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Cannabis is bad for athletes,... well, unless they're asthmatics; and in that case they'd better use beta-agonists, which have welcome previously discussed ergogenic "side effects". It's April and time for another installment of the SuppVersity Short News about sports medicine and related topics. In articles like the one at hand, I discuss a selection of recent studies - usually from a single journal like, in this case, the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport  and often, as in this case, based on papers that have been accepted for publication, already but haven't been published, yet. In today's installment we'll deal with cannabis, shoe cushings and the brain building (BDNF boosting effects) of hypertrophy-oriented resistance training... and, not to forget, the fallacy of taking into account only exercise-induced stressors, when you periodize your training. Read about more or less exercise-related studies at the SuppVersity Alcohol, Mi...

BPC is not patentable, and thus not interesting for BigPharma. In a way this article is a response to a question I got from Ryan on the Faebook Page of the SuppVersity a week ago. He asked, whether I had an article on Pentadecapeptide BPC-157, a substance of which he'd heard that it can accelerate tendon and muscle repair and work all sorts of other healing magic. Now, as a regular at the SuppVersity  you may know that I didn't have an article on this agent a week age. So I decided to write one. Not just because Ryan asked, but also because of the practical significance of the healing effects of this peptide from in vitro and in vivo studies (no medical advice here!). Unlike antioxidants with their anti- hormetic  effects, BPC-157 actually promotes healing Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? Even Ice-Baths Impair the Adapt. Process Vit C+E Impair Muscle Gains in Older Men C+E Useless or Detrimental for Healthy People Vitamin C and G...

Green tea as a magical muscle preservative for injured athletes? "GTE increased satellite cell proliferation and differentiation, decreased oxidative stress and the abundance of Bax, a proapoptotic protein" (Alway. 2014) - that's the initially exciting result of a recent study from the West Virginia University School of Medicine and Abbott Laboratories . What is not exactly as exciting, though, is how the sentence continues, i.e. "yet this did not further improve muscle recovery in reloaded muscles" (Alway. 2014). Sounds contradictory, right? Well, before we get deeper into the discussion of the results, let's briefly recap how Alway et al. arrived at these insights, i.e. how exactly the experiment looked like and which experimental evidence it generated. The scientists from the West Virginia University School of Medicine tested the hypothesis that green tea extract (GTE) would improve muscle recovery after reloading following disuse. In men and wo...

Minimal or no shoes, trendy, healthy and performance enhancing? Honestly, I am not even sure if it's a question of faith and science. I think for many people out there it is more a question of faith or science. Now some of you may think: "Well, of course, science says: It's bullocks. Faith says it's 'right' to run barefoot." Right? Wrong!  No, I don't want to tell you what to do. I want to tell you about the scientific evidence in favor of barefoot running. Evidence as it is presented in "Barefoot running survey: Evidence from the field" a recent paper by David Hryvnial, Jay Dicharry and Robert Wilder that's about to be published in one of the upcoming issues of the Journal of Sport and Health Science that's based on data from more than 500 runners (Hryvniak. 2014). Not everyone will do his HIIT sprints barefoot, I think, but maybe minimally shod? Never Train To Burn Calories! Tabata = 14.2kcal /min ≠ Fat Loss 30s I...