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Exercise Research Update March 2015: Citrate as pH Buffer not Effective, Circuit Beats HIIT Training for CV Health and Strength & More, Mental Fatigue & Anaerobic Performance

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Welcome to today's SV Exercise Research Update ;-) Time for a brief overview of the latest papers from the European Journal of Applied Physiology . Well, at least the ones that are of potential interest to gymrats, personal trainers and people working in the health and fitness industry. I have to admit. The studies are no longer "ahead of print" and thus actually from 2014, but that does not mean that they cannot be interesting news to you and would no longer be worth discussing, right? Read more short news at the SuppVersity Exercise Research Uptake Nov '14 1/2 Exercise Research Uptake Nov '14 2/2 Weight Loss Supplements Exposed Exercise Supplementation Quickie Exercise Research Uptake Jan 12, 2015 Read the Latest Ex. Science Update Impact of acute sodium citrate ingestion on endurance running performance in a warm environment (Vaher. 2014) Figure 1: Compared to bicarbonate, the pH buffering effects of sodium citrate are mediocre...
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No DHA & EPA in Non-Fish Fed Catfish. No Recovery From Ischemia W/ Low Carb. No Endocannabinoid Effects Without Medium Intensity Exercise. No Need to Tow Only Light Sleds

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Sarah Reinertsen ( click here to visit her webpage) was the first female leg amputee to participate and complete the Ironman (in 15h) and I bet she does not need the recent study by Galy et al. to be reminded of the benefits... no, the necessity of cycling your exercise intensity. In 2005 Sarah Reinertsen (image on the right) was the first female leg amputee to participate and complete the Ironman and honestly this would probably suffice as a figure of the week, but since this is a historic event, it does not necessarily qualify as the SuppVersity Figure of the Week . A figure that does qualify is the -15.7% decrease in post- exercise alveolar-capillary membrane diffusing capacity the highly trained triathletes in a soon-to-be-published paper by Galy et al. experienced after a 6-week "deload" (low training volume, intensity and frequency) period. What's interesting, though, is that the control group who remained on the same high training volume, intensity and fr...
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Science Round Up Seconds: 30-60% More Testosterone w/ 2.5g D-Aspartic Acid in Fertility Trial and Nicotine Amplifies Cardiotoxic Effects of ECA. Plus: Data on DHEA & Estrogen & Breast Cancer, Fermented Teas, AMPK, AKT & Co

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DAA is probably not going to hurt your heart, but it's more likely to father a child than to build those abs. Ephedrine & Caffeine on the other hand, could help you get there, but esp. if you are also smoking you are increasing the risk that the kids you fathered using DAA will soon be without their begetter. I guess most of all will have listened to the podcast of yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round Up already. If you didn't you have been missing Carl and me discuss new on the pro-carcinogenic effects of aspartame , the never-ending story of the fattening artificial sweeteners , the benefits of oat beta-glucans for weightloss, -maintenance and gut health, the way sorghum proanthocyanidins can lower the GI of carbohydrates and make them less susceptible to enzymatic breakdown in the small intestine, and more. Actually this more, i.e. the news on DHEA, its metabolits and their proliferative effect on breast cancer cells, as well as the info...
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Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium & Co in Food, Water & Supps - Getting Enough is Easy, Knowing How Much Is Not!

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Image 1: "Minerals? Yeah that's the stuff you need to avoid cramping" While this is certainly true, the mineral loss during "normal" workouts is largely overblown, the most important and actually only necessary ingredients in respective drinks, even for Ironman Triathletes, are salt, water and sugar and what's worse this prejudice conceals the importance of electrolytes for our general health. While it is Thursday, it is plain to see that this is not Adelfo Cerame's weekly SuppVersity post . There have been a couple of issues with the promised workout videos and neither I nor Adelfo wanted to postpone them yet another week so that we decided to rather publish videos + Adelfo's weekly update tomorrow instead of a reduced snippet today. To make sure you have more than enough food for thought to bridge the time, I applied a coupe of tweaks to a longer snipped from the next installment of On Short News that dealt with the protective effects of high...
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Mutant Milk!? New Research Fuels the Flames on Hushed Up Concerns About Ill Health Effects of Homogenized Milk

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Image 1: Wolverine could be the only face of the "Got Milk" campaign who does not have to care about potential negative health effects of homogenized milk. In view of the fact that even the Wikipedia article on milk mentions the long-touted hypothesis that the release of the  membrane bound (bovine) xanthine oxidase during the homogenization process and it's potential to generate reactive oxygen specimen could pose a serious health risk, it's quite funny that none of the multitude of papers on the pro- or anti-atheriogenic effects of milk ever mentions mentions the issue of homogenization. Now even if we discard the potential negative effects of BXO, the results of a recently published paper from the Center of Specialized Nutrition in the Netherlands would still suggest that milk does at least lose some of it's beneficial health effects in the course of the homogenization process (Oosting. 2012). Large and fluffy or small? That does ring a bell, doesn...
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Up To 180% Increase in Testosterone w/ Taurine? Androgen Boost Just One of the "Side Effects" of Cysteine Derivative That Won't Benefit (Pre-)Diabetic Baby-Boomers, Only

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Image 1: No, taurine is not made from the sperm of Belgian Blues and no it won't make you look like one overnight, either ;-) After yesterday's allegedly pretty complicated post on the fallacious ups and downs in body weight from repetitive dieting and episodes of overeating, I decided it was about time to readdress one of your all-time favorites: supplemental testosterone boosting . Instead of the next best herb from the Brazilian jungle that has a " history as a potent aphrodisiac in traditional medice " or the shrub that can be found " only in a specific region of the remote [... insert whatever your marketing guy believes would increase sales here]", I decided to take another look at one of the established readily available and dirt cheap ways to give your natural androgen production, fertility, fatty acid and glucose metabolism a leg - taurine , or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid (which is, by the way, not produced from bull semen, although its name, w...
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