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Post CHO or PRO Supps for Workout Regeneration? VPX' Protein Rush or Plain Gatorade? I'd Love Sponsored Supp Research, If it Ever Produced Really Meaningful Results

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It goes without saying - for a true gymrat and physical culturist, there can be only one ideal post-workout regeneration beverage ... but it looks as if it was not among the contestants. No, I am not going to tell you another time about my mixed feelings wrt to the VPX sponsored studies . I mean, let's face it - at least they do conduct research on their products and with the study at hand even helped a PhD student to complete her thesis. For the latter, Shannan Lynch recruited 15 male subjects (31.7 ± 6.2 yrs old) who had been exercising at least five times per week for at least an hour for a year or more, and have at least one year of strength training experience. He grabbed a couple of packs of VPX Protein Rush (I suppose he rather got them via mail ;-) and bought a ton of Gatorade Orange to serve as a control in what was supposed to be an investigation into the relative effects on fitness performance indices (agility T-test, push-up test, and 40-yard sprint) of the said s...
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Cod Liver Oil vs. URTI. 2x Higher Fat Oxidation W/ Optimal Workout Timing, Aggressive Diabesity Control, Seaweed & Breast Cancer and NO Supplements Superior to Sugar

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Self-proclaimed experts will say: "No cod liver! It's poison! It has way too much vitamin A... you better pop a kg of vitamin D pills if you want to do something for your health." Really? How do you explain the results of the Robertson study, then? "Grandma was right" - That's if you will the statement of the week - a statement that is verified by the SuppVersity Figure of the Week which is p = 0.04 and describes the probability that the association between the consumption of cod liver oil and a decreased occurrence of upper respiratory tract infects (URTI) Swedish researchers observed in a cohort of 6350 middle-aged and elderly participants in the Tromsø Study 6 , of which Robertsen et al. had actually expected that it would finally confirm the protective effects of high(er) vitamin D levels / intake against respiratory disease. As it turned out, however, neither vitamin D (25-OHD), nor the intake of fish, n-3 capsules or vitamin and/or mineral suppl...
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Adelfo Cerame - Road to The Wheelchair Nationals '12: Three Basic Tweaks to Rid Yourself of Nasty Body Water. Plus: Three New Purus Labs Supps in My Stash!

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Image 1: More often than not it's simply water that is keeping you from achieving the physique of your dreams. A profound morning vs. evening difference is characteristic of water, not fat being the last hurdle. I don't know about you, but for me Thursday has become one of my favorite days, here at the SuppVersity . Not only can I take the seat of the almighty editor-in-chief and let other people do the work for me, I also get to read an interesting and enlightening blogpost on my own blog - sounds good, hah? Specifically, if - just like today - the topic your author blogs about is one that is actually dear and near to your heart... and I can tell you retaining superfluous and unattractive body water in the lower abdomen area is something I have involuntarily become an expert in . Hitherto, I have yet not found a way to keep the vein that is showing on my lower abs in the morning "in place" for the whole day. It appears the "water pressure" is just too h...
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VPX Pre- & Post-Workout Nutrition Gets "Sponsored" Scientific Approval: +4% Lean Mass, -6% Body Fat, +13% Upper and +21% Lower Body Strength in 29 Days

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Image 1: Supplemental double-whammy. VPX' now "scientifically proven" pre- & postworkout products This is one of those cases, where I cannot decide whether I should applaud VPX or just shake my head ... the scientist in me says: "Hey, you know how that is - with a research grant from the government cutting edge science is impossible, especially if you want to investigate something as 'profane' as building muscle" . The cynic skeptic, on the other hand, whispers: "Come on, what results would you expect, if the study was financed by the producer of the supplement under scrutiny?" I guess I will applaud skeptically and exercise special caution in my analysis of the latest study from the Department of Health and Performance at Baylor University ( Willoughby. 2011 ). As in previous studies ( Willoughby. 2007 ; Willoughby. 2009 ), Darryn S. Willoughby and his colleagues availed themselves of a buckload of VPX supplements and recruited...
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Yes, Skin Bursting Pumps Will Make Your Muscles Grow

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Arnold already knew: "If you want to grow, go for the pump!" A recent study by Soltow et al. ( Soltow. 2010 ) expands on Arnold's hypothesis - what you need is pump and stretch . The scientists studied the effect of nitric oxide (NO) on C2C12 myoblasts and found: NO, COX-2, and NF-kappaB are necessary for stretch-induced proliferation of myoblasts. Although COX-2 and NF-kappaB are both involved in basal proliferation, NO does not affect basal growth. Thus, NO requires the synergistic effect of stretch in order to induce muscle cell proliferation. So, more NO, some stretch and / or skin bursting pumps? That reminds me of the good old first generation pump supplements with arginine, of which I can only repeat do not dump your good old NO Xplode , White Flood , Super Pump 250 , VPX Shotgun , etc. down the toilette. It is not for nothing that they have been around for years! What's more, Arginine and Ornithine (ingredients of the first generation Pump Supps) ha...
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Citrus Aurantium / Synephrine for Weight Loss: What Science Tells Us

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It was praised as the ultimate safe replacement for ephedrine and has been present in numerous fat burner for years. Lately, synephrine is disappearing from the next-generation fat burners and there appears to be some reason for that. A 2004 review by Fugh-Berman & Meyers (2004) had already established: There is little evidence that products containing C. aurantium are an effective aid to weight loss . Synephrine has lipolytic effects in human fat cells only at high doses, and octopamine does not have lipolytic effects in human adipocytes. Just taking more synephrine to achieve the required levels, on the other hand, is dangerous. As a study by Arbo et al. (2009) indicates, Citrus aurantium (400/2000mg/kg) consumption leads to oxidative damage in mice: There was an increase in reduced glutathione (GSH) concentration in groups treated with C. aurantium 4000 mg/kg and p-synephrine 30 and 300 mg/kg. In glutathione peroxidase (GPx), there were an inhibition of the activity in C...
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VPX Clenbutrx Hardcore - Brief Overview

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Being asked by a member of a Facebook page I visit regularly (hi Paul!) I thought I could publicly go into some detail on this purported " hardcore fat destroying formula ". So what do we have? Obviously, a proprietary blend , i.e. except from the person who mixes the product, nobody knows the exact dosage of the ingredients. The only thing they tell you is that the whole blend weighs 449mg and of these 165mg are caffeine (that stuff that has its name from coffee, you know!?). This is about the amount some of the milder pre-workouts carry as well and equals 2 smaller cups of coffee. The standard for thermogenics is about 200mg caffeine per serving and the fact that VPX cuts back on that is promising, because they must be convinced people will see results even without high amounts of caffeine (a very cheap ingredient) that might give some people the shivers. Overall, the formula is very similar to other VPX products. As far as scientifically proven thermogenic or adipolytic...
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