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3/3 TOP-Selling US Fish Oils Exceed Maximal Peroxide and Total Oxidation Levels - Levels Roughly 4000% Higher Than in Medical Grade N3 Supplements, Harvard Study Shows

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The US' favorite fish oil supplements: Dirt cheap and still not worth the money. Better buy fish - fresh fish. "I told you so!" That's how someone else in my position would probably start today's blogpost. In view of the fact that "smartassing" is not exactly an effective means of education, I will yet refuse from reminding you that I've been reporting about unwanted side effects of the gold-ish pills that claim to have "fish oil" in them on various occasions. And guess what!? The publication of a recent study by scientists from the  Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital at the venerable Harvard Medical School , gives me yet another reason to rant against the evermore popular fish oil supplements. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppVersity Fish Oil Makes You Rancid? POPs in Fish Oils are Toxic! N3/N6 Ratio Doesn't Matter MUFA & Fish Oil Don't Match Fish Oil Doesn...
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Eating 75-100g Fat (M-/PUFA) in the AM Improves Glucose (7-8%), Insulin (40-60%), Trigs (4-16%), GSH & MDA (40-75%)

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If we assume that the protein fried eggs with its comparatively low insulinogenicity is not a problem (unlike your whey, for example), avocado and eggs fried in olive oil is the perfect breakfast to replace the liquid test meal used in the study. There's no debating that increased amounts of free fatty acids in the blood will impair your insulin sensitivity, as they should be there only, when your supply of carbohydrate is running out, AMPK and with it the expression of lypolytic enzymes increase and the triglycerides from your fat stores are broken down into free fatty acids and released into your bloodstream where they can be used by liver, muscle and other organs as an alternative energy source. Now, the word "alternative" is of paramount importance, here, because you'll find yourself being in (diabetic) trouble if those FFAs pile up on top of high glucose levels. This is what happens with the SAD diet and its high carbohydrate and  fat content (and energy!) ...
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Study Puts "?" Behind Beneficial Health Effects of Veggies! Is There No Correlation Between Antioxidant Content & Beneficial Health Effects of Cucumber, Lotus & Rape!?

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Don't obsess about "optimal" antioxidant contents, just eat your veggies! Over the past couple of weeks, ... no actually over the past years I have repeatedly written about the concept of (mito-)hormesis and its consequences for the well-established, but not necessarily accurate free radical theory of aging (and for some people everything else). ROS, i.e. reactive oxygen species, have been established as an important signalling molecule that is - among other things - heavily involved in the insulin sensitizing effects of exercise. "Inflammation" makes muscles grow and burns body fat and the "what doesn't kill me makes me strong" principle appears to reign everywhere you look. You can learn more about the secrets of longevity at the SuppVersity Are You Stressed Enough to Live Forever? Suffocated Mitochondria Live Longer Get Lean & Live Longer With I. Fasting Can You add 9 Years to your Life W/ Glucosamine? 5+ Tips To...
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Artichoke Leaves Diabetes No Chance: Thistle Qualifies as Anti-Oxidant, Carb Blocker, Digestive Help & Diabesity Drug

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Boiled Artichokes slow down the absorption of glucose and minimize the insulin + glucose surges (Nomikos. 2007) This article has made quite a remarkable transformation. It started as a Facebook Short News Item , was upgraded to a mini-article for the SuppVersity Short News and, when I realized that those green thistles have surprisingly diverse beneficial effects on human health, eventually became the regular SuppVersity Article you are about to read, right now. Artichoke leaves the future of diabesity treatment!? I have to admit, I am not exactly and artichole expert, but I was still surprised that the paper Joanna Magielse and her colleagues from the University of Antwerp are about to publish in the scientific journal Food & Function claims to be the first to investigate the beneficial health effects of artichoke leave extracts on diabetes-induced oxidation in vivo . I mean, we all have seen the broad range of artichoke supplements on the shelves; and my brief revie...
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The Oiling of the Liver: The Good & Bad Short- & Long-Term Effects of Tocotrienol + Carotenoid Laden Red Palm Olein, Regular Palm-, Corn- and Refined Coconut Oil

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I would not expect "red palm olein wonders", but more RPO and less corn oil in the American diet may at least buffer the liver disease burden in the US (the figure is based on data provided by the American Liver Foundation) On Turesday, November 19, 2013, you've learned from a study by Subermaniam et al. about the "anti-rust" effects of coconut oil (if you missed that, you can catch up here ), today, we are going back to Malaysia and the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and the results of another team of researchers to learn about the effects the various oils have on the "oiling of the liver" (Dauqan. 2013). I guess most of you will remember my previous comments about the critical role of the liver (and its health or disease) in the development of the metabolic syndrome ( read it up ). It is thus by no means irrelevant, whether the chronic ingestion of a certain type of oil will result in MDA levels of 92µmol/g or  27.3µmol/g. Boring!? No, rathe...
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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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