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Ursolic Acid, Leucine or Placebo for mTOR, IGF-1, Irisin, Size & Strength Gains & Fat Loss? Plus: Tart Cherry Powder as Anti-Oxidant Immune Protector for Athletes

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Weights are better than pills, but in some cases, they can also work synergistically. A new month, a new exercise & supplementation research overview for the "SuppVersity Short News". In today's installment I am going to highlight the latest evidence for the beneficial anti-oxidant & immuno-protective effects of tart cherry powder in endurance athletes. I am going to discuss the disappointing results of a comparison between leucine and ursolic acid as mTOR-elevating, IGF-1 receptor modulators in the post-workout window. And I am going to contrast these findings to the results of a non-sponsored chronic resistance training + ursolic acid intervention from a group of Korean scientists. Read more short news here at the SuppVersity Obesity Research Upd. Nov. '14 Exercise Res. Upd. Nov '12(1) Exercise Res. Upd. Nov '12(2) Nutrition Res. Update Nov. '14 Weight Loss Tricks & More Reductive Stress, Iron & the Military ...
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It's in the Peel - The Protective Hull of These 61 Super Fruits Can Ward Off Cancer: Prunes, Plums, Jujube, Kiwi, Pitaya, Apple, Banana, Lemon, Cherry, Kumquat, Pomelo,...

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Peru Ground Cherries could be among the most potent fruity anti-cancer agents nature has to offer. In all the hoopla around "anti-nutrients", people tend to forget that the majority of the hailed phenols, flavenoids etc. serve the very same purpose, they protect the fruit of certain plants. For a recent study from the School of Public Health and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangzhou, as well as the Peking Univerity Fang Li et al. have now compiled an extensive list of fruits, their peels, pulp and seeds and the corresponding anti-proliferative activity, you may want to use as an anti-cancer shopping guide, when you are grocery shopping... and if you do so, don't peel them: the protective peel is where nature stores most of the stuff that kills cancer cells by having them suffocate in their own reactive oxygen species! Keep in mind, while the fruits can kill cancer in the petri dish you would be asking too much if you expect to cure existing cancer by just ...
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Fruit Olympics: Study Analyses Antioxidant and Total Phenolic Content of 62 Fruits

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Did you ever want to know how your favorite fruit would perform in the most prestigious disciplines of the "Fruit Olympics", i.e. antioxidant capacity and phenolic content ? Yes? Well, I guess a group of researchers from China has just done you a favor... Xu et al. ( Xu. 2011 ) analysed the antioxidant capacity by Ferric-reducing antioxidant power ( FRAP ) assays and the free radical scavenging capacities by Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity assays ( TEAC ) and found: Seven fruits had the strongest antioxidant activities among 62 tested fruits [...] they were Chinese date, pomegranate, guava, sweetsop, persimmon, Chinese wampee and plum (sanhua) . In addition, olive showed the strongest free radical scavenging ability , and cherry and pineapple also had high antioxidant capacities. Because of their high antioxidant activities, it could be speculated that these fruits will be beneficial for the diseases caused by oxidative stress. An interesting observation is that t...
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