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Get Lean & Stay Lean Quickie: Add Cinnamon to Cereals. NPY Detrimental? Melatonin Beneficial! 50,000IU Vitamin D3 Useless. Phtalate DHEP Dangerous! PPAR, AKT & GLUT-4 Agonist From False Black Pepper Surprisingly Potent!

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In 1998 the Consumer Union wrote a letter to the FDA complaining about the occurrence of DEHP and other "endocrine disrupting chemicals" in cheese and dairy of which they suspected that they were partially emitted from the plastic wrappings ( read more ) Those of you who are following the SuppVersity news on Facebook very closely, will be aware that I announced yesterday, already that there was going to be another installment of On Short Notice, today... another "Quickie", so to say with a couple of selected news on getting and staying lean. Something I know is pretty much a pain in the a** of most of us and if you take a closer look at the news about phtalates it is actually no wonder. I guess on their own those nasty plasticizers would probably not even be a problem, but together will all the other byproducts of our convenient lives, they form a perfect storm. And you know what's worst, simply wrapping all those plastics that 'infect' even orga...

Taurine Mimics Effects of Insulin, Annihilates Appetite and Quadruples Hypothalamic mTOR Activity in Rodent Study.

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Image 1: Bought in bulk, taurine is one of the cheapest amino acids on the market. If you listened to the third installment of the Amino Acids for Super Humans Series on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio , you will know that I am a firm a believer in the power of the non-essential sulfur-amino acid taurine . You would have heard me talk about it's beneficial effects on diabetes, hepatic health, weight management and more .... a recent study ( Solon. 2011 ) published in the influential journal Amino Acids does not only confirm all the beneficial effects, we already knew about, it also expands our current knowledge about taurine to its effects on the hypothalamic Akt/FOXO1, JAK2/STAT3 and mTOR/AMPK/ACC signaling cascades and the satiety signal neuropeptide Y (NPY). Carina S. Solon and her colleagues from the University of Campinas in Brazil hypothesized that "some of the activity of taurine in the control of body fat would be exerted through direct action...
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