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Can Stevia Help You Ward Off Type II Diabetes? A Review

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Unfortunately, it is not even clear if you need the "white stuff", i.e. pure steviosides, whole leaves of leaf-extracts to maximize the anti-diabetic effects of stevia. What is clear, though, is that there's still a lot of research to be done. "Can Stevia Help You Ward Off Type II Diabetes?" That's not just the title of today's SuppVersity  article, it is also the research question of a recent paper by Esteves A.F. dos Santos from Farmácia Progresso  (dos Santos. 2016). An interesting question with an obvious answer: if you replace  sugar in your diet with stevia, it will help. Now, you know that this would not be worth discussing in a SuppVersity  article of its own. What is  worth discussing, though, is that stevia contains "compounds and other substance obtained from stevioside hydrolyses" (dos Santos. 2016) such as isoteviol  of which studies show that they can be used as 'active' diabetes treatments - meaning: they help, eve...
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When Timing Matters - Alpha Lipoic Acid: Works Best, When it's Taken 30min Before a High Carb Meal. Can Easily Make You Hypo, if You Forget the Carbs or Have it on Empty

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A salad like the one the beautiful young lady is about to eat is not the kind of meal that would require pre-meal lipoic acid supplementation. Although I am not convinced that alpha lipoic acid (lipoic acid aka ALA) will actually partition glucose preferentially to muscle, because studies indicate that it will increase glucose uptake in fat cells, as well (and that at 10x higher glucose transporter expressions in fat vs. muscle cells; Estrada. 1996; Konrad. 2001), there is still good evidence that it can help people with (full-blown) insulin resistance stash away the glucose they consume, more effectively. To do so, it would appear logical that alpha lipoic acid has to be consumed in the vicinity of a meal. The question I am trying to answer today is thus: When do you have to take your alpha lipoic acid to ensure optimal glucose "repartitioning"? Learn more about the effects of your diet on your body composition at the SuppVersity Ladies, Beware! Dieting Makes G...
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Is Low Blood Sugar Obesogenic? Hypoglycemic Episodes Characteristic of Weight Loss Plateaus & Weight Regain - What to Do? Diet, Sleep, Exercise & Mental Work Matter

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Tip: Restore your muscle and liver glycogen after workouts and before long fasts to ensure a smooth transition from glucose to fat utilization. In view of the diabetes pandemic it sounds stupid, when J-P Chaput and A Tremblay write that low blood sugar levels could contribute to the ever-increasing obesity rates in the US and other Western countries. Their reasoning, however, is sound: An increase in blood glucose concentrations results in increased feelings of satiety whereas a drop in blood glucose concentrations has the opposite effect. Chronically low levels of glucose, as well as the glucose excursions we see in the few (still) healthy people after shoveling down packages of twinkies and dingdongs, would thus precipitate overeating and eventually obesity and diabetes. Use alternatives to sugar sweetened beverages if you want to stabilize your blood glucose! Unsatiating Truth About Sweeteners? Will Artificial Sweeteners Spike Insulin? Sweeteners & the Gu...
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Glutamine, a Better Glucose Source Than Glucose? Can You (Ab-)Use It As an Intra-/Post Workout Supplement? Human Study Suggest: Yes You Can! 8g Will Do the Trick

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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 ...
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Is Hypoglycemia Obesogenic? Is the GI Totally Worthless? Is Mild, But Chronic Stress Behind the Diabesity Pandemic? Is Leptin Obesogenic? And How Do You Calculate the Energy Requirements of Diabetics?

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One of the mistakes researchers and dieters make time and again, using the scale as their only guide Since I had a couple of interesting, but not earth-shatteringly exciting studies on obesity, body weight gain, the GI, leptin and a couple of other things lying around, I thought I'd compile a brief potpourri for you to get you on par with the helplessness with which researchers are still facing the diabesity pandemic. So don't expect any of the one-size-fits-it-all solutions the scientists still appear to be looking for from any of the following items. What you may find, however, is some inspiration when you read between the lines or follow up on the suggested reads, I mention. And if that's not the case, you can still browse previous articles on fat loss or simply go to the gym and try the fat loss example routine from the SuppVersity " Step By Step Guide for Your Own Workout Routine " or simply go to be early to preserve your circadian rhythm . Going ...
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The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part I/III: How An Evolutionary Advantage Can Turn Its Ugly Face On Both Sexes!

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The cover of the Vogue is usually not the place to turn to, if you are looking for role-models, but let's be honest: Do you believe Hope Solo or Serena Williams suffer from amenorrhea or their fellow Olympian Brian Lochte from low testosterone? I don't think so. So, there must be something "real" athletes do that way too many weekend warriors, who are in it, often to look just like their stars don't do - and in this multi-part SuppVersity Special , we are going to figure out what this may be. I guess some of you will already have believed that I had forgotten about the requested and promised article on the "Female Athlete Triad" . As you can easily see, this is not the case and still, I must admit that it will take another week until I will eventually have make good on my promise, as this is only the first part of a multi-part feature . The main reason I decided to split things up is that I did not want you to simply skip on the fundamental inform...
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