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The Satiating Secret of Arginine, Lysine and Glutamic Acid. Plus: Things You May Not Know About These Aminos

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No, no and no. No amino acids = no satiety = no weight loss. Personally, I have never been interested in products that would increase satiety. Being a born masochist, at least, when it comes to cutting body fat, I always liked being hungry... well, at least until I had to learn that there is an intricate hormonal connection between "being hungry" and the diet-induced reduction in metabolic rate, hormonal production etc. That changed my whole perspective on agents that increase satiety completely, and I started to read read papers like the one Jordi et al. are about to publish in one of the upcoming issues of the Journal of Physiology (Jordi. 2013). The satiety shoot-out According to the researchers from the University of Zurich , the top-dogs, or rather the most satiating among the so-called proteogenic amino acids, which are ... L-Leucine (Leu / L) L-Lysine (Lys / K) L-Methionine (Met / M) L-Phenylalanine (Phe / F) L-Proline (Pro / P) L...
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Diet Deoptimization with Rice Protein: Less Weight Gain, Lower Cholesterol and Fatty Acid Synthesis - So What?

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Image 1: Rice protein power - I'd bet a pouch of casein protein that this Chinese "body builder" must have eaten plenty of rice protein. I mean, check out how ripped he is! Update: Garymar informed me that this is a Japanese comedian called Yoshiaki Yamane - sorry, my mistake ;-) The "real" supplement news have been pretty slow as of late - there have not been any, to be precise. Unless you are interested in yet another study on an exotic African or Asian root or herb and its "antioxidative activity" in the petri-dish, you would probably have been as bored as I was by the latest articles in respective journals. And if Stephen Watt had not asked my opinion on a study my colleagues over at ergo-log had in the news, as of late, I would probably have ignored a "rodents on rice protein" study from the Department of Food Science at the School of Food Science and Engineering of the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China ( Yang. 20...
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Strengthless Gains: HMB+Arginine+Lysine Build Muscle. Strength Gains Require Vitamin D Levels >30mg/mL

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Image 1: I wonder, why gerontologists don't use plain BCAAs - too convenient? If, as I hope, you are a regular visitor of the SuppVersity, you know that in this day and age of vitamin-D3-loving , I am an outspoken skeptic, as far as the "magic" of supplementing with the undreestimated bone-building vitamin is concerned. That being said, I am all the more happy that after thousands of worthless epidemiological studies, scientists eventually begin to conduct well-controlled clinical trials, which provide factual information instead of dodgy hypothesis on the complex mechanisms by which our vitamin D status modulates a number of metabolic processes which reach far beyond the health of our bones. Did you know that the most recent studies on the effects of vitamin D on weightloss ( Soares. 2011 ) and type 2 diabetes ( Mitri. 2011 ) conclude that "[c]urrent evidence from RCTs [randomized controlled studies] did no...
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