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Carbs Before Workout Won't Lock Your Ab Fat in its Stores | Plus: Wired for Laziness, Standing for Your Health and 'Cardio' Reversibly Promotes Microbial Diversity in Guts

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Spiking insulin w/ high GI carbs before a workout doesn't blunt the release of fat from the stores covering your abs. Whenever I hit on journals like the latest issue of Medicine in Sports Science , a publication by the American College of Sports Medicine . I contemplate using them as a resource for an installment of the short news - albeit only if more than one of the studies in said journals are actually worth talking about. For the November issue of Medicine in Sports Science , this was the case for four studies. First and foremost, probably Baur's experimental counterevidence to the hypothesis that the carbohydrate-induced surge in insulin would 'seal' your subcutaneous body fat stores. It may not be necessary to attack your ab-fat, but fasting does have a handful of benefits: Monthly 5-Day Fast Works "Lean Gains" Fast Works Habits Determine Effects of Fasting Protein Modified Fast 4 Health IF + Resistance Training = WIN ADF Bea...
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Training in Line W/ Your Genetic Potential Can Boost Your Performance Gains More Than 600%, DNAFit™ Studies Say

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While the study at hand appears to confirm that the DNAFit test can tell you if you're an endurance or strength athlete, it won't help you achieve goals you were not "made for" - it eventually you may thus have to give up your dream of being the fastest, strongest or most chiseled guy / gal on the track, field or in gym. You probably know that: There's that guy at the gym who has been training only half as long as you and still made twice the gains, ... must be juicing that idiot, right? Well, even if we assume that you're not one of the >50% of trainees who overtrain (and undereat) that's by no means the most likely explanation for the astonishing discrepancies. A recent study that was conducted by a consortium of European researchers is now the first to impressively demonstrate that "matching the individual’s genotype with the appropriate training modality leads to more effective resistance training" (Jones. 2016) What the scientists s...
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Calculated Energy Requirements ±15% & More Off of True Resting Energy Expenditure | Genotyping May Help Maintain Muscle While Dieting -- ISSN'15 Research Review Issue #5

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In view of the inaccuracy of the standard equations that are used to calculate our energy requirements we are approaching the age of the "misquantified self". If I had to find a common theme in the studies discussed in this installment of the ISSN'15 Research Overview , I guess it would be "get lean and stay lean" . If you asked for a common bottom line, it would be: It's complicated . Complicated , because even though our genes appear to have a determining rule in what's the best diet for us, the "calories in vs. calories out" equation is eventually going to determine whether you are losing or gaining weight. That's problematic, not just because many of us have lost their inborn ability to match their energy intake to their individual requirements. It's also problematic in view of the increasing number of people who rely on the numbers of apps and fitness-trackers which are just as unreliable as the standard equations that were f...
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Caffeine-Resistance? Genetic & Environmental Factors Determine If You Feel or Don't Feel the "Boost" | Plus: 11 Non-Genetic Factors That In- & Decrease Caffeine's Effect

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If you know the tricks you can increase and decrease your caffeine tolerance by varying environmental factors. Ramp up the amount of exercise, broccoli and smoked meats ➲ maximize the clearance and minimize the effects of caffeine. Actually I had hoped no-one would see the comment I made in the discussion revolving around a recent article about caffeine, but since a promise is a promise and I was stupid enough to promise that I would write an article on the genetic and environmental underpinnings of caffeine-over- and -under-metabolizers, I am sitting right here, digging up study after study, to find ... well, nothing conclusive. According to analysis Welfare et al. conducted and published in June 1999, there is actually no  significant polymorphism in CYP1A2 in Caucasians which could explain the interindividual variation in caffeine activity, we all know exists (Welfare. 1999) - meanwhile, scientists have identified a handful of polymorphism - albeit with partly unknown acu...
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L-Carnitine Works! Yet, Maybe More Subtly Than Thought: 1.2-5g L-Carnitine Increase Expression of Genes Implicated in Fatty Acid Oxidation, Glucose & Lipid Metabolism.

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Image 1: This is you... well, not exactly. It's rather an animal model of human carnitine metabolis ;-) As a faithful student of the SuppVersity it stands out of question that you have read my masterpiece *rofl* on the " Purported Ergogenics " in the " Amino Acids for Super Humans Series ". You will thusly be familiar with the inconsistency of the mostly disappointing results of randomized, placebo-controlled trials . Whether it was for fat-loss, for increases in exercise performance or whatever else the producers of respective supplements promise would happen, when you buy and take their oftentimes profoundly underdosed supplements, in the absence of pathological (or severe dietary) carnitine deficiency the observed effects, if there were any, were negligible. A soon to be published paper by Janin Keller and other researchers from the Institute of Animal Nutrition and Nutrition Psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University, in Gießen, the Institute of Agric...
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The Soy Formula: Pregnant or Lactating Mother + Soy = Metabolically Deranged Male Offspring

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Image 1: Newsweek title from the year 2000 - "Fat for Life?"; did his mother love her soy protein more than her son's health? Those of you who listened to my dissertations on yesterday's fourth installment of the Amino Acid Series on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio will probably remember the lack of carnitine in the not-yet-enriched soy based baby-formula of the late 1970s. Now, a recently published rodent study suggests that the negative effects of soy may well begin before the offspring is even born : Exposure of pregnant and lactating rats to a soy (vs. a casein) based diet "increased the presence of the characteristics of the metabolic syndrome in the offspring" ( Jahan-mihan. 2011 ). In the course of their study, the results which was published in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition , the scientists randomly assigned pregnant rats (at day 3 of gestation) to one out of two calorica...
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