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Quick Take: Only 25% Putatively Anabolic Laxogenin Supps Contain Measurable Amounts of the Alleged Muscle Builder

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You may find this supplement albeit with a less honest label at your favorite 'hardcore'-supplement store. You will have seen them pop up (and already begin to disappear again) in almost every supplement store that considers itself 'hardcore' but 'natural': laxogenin supplements. By their producers and the shops that sell them corresponding products are marketed as an agent that "can help you add muscle and shed fat", that is "not classified as a prohormone", that "doesn’t need to be cycled" and that "delivers results" and targeted at natural bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts. Read more about studies involving TRT/HRT & co on suppversity.com: What to expect from normalizing Testosterone Testosterone Gel Augments 'ur Gainz PWO T-Increases Don't Determine Your Gainz The Hormonal + Other Underpin-nings of Gainz Impressive 12% T-Boost (+20% IGF1) W/ Tribulus T +/- Exercise to Rejuvenate...
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9/15 Berberine Supps (Names Included) on the US Market Contain More/Less Berberine Than the Label Says - Fraud?

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Berberine is a yellow-colored alkaloid compound found in several different plants, including European barberry, goldenseal, goldthread, Oregon grape, Phellodendron, and tree turmeric. Eventually, neither of the two insights from a recent paper in the Journal of Dietary Supplements  can really surprise you: the majority of berberine supplements doesn't contain the amount of active ingredient that's on the label - 60% fail to land within the allowable margin of +/-10% and the more expensive "quality brands" are not better than the cheap ones, even if they had label claims of manufacturing under Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) conditions in Food and Drug Administration inspected facilities, and guarantees purity and potency! In the real world, theory and practice, or, rather, labelled and real berberine content seem to diverge... When timing matters, for berberine it's not well-researched, but... Caffeine - 45 Min B4 Workouts? Nutrient Timing for Gain...
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Conjugated Linoleic Acids: What's the Difference Between cis-9,11 and trans-10,12 CLA and Should We Label Them as "Transfats"? Plus: What Makes CLA Potentially Harmful?

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If Hayden Panettiere drinks it dairy can't be bad - despite (or because?) CLA, right? Well, what if I told you that Mrs. Panettiere was advertising milk in the "Got Milk" campaign despite being lactose intolerant? As a SuppVersity veteran you will be familiar with the idea that trans-10, trans-12 conjugated linoleic acid is the "fat burning" CLA isomer, while 9 cis,11 trans linoleic acid appears to blunt some of the pro-inflammatory actions of its cousin and has been shown to have specific physiological effects on it's own (e.g. increased bone health, cf. Platt. 2009; anti-cancer, cf. Corl. 2003). As I already mentioned, this is probably nothing new for you, if you make sure to get your daily dose of SuppVersity wisdom everyday. What you may however not be aware of is the fact that researchers like Ye Wang and Spencer D. Proctor are - despite the never-ending hoopla around potential weight loss effects of CLA - still contemplating, whether CLA could ...
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Pistachio Phenols 90% Bioavailable. Phe, Leu, Glu & Trp - Four Satiating Aminos. Artificial Sweeteners Act as Anti- Convulsants. Dendrobium for Glucose, Lipids & Kidneys

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Since I am a little pressed in time, I won't beat around the bush, but rather get to the meat of the matter of this Nutrition Quickie , right away... well, actually today's nutrition quickie has no item on meats, but is has one Dendrobium , which is actually rather a supplement - be that as it may, here you go: Since you (hopefully ;-) haven't swallowed a bomb colorimeter, it's actually no wonder that your body can only access 75% and 95% of the energy this little oven can squeeze out of almonds and pistachios. If you went with the Atwood factor (which says fat = 9kcal/g) and simply added fats, proteins and carbs the discrepancy for almonds would even increase to ~35% (Nowotny. 2012) Almonds deliver 25% less calories that the nutritional label will tell you (Gebauer. 2012) -- At the FASEB meeting in April 2012, already, scientists from nowhere else than the mighty USDA, respectively the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center of the USDA presented the results...
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