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Bright Light Exposure Improves Your Workouts Sign. (~8%)

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Would be interesting to compare sunlight and artificial light in future studies. You will remember the circadian rhythm series in which I have previously discussed the relevance of light exposure as a means to set, reset and entrain your internal clock in order to reap all sorts of health and performance benefits. Bright (>4000 lux), preferable blue (at least having a blue component) light has repeatedly been shown to increase athletic performance. Studies like Kantermann et al. (2012) show, however, that the efficacy of bright light exposure significantly depends on the chronotype of an athlete. Learn more about the health effects of correct / messed up  circadian rhythms Sunlight, Bluelight, Backlight and Your Clock Sunlight a La Carte: "Hack" Your Rhythm Breaking the Fast to Synchronize the Clock Fasting (Re-)Sets the Peripheral Clock Vitamin A & Caffeine Set the Clock Pre-Workout Supps Could Ruin Your Sleep In said study, the athletes ...
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Phototherapy Doubles Fat Loss (11 vs. 6%) & Improvements in Insulin Sensitivity (40 vs. 22%) and Helps Conserve Lean Mass in Recent 20 Weeks 'Exercise for Weight Loss Trial'

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LLLT has also been shown to improve the appearance of cellulite (Jackson. 2013) | Learn more about what really helps against cellulite in this SV Classic You know that I am not a fan of isolated "exercise / supplement for weight loss trials", but there's one thing I like about them. When the diet is not controlled for and the subjects still lose weight, it is very  likely that the intervention is going to work in the real-world, as well. And if the exercise protocol is both manageable and useful, as it was the case in a recent study from the University of Sao Paulo (Sene-Fiorese. 2015), this makes me even more inclined to actually write about the study, even though it may be - from a mere scientific perspective - not provide "bulletproof" evidence of what's the exact cause of the effects, the exercise or supplement, it's effect on energy intake or both. Learn more about the nuances of dieting and fat loss here, at the SuppVersity Orgasm Hormo...
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Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) Almost Doubles Muscle Gains & Ramps Up Concentric & Eccentric Peak Torque Development During 8-Week Eccentric Training Program

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No, this is no photo from the study. Obviously the LLLT was applied to the legs, but LLLT is also used for shoulder and general muscle pain. I am usually very skeptical when it comes to therapies that sound extremely cool on paper, but have hitherto only proven to improve markers  of muscle damage and/or growth. Before I saw the latest paper from the Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (Baroni. 2015) low level laser therapy aka LLLT fell into this exact category of promising, but not proven post-exercise recovery therapies (Baroni 2010a, b). Said study involved thirty healthy male subjects without previous training/LLLT experience were randomized into three groups. Read more short news at the SuppVersity  to learn more about training & nutrition. Exercise Research Uptake Nov '14 1/2 Exercise Research Uptake Nov '14 2/2 Weight Loss Supplements Exposed Exercise Supplementation Quickie Exercise Research Uptake Jan 12, 2...
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Let There Be Light: 10 New Studies to Enlighten You About the Health Effects of Light Exposure on Health & Physique

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No, the sun does not kill you. If you control your exposure it may extend your life and improve your life-quality significantly. It's about time to "let there be light" to illuminate the benefits of regular well-timed exposure to sunlight and it's short frequency component. Only recently, researchers from the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) were able to show that daytime light exposure has significant beneficial effects on cognitive brain activity. Significant enough to have the subjects perform better on an oddball task and to significantly increase cortical activity related to cognitive processes (Okamoto. 2014). But is that really all, bright light, or more specifically, the regular and well-timed exposure to bright light can do for you? The effects on circadian rhythm could be behind the Sun's anti-cancer effects Sunlight, Bluelight, Backlight and Your Clock Sunlight a La Carte: "Hack...
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Wake-Up Light as Natural Ergogenic: Dawn Simulation Increases Early Morning Physical & Cognitive Performance

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What could be better than starting your day with the first rays of the sun? Doing this with a person you love, I suppose. If you have listened to Super Human Radio earlier this week ( download episode ), you will have heard that Carl "caught" me off guard calling me without prior notice during the live show. We ended up talking about the use of melatonin and my beloved "daylight lamp" (light therapy lamp), which kept my energy levels up even at the darkest winter mornings over the past couple of months. If you listened to the show , you may also remember that Carl mentioned that it would be great to have a light-based alarm clock - something like a light therapy lamp that increases its intensity gradually at a given time and will thus wake you up from a deep slumber. You can learn more about sleep and the circadian rhythm at the SuppVersity Sunlight, Bluelight, Backlight and Your Clock Sunlight a La Carte: "Hack" Your Rhythm Breaking t...
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