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Fat From Serotonin, MS Despite Vitamin D, DHA & DPA in Your Cell Walls. Weightloss Obstacle Late Lunch?

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Yet another reason why calorie counting is not good for your sanity: The "average" sexual intercourse burns only 14 kcal more than watching TV.  and significantly less than a fast paced walk on the inclined treadmill. Luckily weight loss & maintenance is more complex than calories in vs. out, anyway ;-) "14" that's the SuppVersity figure of the number of extra calories you will expend when you and your significant other decide to have sex instead of sitting on the couch watching TV tonight. I got that figure from a paper my buddy Sean Casey from CasePerformance has brought to my attention. Published in the latest issue of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (Casazza. 2013), it discusses the 7 most commonly held "false and scientifically unsupported beliefs about obesity" the scientists identified in a thorough analysis of popular media and scientific literature. "The scientific community needs some more honesty" Whi...
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Mitohormesis - Suffocated Mitochondria Live Longer: Scientists Probe Longevity-Effect of Low-Level Stressors.

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Image 1: Walter Breuning died in April 2011at the biblical age of 114! And you bet that a man who has seen two world wars has had his share of mitohormetic stress in his life. As a diligent reader of the SuppVersity you will be familiar with the work of S. Schmeisser and M. Ristow from the Department of Human Nutrition at the University of Jena , here in good old Germany (where not everyone eats Sauerkraut und Weisswurst, even now that the Oktoberfest is in full swing). In previous publications, the scientists have (at least in my mind conclusively) argued against the publicly accepted free-radical hypothesis of aging, which implies that the presence of free radicals is one of the fundamental mechanisms of aging. Now, a few month after the publication of their last review back in May 2011, they are presenting the latest results from their own lab in a paper that is going to be published in the October issue of Hormone and Metabolic Research ( Schmeisser. 2011 ) . Want to liv...
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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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Reactive Oxygen Specimen (ROS) Trigger Muscle Hypertrophy via IGF-1 Signaling

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I have touched on the "usefulness" of oxidation, only yesterday. Now, a very recent study appears to confirm the notion that a controlled amount of inflammation is necessary in order to achieve metabolic and muscular adaptations. Figure 1: Eesult of the quantitative analysis of myotube diameter after IGF-I and NAC treatment ( Handayaningsih. 2011 ) Scientists from  Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology and Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine published a paper ( Handayaningsih. 2011 ) describing an investigation into the role of Reactive Oxygen Specimen (ROS) in the IGF1-signaling pathway. In this study N-Acetyl-Cystein (NAC), commonly used by recreational athletes as an "ergogenic" aid, blunted myocyte response to IGF1 and thus inhibited muscle hypertophy (cf. Figure 1): While treatment with H2O2 significantly enhanced IGF-I-induced phosphorylation of the IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR), IGF-IR phosphoryla...
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