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L-Cysteine as a Satiety Trigger: Sign. Ghrelin & Appetite Suppression in Rodents & Humans - Which Foods Are High in Cysteine & Will They Really Help You Lose Weight?

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Egg whites are among the best dietary sources of cysteine You've read about the satiety effects of several amino acids, like arginine, lysine and glutamic acid, about which you've read approximately one year ago right here at the SuppVersity ( learn more ). That cysteine, an semi-essential amino acid that can be biosynthesized in humans from methionine, would have the same effects, however, is news - even for seasoned SuppVersity veterans. The news comes right from laboratories of London's King's and Imperial College , where McGavigan  and colleagues investigated the effects of oral and intraperitoneal administration of a range of amino acids on food intake in rodents. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your body composition at the SuppVersity Only Whey, Not Soy Works for Wheytloss 10 Things You Didn't Know About Whey Dairy Protein Satiety Shoot-Out: Casein vs. Whey How Much Carbs Before Fat is Unhealthy? 5 Tips to Improve ...
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Pre-Meal Protein Ingestion to Improve Glucose Tolerance: Insulin, GIP, GLP-1 - That's the Whey(!) it Works! Plus: Even Pure Glucose Can "Improve Your Insulin Tolerance"

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Can a whey protein appetizer really undo the damage of greasy fast food? Probably not, but it's still interesting to see how it affects the postprandial glycemia. Insulin resistance is the #1 contributing factor to the obesity epidemic and despite the fact the solution is already out there ( read more about the necessary lifestyle modifications), it probably won't hurt to know if something as simple as having a high protein "appetizer" before a junky meal could improve blood glucose management even further, right? "Right, 'cause protein is always, good!" Ah, no... I guess the answer is a little more complex than that... Nevertheless, I still suspect that the results, Tina Akhavan and her colleagues from the University of Toronto present in their soon-to-be-published paper in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry will be of interest to you. The study results are interesting, to say the least... ... and that's not despite but rather becau...
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The Satiating Truth About Proteins and Why High Protein and Low Amounts of Low GI Carbs Don't Mix Well

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So can you? I mean, can you really get rid of hunger pangs by upping the protein content of your meals? Yes, you can, but as usual, there is a string attached, here. One of the infamous "on the other hands", as Carl Lanore likes to call them. Despite the fact that I actually have to stop some of you from eating too much protein [I am not talking about ill health effects, but a saturation effect for the benefits with 2-3x the RDA, here; cf. "1.6-2.4g/kg Protein Turn Short Term Weight Loss Intervention into a Fat Loss Diet" | read more ], the obese majority of the inhabitants of the Western Obesity belt would certainly benefit from a couple of extra grams of protein in their diets. One of the reasons protein can help you get and stay lean relates to its profound satiety effects; effects, which have recently been reviewed by a group of researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease at the Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, China (Yang. 2013) Hig...
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Low Vitamin D & Insulin Resistance; Ghrelin Response to Overfeeding; Glutamine for the Elderly; 5g/Day Creatine for Women; MSM for GH Activity in Bone; Curcumin for Burns

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Vitamin D research hyper-inflation - unfortunately few of the papers will ever be printed, otherwise we could at least use them to heat our homes, in case the price for oil gas and other fossil energy keep rising ;-) The SuppVersity Figure of the Week is "1614"! That's the number of studies with the exact phrase "vitamin D" in their title that have been published in the past 9 months and 14 days of the year 2012 (more than five papers per day!). Compared to 1,453 papers in the year 2011 and 1,169 papers in 2010. Projected onto the rest of the year that's going to be a +40% increase in mostly redundant papers! I mean, let's be honest, we have not made any significant scientific progress in the area of vitamin D research over the past months: We have still no idea where the associations end and the causations begin and are more or less clueless as to why vitamin D supplementation simply does not yield any of the beneficial results it is supposed to. ...
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The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part II/III: LH, GH, IGF1, Insulin, Ghrelin, Leptin & Co Form a Self-Perpetuating Vicious Cycle

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I usually rant against pizza and beer, but once the athlete triad has struck, they can be an occasional part of the "healing protocol". In last Sunday's first installment of this series we have taken a look at the prevalence, etiology and fundamental cause of an entity that is, and I am repeating myself here, profoundly mis labeled as the " female athlete triad ". In fact, it is, as we have learned in the last installment , neither an exclusively female thing, nor a triad. If anything, it is a quintet or sextet. To make that clear, and give you guys, who make the same mistakes, but usually with less detrimental consequences, I will once more refer to it as "athlete triad" = AT,  in this second part of the Female(?) Athlete Triad Series in which we will take a look at the endocrine underpinnings of the previously described consequences of the temporary and long-term energy deficiency we have identified as the single most important causative fact...
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Carbs Past 6PM Reloaded: Circadian Shifts in Leptin and Ghrelin + Rising Adiponectin During the "Carb-Fast" Could Explain the Efficacy of Eating All Carbohydrates at Night

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Image 1: Paul Bart ( Kevin James ) in Mall Cop (Columbia) probably would be better off weight- and health- wise without his Segway, which is by the way among the " 50 Worst Gadgets of the Decade " in the Business Insider hall of shame from 2009 (Barret, Brian. 2009) The SuppVersity was the first place you read about the how " Carbs past 6pm Will Make You Lean " (at least about the non-anecdotal scientific evidence) and for 99% of you, this will probably be the first time you read about the "follow up paper" on the original study, which was originally intended to induce a shift in the circadian pattern of leptin secretion in order to make use of its fat burning effects over night. Exactly this is the focus of a follow up paper that's soon going to be published in Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases (Sofer. 2012). Israeli Police Diet Acadamy Reloaded! Now the bad news is that the news are only partly new. In other words, the I...
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