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  This is what the Jan '17 Science Update has to offer? -11% HbA1c reduction per 30 minutes activity, new benefits of blood flow restricted tr., the bone protective effect of immediate post-workout whey plus carb ingestion, and a new overtraining gauge... It's almost, February... almost and that's why today's SuppVersity article still qualifies as a January '17 research update. One that is based on the latest (ahead of print) papers from the peer-reviewed journal "Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise" - papers about the large impact of short bouts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) on the messed up glucose management of people with an increased T2DM risk, the bone-preserving effects of a mix of whey and dextrose and how this effect depends on timing, the belated and thus overlooked beneficial effects of blood flow restriction on muscular rapid force development and, last but not least, a potential new marker of overreaching...

The way we eat and live is not just obesogenic it is also acidogenic... or is the former just a consequence of the latter?  I've written about the nasty effects of low grade metabolic acidosis which include calcium loss and brittle bones, nitrogen / protein loss and decreased protein synthesis, impaired growth hormone and IGF-1 production and more in a 2013 SuppVersity Science Round-Up  ( read it ). For you, as a SuppVersity veteran who's read this and related articles , it should thus not be surprising that scientists from the  German Aerospace Center in Cologne were now able to establish a new, mechanistic link between the "long-term ingestion of habitually acidifying western diets may constitute an independent risk factor for bone degradation and cardiometabolic diseases" (Buehlmeier. 2015). As Judith Buehlmeier and her colleagues point out, we have long been aware of the ill effects of low-grade metabolic acidosis (LGMA), as induced by high dietary acid lo...

Ladies and gents, if you want to keep up with the youngsters and be able to play with your grand and grand-grand children you better put an emphasis on more than adequate protein intakes. Initially I wanted to talk about only one of the studies that were presented at the latest meeting of the Nutrition Society , but in view of the facts that (1) we are all going to be old one day, (2) we all have parents and grand parents at risk of muscle loss and sarcopenia and (3) we all are interested in some good research, I thought it may be a good idea to summarize the most important findings of three additional relevant presentations. Ah, before I get started: I would like to emphasize that the corresponding full papers have not been published, yet. I do thus apologize in advance that I won't be able to answer detail questions about the methods, side findings and allegedly interested, but hitherto unknown stuff like that. Read more short news  on various topics here at the SuppVers...