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Science Round Up Seconds: Are Statins Good for Your Brain? Have the Scientists Just Forgotten About the Risks?

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Brainy question of the day: Will statins revive or criple your brain? Those of you who made it in time for yesterday's live-show, will already know that I have "postponed" publishing the (by then) commented list of dietary supplements to improve and maintain insulin sensitivity to Sunday. It was my original plan to publish this list along with three suggested supplement stacks on Sunday and sticking to it has the advantage of a "true" ending to the "Maintain and Improve Your Insulin Sensitivity" series ( read previous posts ) - there is already enough chaos among the 1351 published SuppVersity posts ;-). Furthermore, it will unquestionable be good for your brain, if I do not flood it with an informational overload by trying to cram all the information about the insulin sensitizers, as well ;-) Download! Don't forget to download the podcast: If you have not already done so, I suggest you download and listen to the show. With Carl ...
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Science Round-Up Seconds: 8 Nootropics to Combat Stroke, Alzheimer's & Co, Boost Cognitive Performance. Plus: 7 Unknown Side Effects of High Dose Glutamine.

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Effects of infusion times on phenol content of black tea (Ramalho. 2012) If you have already listened to the podcast of yesterday's Science Round-Up on the Super Human Radio Website ( click here if you haven't and wan't to know what the following is all about), I suppose you will not mind that I compiled some of the complex information about "optimal" tea brewing in the illustration to the right (based on Ramalho. 2012). The colored arrows indicate the time-points at which the given compounds in the tea achieved peak values. The exact time point is also given in minutes, so that a 9' in front of the green caffeine and on the left to the green arrow pointing at the 9 min point tells you "it took 9 minutes for the caffeine content to reach it's maximum in the British tea". The graph in the background shows the catechin concentration depending on the infusion time. Cholinergenic nootropics - What a recent review says I guess some of you wil...
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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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Supplemental Melatonin Protects Against Alzheimer's and Has The Highly Desirable "Side Effect" of Reducing Body Fat Percentages by More Than 50%!

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Image 1: If you don't want your brain to shrivel up like that, I suppose you better get more than just an occasional night of good night's sleep and (not or) think about taking some supplemental melatonin. Those of you who are also following me on facebook , will probably have seen the link to the study a group of Indian scientists conducted to assess the effect of melatonin supplementation in overiectomized (=model for human menopause) rats ( Baxi. 2011 ). Much to my own surprise, the melatonin supplement did not only eradicate all the majority of overiectomy-induced metabolic changes, it was also more potent than the standard estrogen treatment that served as a control! And that in the absence of any of the side-effects of regular estrogen therapy. In that, the Baxi study is only one out of a handful of recently published paper, which suggest that melatonin is probably one of the most underrated supplements you can still (as soon as the FDA realizes what this stuff can...
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