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Coffee Beats Caffeine in the Gym: More Reps + Higher Total Volume on Squats Due to Ingredients Other Than Caffeine

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You don't necessarily have to bring fresh beans to the gym. A simple Nescafé instant coffee will serve the purpose, study shows. And it's going to work better than equal doses of straight caffeine. As a SuppVersity  reader you will know that coffee is much more than a brown liquid that contains caffeine. Many of its proven health effects I have discussed here and in shorter news items on Facebook  are after all related to the combination of anti-oxidant and stimulant agents in coffee - a brew that is so much more than just the sum of it parts. Against that background it is only logical that Darren L. Richardson and Neil D. Clarke from the Department of Applied Sciences and  at the  Faculty of Health and Life Sciences of the  Coventry University in the UK wanted to expand on the previously reported results by Trexler et al. (2015 | previously mentioned at the SuppVersity ). You can learn more about coffee at the SuppVersity For Caffeine, Timing M...
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Coffee, Tea, Cacao, Caffeinated Sodas & Breast Cancer: 5+ Cups/Day?! Study & Meta-Analysis Show, It May Take More Coffee Than Previously Thought to Ward Off Breast Cancer

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While you don't have to bath in coffee, one cup per day is probably not enough to protect your mammary glands. Initially today's SuppVersity post was just about coffee and breast cancer risk. Today, a couple of days and a hand full of news on other interesting papers that are piling up by dozens in my archive, I found that the paper has proliferated ;-o Well, not exactly, but in conjunction with a recent meta-analysis on the potential anti-breast-cancer effects of coffee today's news certainly covers data from almost 380,000 women world-wide and will thus probably yield somewhat more reliable data on whatever relation may exist between a woman's coffee / caffeine consumption and her risk of developing breast cancer. It takes Canadian women at least 5 cups of coffee to elicit significant reductions in breast cancer risk Against that background, both the detailed 7-item sub-analysis of the data from the Women’s Diet and Health Study and the unique inclusion of ...
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Can 5 Cups of Coffee Boost Testosterone to Estrogen Ratio in Overweight Men Transiently by ~200%? Plus: SHBG Its Own Receptor and Its Role in Prostate & Breast Cancer

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Testosterone booster in men and estrogen amplifier in women? As if there were not already enough good reasons to get your daily dose of the 'kingly' brew ;-) You would not have to be a diligent student of the SuppVersity to know: Coffee is a truly remarkable brew. Even mainstream media has gotten wind of the multitude of beneficial effects a moderate intake of the former drink of the kings and popes can have on your health and if it was not for the authors and newscasters blind reliance on whatever the press release guys are telling them, it would probably not even have been necessary for me to broach the beneficial effects coffee can have on your metabolic health and overall well-being in posts like " Coffee - 3 Cups a Day Keep Insulin at Bay ", " Pre-Workout Caffeine: Fat Liberator, Substrate Modulator, Trans-Fatty Acid Eliminator & Performance Upregulator! " and many more . So what is it this time? What else can coffee do for you? I guess som...
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Only "Real", Not Decaffeinated Instant Coffee Increases Fatty Acid Oxidation. Revisited: Caffeine's Dose-Dependent Effects on Testosterone & Cortisol Response to Exercise

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Image 1: Coffee is made of coffee beans! Hard to believe if you look at what remains of this precious superfood in a sachet with instant "coffee", right? But is instant, let alone "decaf" + instant really as bad as its rep? Although I know that probably not everyone is going to agree with that, I personally believe that coffee is one of the few real "superfood"... if it still is coffee and not some sort of adulterated lifestyle drink with synthetic caffeine and coffee-aroma. Those of you who like to enjoy their morning coffee (or tea) with tiny dose of SuppVersity news, will probable remember the " Warding Off Holiday Weight Gain "-posts in which I already broached the issue of the metabolic benefits of real coffee. With a coffee and a caffeine arm, the said rodent study did yet not provide any clues about the benefits or downsides of "decaf", i.e. de-caffeinated coffee, the supposedly "healthier" alternative to the stimu...
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Green Tea Extracts for Building Strength & Size and Losing Weight - Fact or Fraud? Or, Why It is Always Worth Taking a Look at the Data that Is NOT in the Abstract.

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Image 1: If the watery green tea is healthy, then a potent extract must be even more healthy, right? This may well be just another instance of "supplementational idiocy"... I know people love their Green Tea! After all, Camellia sinensis is one of the staples that has not yet been debunked as another hoax of the supplement of pharmaceutical industry - a real healthfood, right!? Well, you will probably be familiar with my skepticisms towards the notion that taking tons of the polyphenols you are "supposed" to get in relatively small quantities from 2-3 cups of green tea in supplemental form must necessarily be a good thing, just because epidemiological data suggests that people who consume green tea (for those who only now this stuff in capped form: Green tea is actually a beverage ;-) in moderation are overall healthier than people who abstain from drinking hot water extracts (=tea) from minimally oxidized (=green) Camellia sinensis leaves. Did you miss m...
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