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High Fat vs. High Carb and How the Tiny Word "Synthetic" May Turn Out to Be an Epic Game Changer That Puts a HUGE Question Mark Behind "If It Fits Your Macros"

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Even if both "Fit Your Macros" you should know better than to select the "fruit" loops (where is the "fruit" in those loops anyway?). A war is raging! Well, at least in the Internet the "battle" between the low-carb revolutionists and the low-fat veterans does sometimes in fact resemble an epic battle between god and evil... at least that's what the combatants believe. As of late it seems as if the rebels, i.e. the low-carbers were getting the upper hand and that despite the constant supplies the low fat veterans are getting from their friends in the medical establishment - friends who pay for studies the veterans to agrue how stupid and off base the rebels' assumption that "low carbing" would help us to solve the obesity epidemic actually actually were. Don't worry this post is not a war epic ;-) I know, up to this point, all this may not have sounded much like a SuppVersity article, but this will change now that...

Leucine Supplementation Exemplifies Potential Downsides of Non-Specific Insulin Sensitizers on a Hypercaloric Diet / Bulk

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Adelfo's latest progress pics speak for themselves. Maybe that consoles you for the missing update!? Another Thursday and ... no post from your's truly Adelfo Cerame . In fact, Adelfo shot me an email earlier today, that he won't be able to submit a blogpost this week if he wanted to get some sleep this night (remember we are living in different time zones) And while this was in fact a problem for me, since I am pretty pressed on time, today and did actually allocate the time I usually spend writing these blogposts, I agreed to cover his a** and step into the breach (so please ignore the surplus of typos, mistakes an missing words, please ;-). I mean, what could I say? We all know about the importance of sleep to bring in your best physique possible and I don't want to be the one who could be blamed in the very unlikely case that he won't finally take away his pro-card on his upcoming competition in March, right? SuppVersity Science Round-Up Sneak Peak Apr...

Probiotics + Green Tea - Synergistic Superstack or Sciency Non-Sense? Green Tea Alone Totally Blunts HFD Induced Weight Gain, L. Plantarum Does Not Add to Its Effects

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L. plantarum may metabolize green tea phenols, but don't add to their anti-diabesity effects  Green tea has actually never seized being all the rage and probiotics are the sexy new kid on the block right around the corner of the supplement shops and and science laboratories of the western hemisphere. Against that background I guess that the title of a paper that's been published ahead of print on Monday will probably suffice to catch your interest: "Green tea powder and Lactobacillus plantarum affect gut microbiota, lipid metabolism and inflammation in high-fat fed C57BL/6J mice." (Axling. 2012) - and that despite the fact that "mice are no little men" ;-) '1 + 1 =4' the synergism of green tea and probiotics could make it possible I guess, the idea sounds logic: Take one thing that has been proven to ameliorate diet induced obesity, namely green tea, and combine that with another one, of which it appears as if it would also exhibit beneficial...

Inulin & Beta Glucan Reduce Body Fat Gain By -50% & -33%! Both Have Similar Effects on the Gut Microbiome, But Only Inulin Appears to Be More Than An Appetite Suppressant

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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...

Amorfrutins: Plant-Derived Selective PPAR-Modulator Outperforms Regular Diabetes Drug and Exhibit Significant Weight Loss, Insulin and Leptin Sensitizing Effects

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Image 1: Amorpha fruticosa (photo R. Ott) is a deciduous shrub growing to 4.5 m, the fruits of which contain about 500mg of amorfrutins per 1kg raw material. One major argument I have been bringing forward against the use of diabetes "medications" for quite some time, now, is that most of them are not "treatment" strategies, in the sense that they help people lose body fat to naturally restore insulin sensitivity and get off their drugs, but rather the opposite. Drugs like rosiglitazone, for example, allow for the further expansion of the adipose tissue and reduce blood glucose levels by storing the excess glucose in those new or expanding fat cells. A recent paper by Weidner et al. does now suggest that there may be a natural alternative ( Weidner. 2012 ), which - despite acting on the same PPAR pathways lacks the fattening effects of synthetic PPAR-gamma ligands (molecules in drugs that interact with the peroxisome pro-liferator-activated receptor gamma) - l...
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