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Casein & Fat Oxid., Protein, BCAA, T-Booster, Omega-3, Beta-Alanine, GABA, PWO Caffeine, Rhodiola, Peppermint, Hunger, HIIT, Crossfit, Ketone Supps, ZMA & DAA

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Science Round-Up July '16 Whoo... those were ~1000 presentations and poster abstracts in the May 2016 supplement of  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise  and not each of them was exactly "exciting". In order to save you the trouble of going through all of them, I have picked 16 of them and put them together in a Science Round-Up  that spans from taking casein before bed and its effects on your nightly fat oxidation over the long-term (20 weeks!) performance benefits of beta-alanine and GABA's astonishing ability to boost your gains, to the insulin-boosting effects of ketones (+100%). Enjoy. There were also a few studies on periodization schemes - nothing new, though 30% More on the Big Three: Squat, DL, BP! Mix Things Up to Make Extra-Gains Linear vs. Undulating Periodizationt 12% Body Fat in 12 Weeks W/ Periodizatoin Detraining + Periodization - How to? Tapering 101 - Learn How It's Done! Taking casein before bed won't...
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Magnesium Round-Up: Know If You Are Deficient, Whether You Need More, Where to Find It, How Dietary Mg Contents Changed & How Magnesium Interacts W/ Vitamin D

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24%, 23% and 22% of the DV for magnesium that's what you can find in one serving of sunflower seeds (0.25cup), halibut (4oz) and a large(r) banana - now you tell me it was impossible to get your magnesium from dietary sources. After having handled half of the Science Round-Up from Thursday yesterday, yesterday , there is still something left to serve: seconds to the seconds, if you will and probably not so "new" as the average SuppVersity news. In order not to bore you, I will yet refrain from telling you how important magnesium is and how it is involved in thousands of enzymatic reactions ... you know the whole magnesium-guru-spiel all too well, anyway. I mean, anyone doing a cursory Google search will have to conclude that there is nothing magnesium cannot cure, right?. Whatever you may suffer from, someone has already found out that it must be related to magnesium deficiency or, even more profitable, taking the wrong form of magnesium supplements. Apropos defici...
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Zinc: 15mg Are Plenty - After 120 Days Rodents on Diets Containing 2xRDA of Zinc Develop Metabolic Syndrome

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Image 1 ( scipop ): Physicists and battery specialists know that copper and zinc make a galvanizing couple. If you put too much copper into your "battery" it will however stop working. A recently published study from the Panjab University in India clearly suggests that doubling or quadrupling your zinc intake, a common practice in the health and fitness community, could do more harm than good. After only 4 months on a low phytate, high zinc diet (2x or 4x more zinc than in the standard chow), the rodents in the medium and high zinc intake goups showed a couple of unsettling metabolic changes (Taneja. 2012): 20-40% increase in food intake 20% increased body weight 2x or 2.7x elevated blood sugar 3.75x or 6x elevated insulin levels 100% increase in cortisol 2x or 2.5x elevated leptin levels In short, while the Wistar rats that consumed the basal diet with the "rodent RDA" of 20mg zing per kg diet (0.53mg/day, 1mg/kg; HED ~0.17mg/kg or 8014mg/day) those ...
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Melatonin, Magnesium and Zinc for a Healthy Night of High Quality Sleep

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Sleeping disorders are very common in our hectic society and sleeping pills are among the no.1 drugs (ab-)used by the general public. At least in a very restricted group of subjects, the combination of melatonin , magnesium and zinc has now proven a very viable and certainly more natural alternative to the highly advertised "chemical maces" of the big pharma companies. Figure 1: Effects of treatment of the primary end point. Mean Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) (marker) are reported at baseline and at 8 weeks for the melatonin, magnesium, and zinc (left) and placebo (right) participants, together with their standard deviations (whiskers). (Figure 2 from Rondanelli. 2011 ) In a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial set in along-term care facility in Pavia, Italy, researchers from the University of Pavia ( Rondanelli. 2011 ) found a combination of 5 mg melatonin , 225 mg magnesium , and 11.25 mg zinc , mixed with 100 g of pear pulp taken 1 hour before bed...
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Chelated Copper: A Forgotten Lutenizing Hormone (LH) Booster

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The release of a new PCT-supplement by Fusion Supplement ingeniously called " Post Cycle Matrix " triggered my interest in the biological functions of L-histadine. According to the producer L-histadine will "compliment the increase of LH production from the Cordyceps, this compound acts to increase the responsiveness of the Leydig cells which use the LH to produce testosterone. These two components work together to jumpstart the Testosterone Feedback Loop back into production and finding your body's delicate balance. L-Histadine is a direct precursor to histamine which is an important component in the production of the testosterone activators and has been shown to increase the responsiveness of Leydig cells." Although there is no scientific evidence that oral L-histadine (according to my research this is identical to l-histidine, cf. servinghistory.com ) supplementation will increase LH and thus the release of androgens, there is scientific evidence for reduc...
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