SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

Image 1: Looks good, tastes good, is good - and contrary to zinc , ingesting 2x the RDA will help you lose body fat, instead of setting you up for insulin resistance. Enough of useless ( ALA , zinc ) and useful ( glutamin ) supplements for at least 24h! Let's get back to what really counts: Training? No, not today,.. the other thing! The one, which is actually to be supplemented - your diet! Believe it or not - even after all those years, I am finding time and again that the food you put into your mouth has much more pronounced effects on the ways you look feel and perform than any of the countless useless and useful supplements. Accordingly and in response to the futile notion of "calories in vs. calories out" and the bomb-calorimeter representation of the human metabolism as a simple furnace, the past couple of years have seen an increasing public and (as of late) scientific interest in the effects varying macronutrient compositions will have on your ability to she...

Image 1: For these kids the high tryptophan + B6 breakfast would be useless unless they already got their 10min+ of direct sun exposure this morning A recently published study that was conducted by a team of international researchers led by Miyo Nakade from the Gakuen University in Nagoya, Japan ( Nakade. 2012 ), concludes that sunlight exposure and vitamin B6 and l-tryptophan intake with breakfast could be profound modulators of circadian rhytmicity in young children (N=816, age = 2-6 years). The results the researchers published in the latest issue of the Journal of Physiological Anthropology clearly suggest that the increased production of serotonin from l-tryptophan and the vitamin B6 metabolite pyridoxal 5’-phosphate (also known as PLP or p5p) exerts beneficial effects on the morningness-eveningness (M-E) score - a measure for the natural and highly desirable difference in wakefulness in the morning and sleepiness in the evening, the disturbance of which is among the emergin...

Image 1: It's not too late to do something for your health. Just make sure you or your loved ones back the right horse - and this si not the nag trotting along the race track in what it believes was the "fat burning zone" ;-) If you are, as I would hope, a regular here at the SuppVersity. I do not have to tell you that "cardio", and I am using this term here to refer to exercise that is in fact (and not just supposedly) heart healthy and will help you improve your conditioning, does not, or, I should say should not consist of doing hours of steady state aerobic exercise in the "fat burning zone". A question I do yet often get (and rightly so!) is how much is enough and what is too much? And while I stick to my experience based recommendation that 2-3x HIIT sessions at 15min are plenty (assuming you also lift weight), I don't want to deny you the latest results of a recently published study by scientists from the Duke University ( Duscha. 20...