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Creatine Non-Responder? Age+Meat Intake - Determinants of Creatine's Effect on PCr (±200%) + Probably Performance

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Vegetarian strength athletes belong to the group of people who will probably benefit most from creatine supplementation. Their young, meat-eating peers, on the other hand, may well turn out to be non-responders, because they see highly individual, but overall only non-significant increases in phosphocreatine. It has been a while since I published the last creatine article ("Dubious Effects of Creatine on Markers of CNS Adaptation and Heart Health in "Bodybuilders" - Reason to Be Afraid?" | read it ); the last time that I addressed the issue of "creatine non-responders", i.e. reasons why people simply don't seem to benefit from creatine supplementation has been published in 2014, already, when I presented the results of a study suggesting that it's not a high dietary creatine intake from meat that makes the difference ( learn more ). Needless to say, meat still made it on the list of possible determinants of the individual performance increase...
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Is 'Meat' Bad for us, or Rather the Products we Call 'Meat' - A Mix of Preservatives + Colorings That's Killing Us Slowly?

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Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce: the worst offenders in the "meat" category. Foods that owe their color, their taste, their shelf-life and their tolerable bacterial count to an amount of food additives that makes me question whether these food products are still "meats". You will probably remember from previous SuppVersity articles that the association between meat, cancer, diabetes and other ailments of the Western Diabesity Society often vanish when studies successfully adjust the odds ratios for developing one of multiple of these diseases for fresh (=unprocessed) vs. processed meat intake. One reason for this observation unquestionably is oxidative damage to the protein and fat content of meat product during processing. Unlike these factors and the oxidation of fats that you add when you prepare the meat , there's yet another potential reason for the bad effects of processed  meats on our health: many of them are only par meat, part additive. ...
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BCAAs Mess W/ Vegan Glucose Management, Human Study Says - Do You Have to Stay Away From BCAAs, Now?

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Are vegan athletes who supplement their low BCAA baseline diet with amino acid powders making an unhealthy mistake? At first sight a recent study from Poland suggests just that. Upon closer scrutiny, however, the practical relevance of the results appear less and less convincing. It seems (and I have to admit that I fell for that logic, too) only logical that vegans, unlike omnivores and lactovegetarians run the risk of not getting enough BCAAs from their diet. After all, their diets allow the neither the consumption of dairy nor many of the other wonderful high BCAA protein sources. Against that background, I would venture the guess that many vegan athletes spike their diets with copious amounts of the ubiquitous BCAA supplements, supplement vendors all around the globe are pushing on unsuspecting customers who have no clue that a new study claims that these supplements may ruin one of the often-heard benefits of vegan diets: improved glucose management and reduced diab...
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Your Meat Consumption is Probably Not the Reason You're a Creatine Non-Responder: 5% Faster 50m-Sprint Time in 6 Days W/ 20g/day of Creatine for Vegetarians & Omnivores

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It's hard to be a non-responder andno way to change it. In some people the ingestion of creatine appears to be ineffective. Aside from minor diarrhea, when they increase the dosage to the 20g+ range per day in a desperate effort to reap the benefits of one of the, if not the only tried and proven natural ergogenic with significant (real world!) effects, these creatine non-responders don't get any results from either creatine monohydrate or any of the fancier, but mostly inferior "advanced creatines" you can buy at you local, national and international supplement vendor. One of the commonest and eventually most reasonable explanation for "non-responding", I've heard is the hypothesis that non-responders have a high enough creatine intake from meat that would reduce any additional benefit from supplemental creatine to unmeasurable levels. You can learn more about creatine at the SuppVersity Creatine Doubles 'Ur GainZ! Creatine, DHT ...
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Grass-Fed Pork? Not Really. Still the Difference in Fatty Acid Composition & Micronutrient Content Are Profound & Not Accounted for by Food Databases - Let Alone Epidemiology

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You often hear that pigs are pretty closely related to us humans, but "are all pigs created equal"? Or what may be a more appropriate question for the SuppVersity: Is all pork really created equal? If you like databases like nutritiondata.com or the USDA's very own detailed nutrient database in order to evaluate whether your diet is actually delivering all the nutrients you need you are probably missing half of the picture. At least as far as the more sophisticated details go, a recent paper from the Instituto de Ingeniería de Alimentos para el Desarrollo at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia clearly indicates that you would at least have to consider what the animals, in this case pork, were fed and from which muscle of the animal the piece of meat you are eating has been cut, in order to get an approximate idea of how much of unquestionably health relevant micronutrients, such as coQ10 , carnosine , anserine , taurine , creatine glutamine or haem you get - a...
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Going Vegan? Better Get Some B-12 Lozenges

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While my personal credo is: "Man is made for eating meat." I respect everyone who - for ethical or whatever reasons - refuses to do so. In spite of that, a recent study by Gilsing et.al. ( Gilsing. 2010 ) found that vegetarians and vegans even more so, have a high risk of being vitamin B12 deficient. In their conclusion on the evaluation of the EPIC-Oxford cohort study, the scientists write: the results from this study show that vegetarians and vegans have much lower concentrations of serum vitamin B12 but higher concentrations of folate in comparison with omnivores. Mean serum vitamin B12 was not associated with the duration of adherence to a vegetarian or vegan diet, which may indicate that mechanisms that maintain circulating concentrations of vitamin B12 are upregulated in vegetarians and vegans. Further research into the health effects of vitamin B12 deficiency and depletion in vegans and vegetarians is warranted , and vegetarians and vegans should ensure a regular i...
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