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Eat Your Fish Oil and Digest it, Too (Unoxidized!) | DHA:EPA Ratio of 1:1 Minimizes Oxidation, Maximizes Uptake | Plus: Fishes that Come Close are Sardines, Rainbow Trout, ...

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The often-heard "the more DHA, the better"-rule is - like so much you'll read about fish oil online - not the evidence-based truth it seems to be. Some extra EPA may keep the oil from getting oxidized before you even absorb it. No, I am not a fish oil fanboy, that's for sure. But how can you be if your chances to get already oxidized fish oil are 100% if you buy any of the US TOP-sellers (and assume that it's not different in Europe). Speaking of which: There's new research allowing us to add two new and potentially important criteria to the inofficial SuppVersity-"How to buy and use your fish oil" guide. The corresponding research comes from an international team of researchers and was first published in 2017. It is thus not exactly revolutionarily new but in view of the fact that I haven't seen the results being addressed anywhere before still SuppVersity  newsworthy ( Dasilva 2017 ). You can learn more about omega-3 & co. at th...
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Garlic & Red Yeast Rice: Manage Your Blood Lipids W/Out Statins - 12+1 Natural Alternatives Reviewed (Part I)

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Red yeast rice is the "+1" in this SuppVersity Mini-Series  because it is actually a "statin". Similar effects, similar side effects and all that (probably) because of the similar structure of its lipid lowering active ingredient(s). "Twelve + 1"? I know that sounds odd, but I have my reason to single one of the natural alternatives, two scientists from the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand list in their 2016 review "A Review of the Efficacy, Safety, and Clinical Implications of Naturally Derived Dietary Supplements for Dyslipidemia", right from the start: red yeast rice (RYR). While garlic, which will also be discussed in today's first installment of what is going to become a mini-series, also has the ability to decrease your HMG-CoA reductase activity, only RYR does that at a similar potency as statins do; which is why its use entails the risk of similar side effects as they have been reported for regular statin drugs Whether RYR i...
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High Dose Stevia Turns Weight Gain into Loss, Lowers Lipid and Glucose Levels not Only When Used to Replace Sugar - Effects are Mediated by Reduced Energy Intake & Utilization

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There's very little "natural" about the natural sweetener stevia when it ends up in your food in form of purified and decolorized steviosids. As a SuppVersity  reader you'll know that "natural" does not equate "healthy". This, the proven anti-microbial effects stevia exerts in your gut and the fact that the currently available steviosid-based stevia products undergo more processing steps than than the dreaded aspartame warrant the question whether (a) stevia is safe and (b) as effective as other sweeteners when it comes to weight loss promotion. Since the optimal dosage of stevia to achieve meaningful effects is also not known, yet, scientists from the  Alexandria University  in Egypt investigated the safety ad efficacy of different amounts of stevia sweeteners (25, 250, 500 and 1000 mg/kg body weight per day) as a substitute for sucrose on weight gain or the weight loss and weight management of female rats on an ad-libitum diet. You can l...
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Sucralose is for Diabetics Not, Scientists say. But How Significant is the Cholesterol Increase They Observed?

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This way of consuming Splenda is quite certainly going to increase your cholesterol levels ;-) I guess, all of you will still remember the show Carl and I did on the "Pro-Insulinogenic Effects of Artificial Sweeteners" ( read more ), right? The one where I tried to point out that even if there was a meager change in the insulin response, this would only be a problem if there was any truth to  narrow-minded condemnation of insulin as the deadly obesity hormone, so that, in the end, the whole hoopla turned out to be way less daunting than some scare-mongers would have it. Yet while something deep inside of me is telling me that the latter is probably going to be the same with the recently published study that's at the focus of today's SuppVersity article, cannot refute that the data from that very rodent study that was published in the Journal of Nutrition Sciences does clearly suggest that... ...sucralose increases cholesterols! That certainly doesn't so...
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Asparagus Extract Tops Anti-Diabetes Drug Glibenclamide. Plus: Dozens of Add. Health Benefits - From Aphrodisiac to Anti-Hangover & from Neuroprotection to Anti-Aging

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Coho salmon, shrimp and asparagus with melted butter - better than any diabetes drug ;-) Within the last couple of weeks, I have been moving news-items like this one into the " On Short Notice "  category, or simply totally discarded the dozen or so "herb XYZ" or "extract ABC ameliorates hypoglycemia in rodent model of type II diabetes" papers that are published on a weekly basis. The mere number of studies on whatever exotic, herb, spice or isolated polyphenol from the most remote areas (usually in Asia) the names of which I often even have heard about before, is simply too large to cover them all... and let's be honest: In the end, it's also downright boring to read about stuff that decreases blood glucose in a rodent model to a miniscule extend, when you already know that chances that you ever get your hands on a significant amount of that are zero, right? There are however, two good reasons, why Rahman Md. Hafizur, Nurul Kabir and Sidra ...
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High Dose Caffeine + Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease = 355% Increased Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL)

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Image 1: Already in "pill form" - Coffee beans Caffeine, the world's #1 drug certainly is a remarkable substance. It does not only have myriads of well-established physiological effects, already, but it seems that - if you wanted to - you could identify another one everyday. It is thus not really surprising that a recently published study by Abd El-Ghany, M.A., Rasha, M. Nagib and Hagar, M. El-Saiyed from the Mansoura University in Egypt casts yet another, in this case, however, pretty scary light on the lifeblood of the average Starbucks junkie ( El-Ghany. 2012 ). Caffeine prevents weight gain - whohooo! Or not? The scientists set out to investigate the differential effects the oral administration of 10mg/day of pure caffeine, or dose-equivalents from coffee, (black) tea, cacao and Nescafe ( note : this is my understanding of the somewhat sloppy English translation of the methods) would have on the lipid levels of rats who had been pretreated with a lard-based h...
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