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480mg/day Polypodium Leucotomos Reduce Infection Rates in High Performance Athletes by 75%! Plus: Extract Protects Against UV Radiation, Cancer, Trauma & Could Be Ergogenic

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Don't worry if you have not heard of Polypodium leucotomos before. After all, that's why you're here! To get your daily dose of SuppVersity news and learn , right? It's starting to get cold and wet outside and aside from my always healthy self, everyone around is getting sick... sounds familiar? Or are you one of those ailing people who always wonder how the others beard the common cold and did not have a single flu in their whole life? I can assure you, it's not just zinc + vitamin C ;-) That said, I honestly don't believe that the supplement today's news is about will get the job done, if you don't have your diet and workout regimen in check, but if it reduces the incidence of infections in high performance athletes by 75% it can hardly be useless when it comes to protecting yourself from the sniffers and nose blowers all around, can it? Dear SuppVersity reader, meet Polypodium leucotomos your immune systems best friend!? Assuming that I...
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Inflammation Is a True Fat Burner: BSO-Induced Glutathione Depletion Wards off Fat Gains on Hypercaloric Diet

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Image 1: This little bugger obviously has too little inflammation going on ;-) Are you "on fire"? Inflammation has been implicated as the root cause of almost all modern disease: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, you name it. Soothing the flames via natural and supplemental anti-oxidants has thusly been proposed and marketed as a solution for many of the aforementioned health problems. Yet, despite tons of vitamins, anti-oxidants and all the other "healthy" stuff we are taking and consuming on a daily basis, the number of morbidly obese people, diabetics and heart attack patients appears to be ever-increasing... how can that be? A possible answer to that question comes from scientists from the Saha Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington, Kentucky, US ( Findeisen. 2011 ) - we simply got everything wrong ! The observation that insulin resistance and beta-cell dysfunction usually occur in...
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Not All Vitamin C is Created Equal: AA-2βG, a Powerful Vitamin C Analogue From Goji Berries Outperforms Its Cousin L-Ascorbic Acid and Teaches Scientists "Nature Still Knows Best!"

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Vitamin C, also known as L-ascorbic acid probably is the best known of all anti-oxidants; and the marketing  departments of the food companies know that and how to make use of its popularity with slogans like "Extra rich in vitamin C", "Extra Vitamin C", etc. Back in the days, when food was still exclusively nourishing and nobody expected it to heal the ailments it, or other food was causing, ascorbic acid was mostly added to products to extend their shelf-life (this is still common practice, btw.). Today, however, the highly processed foodstuff the unhealthy majority of the fast food society, we have become, is consuming on a daily basis contains vitamin C to... well, I guess to be more marketable . After all , scientific evidence for the purported beneficial effects of vitamin C in isolation, i.e. outside of the natural nutrient mix of real food (vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, etc.) is scarce and a recent study ( Zh...
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Taurine Decreases Oxidative Stress After Eccentric Exercise in Rats: Human Equivalent Dose ca. 3.5g-4g

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Regular readers of the SuppVersity will certainly be familiar with the sulfur-amino-acid taurine and its various benefits on exercise performance, insulin sensitivity and weight management. So, it may not come as a surprise that a recent study conducted by young scientists from the Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences at the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense in Brazil found that 14-days "preloading" with 300mg/kg taurine per day reduced the exercise induced increase in oxidative stress in rats. Taurine supplementation was found to decrease superoxide radical production, CK [creatine kinase], lipoperoxidation and carbonylation levels and increased total thiol content in skeletal muscle, but it did not affect antioxidant enzyme activity after EE [excentric exercise]. It is rather speculative, whether standard dose equivalent calculations apply to one situation or another - IF they did, you could probably get away with as little as 3.5-4.0g of taurine per day ...
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