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Nigella Sativa Quadruples Fat Loss Success: 8% vs. 2% Rel. Body Fat Reduction in 8 Weeks With NS Before Every Meal

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Nigella sativa is not well known in the West. You may remember the SuppVersity special on Nigella sativa from January 2015. A special, in which beneficial metabolic effects of nigella sativa aka black cumin were only one item on a long list of health benefits, of which many had unfortunately been observe in rodent studies. With a recent study from the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences , there's now evidence for humans that the fat loss benefits of the oil from nigella sativa are real - at least when it is ingested before meals by dieting overweight individuals. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your health at the SuppVersity Only Whey, Not Soy Works for Wheytloss Taste Matters - Role of the Taste Receptors Protein Satiety Shoot-Out: Casein vs. Whey How Much Carbs Before Fat is Unhealthy? 5 Tips to Improve & Maintain Insulin Sensitivity Carbohydrate Shortage in Paleo Land We are talking about a double-blind, placebo-controlled, ran...
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Reader Question: Are Black Seeds (Nigella Sativa), Their Oil, Ointments & More Good For Me? What do the Studies Say?

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Nigella sativa is available in form of seeds, oils and all sorts of ointments and for many of them there are studies suggesting that they work. SuppVersity reader Amaan Mueen asks on Facebook: "In traditional Oriental medicine it's said that blackseed is a cure for everything except death, is there any truth to that?" I probably don't give away too much, when I tell you that blackseed (also "black seed") aka "nigella sativa" is not going to cure everything, but death, but that does not mean that modern Western medicine has not been able to confirm what Oriental "doctors" have known for centuries. In the following I am going to present an allegedly cursory overview of the existing evidence with a focus on those health benefits that could be relevant for the average and extra-ordinary SuppVersity reader. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your health at the SuppVersity Only Whey, Not Soy Works for Wheytloss Taste...
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194 Bananas in 3 Weeks, Same Liver + Lower Body Fat | Nigella Sativa Boosts Testosterone & Fertility | Sugar Dampens Caffeine Rush + Thyroid & Body Composition

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Three weeks of +1,000 kcal carb overfeeding (approx. 194 bananas!): Does it supersize your liver fat? This and more in today's installment of On Short Notice As promised in yesterday's first part of the weekly written news-round up aka On Short Notice , we won't waste any time on lengthy introductions (the "short" items themselves are already long enough ;-) and get right down to business! For today this means that we are going to take a peak at the latest studies on the reality of thyroid hormone metabolism the dampening effects of sugar on high dose caffeine the sugary truth about the reversibility of early NAFLD the pro-testosterone, pro- fertility effect of black cumin as well as the latest data on US drug sales and an upcoming blogpost discussing "training for anabolism" - enjoy ! Just in case you feel that's not enough, I suggest you listen to this week's installment of the SuppVersity Science News Roundup ( click here to ...
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The Pro-Diabetic Effects of Shark Liver Oil - Plus: Can it Be Coincidence that the Omega-6-Laden Nigella Sativa Oil has Just the Opposite Effects on Blood Glucose & Triglycerides

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Image 1: Even if you kill him, he will take revenge and increase your blood glucose and triglyceride levels. And if you don't die from the negative side effects of the oil from his liver the neurotoxins from his fins will take care of the rest (cf. Science Daily ) "Healthy fats" ... not to long ago even the combination of these two words was an oxymoron (an intrinsic contradiction). "How on earth can fats be healthy?" Was what the blank stares were telling you, when you set out to explain how and why people should not buy the latest and greatest "no fat" products from their local grocery stores. As of late the tides have changed and even mainstream media is jumping on the "healthy fats"-bandwagon - unfortunately, in a similarly single-sided way as before, with the "healthy polyunsaturated fats" on the one side of the divide and the "unhealthy saturated fats" on the other. Now, we all know that this distinction is f...
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