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Capsaicin - 2.56mg to Keep Your Metabolism Running on a Diet. Cold Thermogenesis - 5°C for 6kcal/h. Mobile Phones - 0.853 W/kg Pulsed EMR to Mess Up Neurotransmitters

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You don't have to worry, the "guidelines" do not require you to perform either your 150 minutes of moderate cardio, or your 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, and not even your two weekly full-body workouts in these shorts. 24% that's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and it is actually not so low as I would have expected it to be, after all those 24% describe the ratio of US adults who meet the Physical Activity Guidelines for muscle-strengthening physical activity . Which guideline? Ah, you are the US guys and gals, so you should know that you are advised to "perform muscle-strengthening activities that are moderate or high intensity and involve all major muscle groups on 2 or more days a week, because these activities provide additional health benefit" (2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans) Additional benefit? Well, it goes without saying that the 150 minutes of moderate aerobic training and the reduction of salt, as...
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Coffee - 3 Cups Per Day Keep Insulin at Bay: You Better Start Today if You Want to Retain Your Insulin Sensitivity, and Stay Cancer & CVD Free Beyond Your Own Centennial!

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I am not entirely sure how often I have used the sentence "consistency is key", here at the SuppVersity , but there is no way I don't reiterate it in the context of the never-ending debate over the pros and cons of habitual coffee drinking, once again. While much of the experimental evidence would suggest that coffee, or to be precise, caffeine the major methylxanthine in the brown brew is a bad sympathetic nervous system activator that stresses your body and will deteriorate your glucose and fat metabolism, the majority of the epidemiological evidence points into the exact opposite direction. A paper that's going to be published in the next issue of AGE the Journal of the American Aging Association could however help not just to bridge the widening gap between the ever-increasing number of epidemiological studies showing between moderate caffeine consumption and metabolic, cardiovascular, neurological, and cellular health (see list at the end of this post) and t...
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Cold Thermogenesis - A Safe Ephedra Alternative? 70kcal Increase in 24h Energy Expenditure is Negligible, 50% Lower Than Ephedrine - Not Worth the Torture, Bro!

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Image 1 ( odditycentral ): Jin Songhao , one of China’s most seasoned icemen and not exactly as lean as you may expect based on what you currently read around the blogosphere, managed to beat the previous world record for the longest ice bath - 120min! Congrats, Jin! Ephedrine for years the go-to OTC fat burner for physique athletes and average Joe's and Jane's alike is no longer (officially) available: No matter how bold the label claims about X mg of "ephedra extract" may be - NONE(!) of the currently available "ephedra based" over-the-counter (OTC) fat-burners contains significant amounts of the active alkaloids, which made the old Mua huang based herbal ephedra products so effective. Against that background, dieters are constantly on the look-out for novel "gimmicks" to help them finally get rid of those annoying love-handles. One of those gimmicks, which has caught quite some attention as of late, is called " cold thermogenesis ...
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Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) as a Natural Test Booster and Ergogenic

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A very recent study ( Saddiq. 2010 ) published in the Journal of the International Society for Horticultural Science found that the seeds of Phoenix dactylifera can raise testosterone, norepenephrine (NE), dopamine (DA) and GABA levels and may counteract the negative effect of prednisolone administration in rats. [...] the daily oral administration of pits of date palm caused the maximal increase in NE, DA and GABA content that was found in the brain stem after 2 weeks . The daily oral administration of methylprednisolone caused a decrease in NE, DA and GABA content found in the brain stem after 2 weeks. Moreover, the daily oral administration of pits of date palm and methylprednisolone caused an increase in NE content found in the brain stem after 2 weeks. The daily oral administration of pits of date palm and methylprednisolone caused a significant increase in testosterone level in serum blood of male albino rats. While all this sounds promising, further studies would ...
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Pseudo-Ephedrine Improves Cycling Performance in Trained Athletes

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As Wikipedia knows, other than its banned brother "real" ephedrine, "pseudoephedrine sulfate are found in many over-the-counter preparations either as a single ingredient or, more commonly, in combination with antihistamines, guaifenesin, dextromethorphan, paracetamol (acetaminophen), and/or NSAIDs." With these medications being readily available from the average Athlete's poison cabinet, it might be of particular interest, that Pritchard-Peschek et al. ( Pritchard-Peschek. 2010 ) found that ingestion of 180 mg of pseudoephedrine (PSE) had immediate positive effects on cycling time-trial (TT) performance in six well-trained male cyclists and triathletes (age 33 ± 2 yr, mass 81 ± 8 kg, height 182.0 ± 6.7 cm, VO2max 56.8 ± 6.8 ml · kg–1 · min–1; M ± SD): PSE improved cycling TT performance by 5.1% (95% CI 0–10%) compared with PLA (28:58.9 ± 4:26.5 and 30:31.7 ± 4:36.7 min, respectively). There was a significant Treatment × Time interaction (p = .04) for NE, with ...
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Decreased Catecholamine Release in Obese Individuals: Another Weight Loss Obstacle

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Jabbour et. al. ( Jabbour. 2010 ) found that the exercise induced stress response in obese individuals is significantly reduced. The amount of catecholamines released in the course of 6 x 6sec maximal sprints with 2 min of passive rest between each repetition, was significantly lower in the 11 normal-weight adolescent boys compared to their 9 obese (body fat: 31.0 +/- 3.0%) and 11 overweight (body fat: 24.0 +/- 1.9%) age-mates: Maximal epinephrine concentration was significantly (p<0.05) higher in lean vs. obese and was negatively correlated to body fat percentage (r=-0.60, p<0.05). Maximal norepinephrine values were higher in lean vs. overweight and obese and a negative relationship was found between maximal norepinephrine concentration and body fat percentage (r=-0.60, p<0.05). Maximal lactate concentration was higher in lean vs. overweight and obese (14.7 +/- 3.3, 10.4 +/- 2.7 and 10.2 +/- 2.5 mmol.l-1 in lean, overweight and obese respectively). In view of the fa...
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