Build a Bigger Mitochondrial Engine and Double Your Endurance With Chitooligosaccharides! Glucosamine Mix from Chitosan Acts on Sirt1 & AMPK, Similar to Resveratrol
Figure 1: Glucosamine composition of the chitooligosaccharide used in the study (data adapted from Jeong. 2012). Usually I try to avoid this term, as it seems to imply that there is, or at least soon will be a pill that would allow you to stay the lazy bastard you are now and still make it into your old age, healthy lean, attractive and vigorous, but in this case the word "exercise mimetic" is unquestionably what describes the effects of 6 weeks of oral supplementation with chitooligosaccharide described in a recently published paper by scientists from the Amorepacific Corporation Research & Development Center and the Kyung Hee University in South Korea best. I have to give props to my friend Carl Lanore the voice (and brain) of Super Human Radio who shot me an email on this issue, yesterday. A brief glance at the full-text was enough to realize that Carl who likes to pretend he was the idiomatic "blind man" with no scientific degree (I could hardly c...