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Conventional vs. Organic Wold Premiere - First Study to Confirm: Yes! Extracts From Organic Beets Have Higher Anti-Cancer Activity Than Conventionally Grown Ones

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No matter how you eat, 'em. You got to love your organic beets, 'cause the tumors in your belly will hate 'em ;-) You will probably remember my previous articles about the things you get "extra" with conventional produce, right? The stuff most of you will probably want to avoid. Pesticides, heavy metals, all sorts of nasty chemicals.; obviously all within the tolerable intake level and thus "perfectly safe" - you know ;-) No? Well, in that case, I would suggest that you go back and take (another?) look at "Conventional vs. Organic: It's Not About Getting More, But Getting Less For Your Money. Less Pesticides, Dioxins & Co" ( read more ), before you read today's SuppVersity article about the difference between naturally fermented beetroot juices from organic and conventional production in today's article. You can learn more about beetroot juice at the SuppVersity Ask Dr. Andro: Is Creatine Nitrate Worth It? Ni...
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The Beat Your Personal Bests W/ Beets 101: How Much? 8.4 mmol Nitrate ~400-1300g Beets! When? 2.5h Pre Workout!

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There are two things you have to keep in mind, when you want to reap the benefits: Timing and dosage. With the currently available nitrate-based / -containing supplements, and both were probably off for the average customer. It has gotten quiet around nitrate supplements. Irrespective of a handful of interesting studies that were published in the past months (Hoon. 2013; Thompson. 2013), the negative results got more attention among the disappointed consumers of one of the profoundly underdosed nitrate supplements that have suffocated the initial enthusiasm on part of the average and extraordinary gym rat. The use of the natural alternative, i.e. beet root juice, on the other hand, is complicated, because there is little information on how much nitrate you need and how much of it can be found in the average beet from the supermarket. Nitrates for your heart: I know ergogenics are sexy, but how sexy is an increase in performance for someone who suffers from regular age- or self-...
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Two Weeks on 2.5g Betaine Increase Performance, IGF1 & Growth Hormone by Antagonizing Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone at the Hypothalamic Level

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Image 1: You can probably get some cheap betaine (TMG) from your local fishing (not vitamin) shop. Sometimes, the thing we have been looking for has been there all along. And, no, I am not talking about the love of your life, but the cheap, effective and side-effect free anti-catabolic ergogenic every hard training athlete and fitness fanatic could benefit from. It turns out, Betaine, or trimethyl-gylcine (TMG), the methylated version of the relatively unknown amino acid glycine could be just that: a readily available, cheap ergogenic with the ability to safely modulate your hormonal training response in a way that will actually translate into real world performance increments. It is not without reason that I underline the importance of real world performance increments against impressive figures on a (oftentimes unrealiable) lab report. What's the use of the 40% increase in testosterone supplement X has been shown to provide, w...
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Ask Dr. Andro: Is Creatine Nitrate Worth it? Is it Really That Superior to the Good Old Creatine Monohydrate?

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Question from Brian Recker ( via Facebook ): Hey, what's your opinion of creatine nitrate ? What would you say based on the science out there? Is it just more hype or is it really better than good old creapure ? Attention! I posted a follow u p on the safety of nitrate and the risk of nitrite on August, 13th. Image 1: Photoshop or creatine nitrate, what works best for increased vascularity? (Image from Vascular Bodybuilders Muscle ) Answer: The answer would be very short, if I solely based it "on the science out there", because there simply is no exercise- or supplement-related science behind C 4 H 9 N 3 O 2 .HNO 3 , or in plain English, the molecular combination of creatine (C 4 H 9 N 3 O 2 ) and nitric acid (HNO 3 ). The result is a bulky molecule weighing 194.5g/mol, i.e. 45.35g/mol more than regular creatine monohydrate (149.14844 g/mol) and 63.2 g/mol more than creatine anhydrous (131.3 g/mol). That being said, it probably won't surprise you that 6...
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