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Coffee - 3 Cups Per Day Keep Insulin at Bay: You Better Start Today if You Want to Retain Your Insulin Sensitivity, and Stay Cancer & CVD Free Beyond Your Own Centennial!

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I am not entirely sure how often I have used the sentence "consistency is key", here at the SuppVersity , but there is no way I don't reiterate it in the context of the never-ending debate over the pros and cons of habitual coffee drinking, once again. While much of the experimental evidence would suggest that coffee, or to be precise, caffeine the major methylxanthine in the brown brew is a bad sympathetic nervous system activator that stresses your body and will deteriorate your glucose and fat metabolism, the majority of the epidemiological evidence points into the exact opposite direction. A paper that's going to be published in the next issue of AGE the Journal of the American Aging Association could however help not just to bridge the widening gap between the ever-increasing number of epidemiological studies showing between moderate caffeine consumption and metabolic, cardiovascular, neurological, and cellular health (see list at the end of this post) and t...

Acoustic Gear: The Right Music at the Right Time Can Double your Endorphin and Growth Hormone Levels, Increase Norepinephrine By +50% Over Baseline and Make You Feel Like the King of the Gym...

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Image 1: Attention reading SuppVersity posts and following respective advice may have desirable ergogenic (side-)effects ;-) Does your life rock? No? Did your last gym session suck? Yes? Well, maybe you just don't inject the right gear into your auricle (ear). We all know that listening to music can profoundly influence the way we feel. In the course of the last 20 years scientists from all around the world have been investigating how these musically triggered emotional changes relate to hormonal, neurocrine and even immunological changes and mechanisms and have found, time and again, that music "provides the simplest solution" for symptoms such as pain and hyperactivity, in the treatment of which, "[t]oday, an emphasis has been placed on pharmacological substances" ( Gangrade. 2011 ). Even the idea to substitute your stimulant-loaden preworkout supplement with a full dose of techno music is thus not as outrageou...

Decreased Catecholamine Release in Obese Individuals: Another Weight Loss Obstacle

Jabbour et. al. ( Jabbour. 2010 ) found that the exercise induced stress response in obese individuals is significantly reduced. The amount of catecholamines released in the course of 6 x 6sec maximal sprints with 2 min of passive rest between each repetition, was significantly lower in the 11 normal-weight adolescent boys compared to their 9 obese (body fat: 31.0 +/- 3.0%) and 11 overweight (body fat: 24.0 +/- 1.9%) age-mates: Maximal epinephrine concentration was significantly (p<0.05) higher in lean vs. obese and was negatively correlated to body fat percentage (r=-0.60, p<0.05). Maximal norepinephrine values were higher in lean vs. overweight and obese and a negative relationship was found between maximal norepinephrine concentration and body fat percentage (r=-0.60, p<0.05). Maximal lactate concentration was higher in lean vs. overweight and obese (14.7 +/- 3.3, 10.4 +/- 2.7 and 10.2 +/- 2.5 mmol.l-1 in lean, overweight and obese respectively). In view of the fa...
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