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Science Round-Up Seconds: Rare Sugar Syrup, HFCS 2.0? Body Recomposition W/ 7 Marathons in 7 Days!? Reduced REM Sleep With Intense Workouts in the Evening.

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99% of the guys & gals on this photo are not going to see anywhere similar improvements in body composition from marathon running as the highly trained 7x7 runners in the Karstoft study. It's Friday and that means its time for the wrap-up of yesterday's installment of the Science Round-Up on SHR. Well, let's see then what this weeks Round-Up of the Round-Up has to offer. Somehow I felt like picking up something we did actually cover in the live-show yesterday (download the podcast here ). I guess I want to give everyone the chance to look at the data himself in order to decide whether "rare sugar syrup" (RSS) is going to be the savior of the Western world and the unfortunate rest who's currently "westernized" by the big Ms, the big As and the rest of the corporate alphabet soup with a vested interest in the prosperity of mankind, or - to be precise - that the part of mankind who owns their shares ;-) Rare Sugar Syrup has 90% of the sweetn...
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On Short Notice: Worst Transfat Offenders Cookies & Co + Cinnamophilin For Joints + Tomato Powder Battles Cancer Like Aspirin + Creatine Protects Cell Walls + Carboholism Starts in the Womb, Intermittent Fasting Helps... + More!

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Image 1 (lecker.de): They may look cute and harmless, but they are just one of the many incarnations of the worst transfatty acids offenders in the diets of the "average American" cake, cookie and pastry lovers. Believe it or not: Some of them manage to eat almost 100g of the proatherogenic fats per day (!) Saturday and therefore time for a handful of " On Short Notice " news. We've got some ground to cover, today, so let's get started right away: We will start out by taking a look at the joint-healing / -protective effects of cinnamophilin , a compound from the roots of the cinnamomum trees. We will reconsider the importance of adiponectin for the non-obese physical culturist , switch from aspirin to tomato powder as our cancer prevention "drug" of choice and re-appreciate the newly discovered cell-protective value of a supplement 90% of you are probably already taking: creatine! Once we are done with that we revisit the potential connect...
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The Ergogenic Effect of Nonalcoholic Beer Front- & Back Loading + 15 Beerish Health Facts Everyone Should Know

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Image 1: Erdinger Weißbräu Alkoholfrei your first choice for peri workout isotonic carbohydrate supplementation!? Where else, if not from Germany, "The Land of Beer and Weißwurst" as it is falsely perceived by the average foreign Oktoberfest visitor, could the data for a study on the ergogenic effects of nonalcoholic beer originate from? In their recently published paper Johannes Scherr and his colleageas from the Department of Prevention and Sports Medicine at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Univerisity of Munich report that a 'forntload + post-supplementation' strategy (3 weeks before, 2 weeks after) with 1-1.5l/day of Erdinger Weißbräu Alkoholfrei led to statistically significant reductions in post-race total blood leukocyte counts (-9%) and interleukin-6 (-24%) and 66% lower incidence of upper-respiratory tract infection s in the 58 beer-drinking subjects (age: 36-51y), when compared to their 63 peers(age:35-49y) who received an isocaloric control ...
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Intermittent Thoughts on Insulin Resistance: The Marathon Paradox - How Temporary Exercise-Induced Insulin Resistance Paves the Way for "Fat Burning Machines"

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Image 1: Is this man temporary insulin resistant? Probably, otherwise he would hardly have made it to the finish line. After weeks of discussing the physiological foundations of building muscle, I figure at least some of you will share my personal desire think about something else, at least "intermittently", so to say. Now, before some of you start complaining, let me say this: I will try to attack today's topic from various angles, meaning that even those of you who may now be thinking "insulin resistance" that's just for lazy fat-asses will see that a better understanding of what some people perceive to be the root cause of most if not all of the major health concerns of the western convenience society could also help you in your efforts to get even more jacked. When I come to think about it, the notion that "insulin resistance is just for the friends of Ronald McDonald" and the "health conscious" part of the population was immune...
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Astragalus membranaceus: Purported Telomerase Activator Increases Exercise Capacity by +56%, Fights Cancer and May Be a Healthy Adjunct to Chemotherapy and Vaccines

