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3/3 TOP-Selling US Fish Oils Exceed Maximal Peroxide and Total Oxidation Levels - Levels Roughly 4000% Higher Than in Medical Grade N3 Supplements, Harvard Study Shows

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The US' favorite fish oil supplements: Dirt cheap and still not worth the money. Better buy fish - fresh fish. "I told you so!" That's how someone else in my position would probably start today's blogpost. In view of the fact that "smartassing" is not exactly an effective means of education, I will yet refuse from reminding you that I've been reporting about unwanted side effects of the gold-ish pills that claim to have "fish oil" in them on various occasions. And guess what!? The publication of a recent study by scientists from the  Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital at the venerable Harvard Medical School , gives me yet another reason to rant against the evermore popular fish oil supplements. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppVersity Fish Oil Makes You Rancid? POPs in Fish Oils are Toxic! N3/N6 Ratio Doesn't Matter MUFA & Fish Oil Don't Match Fish Oil Doesn...
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Low Dose Silymarin (Milk Thistle) Boosts Reduction in Body Fat % W/ Both, Strength (-9%) & Endurance Training (-11%)

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The "classic" user of silymarin supplements is either fat, sick and suffering from NAFLD, or big, buffed and taking oral steroids. Athletic women like the ones in the photos above, on the other hand, have not yet  been very likely to buy and use silymarin supplements... well, unless they were (ab-)using oral, hepatoxic steroids, as well, obviously. When bros talk about Silymarin, the active ingredient in milk thistle, they usually do that in the context of "cycle support", i.e. the use of supplements to buffer the negative effects of (oral pro-)hormones on organ- and, specifically, liver-health. A recent study from the  Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences  in Iran, however, the "bro-talk" may change that, though. In the study, which was meant to test, whether silymarin a scientifically proven (Dixit. 2007; Saller. 2009; Surai. 2015) "powerful antioxidant" (Shirali. 2016), will also affect athletic performance, N = 45 (unfortuna...
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Significant Weight Gain W/ Whey vs. Casein?! Anabolism / Muscle-Protection or Fat Gain Despite Hitting the Weights?

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While being misinterpreted as an "anti-whey" study by one of you, the latest whey as your main protein source study from Brazil only adds to the evidence that there's something special about whey. One thing I like about writing this blog is that I have a lot of contact to you, the readers. One of you recently sent me the link to a study from the  University of Ouro Preto  in which the authors report what he called a "disconcerting" weight gain when exercise and weight training were combined. A closer look at the study reveals, however, that this "disconcerting" weight gain (even though that is not totally obvious) is probably good news. But before we get to the implications and interpretations, let's first take a look at what the scientists did and what they observed. You'll see that this is of paramount importance wrt to not misinterpreting the weight gain in  Figure 1 . Note that the study at hand is not about High-protein diets - w...
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Bad News For Vitamin Fans - C + E Supplementation Blunts Increases in Total Lean Body and Leg Mass in Elderly Men After 12 Weeks of Std. Intense Strength Training

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Chicken legs, old man? Must have been too much antioxidants ;-) If this is not your first SuppVersity article, you may have read about the potential negative effects of (high dose) anti-oxidant supplementation in previous SuppVersity articles about, or touching on the effects of hormesis , i.e. the beneficial effects of "good oxidative stress". Up to now I have yet often said that it is possible that this effect occurs mostly in people who can handle stress pretty well and thus have to hammer it to trigger a measurable adaptive response. The elderly subjects in the latest study from the University of Agder in Norway (Bjornson. 2015), however, don't exactly belong to the group of people I was thinking about, when I phrased this hypothesis. Learn more about hormesis and potential neg. effects of antioxidants at the SuppVersity Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? NAC Impairs Anabolic Effects of Exercise If Vitamin C is Low, Taking More is Go...
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To Boil or Not to Boil? What's Going to Make Your Tea the Healthiest? Recent Study: It Depends on the Type of Tea

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Hot or not? That could be a matter of health or ah... well almost death ;-) Usually a "tea" is a hot beverage, right? No? Well, ok there's ice-tea, but even the coolest of all teas is initially brewed with hot, sometimes almost boiling water. A practice of which a recent study from the   Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná in Brazil suggests that it may actually impair some of the beneficial effects of Baldo, White, Black and Mate tea. How come? Well, in the study Vanessa de Carvalho Rodrigue, et al. conducted, it made a huge difference in terms of the total phenol and flavenoid content of the extracts (=the aformentioned teas) when the scientists used cold water instead of water that was 80°C "hot". You can learn more about tea at the SuppVersity Use Roiboos for Stress & Virus Control Tired? Theacrine Will Get You Goin' in Minutes Milk, Tea & Honey Don't Mix?! Theacrine or Caffeine for Brain Power? Aluminum, Lead...
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