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What do these Jerusalem artichokes , agave , bananas , burdock , camas , chicory , coneflower , costus , dandelion , elecampane , garlic , jicama , Leopard's-bane , mugwort , onion , wild yams , yacon and a whole host of other foods have in common? Right! They contain inulin. Whether you will be able to get a whopping amount of 10% inulin in your diet w/out the use of supplements or "enriched" foods, is yet as questionable as how beneficial this actually is for friends of physical culture. The gut microbiome is not just one of the hottest topics in the (health-)blogosphere, it is also a subject of ongoing research. Research, however, that is, if we are honest, still very much in its infancy. As impressive as the results from the latest studies into the metabolic downstream effects of the administration of fermentable fiber to rodents may be and as obvious as their relation to certain changes in the gut microbiome of the animals may appear - in the end, our unders...

Image 1: Is the US starving for sulfur amino acids and cholesterol? You've learned in yesterday's post (cf. " Sodium-Alginate for 30-40% More Weight Loss and Body Fat Reduction on Mild Caloric Deficit ") on the surprising fat-loss effects of seaweed extract, or sodium alginate, already that the "fat burner" of the future isn't going to be a stim, ... well, at least not necessarily or exclusively, but rather a compound that acts onto the GBA, the gut-brain axis by modulating your bodies response to food and fasting. Now, as gross as this may seem, a recently published study from the United Arab Emirates University does suggest that this fat burners may not even come in pill, but rather as a suppository! A fat burning suppository? Wtf.... I see you are shocked, well so was I, but the alternative would be that you take a syringe and... ah, let's just assume they came out with a suppository which could deliver the same 0.66, 2.0, 6.66 and 20.0 mm...

Image 1: The small amounts of sodium-alginate, aka E401 many chocolates and commercially produced foods contain is obviously not enough to ward off obesity. Otherwise the obesity rates should have fallen not risen with the increase in crappy foods. Aside from the ubiquitous stimulant based fatburners there is another class of weight loss supplements emerging as of late. Those of you who have read Adelfo's Thursday post , here at the SuppVersity , may have seen his plug for Myotropics' WM-HDP based "new Fat Burning Carbohydrate" ThermiCarb(TM) . Now as hilarious as it may sound, this resistant starch is in fact as much of a "fat burner" as any of the 1001 currently available stims is. After all, none of those products actively burns fat. What still makes them effective, though, is their ability to shift substrate utilization away from glucose and towards fat, to curb appetite and to deliver the energy you need to do what it takes to shed body fat, i.e. t...