLD - It's About Ratios. Eccentrics, Mitochondria & GLUT-4 - No Pain, No Fat Gain. Fiber & Diabesity - Useful, But Not Magic.

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"Potatoes" have the "pot-" from "potassium" not just in their name, they also got plenty of it in them. A medium sized potato (147g) contains 926mg of highly bioavailable potassium and covers ~26% of your daily requirements... and no, normal potatoes are not pro-diabetic unless you over-process them ( learn more in the Potato Manifesto) 5.93 mm and 3.7 millimeters those are the SuppVersity Figures of the Week and the average heights by which the systolic and diastolic blood pressure of dropped in 21 controlled trials in the course of which the subjects simply increased their daily potassium intake (Aburto. 2013). Results like these, which were published in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal rarely make it to the mainstream news and if they do than just as a marginal note to the paradigmatically blinded message that we all had to dramatically reduce our salt intakes if we did not want to end up in the emergency room. Now, aside from th...
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Anti-Creatine β-Guanidinopropionic Acid (GPA) Increases AMPK, Decreases Blood Glucose & Insulin, Induces Weight loss Without Dieting, Increases Oxidative Capacity and Can Even Delay the Development of Mammary Cancer! BUT...

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While he may be so fast that he is almost out of the focus, when the photographer finally released the shutter, Usain Bolt, the fasted man on earth actually doesn't look as if his fiber type composition was highly type II dominant, does he?  While the relation may be distant, you will soon see that today's blogpost is somewhat related to Saturday's news item about the ability of high dose nicotinic acid to shift the muscle fiber type composition from a towards the oxidative side of things. After all, there is hardly anything that is more "glycolytic" (I am using the word here in a very broad sense) than the use of the intramuscular phosphocreatine stores to squeeze out another rep or explode out of the starting block and sprint towards the finish line in less than 10 seconds. Ah, yes those phosphocreatine stores, they are great and creatine is the staple supplement for anyone looking to improve his glycolytic performance. But hey, wait a minute: Shouldn...
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Less Than 15mg of DHEA Exert Identical Beneficial Effects on Insulin Sensitivity as 1h of Cardio 5x Per Week. Both Effects Mediated Via Increases in Intra-Muscular DHT

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Image 1: It has long been established that diabetics have particularly low DHEA levels ( Loviselli. 1994 ), but what's the chicken and what's the egg here? It is quite funny, sometimes you don't hear about certain supplements, (pro-)hormones, exercise-modalities etc. in years and then, all of a sudden, there are two studies on the respective topic in one week; and moreover, two pretty interesting ones! Last Friday, exactly 7 days ago, you've read here at the SuppVersity about the muscle-protective effects of low-dose dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) supplementation during a 5-day intense multiple-type exercise protocol (cf. " DHEA Blunts Muscle Damage During 5 Days of Combined Endurance, Strength and HIIT Training in Young Men "). Today, I have another interesting set of data for you - data which could not just shed some light onto the underlying mechanisms of the said protective effects against skeletal muscle damage, but also on DHEA's beneficial effe...
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Creatine for Type II Diabetics? 5g/Day Augment Exercise Induced Improvements in Glucose Disposal and Reduce Hb1Ac Levels by Increasing AMPK and GLUT-4 Expression

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Image 1: A reasonable carb intake, regular exercise and, interestingly, creatine will help you not to become insulin resistant in the first place. I don't know if you remember my rant against statins being promoted as unproblematic and healthy, when, at the same time, mainstream media portray creatine as a "dangerous gateway drug to steroids" (cf. " Statins Increase Diabetes Risk by >50% "). Today's blogpost is sort of an unintended follow-up on the former. After all the "dangerous gateway drug" just turned out to be useful in the treatment of the side-effects of the allegedly life-saving HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (=statins). A teaspoon of creatine a day keeps metformin away! In the latest issue of the journal Amino Acids Christiano Robles Rodrigues Alves and his colleagues from the School of Physical Education and Sports at the University of Sao Paulo in (guess where ;-) Sao Paulo, Brazil, present the results of a double-blind ran...
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