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Moderate Alcohol Consumption Will NOT Impair Your Gains, Despite Non-Sign. Reductions in Protein Synthesis!?

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Athletes and alcohol don't mix, right? If we go by the results of a recent rodent study, this long-standing recommendation appears to be unwarranted for athletes whose main concern are increases in muscle size. You will remember that I have written about studies investigating the effects of alcohol consumption on skeletal muscle gains in response to resistance training before. While previous studies tried to pinpoint the effects by measuring the effects of alcohol consumption on post-exercise muscle protein synthesis and did thus produce questionable results, boozers, ... ah I mean, researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine have now performed the true litmus test - albeit in mice. In contrast to the previously discussed studies , Jennifer L. Steiner, Bradley S. Gordon & Charles H. Lang from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the  Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania investigated the semi-chronic effects of "moderate" alcoh...
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True or False: The Occasional Weekend Alcohol Binge Does not Hamper Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy, Will Not Decrease Testosterone and Cannot Impair Your Strength & Recovery

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Brain & muscle get along astonishingly well. Booze & muscle don't. A glass of wine from time to time. That's not a proper rhyme and probably less beneficial for your health than the rave press-released about "French Paradoxes" and the potent health effects of the negligible amounts of resveratrol in red wine would suggest, but it's certainly not as bad as a regular weekend binge - a habit with health consequences that go far beyond the well-known damaging effects on the liver. It has also been associated with reductions in brain volume (Liesdahl. 2013) and acute reductions in grey matter blood supply (Serrador. 2013). Regular alcohol consumption will also increases the risk of stroke (Rantakömi. 2014), messes with cardiovascular health (Ryu. 2014) and disturbs your sleep (Canham. 2014). Better consume protein than alcohol learn why at the SuppVersity Are You Protein Wheysting? Cod protein for recovery Protein requ. of athletes High E...
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Ultimate Post-Workout Testosterone Booze: Hard Liquor Increases Late PWO Testosterone Levels by Almost 100%

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"No pain no gain?" No, that ain't the blood dropping from you wound hands.Those are the remnants of your next goto PWO drink. A Bloody Mary ! While I have been covering all sorts of testosterone-related stuff within the past couple of weeks, one thing has still been missing: The classic herb from the darkest jungle that'll increase the testosterone levels of one out of the two testers the respective company claims to have beta-tested their product on by whatever incredible percentage. Ok, I must admit, I don't have such an herb at hand at the moment, but what about Bloody Mary? No, not for the tomato juice, although that would be an awesome addition ( learn more about "TomatoRade(R)") to the alcohol! Alcohol? You're kiddin' me... right!? At least at first glance it certainly looks as if you could hardly find better news for all the partying muscle heads out there, than the soon-to-be-published paper by Jakob L. Vingren, David W. Hill, H...
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Adelfo Cerame - Road to The Wheelchair Nationals '12: Bring Your Cucumbers to Vegas! Or, How Intermittent Fasting Can Make a Road-Trip Bodybuilding Compatible

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Image 1: When a bodybuilder heads to Vegas, its either for the Arnold or because he knows the difference between passion and obsession. I don't know what to say, but somehow I think I am kind of jealous. My friend Adelfo is heading to Vegas and I am sitting here in the rainy cold, reading about how he is preparing not for the contest, but for three wild days in Las Vegas! I mean if it were for the Arnold's... but no, it is just for fun! And you know what? That is exactly what it takes to be successful - making bodybuilding your passion, not your obsession. How that works? Well, I guess I will hand over to Adelfo give you his rundown of the fundamentals, like choosing hard liquor over beer and making sure to be in a drunken stupor not before the bar, but before your feeding window closes ;-) Viva Las Vegas! There is no life beyond, but a life with bodybuilding! Las Vegas! That's the place to be... well, it will be for me over the next three days - belated birthday ...
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