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Beer by the numbers. With me being a German citizen, you probably suspect bias when it comes to the health effects of beer... and you're right: I hate beer! I don't know why, but I don't like the taste of it and only drink it when it's necessary to socialize. Accordingly, you may believe me when I tell you that a recent study from the Federal Inst. of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) found that drinking 330ml of alcoholic  beer is not only not bad, but downright healthy. From previous articles about beer, here at the SuppVersity , you will remember that non-alcoholic beer is an excellent sports drink (learn more in "The Ergogenic Effect of Nonalcoholic Beer Front- & Back Loading + 15 Beerish Health Facts Everyone Should Know" | read it ). Read about exercise- and nutrition-related studies in the SuppVersity Short News Alcohol, Microbes & International Chest Day Aug '15 Ex.Res. Upd.: Nitrate, Glycogen, and ....

While alcohol doesn't impair the regeneration and doing HIIT before weights leaves women's gains unchanged while potentially boosting their fat loss, training twice a day, every day appears to be a good idea only for those who are afraid that they could become "too muscular". Not every study is worth being discussed at length in an article of its own. This is why I've come up with the "Short News" or "Research Updates" - articles like the one at hand in which I address 3-5 studies very briefly. Mostly to give you an idea of the results and make sure that you can say "Yo, I've read about that study, bro" at the gym, when someone tells you: "You know, man, there's that new study showing that alcohol does not exacerbate the inflammatory response to exercise, bro!" Ok, that was a joke. I hope your real reason to read the following elaborations is to make sure that the way you train is in line with what works accord...

PWO alcohol is not for male athletes. But before you rejoice, ladies. The ill health effects of a given amount of alcohol are more severe for the fairer sex. It's Christmas! And you can almost smell the new year with its smell of alcohol approach... and that's bad news for your gains, as a recent study in the latest issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research  shows. With a study on the possible interference of upper body training on your leg-day recovery (Abaïdia. 2017), and the purported benefits of lactic acid bacteria for athletes' immunity (Michalickova. 2017), Duplanty's study, which shows that alcohol will impair the adaptation to resistance training in previously resistance trained men , but not female trainees w/ RT experience (Duplanty. 2017), constitutes what's probably going to be the last SuppVersity  Science Update for 2016. Read about rather exercise-related studies at the SuppVersity TeaCrine®, Tribu-lus, Cordyceps, ALA, Se...

Science is a social endeavor. Those who fail to realize that will never reach their full intellectual capacity. As I pointed out two days ago , there were still a lot of studies to discuss in the May 2016 supplement of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise . So, I sat down and went through the rest of them always looking for papers like "Correlations Between Omega-6: Omega-3 Fatty Acid Ratio and Physical and Cognitive Function in Older Adults", which happens to be the one most people asked for, even though it should be hardly surprising that the scientists' analysis of data from 28 older adults simply confirmed what you probably know, anyways: "These preliminary data suggest that dietary omega 6:3 ratio is inversely associated with physical and cognitive function in older adults" (Gurevich. 2016). Now, this does mean that "consuming a diet with a lower omega-6: omega-3 ratio may promote the maintenance of physical and cognitive function in...