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Cupping for Pain, Health & Performance | Must Be Good, if Phelps Does it, Right? Let's See What the 100+ Studies Say

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The "cups" come in various forms and sizes... and no, there's no meta-analysis yet that can tell you what the optimal size and form for the treatment of a given disease / problem would be ;-) "If Phelps does it, it must be good!" I am pretty sure that SuppVersity  readers don't think like that this is why I'd like to invite you to join my brief research review on cupping, i.e. the use of cups that are sucked to specific acupuncture points on your back via a simply physics trick: After being heated with fire, the air in the cup expands rapidly only to decrease by the same extent after the pre-heated cup is placed on your back. The rapid reduction of the volume of air in the cup will will create a vacuum that will not just glue the cup to your skin, but literally suck some of your skin into the cup and the capillaries in the skin to rupture - no wonder Phelp's body was plastered with red "cup marks" during the Olympic games ;-) With Phe...
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Stevia Kills Good Gut Bacteria - One Study Enough to Stop Using the Natural Sweetener? Probably Not in View of its Anti-Diabetes, Anti-LDL, Anti-Viral & Anti-Cancer Effects

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Study indicates stevia kills healthy gut bacteria. So, how bad is it? Are the effects significant, will they have an impact on your overall health and does this mean you must not use stevia any longer? A recent study from the Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Latvia in Riga shows the impossible: Stevia, the "natural" sweetener that's everybody's darling, could mess up your gut microbiome by killing large numbers of the beneficial Lactobacillus Reuteri bacteria in your tummy - exactly those bacteria of which several studies have shown that supplementing will help cure acute diarrhea in young children (Shornikova. 1997), is capable of reducing frequency and intensity of antibiotic-associated side-effects during eradication therapy for H. pylori. (Lionetti. 2006), confers broad-spectrum protection against disease in humans and animals (Casas. 2000), has cholesterol lowering effects (Jones. 2012) and much much more. You can learn mor...
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The Pistachio Manifesto: Antioxidant, Metal Chelator, DNA Protector, Anti-Cancer Agent, Bug Killer (incl. H. Pylori & Herpes Simplex) & More. Have You Been Missing Out?

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This is not exactly what I was talking about, when I said "going nuts", but in this case it would actually qualify as "going pistachios" ;-) Walnuts, almonds and Brazil nuts, these are the stars among the hard-shelled fruits people tend to go nuts about (all puns intended ;-). Pistachios, on the other hand, get very little love. I have in fact written about their surprisingly low effective energy content and their highly bioavailable phenolic content before ( learn more ), but what the myriad of phenols in these small nutritional powerhouses the ancient Egyptians used as incense, preservative and breath sweetener, while their Iranian neighbors in the North East already knew about their beneficial effects on digestive, hepatic and kidney health (Avicenna. 2008) can do for our health has not been covered here at the SuppVersity . So what is it pistachios can do for you? With their traditional use as a remedy for digestive, liver and kidney issues, you already ...
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Are Camels the Better Cows? Cancer, Heart Disease, High LDL and Triglycerides, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Allergies, Viral and Bacterial Infections and Trace Mineral Deficiencies, Camel Milk Prevents or Fixes Them All!

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Image 1: To the average inhabitant of the Western hemisphere camels are probably not the most beautiful animals under the sun; but hey, cows aren't either, hah? When muscle-heads think of dairy, they think of whey, they think of casein, they think of cottage cheese... but I bet few of them will think of camels! Even if you just went by the mere amino acid composition (see. figure 2 at the end of the article), of which you, as an educated SuppVersity student should by now be aware that it does not give you the 'whole picture', as far as the biological effects of a given protein and peptide containing foodstuff is concerned, it appears that camel milk would at least make an excellent alternative for cows milk, in case global warming is progressing and Europe and the US turn into desert wastelands... but all jokes aside, muscle is not everything and I bet that after reading this article you will be interested to register for the US' first official camel milking semin...
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1.3g of Grape-Seed Extract Could Protect You From Oxidative Damage, Viral Infections, Obesity and Insulin Resistance, Reduce Your Heart Rate and Blood Pressure and Increase Your Nitric Oxide Production by >25%

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Image 1: Bought in bulk, grape-seed extract is actually reasonably cheap... and it does not even taste as awful as some other herb / seed extracts ;-) After initially being hailed as the yet another anti-oxidant panaceum, grape-seed extract (GSE) has been displaced by newer, fancier "superfoods" from the headlines of the major health and wellness newscasters. Therefore, even you, as a highly self-educated student of the SuppVersity could have missed out on a handful of recently released studies which reported antiviral effects of GSE ( Su. 2011 ) and confirmed its ameliorative effect on diet-induced obesity ( Ohyama. 2011 ) and (high) fructose-induced insulin resistance ( Meeprom. 2011 ). Moreover, a meta-analysis of nine controlled with more than 300 human subjects and daily doses ranging from 250mg to 2,000mg of GSE, which was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association ( Feringa. 2011 ), found that ... [b]ased on the currently available literature...
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