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Rustless Hearts: Adding 15-20ml of Virgin Coconut Oil to Your Diet May Counter the Oxidative Stress From Partially Oxidized Fats and Keep Your Heart Rust-Free

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Could a daily dose of virgin coconut oil really be all it takes to escape the #1 leading cause of death (CDC data) - despite French fries and co? Originally I wanted to post the results of this study from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia as a short news item in the Facebook News . Then I decided that it may actually be worth to allow you to have a look a the surprisingly pronounced effects the addition (not replacement!) of 3-4 tablespoons of virgin coconut oil had on the in vivo lipid oxidation levels of rodent hearts in the course of this 4 months study at the end of which the researchers did not simply measure the systemic, but the more significant local malondialdehyde (MDA) levels. With the direct analysis of the presence of lipid oxidation production in the heart being a more reliable indicator of whether or not the changes the researchers observed in the study at hand are physically relevant... Ah, I don't want to give it all away. So let's rather take a look a...
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Red Meat and Cancer? Not if You Protect Yourself With Coffee. A Cup of Coffee With / After Meals Will Do the Trick

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Coffee-Chile-Cocoa Rubbed Sirloin, Creamed Kale ( recipe ) - The perfect way to eat your red meats? I just realized that the last SuppvVersity article on coffee is about three months old. In view of the myriad of health benefits that have and (I guarantee) will still be associated with habitual coffee consumption (examples: heart disease - Lopez-Garcia. 2006; diabetes - van Dam. 2005; cancer - Wilson. 2011). This is obviously something that has to be changed. Luckily, there are scientists like Roman Sirota and his colleagues from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who keep the interesting papers coming. For the Israeli scientists, the beneficial effects the consumption of coffee - roasted-ground coffee, to be precise - appears to have on the influx of maldonialdehyde (MDA) from the gut was at the center of their latest experiments. Real coffee, real benefits - Filter coffee, but not instant will do the trick While this is not directly related to the MDA issue, it is still i...
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Are Elevated Iron and Uric Acid Levels Too Much of a Price to Pay for a Creatine-Induced 11% Performance Increase?

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Video 1 (GSSI): Notre Dame 's Michael Floyd goes all out on the Wingate test ( click to watch ) I guess you could say that these are the "classic days", here at the SuppVersity , contrary to my previous post on choline , which is - judged by the few people who still use it today, an "old school supplement" (cf. " Choline: Stronger, Faster, Leaner & More Muscular, or Just Another Dumb-and-Barbell Story? ") - yesterday's post on caffeine highlighted the efficacy of a potent ergogenic aid and metabolic activator, with the effects of which most of us are so familiar that we are alway tempted to turn to useless crap like raspberry ketones , when what we are already doing is not only tried and proven, but based on respectable scientific data even more effective than the latest "innovation" from the snake oil industry. And let's be honest, haven't we all been tempted by one or another "new creatine", as well? +11% pe...
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TTA + Fish Oil - Fat Burning Superfats or Hepatoxic Pro-Oxidants? Why You Better Avoid Large Amounts of Omega-3 and Tetradecylthioacetic Acid in the Long Run

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Image 1: Even if you align them like that, it is at least debatable whether capped fish oil is much more natural than the structurally modified 16 -carbon saturated fatty acid tetradecylthioacetic acid (TTA). As far as their effects on weight loss are concerned, the latter is certainly more potent,... the debate on the side-effects of both is yet still far from being settled. Despite the mainstream hoopla around the former... At least for those of you who have been around the supplement world for some time, the acronym TTA, which stands for tetradecylthioacetic acid , a structurally modified 16 -carbon saturated fatty acid (SFA), which has been shown to increase fatty acid oxidation and reduce triglyceride levels via interactions with purportedly all PPAR-receptors, should ring a bell. For the rest, it will yet probably be news that, back in the early 2000s, TTA was all the rave as the new star among OTC-fat burners. And in fact, the weight loss people experienced on respective pr...
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CLnA, the "Omega-3 Variety" of CLA from Pomegranate & Co, Has Potent Anti-Obesity Effects and the Potential to Become More Than Just Another Anti-Diabetes Drug.

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Image 1: Pomegranate - I loved to eat them even before I realized that their seeds are the #1 dietary source (83%) of punic acid. While more and more people are beginning to grasp the notion that with (naturally occurring) fats - as with everything else in life - there is no simple "good" and "bad", no clearcut "black" and "white" and no definite "beneficial" and "detrimental". The number of different fatty acids and their respective effects on the human metabolism is so vast that it is pretty hard to keep track of all those varieties of saturated and unsaturated carboxylic acids. I would thusly not be surprised if you simply assumed that the "n" in the headline of this blogpost was a type that had slipped in because poor Dr.Andro is chronically stressed from Christmas shopping... well, while the latter is actually correct, the former is not: CLnA is actually the omega-3 variety of the famous conjugated linoic ac...
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Some Things Fishy: Oxidized Fish Oil Totally Benign!?Plus: The Inflammatory Side of EPA and Peroxide & Alkenal Levels in Commercial Fish and Vegetable Oils.

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Image 1: Surströmming, a Swedish delicates is essentially rancid fish and it stinks exactly like that. Now, the results of a recent study show that the rancidity does probably not compromise the health benefits of the fish... so if you like it, go for it! You know that whenever something is so (over-)hyped like fish oil or vitamin D that rings an alarm with me and when I hear "experts" on popular podcast say things along the lines of " as long as you take your fish oil that can compensate for a whacky diet ", this is totally burning me up. Yes, there is conclusive evidence that for someone who has damaged his/her body by years and years of omega-6 over-consumption the inclusion of even "high" dose (I consider 5-6g high!) fish oil supplements can make sense , but NO, it will neither allow you to keep eating the same crap that has brought you to where you are at now, nor (and I think this is even more important for most of the SuppVersity readers) is the...
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Green Tea Extracts for Building Strength & Size and Losing Weight - Fact or Fraud? Or, Why It is Always Worth Taking a Look at the Data that Is NOT in the Abstract.

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Image 1: If the watery green tea is healthy, then a potent extract must be even more healthy, right? This may well be just another instance of "supplementational idiocy"... I know people love their Green Tea! After all, Camellia sinensis is one of the staples that has not yet been debunked as another hoax of the supplement of pharmaceutical industry - a real healthfood, right!? Well, you will probably be familiar with my skepticisms towards the notion that taking tons of the polyphenols you are "supposed" to get in relatively small quantities from 2-3 cups of green tea in supplemental form must necessarily be a good thing, just because epidemiological data suggests that people who consume green tea (for those who only now this stuff in capped form: Green tea is actually a beverage ;-) in moderation are overall healthier than people who abstain from drinking hot water extracts (=tea) from minimally oxidized (=green) Camellia sinensis leaves. Did you miss m...
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