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No, it wasn't a button like this which made the subjects happy. It took some time, yeah, but after a few weeks the participants, students of the Hannover Medical School , where the trial was conducted actually felt better, not - as the scientists who conducted this Ramadan fasting study had expected - worse than without their religious fasting. But let's not go too fast, here. The subjects had volunteered to participate in the study and were non-randomly assigned to a fasting (FG) and a non-fasting (NFG) group (according to their individual plans | Nugraha. 2016). Learn more about fasting at the SuppVersity Breakfast and Circadian Rhythm "Lean Gains" Fast Works Habits Determine Effects of Fasting Fasting Works for Obese, Too!? IF + Resistance Training = WIN ADF Beats Ca-lorie Restriction To be eligible into the FG, participants had to: (1) be healthy, (2) be older than 18 years of age, (3) intend to fast the whole month of Ramadan, (4) ha...

Many currently available supplements lack sufficient scientific backup. It has been a while since I published the last supplement science update - the recent release of the latest edition of the  Journal of Dietary Supplements reminded me of that. In issue 1 of volume 14 of this journal that "addresses important issues that meet a broad range of interests from researchers, regulators, marketers, educators, and healthcare professionals" (Aims & Scope according to the publisher ) you will find studies on (you already know that from the headline) "TeaCrine®, Tribulus, Guarana, ALA, Sesamin, Fish Oil & More", studies the design and results of which I will briefly summarize for you in the following paragraphs: Read about rather exercise-related studies at the SuppVersity Tri- or Multi-Set Training for Body Recomp.? Aug '15 Ex.Res. Upd.: Nitrate, Glycogen, and ... Pre-Exhaustion Exhausts Your Growth Potential Full ROM ➯ Full Gains - Form Coun...

It does not always take a pill to effectively manage your stress levels. Don't forget to take your well-deserved timeouts - from work and work outs and use a hot bath to "pre-regenerate" ( learn more ) While "long jack" as it is also called is probably best known for its testosterone boosting effects   ( learn more about Tongkat Ali aka "Ali's Stick") and one of the staple ingredient in the standard OTC-testosterone boosters ( previous news ), its traditional use as a longevity agent does already hint at the fact that its ability to boost testosterone levels and fertility may actually be mere side effects of a more general effect, of which a recent study from SupplementWatch would suggest that it is the ability of the this herbal medicinal plant that grows in South East Asia (Malaysia, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra,Thailand) to normalize the reaction to all sorts of exogenous stressors (including exercise and everyday stress). "Our employ...

Ice cold baths are retarded. A cosy hot tub and a cup of coffee make a way better peak conditioning strategy. +38% that's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and it is the fat liberating advantage of the ingestion of 3mg/kg caffeine (in water) before sitting for 30 min in a hot bath (42°C; up to the navel) - yeah, you read me right:  The latest study from the Graduate School at the Department of Health Care of the Soonchunhyang University in the Republic of Korea is about the thermogenic effects of HOT ( not cold) baths. Even in the absence of additional caffeine ingestion the latter increases the amount of circulating free fatty acids by 52% (80% with caffeine) with the ~200-300mg of caffeine before the bath it almost doubles the amount of free fatty acids and increases the circulating leptin levels by 28% (vs. 5.6% w/out caffeine). Whether the significantly more pronounced reduction in waist circumference (8.9mm vs 6.7mm) Tae-Wook Kim & Jeong-Beom Lee observed in t...

Image 1: For these kids the high tryptophan + B6 breakfast would be useless unless they already got their 10min+ of direct sun exposure this morning A recently published study that was conducted by a team of international researchers led by Miyo Nakade from the Gakuen University in Nagoya, Japan ( Nakade. 2012 ), concludes that sunlight exposure and vitamin B6 and l-tryptophan intake with breakfast could be profound modulators of circadian rhytmicity in young children (N=816, age = 2-6 years). The results the researchers published in the latest issue of the Journal of Physiological Anthropology clearly suggest that the increased production of serotonin from l-tryptophan and the vitamin B6 metabolite pyridoxal 5’-phosphate (also known as PLP or p5p) exerts beneficial effects on the morningness-eveningness (M-E) score - a measure for the natural and highly desirable difference in wakefulness in the morning and sleepiness in the evening, the disturbance of which is among the emergin...

Figure 1: I-Force Nutrition's newest fat burner Dexaprine Just received an email from the marketing guys @I-Force Nutrition informing me that "Dexaprine is finally here...". Well, to be honest, I had not been waiting for it, but the email intrigued me and I would like to give you a brief rundown on the ingredients, which are "guaranteed to give you more energy, increased appetite suppression, and insane mood enhancement than you have ever experienced!" - I don't know about you, but I think I have heard similar claims before ;-) Ok, here we go: One bottle of Dexaprine, which is 39.99 ( pre-order offer @ I-Force webshop) has 60 servings (serving size 1 capsule) of the "thermogenic powerhouse" (I love these advertisment guys) @ 600mg of the following ingredients Thermophoric Amine Mood Enhancing Complex , which is basically just synephrine (from citrus aurantium ) + geranamine (which is also known as 1,3-dimethylamylamine, 4-methyl-2-hexylami...