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"BPA free" labels may help to sell products. With more and more of the replacements being identified as just as, sometimes more hazardous than the original, they are, however, by no means as safe as the average consumer is made to believe by the industry. I have been keepin' you up-to-date on the latest research on bisphenol A and often not less toxic alternatives in the Facebook news  (if you didn't do that already, like facebook.com/SuppVersity to see them in your newsfeed). The publication of a new review by scientists from the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin in Poland reminded me that it may be worth addressing this ubiquitous hormonal disrupter in a detailed article again. As Tomza-Marciniak et al. point out as early as in the first sentence of the abstract to their review (which had been published ahead of print in June and was now officially published in the  Journal of Applied Toxicology ), "bisphenol A (BPA) is characterized ...

If either of these individuals remind you of yourself, you should reduce his stress levels. Recent research suggest: The good old saying that "Men always think about sex!" is essentially untrue (The "!" indicates that I used the feminist version of this common "wisdom"). If we put faith in the results of a recent European study from the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Instituto Universitário in Lisbon, Portugal, the Department of Psychology at the University of Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway, and the Sexology Unit at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, stress is the common denominator that distracts men from their original duty to do what has to be done for the survival of the human race ;-) Homo coitum quaerens aut evitarens? It may sound surprising, but unlike sexual function, the sexual desire of the male members of the human race has not been examined as extensively as the one of their female...

Either you buy one of the bazillion OTC test-boosters that will not do anything for your testosterone levels, but may have minimal effects on your libido; or, you get a script for the blue pills and accept that one of the side-effects of these proven libido-boosters is an increase in testicular testosterone production. If you were all Germans, I would probably be cracking a joke about the lead author's name "Spitzer", but in view of the fact that you aren't and that it would be a saucy one I will stick to the news-piece alone - it's saucy enough, anyways ;-) Actually you've heard Carl and me talk about the purported testosterone boosting effects of sildenafil aka Viagra on the Science Round Up in the past, but Mr. Spitzer and his colleagues from the Greenfield Health Center are the first to prove the potency of the testosterone response in male subjects who received "an optimized dose" (more on that later) of sildenafil, as well as its ...

Is the Paleo Diet unhealthy for healthy individuals? A recent thesis would suggest just that. Learn more about and make up your mind based on the last installment of the Science Round-Up and today's Seconds (img informedhealth.com.au) I hope you did not miss that the SuppVersity Science Round-Up will as of now always be starting early(-ier) at 12PM EST. If so, don't worry, you can still download the show and listen to Carl and me talking about the things you may be missing, the ones you get extra and those you would rather not have in your supplements and foods. Let's take silymarin , for example, as you have learned on the show, not all "liver assist", "liver clense" or "liver health" products are created equal. Most intriguingly, their ability to scavenge free radicals, as measured by the trolox assay, is not singularly dependent on the actual silymarin content, but will - as the data from the study Anthony et al. conducted (Anthony....

One out of four men with newly diagnosed erectile dysfunction is under 40 ( more ) You will probably remember the post about the increasing prevalence of erectile dysfunction in young(er) men on Facebook, the other day ( learn more )!? As of now, one out of four patients who are newly diagnosed with erectile dysfunction are 40 years or younger. That's an alarming trend that certainly cannot be reversed by the use of adulterated OTC libido boosters with high amounts of pharmacological PDE-5 inhibitors that are not listed on the label ( read more on the SuppVersity Facebook Wall and listen live to today's installment of the Science Round Up starting at 12PM EST !). With  30-40% of the overweight men not being able to achieve an erection of maintain it long enough to engage in sexual intercourse, it stands out of question that the root cause for the exploding numbers of impotent young men is diabesity . Against that background it is only logical that Joan Khoo and his co...

If the Aliens have seen these Bugarash apocalypse pilgrims, they have probably turned tail and fled ;-) I guess the SuppVersity figure of the week was a date "12/21/2012", I mean this is a once in a life-time event! Or do you really believe there will be another chance for mankind to be snatched from the jaws of extinction? Ok, enough of the sarcasm, the world is still there and the SuppVersity is still operating, so let's get to the not so short On Short Notice items for today. If there had been more room in the headline I would probably have labeled it "Endocrine Special" and I guess once you have gone through the posts, you will agree that this would certainly have made sense. Traditional treatment of osteopenia with Epimedium brevicornum works, 'cause it's a potent aromatase promoter (Yang. 2012) -- When a group of researchers from the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the School of Chinese Pharmacy, Chengd...