SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

No sweat, just some wires? Study shows: It does not take much effort to lose belly fat. Liposuction is an invasive procedure that is not without risk. Against that background it's no wonder that people are marketing alternative methods like high-frequency current therapy as allegedly safe go-to methods to rid yourself of unwanted body fat. The question is: Do these currents actually help you to lose body fat? That is: Can electrocuting your belly "electro-cut" significant amounts of body fat? Practitioners who use this technology will say "yes". From a scientific standpoint, though, the question is difficult to answer, because the use of high-frequency current therapy has been given little attention in the scientific community. As Kim et al. point out in a recent paper in the J. Phys. Ther. Sci. , some previous studies have failed to provide evidence for the effectiveness of high-frequency current therapy in women with obesity, whereas more recent studies ...

I guess this is about as close as we have hitherto gotten to understand why we got fat. Wrt to the hilarious pace at which we got fat and are still getting fatter, we are much better informed though. After you've learned about the general importance of exercise for your health and a couple of tweaks that may or, as in the case of sugary "energy drink", may not help you maximize the benefits and performance gains on Saturday . The focus of today's SuppVersity article is on the results of non-exercise related studies that highlight non-exercise related confounders of your health. Before we get to the actual news, I would yet like to invite all of you to take a look back at the increasingly obese history of the US... I suppose those of you who have not yet seen the link on my Facebook wall, will enjoy the animated obesity map in the Atlantic article from April 11 . I mean, even if we still don't have anything but over-simplistic cookie-cutter "explanatio...

It's efficacy in situations like this has more scientific back-up than any of the muscle building of fat burning promises some Tongkat Ali supps come with. By now, most of you should have read the article on the testosterone "boozing" effects of alcohol and realized that the post workout Margarita probably comes off second best, when we compare it to whey and may - at least until we don't know otherwise - actually be pathological (=the result of a disturbance of the normal hormone metabolism in the liver). That being said, we better go back the "tried(!) and proven(?)" stuff. I mean a herb that goes by the name "Long Jack" does already sound way more promising than a "Blood Mary" doesn't it? "Long Jack? ;Malaysian viagra? Ok, I am in!" As the popular name already implies, the root of Eurycoma longifolia Jack , an evergreen plant that belongs to the family Simaroubaceae has a long (all puns intended) tradition in ...