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You will remember that this is not the first time capsaicin made it into the SuppVersity  news - as a fat burner and potential ergogenic that is | learn more . That capsaicin is a relatively powerful metabolic isn't news. In  Nutrition Research  Rigamonti et al. write: "Studies in animals and humans have shown that capsaicin decreases food intake and increases energy expenditure, stimulates fat oxidation, regulates appetite (by decreasing hunger and increasing satiety), and modifies the expression of some hypothalamic peptides implicated in food intake" ( Rigamonti 2018 ) - effects of which the authors highlight that they have been observed in both, lean and overweight adults, but not in "obese adolescents, who are at high risk to become obese adults and for whom effective multidisciplinary integrated body weight reduction programs are needed" (ibid). If you develop too much stomach acid,  bicarbonate may help + it has ergogenic effects, too! Caffeine...

If you want to show off your "guns" cold water immersion (CWI) may be counterproductive in the short- and long-run. In the hours and days after the workout, you'll miss the swelling, over weeks you'll blunt 'ur gainz. No, today's article is not about the effects of cold water on a man's "most personal parts". Rather than that, it's - at least in parts - about the latest study from the University of Trás-os-Montes & Alto Douro in Portugal which shows that the immediate post-workout application of cold water immersion will significantly reduce the swelling of your biceps you'd normally see last for days after a workout. This paper, alongside the latest research on the ergogenic effects of capsaicin supplements on short-medium distance running and the surprisingly position-depending inaccuracy of multi-frequency bioimpedance measurements of the body composition of collegiate football players, are the studies discussed in today'...

Red peppers - too hot for you? CH-19 Sweet is non-pungent pepper w/ similar metabolic effects ( Ohnuki 2001a ) You will probably have encountered capsaicin in one or another kitchen-sink supplement in the past. Probably without knowing if and how much it contributed to the fat loss and/or performance effects of said product. I promise: After reading this extended review of a recent study by de Freitas, Cholewa, Freire et al. (2017) your perspective on this "ah, it also contains ... wtf" ingredient may change significantly. Why's that? Well, next to previously cited, latest and greatest research on the ergogenic effects  of capsaicin, there's also a bunch of quite exciting papers on its ability to help you lose body fat  and promote your metabolic and overall health . Learn more about alleged and true fat burner at the SuppVersity For Caffeine, Timing Matters! 45 Min or More? DMAA (Jack3D) - The Good, the Bad & the Evil How 'Harmless' are T...

Lemon Juice, Resistant Starch, Coffee, Blueberries, Chili, Ginseng, Ginger, Mate, Gymnema Sylvestre, Bitter Melon - they are all in this fourth serving of the insulin sensitizing supplements series and they are all in this collage. Can you identify all of them? First of all, let me thank you for flooding me with good suggestions for supplements that should be discussed in this last installment of the series . It's Friday now that I start writing this post and it is probably going to be Sunday, before I find the time to finish the last of your suggestions; and that despite the fact that I am going to try to cut the infos short when I can foresee that it is not worth going into more details, anyway. Not worth going into details? Yep, one of the supps, where this is clearly the case was suggested by Colby who wants me to address sodium-R-lipoic acid , which is nothing else but R-ALA and in my mind a scientifically unsupported spin-off of ALA that may in fact be inferior to the r...