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True or False: You Can (Ab-)Use Nicotine Chewing Gums to Get Shredded Without Compromising Your Health

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Nicotine gums are made for smokers. Smokers are leaner than non-smokers. Chewing nicotine gums helps you lean out... broscience? Logic? Or bullshit? It's one of the better-known pieces of broscience: "Nicotine chewing gums will promote weight loss!" Aside from being "better-known", it's yet also highly controversial. In that, people usually don't question the fact that nicotine chewing gums may promote weight loss (we do all know that smokers are leaner, don't we?), but rather that they do so in the absence of significant ill-health effects. Since this is the SuppVersity and not the bb.com bulletin board, I am not going to restrict today's analysis on the health issues. Instead, I will start by looking for scientific evidence that would confirm the common sense assumption that chewing nicotine gums does, in fact, promote weight loss -- in humans, not in rodents (Lupien. 1988). You can find more True or False articles at the SuppVersi...
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Sex, Drugs and... Exercise? Caffeine, Alcohol, Marihuana and Nicotine - Do All Our Favorite Addictions Clash With Being Healthy, Lean and Athletic?

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The only truly ergogenic addiction is a SuppVersity addiction ;-) I am not sure if you remember my detailed elaborations on the effects of sexual intercourse on exercise performance from May 30, 2012 [see "Will Sex Before a Competition Hamper Your Performance?" | more] , but if you don't I'd suggest you start out with this SuppVersity Classic before you devote yourself to Rock'n'Roll by reading up on that in my article "Acoustic Gear" [ read more ] and return here for the missing third part of the triumvirate: Drugs! Drug #1: Caffeine - From your coffee mug to the doping list I am actually 100% confident that 99% of you have already trained "on drugs". Most of you probably do it regularly. Either with caffeine, about which Tony Chou reported in a 1992 paper that it is consumed on a daily basis by ~90% of the adult population (Chou. 1992). With average amounts of "only" 200 mg or 2.4 mg/kg/day (about 2 cups of coffee). ...
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Science Round-Up Seconds: Nicotine's Effect on Brain Aromatase & the Consequences, 2D:4D Digit Ratio Predicts Testosterone Response to Sprinting and All the Anti-Obesity & Pro-Brain Effects W/ Just 2 Cups of Coffee per Week?

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Wallaby Lachie Turner (left), Greg Inglis (centre) & Jarryd Hayne (Stuff.co.nz) - who would have thought that the relative length of their 2nd and 4th digit could predict their testosterone response after the sprint? Not you? Well, then you got to check out the first of the short-items at the bottom. Those of you who have listened to yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on Super Human Radio, will have realized that the show did - as usual - take a somewhat different direction than originally planned. Before I get to the actual SuppVersity Round-Up Seconds , of which there actually weren't all too many I consider absolutely newsworthy and appropriate for a written format, I thought I would briefly mention the paper on which I based the hypothesis (remember: this is nothing certain ) that there may be a link between the calcium-influx into the muscle and the strength and hypertrophy effects of performance enhancing drugs (spec. those with a high a...
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Honey, Smoke & Testosterone: One Tablespoon of Honey Protects Your Leydig Cells From Oxidative Damage

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Image 1: A beehive in one of the beehives Koompassia excelsa (‘Tualang’) trees which grow in the Rain Forest of Kedah, Malaysia. " Have you already had your tablespoon of honey, Honey? " If that's what your girlfriend or wife asked you this morning, she is probably concerned about your testicular health... A group of Malaysian scientists has recently been able to show that 1.2g/kg/day (human equivalent: 0.2g/kg/day or about 1 tablespoon for an average adult man) of a off-the-shelf Malaysian Tulang honey protected the testis of rats , who had been exposed to cigarette some for 8 minutes three times per day, from damage and oxidative stress ( Mohamed. 2011 ). Before the experiment, the scientists had conducted FRAP and DPPHI assays to determine the in-vitro antioxidant activity of the sweet gummy superfood from "beehives built on a tall tree, Koompassia excelsa (locally named as ‘Tualang’ tree) that grows in the Rain Forest of Kedah". Figure 1: Total...
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