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Happy New Year! In case this guy looks anywhere similar to how you feel after yesterday's party night, today's SuppVersity article is for you! "Happy New Year", health, love, ... you know the whole litany, so let's get over it and straight to the things that are really important, today. The hangover cures. In the following I have compiled an extensive yet probably by no means complete list of scientifically proven hangover cures that may help better than aspirin and plenty of water (Harvard Health Letter. 2006), alone. Apropos aspirin, it's actually not too bad to start with 400-800mg of it, if you are having a hangover. It has after been shown to block the increased prostaglandin synthesis in response to alcohol ingestion and thus counter at least the inflammatory aspect of the hangover (George. 1979). Better consume protein than alcohol learn why at the SuppVersity Alcohol Hampers Muscle Gains!? Sex, drugs... no good for athletes? Red Wi...

Amalgam removed = health restored? While there is little doubt that mercury vapor poses a known health risk, there is neither a clearly established safe level of exposure, nor evidence that similar ill health effects can occur with chronic low grade exposure to mercury vapor from dental amalgam fillings. As you may know amalgam is not 100% but "only" 50% mercury, but is that enough to represent a significant health risk? The objective of a recent study from the University of Calgary was "to determine if mercury exposure from amalgam fillings is associated with risk of adverse health effects" (Zwicker. 2014). Mercury is among the reasons fish should not be your exclusive protein source Salmon Better Than Whey? Cod protein for recovery Krill = Super Protein? Farmed vs. Wild-Caught Fish Fast vs. slow protein 5x More Than FDA Allows To this ends, Zwicker et al. conducted a large longitudinal non-blinded study involving participants from a p...

Natural migraine protection: Even if supps won't cure it, they can at least reduce the number of "bad days" and the severity of the attacks. In the last installment of the " Short News " you've learned about the enormous costs chronic pain produces on an annual basis: Roughly $300 billion for its treatment and another $300 billion in form of economic damage. No wonder pain killers, Cox inhibitors and & co are among the top selling and drugs in the world. Now, migraine is unquestionably among the most debilitating forms of chronic or rather cyclic chronic pain and while women are much often hit by the pain from withing (21.8% v.s 10.0% of the US citizens suffer; NHS 2009). And while I cannot tell you how much of the $2,000 bucks each of you is "spending" on an annual base on treating the pain of his / her fellow citizens, I believe that both of you, my dear mal and female readers, may benefit from the information in today's installment...

Wouldn't a single 200mg caffeine be enough to elicit the desired ergogenic effects without side effect like increased urination, headaches and muscle aches on the day after? Caffeine is not only the world's #1 it is probably also the most (ab-)used ergogenic on the planet and whatever you may think about the longterm consequences of its use, there is not debating that it is part of those few "supplements" that actually work "no hype, no *bs*" ;-) That being said, you may have noticed with yourself that its effect are dose dependent, but not linearly and that some things, such as an increase in mental focus at work require much lower doses of C8H10N4O2 aka 1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione or 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione than the elucidation of a major buzz before an intense strength workout. So what's the perfect dose, then? Without wanting to hurt your feelings, you may imagine that you are not the only one who has ...

Image 1: You may already have read it on the SuppVersity Facebook Wall ; "Sacrificing sleep in order to study won't improve your college grades..." it could however easily whack your circadian rhythm and give you headaches. If those turn into a migraine, you may be happy to have read about beneficial effects of magnesium on the incidence of these crippling and painful attacks (see last item in this installment of " On Short Notice " ). In order to avoid having another weekend of " On Short Notice " posts, I decided to post the first collection today, already. The topics are, as usually, only loosely related and I hope that each and everyone of you will find something he or she considers interesting. We'll start out by having a brief look at the amazing antioxidant effects of red onions, and then delve deeper into the connection between obesity and low ferritin levels and a brief reminder that sometimes good things can become bad, if they are ...