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Image 1: Astragalus membranaceus , one of the 50 fundamental herbs in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A purported telomerase activator that contains potent antioxidants. There is hardly one month passing without some media reports about a group of scientists who supposedly found the royal route to health and longevity . With all those potentially life-extending drugs, herbals and nutritional supplements that have thus surfaced in the course of the last decades, it is actually almost surprising that we still die like flies, isn't it? Well, one possibility would obviously be that the scientifically-backed wonder-potions you can buy in the snake-oil shops all over the Internet do not work at all - impossible? I don't think so. Consequently, I was and still am very skeptical about the dubious claims about the "life-extending" effects of a patented Astragalus membranaceus (also Astragalus propinquus ) extract - and that despite or, I should say, because of its ...
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CoQ10 for Ultra-Endurance Athletes: 150mg of Ubiquinone Reduce Stress & Inflammation and Stabilize Cell Membranes in 52.4 Mile Torture from 640m to 3,393m!

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Image 1: Susan Kokesh, blogger and the Crazy Running Mum at the Sierra Nevada ultra-endurance run a 52.4 miles "double marathon"   in September 2010; I probably would not even have survived this torture - respect! As a health conscious physcial culturist, you are probably aware that the vitaminesque nutrient CoQ10, which, due to its ubiquitous presence in all living beings, is also known as ubiqinone , plays a fundamental role in cellular bioenergetics . It is a necessary cofactor in the mitochondrial electron transport chain (i.e. your cell's way of "breathing", its respiratory chain) and is therefore essential for the production of ATP, the fundamental energy unit your cells are operating on. In that, CoQ10 works as a mobile redox agent that shuttles electrons and, interestingly, also protons (those little blue and red balls from Bohr's atom model ;-) in the electron transport chain. Within the health and fitness community, it is however better known...
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Endurance Athletes Bath in Cortisol: Dose-Dependent Elevations in Hair Cortisol of Triathletes and Runners.

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Image 1: There are two types of endurance exercise - the one that is healthy for obese diabetics and the one that chronically stresses and, in the worst case, eventually kills healthy but overambitious hobby athletes; the photo shows a collapsed runner at the 2007 London Marathon, where 22 of his comrades died (source thisislondon.co.uk ) In view of the fact, that the series of blogposts on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) I made in the course of the last weeks were pretty popular, I thought it may also be of interest that there are interesting new results on the effects of resistance training which goes beyond the common "we took 12 obese sedentary post-menopausal women and had them ride a stationary bike for 45min three times a week" approaches , as well. One of these studies happens to come from a group of German scientists from the Universities of Dresden, Marburg and Hamburg ( Kirschbaum. 2011 ); and the results underline my previous comments on the differe...
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Growth-Retarding Effect of "Cardio"-Training is not Prevented by BCAA Supplementation. Endurance-Trained Rats Still -3% Smaller than Age-Mates.

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Image 1: Haile Gebrselassie, probably the greatest distance runner in history, set 27 world records; is his sort stature a result of too much "cardio" (image by Alexxx86 ) Did you ever wonder if Haile Gebrselassie (image 1) is such a great long distance runner, because he is only 5'5" (1.65m, imdb )? Well, after all it could turn out that is is just the other way around - Haile could be only 5'5", because he is a great runner! Rumors have it Gebrselassie ran to school every day as a boy... what? You do not see a relation here, well then you should have a look at the data of a recent rodent study from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil ( Campos-Ferraz. 2011 ). For 5 weeks, Patricia Lopez de Campos-Ferraz and her colleagues, put 32 male Wistar rats (21 days old) on one of four experimental protocols: 45mg/kg BCAA  + swimming - Sup/Ex Standard chow + swimming - Ctrl/Ex 45mg/kg BCAA + sedentary - Sup...
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