SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

With only 2-7x increases in PGC1-alpha expression HIIT seems to lag behind compared to this "eat low, train low, gain high" strategy, but not every protein essay that glitters in the petri dish will turn into Olympic Gold in the real world ;-) As a diligent student of the SuppVersity you should by now have at least a preliminary understanding of how the adaptive machine you call your "body" adapts to the various nutritional and physical challenges most people subsume under the all-encompassing and pretty nondescript terms "diet" and "exercise". Against that background it should not really come as a surprise that researchers from the The Swedish School of Sport and Health Science are soon going to publish the data of an experiment that shows that even (you could probably also say, in particular, although respective evidence is still missing) highly trained athletes can benefit from exercising in a glyocogen depleted state - at least if the y...

Image 1: If a high fat diet was a patentable pill, I guess BigPharma would already be selling it. It's crazy, whenever I go to the groceries, there are new products popping up with colorful slogans like "fat free", "diet", "particularly low in fat", "fat reduced", "only 0.1%" etc. What is yet all the more disturbing is that these products are "placed" right next to a more recent "invention" of the industry - products with a "reduced sugar content"... I could now go on a rampage on how the Kellog's and co. just replace table sugar with other sugars in order to be able to put these stickers on their products, but I actually want to make a different point today. If you stand still for a moment and watch the people pass by, there are two things you will notice. The healthy and lean (and not anorexic) will pass by without even noticing the great "0.00001% fat, reduced sugar whatever " wit...