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Androgen 3-Some: BPA Exposure & Free Testosterone in Men. TRT Good For the Prostate. DHT, Alopecia (Hair Loss) & Monascus Fermentation. Plus: Mycotoxins in GCB Supps

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Coffee and green coffee bean extracts are by no means the only way by which you are exposed to mycotoxins. Corn, for example, is likewise a favorite for the toxic mold. The same goes for almost all other grains. Common routes of exposure are, amongst others cereals, bread s, wines, and even mils and meats (of swine ad turkey, not chicken; Duarte. 2010) 36%, 32%, 10%, and 16% these are the SuppVersity Figures of the week and the percentages of green coffee bean supplements (remember the chlorogenic acid news in Thursday's installment of the Science Round-Up ) that were contaminated with Ochratoxin A, ochratoxin B, fumonisin B1 and mycophenolic acid , respectively. "Mycotoxins occurred in the following concentration ranges: ochratoxin A: 2.7–136.9 µg/kg, ochratoxin B: 3.5–20.2 µg/kg, fumonisin B1: 110.0–415.0 µg/kg, mycophenolic acid: 43.1–395.0 µg/kg." (Vaclavi. 2013) These poisonous substances are produced by fungi that form during (inproper) storage and are sus...
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Science Round Up Seconds: 30-60% More Testosterone w/ 2.5g D-Aspartic Acid in Fertility Trial and Nicotine Amplifies Cardiotoxic Effects of ECA. Plus: Data on DHEA & Estrogen & Breast Cancer, Fermented Teas, AMPK, AKT & Co

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DAA is probably not going to hurt your heart, but it's more likely to father a child than to build those abs. Ephedrine & Caffeine on the other hand, could help you get there, but esp. if you are also smoking you are increasing the risk that the kids you fathered using DAA will soon be without their begetter. I guess most of all will have listened to the podcast of yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round Up already. If you didn't you have been missing Carl and me discuss new on the pro-carcinogenic effects of aspartame , the never-ending story of the fattening artificial sweeteners , the benefits of oat beta-glucans for weightloss, -maintenance and gut health, the way sorghum proanthocyanidins can lower the GI of carbohydrates and make them less susceptible to enzymatic breakdown in the small intestine, and more. Actually this more, i.e. the news on DHEA, its metabolits and their proliferative effect on breast cancer cells, as well as the info...
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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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Tongkat Ali Boosts Testosterone in Late Onset Hypogonadism: 200mg of Standardized Eurycoma Longifolia Extract Increases Total Testosterone by 47%

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Image 1: Let's hope no one uproats and steels this flowering plant from the family Simaroubaceae after reading about its testosterone boosting effects ;-) Kudos to Benson, who certainly is one of the Minds on the Mind And Muscle Forums (I don't know about his muscle, though ;-). Benson dug up a very recent article on the effects of "Ali's Stick" ( Tambi. 2011 ), which would be the literal translation of "Tongkat ali" , also known as the "Malaysian ginseng" , a herb that has been used by generations of men in South-East-Asia to improve their sexual performance, on testosterone levels in 76 male patients suffering from late-onset hypogonadism (LOH) and, consequently, Aging Males' Symptoms (AMS). The study that is going to be published in the next issue of Andrologia , the first international journal of andrology, was conducted by an international team of scientists from Malaysia and South Afri...
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