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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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Seabuckthorn Leaves Increase PPAR-Alpha & PPAR-Gamma Expression, Keep the Liver Fat Free and Fatty Oxidation Up. Plus: PPARs - High or Low? How Are They Supposed to Be?

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This time, the magic is in the leaves, not the fruits or kernels. And it's dose dependent. With an almost linear increase from 500-1,000mg/kg Honestly, I don't think that it is coincidence that many of the most promising medical plants are shrubs that live on barren soil, like sand dunes and cliffs and are full of thorns as well as innate polyphenolic defense mechanisms. Whatever the "evolutionary" basis may be, if we go by the beneficial metabolic effects, researchers from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the Chonbuk National University in the Republic of Korea, it appears worth going through all the traditional used folk medicine across the world and identify which of them work, how they work and whether they may already have what it takes to get rid of one or the other of the typical Western diseases. In the case of the ethanolic extract of seabuckthorn ( Hippophae rhamnoides L ) Pichiah et al. used in their most recent experiment, this...
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Beyond Celiac: Study Sheds New Light on Obesogenic Effects of Gluten - Are PPARs & Bacteria Both Involved?

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Cornflakes peanut butter cookies - guaranteed not gluten free ;-) With Christmas Eve being over, and grandma's cookies, Christmas stollen, and all sorts of other stuff from the bakery in front of you (literally), Christmas Day may actually prove to be a way more "dangerous" than Christmas Eve - not just because of the total amount of calories, but also because of the low satiety effect of these sweet treats. A recent paper by scientists from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte in Brazil does now point to another reason you better give those bakery products a wide berth - not just, but especially with the energy overshoot on Christmas day: Gluten! Study confirms for the first time what scientists and laymen alike have been speculating about In what the scientists claim is the first well-controlled study of the effects of gluten intake on metabolic health in a non-celiac, but Western-style diet scenario, FabĂ­ola Lacerda Pires Soares and her...
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