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L-Arginine - 6g/Day Boost Cholesterol- & Non-Esterified Fatty Acid Lowering Effects of Resistance Training. Are Classic Pre-Workouts Actually "Health Supplements"?

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Lifting will improve your blood lipids, l-arginine will boost the effect. In the spirit of Tuesday's post on the potential negative effects of nitrate supplements on weight loss ( learn more + see box below for some important clarifications), I would like to invite you to take a look at the effects of "short-term  L-arginine  supplementation  on  lipid  profile  and  inflammatory proteins after acute resistance exercise in overweight men" as they are about to be reported in one of the future issues of e-SPEN, the European e-Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism by Nascimento et al. (Nascimento. 2014) - it's not essentially new, but actually quite a nice reminder of the fat that what I said about l-arginine in the nitrate article was not all made up. An addendum to the nitrate study: Even a persistent 5% reduction in RMR would not necessarily inhibit weight loss + you can argue that your body needs less energy / oxygen, because it works...

Coffee - 3 Cups Per Day Keep Insulin at Bay: You Better Start Today if You Want to Retain Your Insulin Sensitivity, and Stay Cancer & CVD Free Beyond Your Own Centennial!

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I am not entirely sure how often I have used the sentence "consistency is key", here at the SuppVersity , but there is no way I don't reiterate it in the context of the never-ending debate over the pros and cons of habitual coffee drinking, once again. While much of the experimental evidence would suggest that coffee, or to be precise, caffeine the major methylxanthine in the brown brew is a bad sympathetic nervous system activator that stresses your body and will deteriorate your glucose and fat metabolism, the majority of the epidemiological evidence points into the exact opposite direction. A paper that's going to be published in the next issue of AGE the Journal of the American Aging Association could however help not just to bridge the widening gap between the ever-increasing number of epidemiological studies showing between moderate caffeine consumption and metabolic, cardiovascular, neurological, and cellular health (see list at the end of this post) and t...

Cold Thermogenesis - A Safe Ephedra Alternative? 70kcal Increase in 24h Energy Expenditure is Negligible, 50% Lower Than Ephedrine - Not Worth the Torture, Bro!

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Image 1 ( odditycentral ): Jin Songhao , one of China’s most seasoned icemen and not exactly as lean as you may expect based on what you currently read around the blogosphere, managed to beat the previous world record for the longest ice bath - 120min! Congrats, Jin! Ephedrine for years the go-to OTC fat burner for physique athletes and average Joe's and Jane's alike is no longer (officially) available: No matter how bold the label claims about X mg of "ephedra extract" may be - NONE(!) of the currently available "ephedra based" over-the-counter (OTC) fat-burners contains significant amounts of the active alkaloids, which made the old Mua huang based herbal ephedra products so effective. Against that background, dieters are constantly on the look-out for novel "gimmicks" to help them finally get rid of those annoying love-handles. One of those gimmicks, which has caught quite some attention as of late, is called " cold thermogenesis ...
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