SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

If "that's you" and "that's you" more than four times a year, you better read today's SuppVersity article and learn which Flavenoids may reduce your number of upper respiratory tract infections into the normal range of 2-4 per year. The number of purported anti-URTI (=anti U pper R espiratory T ract I nfection) agents is unquestionable higher than the average number of yearly upper respiratory infections of the average US citizen, which is 2-4. Which of these usually natural agents actually have the ability to protect you from at least one of the previously cited 2-4 infections, however, is far from being obvious. The scientific evidence is ambiguous and confusing and therefore I am happy that researchers from the  University of Auckland  and colleagues from the College of Sport and Exercise Science at the Victoria University  have recently conducted a large-scale meta-analysis of no less than 387 studies - ok, that's the number they began with...

Image 1: Bought in bulk, grape-seed extract is actually reasonably cheap... and it does not even taste as awful as some other herb / seed extracts ;-) After initially being hailed as the yet another anti-oxidant panaceum, grape-seed extract (GSE) has been displaced by newer, fancier "superfoods" from the headlines of the major health and wellness newscasters. Therefore, even you, as a highly self-educated student of the SuppVersity could have missed out on a handful of recently released studies which reported antiviral effects of GSE ( Su. 2011 ) and confirmed its ameliorative effect on diet-induced obesity ( Ohyama. 2011 ) and (high) fructose-induced insulin resistance ( Meeprom. 2011 ). Moreover, a meta-analysis of nine controlled with more than 300 human subjects and daily doses ranging from 250mg to 2,000mg of GSE, which was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association ( Feringa. 2011 ), found that ... [b]ased on the currently available literature...