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Interestingly, the study at hand suggests that glycerol may make you more musclar, even if you don't life. Crazy, but true (photo by awesomebody). As a SuppVersity reader the potential ergogenic effect of the backbone of triglycerides are no news to you. The number of studies investigating the effects of glycerol on exercise performance and/or the adaptive response to exercise is yet low. Against that background, even a rodent study like the one by Eric Francelino Andrade from the Federal University of Lavras is worth its own SuppVersity article, I guess. In said study, the Brazilian researchers evaluated the training adaptation and physical performance parameters in rats orally supplemented with glycerol,glucose, or saline, and submitted to moderate aerobic exercise. Glycerol can be used in conjunction with creatine to hyperhydrate ( Easton. 2007). Creatine Doubles 'Ur GainZ! Creatine, DHT & Broscience Creatine Better After Workout ALA + Creatine = ...

Could it be better to use glutamine as the main energy source in an intra-workout beverage? Or is the latter superior to glucose, only when it's already to late, meaning only, when you already are hypoglycemic? I see the irritation on your face. How on earth should glutamine be a better glucose source than glucose: Adel obviously has lost his mind under the pressure of putting out interesting stuff on a daily basis... well, while the latter may be true (how would a sane person do what I do?), I am actually just reformulating the main message of a recently conducted study from the State University of Maringá in Brazil. In the corresponding paper, which was published online in the International Journal of Endocrinology (Nunes Santiago. 2013). So yes, glutamine is in fact the better glucose...or maybe I should clarify it is a superior source of glucose to promote glycemia recovery after insulin-induced hypoglycemia. In other words, it will help you to lose the dizziness, the ...

If it does not make you as swole as the colorful ad promised it must not be working, right? The jury was not even any longer "out there" for glycerol, but a recent study makes you rethink, whether you just have to look in the right place to see the benefits. Another of the "odd" Thursdays without an update from "Your's Truly" Adelfo Cerame . And since there is holiday today, over here, I even thought there would not be a SuppVersity Science Round Up today. But hey, you are lucky you (and Carl) got to work, so you can tune in live at 1PM EST, or even better, start listening live at 1PM in order not to miss the Strength and Hypertrophy Round Table ! As far the  topics for today's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round Up are concerned, you are actually only a couple of lines away from reading about one that's on the list:  The effects of glycerol on exercise performance. I don't have to tell you though that this is not everyth...

HIIT and Caffeine have both been highly advocated for fat loss by professionals and personal trainers all over the world. Now, a recent study ( Gerber. 2010 ) by provides clinical evidence for the effectiveness of the combination of both. Gerber et al. had six participants complete two exercise trials consisting of 30 min of HIIT (20s cycling at 150% VO2max with 40s rest), followed by a time to exhaustion (TTE) test at 150% VO2max with prior ingestion of 5 mg/kg of either caffeine or placebo (Caltrate) in randomised order and found: During recovery from TTE, plasma glycerol was significantly increased with caffeine (p<0.05), with a similar trend for plasma FFA (p=0.1). VO2 was significantly elevated in the caffeine trial compared to placebo after both HIIT and TTE exercise bouts (p<0.05), and plasma uric acid was significantly higher after caffeine following TTE (p<0.05). So, after all, "bro-science" sometimes is not far away from "pro-science" and some ...