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Gene-ial or Dan-Gene-rous? Better Make Sure You Are Made For Every Other Day Fasting, If You Don't Want to Ruin Your Glucose + Lipid Metabolism and Become Viscerally Obese

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Yes! I freely admit that I do have a problem with the subliminal "binge and starve" of the popular every other day fast, because it paves the not so royal road to binge eating disorders. Only 2 years ago, there was hardly anyone but the followers of Martin Berkhan's "Lean Gains" regimen who knew what intermittent fasting would be. Ironically, now that mainstream is catching on, the hype within the fitness community is slowly abating  - maybe part of the reason is that it's no longer "cool" enough now that your fat neighbor does it ;-). It goes without saying that the mainstream version comes without an obligatory exercise component and - what's probably even worse - in the absence of macronutrient, let alone food prescriptions that would make sure that the every other day fasts that are becoming increasingly popular these days become "binge and starve" protocols. The every other day fast, a gateway to eating disorders? I c...
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Nutrigenomics - "Let Food be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food." An Ancient Truth in Light of Fancy DNA Analyses

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Researchers working in the field of nutrigenomics prioritize berries over pills and individuality over "one-size-fits-it-all approaches" - can they also tell us how to "eat away cancer"? "Live longer, live stronger"... rings any bells? Anyone? Of course. That's the motto of Super Human Radio. So anyone, who has been listening to the Science Roundup over the past couple of weeks will  have heard it at least once. Now, while the "stronger" part of Carl Lanore's slogan is still largerly under-researched if you asked me, the nutritional angle, which does not appear in the slogan, but is still a major theme of the show is really taking off, these days. Nutrigenomics , i.e. the science of (a) how what we eat determines how our genes functions - keyword: epigenetics and (b) how our very individual genes determine how we're supposed to eat, is really talking off these days. Reason enough for me to invite you to take a peak at what we alr...
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Fit Kids = Smart Kids, Creatine & Muscle Repair, Epigenetic Transfer From one Leg to Another. Plus: Fat Effects of Anti-Psychotics, Larger Muscle = Greater CNS Impact, Rhodiola a Natural Opiate, Hawthorn for More & Thicker Hair

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It's never too early for your first push-up ;-) "10" is this week's SuppVersity figure of the week. Ten as in "ten push-ups" which is the mean number of push-ups the 12 year-old boys and girls from the Coe study you can read about in one of the items of today's news mash-up aka " On Short Notice ". I am honestly not yet sure what to make of it, it's not as bad as what I had expected based on a couple of observations I have made as of late, but it still goes to show you that you cannot take the most fundamental feats of physical fitness for granted, when it comes to pre-/peri-pubertal kids in today's sedentary society. Now, while I am still trying to make up my mind I would suggest we take a look at the actual outcomes of the study. The 10 push-ups were after all only part of the subject characteristics and not the reason Coe et al. actually conducted their study. Fit Kids are smart kids - Strength and cardio both matter! You ...
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Weightloss Threesome: TV or Sleep, Black Pepper, Ginger, Horseradish or Mustard, PolyGlycopleX (PGX) or Psyllium?

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Image 1: True or false - Is three really better than two? Since the On Short Notice columns turns out to be a major success, I decided that I could put out studies in packages of shorter items, on a more regular basis - at least if I stumble across pairs such as those in today's Fat Loss Threesome and have time to compile them in to a comprehensive blogpost. But enough of the prelude, let's get right to our threesome: Television or Sleep, Black Pepper, Ginger, Horseradish or Mustard, PolyGlycopleX (PGX) or Psyllium - What do you think, which of these is will spice up, which will water down your weight loss efforts; and for the bros out there: Can you stack all of them or do they have to be cycled? TV Watching and Insufficient Sleep - A Dynamic Duo for (Childhood-)Diabesity Image 2: Watching TV eating junk is only part of the equation; what's missing here is the lack of sleep kids don't get, when they watch TV canned with coke and energy dr...
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L-Carnitine Works! Yet, Maybe More Subtly Than Thought: 1.2-5g L-Carnitine Increase Expression of Genes Implicated in Fatty Acid Oxidation, Glucose & Lipid Metabolism.

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Image 1: This is you... well, not exactly. It's rather an animal model of human carnitine metabolis ;-) As a faithful student of the SuppVersity it stands out of question that you have read my masterpiece *rofl* on the " Purported Ergogenics " in the " Amino Acids for Super Humans Series ". You will thusly be familiar with the inconsistency of the mostly disappointing results of randomized, placebo-controlled trials . Whether it was for fat-loss, for increases in exercise performance or whatever else the producers of respective supplements promise would happen, when you buy and take their oftentimes profoundly underdosed supplements, in the absence of pathological (or severe dietary) carnitine deficiency the observed effects, if there were any, were negligible. A soon to be published paper by Janin Keller and other researchers from the Institute of Animal Nutrition and Nutrition Psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University, in Gießen, the Institute of Agric...
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Exercise OR Calorie Restriction? Is This a Valid Question? Differential Epigenetics of Exercise and Calorie Restriction Suggest Otherwise.

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It is beyond me, why the war between proponents of exercise based and calorie reduction based approaches to weight loss are still raging. As a faithful "student" of the SuppVersity, you know that I have always been recommending a combination of both for improved body composition, well-being and general health and was pretty angry, when Gary Taubes claimed in the course of Dr. Oz's ridiculous dissertation on the dangers of low carb diets, that exercise would only stimulate hunger and would thus fail to produce a beneficial effect on weight loss and related health problems (cf. video 1, below). A group of researchers ( Karrie. 2011 ) from the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Texas have now conducted a research study that may well shed some light onto what exactly (in this case this means on a epigenetic level) happens in the course of calorie restriction and/or exercise induced weight loss... Video 1: Gary Taubes on Dr. Oz' show talking...
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