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Sick of Being Sick? 30 High Flavonoid Foods to Reduce the Incidence, Length & Severity of Infections by 40% (Avg.)

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If "that's you" and "that's you" more than four times a year, you better read today's SuppVersity article and learn which Flavenoids may reduce your number of upper respiratory tract infections into the normal range of 2-4 per year. The number of purported anti-URTI (=anti U pper R espiratory T ract I nfection) agents is unquestionable higher than the average number of yearly upper respiratory infections of the average US citizen, which is 2-4. Which of these usually natural agents actually have the ability to protect you from at least one of the previously cited 2-4 infections, however, is far from being obvious. The scientific evidence is ambiguous and confusing and therefore I am happy that researchers from the  University of Auckland  and colleagues from the College of Sport and Exercise Science at the Victoria University  have recently conducted a large-scale meta-analysis of no less than 387 studies - ok, that's the number they began with...
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Cholesterol Boosts Your Immune Defenses: Infections Can Lower Cholesterol, Extra-Chol. Will Help You Battle Them

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Health food for sick people - Much better than cholesterol supplements ;-) Cholesterol is the villain of the 20th century. In the 21st century, however, the evidence that vilifying the building-block of hormones and cell membranes has more negative than positive consequences is accumulating. The latest piece to the pro-cholesterol puzzle is a study from the  Capital Medical University  (Wang. 2016) in Beijing, China. A study in which the researchers tried to get to the bottom of the proven link between cholesterol and several adverse outcomes in various disesase - especially infectious ones. Meat is an excellent source of cholesterol, too | Learn more about  meat at the SuppVersity You May Eat Pork, too! You Eat What You Feed! Meat & Prostate Cancer? Meat - Is cooking the problem Meat Packaging = Problem? Grass-Fed Pork? Is it Worth it? The authors conducted a study to supplement cholesterol, and observe the change on the test indexes an...
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Glutamine or BCAA, Which is the Better Fatique Buffer? 18g GLU Suprisingly Effective, 9.5g BCAAs (Un-)Surprisingly Useless as Blood Fatigue Factors & Cytokine Buffers

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Rowing is an excellent cardio exercise for wanna be bodyuilders, by the way! I am not really a fan of glutamine, but unlike BCAAs that are still hyped all over the Internet, the conditionally essential amino acid which is the most abundant of all amino acids in human blood is at least not falsely heralded as a potent catabolic, anabolic, weight loss adjuvant and what not, any longer. Against that background I have to admit that I am not exactly unhappy to tell you that Ga Hee Koo, Jin Hee Woo, Sung Whun Kang, and Ki Ok Sjin who work at the Dong-A University and the Republic of Korea Airforce Academy , have recently observed that BCAAs have absolutely no, glutamine at least a minimal impact on the blood fatigue factor response of juvenile athletes in response to a 2,000 m all out rowing challenge w/ placebo, BCAA or glutamine supps. Learn more about amino acid and BCAA supplements at the SuppVersity Glutamine Helps W/ Diabetes Whey + C Kicks BCAA Ass Alanyl-Glutami...
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Catching One Cold After the Other? 10,000 IU Vitamin D per Week + Gargling May Help. Plus: Gargling Thrice A Day or Gargling With Green Tea Are Even More Effective!

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Gargling and vitamin D (10,000 IU/week) keep you infection free. Not too long ago, everyone would have thought you'd picked the wrong letter from the vitamin alphabet if you told him to use "vitamin D " supplements to ward off upper respiratory infections. For decades this has been the still unconfirmed prerogative of vitamin C, which appears to work only in men & women with chronically low intakes of vitamin C...  These days, however, vitamin D can - supposedly - do everything and Mr. and Mrs. Joe & Jane Average won't be surprised to hear that Emma C Goodall and colleagues from the McMaster University and other research institutions call vitamin D, or to be more precise the provision of vitamin D3 supplements a promising intervention for the prevention of URTI.  You can learn more about vitamin D at the SuppVersity How Much To Take? Leucine, Insulin & Vitamin D Vit. D Speeds Up Recovery Overlooked D-Sources Vitamin D For Athletes! ...
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Colostrum Maintains Testosterone, Cortisol and Heart Rate Recovery, Where Whey Fails - During a Five Day Cycling Event With 10 Highly Trained Male Road Cyclists

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Legal gear fresh from the udder? If it works for cyclist, it must be real ;-) Some of you will probably remember the corresponding installment of "Ask Dr. Andro" from 2011 that dealt with the question whether colostrum and milk products in general are healthy muscle builders, a waste of money or toxic waste ( read more ). If you do, you will also remember that my review of the literature did support the general benefits of milk proteins, but it did not provide significant evidence that benefits that have been observed in the few existing studies on the ergogenic value of colostrum could not be achieved by whey and/or casein proteins as well. Now, the latest study from the University of Queensland appears to suggest that just this could yet in fact be the case (Shing. 2013) - at least if the outcome measures are the salivary testosterone concentration and modulated autonomic activity over consecutive days of competitive cycling. 10g of whey vs. 10g of cholostrum "...
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Cod Liver Oil vs. URTI. 2x Higher Fat Oxidation W/ Optimal Workout Timing, Aggressive Diabesity Control, Seaweed & Breast Cancer and NO Supplements Superior to Sugar

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Self-proclaimed experts will say: "No cod liver! It's poison! It has way too much vitamin A... you better pop a kg of vitamin D pills if you want to do something for your health." Really? How do you explain the results of the Robertson study, then? "Grandma was right" - That's if you will the statement of the week - a statement that is verified by the SuppVersity Figure of the Week which is p = 0.04 and describes the probability that the association between the consumption of cod liver oil and a decreased occurrence of upper respiratory tract infects (URTI) Swedish researchers observed in a cohort of 6350 middle-aged and elderly participants in the Tromsø Study 6 , of which Robertsen et al. had actually expected that it would finally confirm the protective effects of high(er) vitamin D levels / intake against respiratory disease. As it turned out, however, neither vitamin D (25-OHD), nor the intake of fish, n-3 capsules or vitamin and/or mineral suppl...
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