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Hair Loss: Finasteride, Laser Light or Minoxidil - What Will Really Help Men & Women Regrow Lost Scalp Hair?

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Men may be at a higher risk, but androge-netic hair loss is not a male exclusive. Minoxidil, Finasteride, and low-level laser light therapy are Food and Drug Administration-approved/-cleared treatments for androgenetic alopecia, but do they actually work? That was one of the questions Areej Adil and Marshall Godwin tried to answer in a recent review; a systematic review and meta-analysis the scientists from the  Memorial University of Newfoundland  published in the Journal of the American Acadamy of Dermatology very recently and a paper of which its authors claim that I will clear up the confusion about the seemingly conflicting results of individual studies. If your scalp is not your weak area, try these exercise to shed fat and gain muscle . Tri- or Multi-Set Training for Body Recomp.? Alternating Squat & Blood Pressure - Productive? Pre-Exhaustion Exhausts Your Growth Potential Full ROM ➯ Full Gains - Form Counts! Battle the Rope to Get Ripped...
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Reductive Stress: An Argument Against Anti-Oxidants for Athletes & Everyone Else? Plus: AGE-Reduced Diets for Health & Weight Loss & Iron For Women in the Military

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It's sort of funny that the mental fatigue is reduced, but the physical performance stagnates w/ iron supplementation. You will probably already have seen the results of the latest study from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences which provides additional evidence that "vitamin C and E supplementation interfere[s] with exercise-induced signalling in muscle cells after a session of strength training, by reducing the phosphorylation of p70S6K and mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs: p38 and ERK1/2)", two proteins with significant effect on the exercise induced increase in protein synthesis and corresponding increases in the overall adaptation to exercise, and "have the potential to adversely affect cellular adaptations to exercise in healthy individuals." (Paulsen. 2014). To put this results into perspective I will briefly recap the main message of a corresponding review of the "sense and non-sense" of antioxidant supplementation in athletes...
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Low Fat Toddler, High Fat Adult?! Intra-Workout Carbs More 'Anabolic' Than Protein!? Iron Prevents Gastric Cancer & Insulin Resistance?! Plus: A Sixpack of Kettlebell Studies

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If you want to know exactly how your neighbors or rather your county did, check out the CDC's brand new County Data Interactive Atlas (may take some time to load), select your state and click on your county. Unfortunately, it's not exactly likely that you will be pleasantly surprised after all, places with rates below 6.5% (white on the map) have become rare, while those with 11.2% or more are becoming the norm. "100%" - In words: One hundred percent, that's the SuppVersity figure of the week and at the same time the rate at which the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in 14 of the US states grew faster in the years between 1995 and 2000 than previous estimates had predicted. The CDC has published this figure along with more information and the link to their brand new County Data Interactive Atlas in their weekly report on November 15, 2012. The Top 5 offenders on the list that's attached to the report are (1) Oklahoma (226 percent), (2) Kentucky (158 p...
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Low Iron Still an Issue in Professional Athletes

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Despite the fact that most of you are probably weekend-warriors or recreational athletes, I suspect that some of you expose their bodies to similar stressors as professional athletes do. Therefore, I assume you'd be interested in a recent study coming from German scientists ( Reinke. 2011 ) who found that "although recuperation seems to allow a certain recovery of iron storage, particularly in athletes with initially low ferritin levels, this retrieval was insufficient to fully normalise reduced iron levels." The scientists had previously examined the iron metabolism in 20 elite rowing athletes and 10 professional soccer players at the end of a competitive season, after recuperation and during pre-season training and found: At the end of season, 27% of all athletes had absolute ID [iron deficiency] and 70% showed functional ID. Absolute iron depletion was not generally restored after recuperation and observed at all time points in 14% of the athletes. Although a...
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