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The US' favorite fish oil supplements: Dirt cheap and still not worth the money. Better buy fish - fresh fish. "I told you so!" That's how someone else in my position would probably start today's blogpost. In view of the fact that "smartassing" is not exactly an effective means of education, I will yet refuse from reminding you that I've been reporting about unwanted side effects of the gold-ish pills that claim to have "fish oil" in them on various occasions. And guess what!? The publication of a recent study by scientists from the  Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital at the venerable Harvard Medical School , gives me yet another reason to rant against the evermore popular fish oil supplements. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppVersity Fish Oil Makes You Rancid? POPs in Fish Oils are Toxic! N3/N6 Ratio Doesn't Matter MUFA & Fish Oil Don't Match Fish Oil Doesn...

The study at hand makes protein and creatine look worse than prohormones - can that be right? Maybe you've already seen a link to this study on Facebook, maybe not: "Muscle-building supplement use and increased risk of testicular germ cell cancer in men from Connecticut and Massachusetts" - that's the title of a study which claims to provide convincing evidence that "MBS use is a potentially modifiable risk factor that may be associated with TGCC" (Li. 2015), a study of which I don't have to tell you that it is of observational nature, a study based on interviews with 356 cases and 513 controls and thus a study that may and certainly is skewed by false recalls and deliberate lies - I mean, who would admit to have used illegal steroids if at Yale? Some may, but others certainly won't. With dairy proteins being beststeller, the study is also an assault on whey & casein Dairy Has Branched-Chain Fatty Acids! Is There Sth. Like a Dairy ...

The VO2-max boosting effects of l-carnitine tartrate can be beneficial for almost every athlete. After being the hype supplement in the 1990s, carnitine eventually sank into obscurity; and while the revelation that l-carnitine tartrate may increase the androgen receptor density is the main reason it can still be found in various T-boosters and pre-workout supplements, people appear to have forgotten that the original idea of carnitine supplementation was to increase the effectivity of the carnitine shuttle and thus to increase the oxidation of fatty acids. As a recent study from the Shahid Chamran University in Iran shows, this could be a mistake. After all, Mostafa Dehghani and his colleagues were able to show that "supplementation of L-carnitine improved effectively the performance by increasing in [sic!] lipid metabolism" (Dehgani. 2015). Want to become stronger, bigger, faster and leaner? Periodize appropriately! 30% More on the Big Three: Squat, DL, BP! B...