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Probiotics act on in the digestive tract, but their effects are still systemic. You've read about the anti-weight gain effects of probiotic supplements in rodents  before at the SuppVersity and in the SuppVersity Facebook News. Nice, yes, but will this also work in human beings? If we put faith into the predictive quality of a recent from Virginia Tech , it should. Before we delve deeper into the study design, results and evaluation in the bottom line, I'd yet like you to know that (a) we don't know if the effects will persist for more than 4-weeks, if they will become stronger or weaker and that (b) the study was funded by  VSL Pharmaceuticals  (Osterberg. 2015) - both additional reasons not to confuse a single study like this with "proof" that probiotics block fat gain. You can learn more about the gut & your health at the SuppVersity Fiber for Female Fat Loss Sweeteners & Your Gut Foods, Not Ma- cros for the Gut Lactulose For Gut ...

Rosemary and Garlic Steak - This is only one out of thousand recipes you will find all over the Internet that inform you how to use rosemary and reap (some) of the health benefits (thing about dosage for taste vs. for medical effects) I am about to outline in todoay's SuppVersity article. I know that I still owe you the 2nd par of the "Perfect Frying Oil" series, and I promise I will write it as soon as I have found convincing evidence to argue that there actually is a "perfect frying oil". In the mean time, I'd suggest you focus on the "tricks" I am about to reveal in today's SuppVersity article and produce your own no-bullshit-bulletproof frying oil by adding... no, not butter and coconut oil, but sage, thyme, and rosemary. If you belong to the extremely studious 10% of the SuppVersity students, you will probably remember that you can easily produce an anti-bacterial marinade based on green tea, lemon and turmeric ( read more ). If y...

(Un!)Surprising results: The "healthy" soy oil is the only fat in the study at hand that causes NAFLD. I know, it is not certain whether or not the results of rodent studies will transfer to human beings and believe me, I would rather have seen this study conducted on humans or at least pigs. And while the latter are simply to expensive, the former are unreliable and don't like to be caged in metabolic wards... well, unless they receive a monetary compensation that costs about as much as a whole pigsty ;-) That being said, let's stick with what we have and take a look at the results, Yoko Hashimoto and her colleagues published in a recent issue of the medical journal Lipids (Hashimoto. 2013). The "obesity resistant" wistar rat and it's reaction to different dietary fats I promise, the results are interesting and probably highly relevant, because the strain of Wistar rats (Slc:Wistar/ST) used in this study does not become obese simply because...

When we are talking about the extinction of endangered species such as the Siberian tiger, we are adopting a perspective that will also help us to understand such things as the pitfalls of probiotic supplementations as a "solution" to the diabesity epidemic It's Friday the day after the SuppVersity Science Round-Up ( download the podcast ) and you all know what that means: Right! Time to summarize the stuff that did not make it into the show and provide you with a couple of thoughts, as well as additional information on the topics, Carl Lanore and I did already cover (this does also imply that you have to listen to the show if you want the info on the genetic and non-genetic underpinnings of breast cancer). If I had to come up with a motto, something that connects the topics in the show and thus obviously also the ones that will be discussed in this article, I guess it would be "ecosystems". I have repeatedly pointed out in the past that I am not a beli...

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: Can you really team up leucine (or HMB) and resveratrol to make tired mitochondria get a move on? NuSirt Sciences says "YES!" And in the dish and rodents it's actually already working. What happens if you marry a well-known AMPK promoter and exercise mimetic, with an even more prominent exercise adjuvant and nutritional mTOR booster? Will they neutralize each other? Think about it.... ok, now gimme your answer: What happens if you put resveratrol and leucine together? At first it does not really make sense, does it? Right, it doesn't, at least not unless you follow the same train of thought, the researchers from NuSirt Sciences . NuSirt? That rings a bell, hah? Yeah those were the guys who did a study on their 250mg leucine + 30mg vitamin B6 proprietary blend NuFit (see " Testosterone - 12% Drop /W 75g Glucose? Fat Loss - Adzuki, Leucine + B6 or HiMaize & More ") and actually, the leucine + resveratrol combination is sort of a spin-off of t...

Image 1: Bacteria, there are >100 trillion of them right inside of your digestive track, you can hardly know them all and scientists do neither - the only thing we are beginning to understand, though, is that it may be a good idea to get them to know at least somewhat better ;-) I guess some of you have already noticed that I was (and probably am now, again) somewhat behind, as far as answering your questions, comments an wise remarks are concerned. Actually it is still more of a coincidence that today's SuppVersity news, which, as you see is not an Adelfo Cerame post (don't forget to keep the fingers crossed for him! This is his weekend!), could actually be interpreted as my somewhat lengthy response to a comment from Vincente on the effects of GLP-1 on chocolate preference in rats and an interesting hypothesis of his, on how this could all relate to my previous post on the fat burning effects of GLP-1 (" Eat More, Burn More and Lose Fat Like on Crack with GLP...

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...