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Whey Beyond Brawn: 10+ Things You Probably Didn't Know Whey & Peptides That Form During its Digestion Can Do: From A as in Vitamin A Uptake to Z as in CanZer Protection

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If you've got brawn and brain you will realize that whey is much more than a potent muscle builder. As a SuppVersity reader, you are well familiar with the pluripotent benefits whey protein has to offer to the average and extra-ordinary gymrat. You will also be aware that it can promote weight loss and help you maintain lean muscle mass when you're dieting. If you've read almost all ~2,000 SuppVersity articles, you will even know about the GLUT4 and thus glucose uptake promoting effects isoleucine containing dipeptides in whey protein hyrolysates, but I guess that some of the other benefits whey protein owes to its complex mixture of proteins and peptides are going to be news for you. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your body composition at the SuppVersity Only Whey, Not Soy Works for Wheytloss Minimal Carb Reduction, Max. Results? Dairy Protein Satiety Shoot-Out: Casein vs. Whey How many Carbs Before Fat is Unhealthy? 5 Tips to I...
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True or False? Glycine & Proline Supplements Ramp Up Collagen Synthesis & Improve Joint Health. Plus: The Tripeptide Advantage of Collagen Hydrolysates

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The "Paleo" cult has repopularized eating and preparing your own (Chicken) bone broth, but will this also help with bone and cartilage health? Although you're probably thinking of collagen as the stuff that's important for joint health, its implications in human health are more far-reaching than most of us believe. In fact, collagens are the most abundant group of organic macro-molecules in human and animal body. Because of their tensile strength, they perform numerous structural functions within the body - specifically in connective tissues which include among other tissue also organs as your heart, your intestines, your lungs and the parenchymal organs like the liver and the kidneys and even the fibrous matrix of skin and blood vessels. As I already said, collagens are yet by far best known as structural components of the protein matrix of the skeleton and its related structures, like bones, teeth, tendons, cartilage and l...
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There is More To Glucose Control Than Carbohydrates (1/?): Non-Carbohydrate Nutrients And Their Effects On Blood Glucose Management ➲ Amino Acids, Proteins, Peptides

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This is part I of a multipart series, you will be able to navigate by clicking on the pictures in the box below. While it appears to be obvious that eating a low-to-no-carbohydrate diet would be the easiest way to manage your blood glucose levels, carbs are by far not the only nutrient that will have an effect on your blood glucose levels. In a recent overview article, Martina Heer and Sarah Egert from the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Bonn provide a decent overview of the multiple ways by which "other nutrients, such as dietary protein and amino acids, the supply of  fat, vitamin D, and vitamin K, and sodium intake seem to affect glucose homeostasis." (Heer. 2014). In the coming weeks I will use their review as a starting point for my own overview of the effects of non-carbohydrate and "almost cabohydrate" nutrients   on glucose metabolism. And for today, I decided, to conclude this week that was full of exciting protein news...
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Alanyl-Glutamine or Alanine + Glutamine? Dipeptide or Free Form Aminos? What Offers Maximal Muscle Protection?

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"Wouldn't have happened if she'd used alanyl-glutamine instead of regular that cheap alanine + glutamine combo!" - True or False? Recent study says: False! If you combine your liver's favorite gluconeogenic amino acids, i.e. alanine and glutamine, into a single peptide the result is called alanyl-glutamine and marketed as the ueber-potent alternative to regular l-glutamine supplements. It goes without saying that a comparison like this is about as stupid as comparing french fries with mayo to regular french fries and saying that the former are worse because they contain more fat, or whatever. Even if we didn't care about the physiological significance of the effects of alanyl-glutamine, we would obviously have to compare the purported cryogenic effects of this "innovative" dipeptide to those of a simple combination of free form amino acids to deserve the bragging rights for having created an advanced form of glutamine. Alanine + glutamine vs. a...
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Confirmed: All Wheys, Not Just Hydro Whey Boost Glucose Uptake And Liver + Muscle Glycogen Supercompensation. Plus: How Could Taurine Be Involved in This Benefits?

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Do it or don't? If the question is about consuming whey protein, the answer is clear: Do it! Use whey! As a diligent student of the SuppVersity you will remember my previous article "The Glucose Repartioning Effects of Isoleucine: Falsely Underappreciated BCAA and Its Dipeptides Maximize GLUT-4 Expression and Ramp Up Muscular Glucose Uptake" ( read more ). If you don't let me briefly bring you up to speed in back in February, I told you about the beneficial effects of a class of isoleucine peptides in whey protein hydrosylate [as the study at hand goes to show you, this is important, see bottom line ] on glucose transporter (GLUT-4) expression and thus glucose uptake in skeletal muscle. Today I am pleased to be able to continue and expand on this discussion based on the results of the latest study from the same group of researchers from Sao Paulo, Brazil (Morato. 2013). Whey, an anti-diabetic glycogen supercompensation tool As Morato et al. point out, thei...
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