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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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Amino Acids for Super Humans. Part IV: Purported Ergogenics - Beta Alanine, Carnitine, Glutamine

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This relevant for all of you - regardless of whether you can or cannot spare the time: Tune in live and listen to me @ Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio to learn that amino acids are far more than just the building blocks of the proteins of your body... Listen live to SHR @ 12:00PM ET Amino Acids for Super Humans. Part IV Purported Ergogenics - Beta Alanine, Carnitine, Glutamine In the fourth installment of the show, we are going to look at three of those amino acids everyone interested in fitness and body building knows: Beta Alanine, Carnitine and Glutamine . Will the increase performance, fat loss and muscle gains, as some supplement companies would have it, or will they mostly cost your hard earned money or even make you sick? Tune in live @ 1pm ET and learn more!
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Show Notes: Amino Acids for Super Humans. Part III - Sulfur, More Than Just Rotten Eggs.

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Amino Acids for Super Humans. Part III Sulfur, More Than Just Rotten Eggs Episode available for download, now ! notice! this are 100% uncorrected show notes not originally intended for publication In this episode we are going to tackle: methionine (essential amino acid, EAA) cysteine (conditionally essential amino acid) n-acetyl cysteine (acetylated variety of cysteine, not found in food sources) taurine (non-essential amino acid)
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Amino Acids for Super Humans. Part III - Sulfur, More Than Just Rotten Eggs.

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This relevant for all of you - regardless of whether you can or cannot spare the time: Tune in live and listen to me @ Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio to learn that amino acids are far more than just the building blocks of the proteins of your body... Listen live to SHR @ 12:00PM ET Amino Acids for Super Humans. Part III Sulfur, More Than Just Rotten Eggs update : Episode available for download, now ! In the third installment of the show, we are going to look at the commonly overlooked. yet vitally important sulfur-containing amino acid methionine , its "children" and "grand children", cysteine , n-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) and the purported "cell volumizer" taurine. As usual, I will do my best to provide relevant examples and relate the theory to practical advice. The magic of individual amino acids will be tackled in the shows to come. update : Episode available for download, now !
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