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TMAO: Eggs, Meats and Your Cardio-Metabolic Health | You Can Sill Eat Eggs & Meat, If You Got 'the Right Gut Bugs'

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The (ill) health effects of choline and its pre-cursor l-carnitine in animal products like eggs or (red) meats are probably mediated by a diet devoid of prebiotics... however, simply pounding more resistant starches, for example, seems to do more harm than good. If you have been following the SuppVersity  News on Facebook ( a must , btw ;-)), you will be aware of the "TMAO"-issue. If not, here's the gist: The ingestion of certain dietary nutrients - primarily choline, phosphatidylcholine, and its precursor l-carnitine can serve as a precursor for the ultimate generation of an atherogenic metabolite, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). TMAO, in turn, has been linked to all sorts of diseases, most prominently cardiovascular disease and the formation of atherosclerotic plaque. Unlike "fish odor disease", the choline/CVD link is unrelated to  your genes : DNA-Fit: Train Acc. to 'ur Genes Is Laziness Built Into 'ur Genes? Keep Muscle While Dieting...
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There's Microplastics in Our Poop! Wait! Do We Even Care? An Evidence-Based Estimate of our Microplastic Exposure and its Putative Effects on Gut-Health & Beyond

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It's impossible you haven't read or heard about this study! I guess by now, all of you will have heard that an internationally covered pilot study by Austrian researchers (Schwabl et al. 2018) that was presented earlier this week at the  UEG Week in Vienna  claims to have initial prove that "Microplastics Find Their Way Into [Our] Gut" ( NYTimes ). The results of the studies are all over the place and the (fearmongering) press coverage seems to convey only one message: "Uh oh, now we're doomed!" But, are we? I mean, we're talking about a study with N=8 subjects?! Moreover, no one questions our exposure to the sub-millimeter sized particles and the fact that we actually seem to poop them out would, after all, suggest that they do not accumulate in our bodies - that's good news, isn't it!? If MPs have ill health effects they are probably mediated via their effects on our gut-health Bugs Dictate What You Crave Sweeteners & You...
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Postpone Breakfast, Prepone Dinner (Each 90 Min), Eat How Much & Whatever You Like → Lose 2% Body Fat in 10 Wks

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The great strength of the study, the leeway the subjects had in terms of what and how much they would eat would, is also an important weakness because it would require a much more thorough monitoring of their food intake to appropriately interpret all the results of this pilot study. As a SuppVeristy  reader, you're well aware of the health , physique , and performance benefits of (intermittent) fasting and/or eating in tune with your biological clocks  (#circadian rhythm). As a practitioner, you will also know that dietary changes, which may sound simple and easy to implement when you first hear about them, require giving up cherished habits and a lot of will-power, and discipline from yourself or your clients. The authors of a recent 10-week human study on 'time-restricted feeding', scientists from the University of Surrey ,   do now suggest that the changes you have to make to your dietary template don't have to be as extensive as the classic 16h/8h or 18h/6...
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Putting the Artificial Sweetener Analysis into Context by Focusing on the Experimental Data in the Meta-Analysis

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If you seriously believe that Classic Coke was healthier than Diet Coke or Coke Zero, you cannot be helped, anyway. If you agree that's bullshit, you may want to read the rest of this article to learn what RCTs say about artificial sweeteners. If we disregard the "associations" in the notoriously unreliable observational studies and focus solely on the randomized trials that are involved in the latest meta-analysis of the health effects of artificial sweeteners, even the scientists' own conclusion doesn't support what the "press release copy+paste" articles at ScienceDaily & Co seem to suggest to the average reader who will ignore the important difference between association and causation and understand that artificial sweeteners cause "weight gain and increased risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, ..." when he skims (often just parts of) articles like the one ScienceDaily published on July 17, 2017. You ...
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