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Curcumin, Genistein, Pomegranate & Co. - A Dirty Dozen of Supplements & Foods to Keep Your Prostate Cancer Free

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Which of the dirty dozen of supplements and foodstuffs in today's SuppVersity review can really help you to make sure, you're not the one out of those nine men who develops prostate cancer? Supplements that are supposed to protect you from developing prostate cancer and/or agents that may help patients with existing prostate issues are - obviously - in high demand. And as W. Merkle points out in a recent article in the German science journal Urologe using them - even if they may not be as effective as some patients may believe - makes sense: from a psychological perspective, alone (Merkle. 2014). Taking a pill with selenium, for example, has been shown to alleviate some of the side effects of chemotherapy. General protective effects against prostate cancer, on the other hand, have not been established. In fact, the most recent studies rather suggest that "supplementation did not benefit men with low selenium status but increased the risk of high-grade PCa among men ...
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Foods, Not Macros: Isoenergetic Breakfast With Identical Macronutrient Content More Satieting With Eggs vs. Flakes. Plus: Omega-3 <> Microbiome <> Obesity Interactions

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Eggs or Flakes? Not 30% vs. 25% protein! A brief reminder of the fact that the stuff you eat is still food. I am not quite sure when or why this happened, but I know that more and more people are thinking in terms of "macros" instead of foods. What I do know, though, is that the recent publication of studies from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at the Louisiana State University System (Bayham. 2014) and an ostensibly unrelated study that was conducted by researchers from the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, Biosciences Institute in Cork and scientists working at the local university and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Patterson. 2014) confirms - once again (!) - how futile this ignorant approach to nutrition actually is. Eggs vs. cereals - not the best example, but... In that, I am well aware that the "battle" between an egg- and a cereal-based breakfast in the Patterson study is not exactly a good model of what's currently ...
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The Quest For the Best N6:N3 Ratio. Swine Study Suggests: 5:1 is Healthy, 1:1 Will Also Cut Fat and Build Muscle

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 Yes, this study is about omega-3s, but it is not about the beneficial effects of fish oil. Ok, I see you are totally excited, so I am not going to beat around the bush for long: According to a soon-to-be-published study from the Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture at the Chinese Academy of Sciences  a 5:1 ratio of n-6:n3 (as in omega-6 to omega-3) is good enough to keep pigs healthy. Kicking out another couple of grams of omega-6 fatty acids, on the other hand, had pretty intriguing effects on the body composition of the ninety-six male cross-bred (Large White£ Landrace) pigs who happened to weigh about as much as an average human being (another advangate, of swine - HED calculations are not necessary; learn more ). Did you know that pigs are opportunistic omnivores just like us and provide a better model of human metabolism than our little, furry remote cousins with the big round eyes and the lo...
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Sex-Dependent Low GI Advantage(s) & Vasodilating Effects of Insulin. Diet-Dependant Effects of Active Vitamin D on Glucose Metabolism. Plus: Supplemental Flaxseed Oil?

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It seems as if the glycemic index of her diet during puberty could determine on which side of this photoshopped divide a will end, when she's a young woman. Intriguingly, the association between high GI diets and high waist circumferences and obesity risk was not observed in the boys whose 5-year follow up data the researchers analyzed. "145mm" that's the SuppVersity figure of the Week and the number of additional millimeters the waist circumference of a 12-year old girl is going to increase until she's 17 for each 1-SD increase in dietary GL. In conjunction with the observation that each 1-SD increase in dietary fiber intake was associated with a concurrent 0.44 kg/m² decrease in mean BMI, in girls and a 145mm lower increase in waist circumference, in boys, these results from a soon-to-be-published paper clearly support the notion of the fattening high GI carbs for girls (Gopinath. 2013). The data does yet also raise the question, whether a higher activi...
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2.1kg Muscle From Fast Food Supplement; No Prolactin, No Fat; Oleic Acid Counters CLA's Inflammatory Effect; Spicy Marinades vs. Salmonella; Flaxseed, Estrogen & Penis Size; TTA in the Emergency Room; Alcohol & Binge Eating

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Image 1: Scientifically proven muscle builder - 2.1kg lean mass in 3 months, no post-cycle therapy necessary! I was just about to write another one of my artistic introductions, trying to incorporate all the exciting On Short Notice news I've piled up for you into a brief narrative, when I realized that you probably don't really appreciate those introductions (I guess, I would skip them myself, so don't worry, this is more of an objective assessment than an accusation). So, I listened to my gut and decided to skip this part of this series, today, and rather spend the time to edit another item I did actually not want to post today. It's the one on the "IIFYM slightly gone wrong fast food bulk" in the Hambre study, to be precise; and I would venture the guess that you won't mind taking that instead of a longer introduction, once you've read and digested the impossible: You cannot only gain muscle with "fast food supplements", you won'...
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