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Training Volume, Intensity, and Your Libido - How Bad is It? Who Read the Study Knows: It's not Just About Cardio ... !

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Both, the male and female libido are at risk by overtraining. So don't continue your daily 1h stairmaster sessions, ladies! You may have seen this study elsewhere on Facebook before... and I have to apologize that I am late to the party, but it disappeared in the "to write about" pile on my virtual desktop and resurfaced only today when I didn't find another recent study worth writing about. Enough of the excuses, though. After all, the SuppVersity  is the place to get all the study details - including an assessment of its practical relevance and a brief glimpse at relevant related research. What? No, I bet you didn't get that in one of the reposts to the abstract on PubMed, did you? Or did you understand what a low, medium or high "total intensity" was when you read those copy and paste jobs? It's not  simply the VO2max. If you thought so, you probably misunderstood the study. Overly frequent use of intensity techniques will also put you at...
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Curcumin, Genistein, Pomegranate & Co. - A Dirty Dozen of Supplements & Foods to Keep Your Prostate Cancer Free

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Which of the dirty dozen of supplements and foodstuffs in today's SuppVersity review can really help you to make sure, you're not the one out of those nine men who develops prostate cancer? Supplements that are supposed to protect you from developing prostate cancer and/or agents that may help patients with existing prostate issues are - obviously - in high demand. And as W. Merkle points out in a recent article in the German science journal Urologe using them - even if they may not be as effective as some patients may believe - makes sense: from a psychological perspective, alone (Merkle. 2014). Taking a pill with selenium, for example, has been shown to alleviate some of the side effects of chemotherapy. General protective effects against prostate cancer, on the other hand, have not been established. In fact, the most recent studies rather suggest that "supplementation did not benefit men with low selenium status but increased the risk of high-grade PCa among men ...
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