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Will "Muscle Building Supplements" Give You Testicular Germ Cell Cancer? Creatine & Protein Stand in the Pillory

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The study at hand makes protein and creatine look worse than prohormones - can that be right? Maybe you've already seen a link to this study on Facebook, maybe not: "Muscle-building supplement use and increased risk of testicular germ cell cancer in men from Connecticut and Massachusetts" - that's the title of a study which claims to provide convincing evidence that "MBS use is a potentially modifiable risk factor that may be associated with TGCC" (Li. 2015), a study of which I don't have to tell you that it is of observational nature, a study based on interviews with 356 cases and 513 controls and thus a study that may and certainly is skewed by false recalls and deliberate lies - I mean, who would admit to have used illegal steroids if at Yale? Some may, but others certainly won't. With dairy proteins being beststeller, the study is also an assault on whey & casein Dairy Has Branched-Chain Fatty Acids! Is There Sth. Like a Dairy ...
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Study Says: Prohormone "1-Andro" Works, But It's Bad for You! Plus: What About Other Prohormones or Steroids Such As Androstenedione, DHEA, Testosterone & DECA?

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If you ask your doctor about prohormones, he will tell you that they don't work and make you sick... don't argue with him, 'cause that's his job and believing in this half-truth is certainly good for your health. Published ahead of print in the Journal of Applied Physiology is a paper on the ergogenic and healht effects of 3b-hydroxy-5a-androst-1-en-17-one aka 1-ANDRO . According to Jorge Granadosm, Trevor L. Gillum, Kevin M. Christmas, and Matthew R. Kuennen, the authors of the said paper, this is the first official evaluation of the viability of prohormone supplements ever since the Anabolic Steroid Control Act was amended in 2004 (Granadosm. 2013b) - a statement of which you as a SuppVersity reader know that it is true only if we are talking about the experiments, noto about the papers, though. The one at hand, is after all paper #2 Granados et al. are publishing. "I knew I know this study!" Yes, you heard me right. The researchers from the West ...
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Diabetes: Green Tea on Par With Metformin. 1-Andro: 4.7kg Muscle in 4 Weeks. EPA: Increased Protein Synthesis & Autophagy in Vitro. Phthalates: How Much is in Your Food?

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Believe it or not a soon-to-be published study that was sponsored by a the German LBS and presented to the public two days ago found that 1 out of 20 German kids below the age of 14 thinks about having liposuction done (figures based on LBS Kinderbarometer. 2013). 5% that's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and it's the percentage of German kids below the age of 14 years who are thinking about getting liposuction done. I am not sure, whether I should feel sorry or enraged... not about the kids obviously who probably feel miserably in their own skin, but for the parents, the food industry and the government with their "expert" advisers whispering into their left ear and the junk food industry lobbyists who are holding a megaphone to the politicians right ear and a razor-blade to their throat. I guess, I'll settle for both, feeling sorry for the kids and being mad at the adults. But enough of this let's get to some recent science news. Let's see....
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Chest Fat, Bitch Tits, Chesticles, Gynecomastia, Lipomastia and Co.: Infinite Ways to Name it, 45 Ways to Prevent It

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Image 1: Luckily "gyno", or in this case lipomastia, does not always look that bad. Oftentimes it is more subtle, yet still annoying a psychological burden for men suffering from it. This pictures alone should be reason enough to give all the 45+ contributing mentioned in this article a wide, wide berth (image from  cosmeticsurgerybangalore.com) If you type "gynecomastia" into your favorite search engine, your chances to find one of the major fitness and bodybuilding forums among your first hits are about 99%. This indicates that gynecomastia, lipomastia, "bitch tits", "fat tits" and whatever else many people use to measure by the same yardstick is much more prevalent than you would think if you conducted a survey on the street. The reasons for that are manifold. Men, who frequent those bulletin boards are oftentimes more conscious about their looks than Mr. Average, they are also more prone to be exposed to exogenous hormonal agents that can...
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Intermittent Thoughts on Building Muscle: Estrogen, Friend or Foe of Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy? Plus: "Hey, Bro! Are You 'SERMing' Away Your Satellite Cells?"

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Image 1: Iris Kyle's back is a living testostomy, ah... pardon testimony to the muscle building powers of estrogen ;-) Although we have identified a hell lot of verified and purported mechanisms by which testosterone, "the Big T" works its muscle building and fat burning magic, the results of the last installments of the Intermittent Thoughts was nevertheless not really satisfying. After discussing how testosterone programs stem cells to become muscle, not fat cells, how it increases the number of  motor neurons and thusly improves the voluntary neuronal activation of skeletal muscle tissue etc., we were still left with the question whether it was actually testosterone of maybe its central or local aromatization or reduction to estrogen or dihydrotestosterone (DHT) which was responsible for the effects. Now, since estrogen is associated with "all things female" and I am a gentleman of the old school, I decided to start with the latter after realizing that i...
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Androstenedione, Grand Daddy of All Prohormones: Carcinogenic Poison or Non-Toxic Muscle Builder?

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I suspect you have already read statements like " prohormones will kill your liver ", "prohormones will give you gyno" and/or " prohormones will induce prostate cancer ", haven't you? Well, Androstenedione is not methylated, so bro-science would tell you that your liver won't take a beating. Yet, all gynecomastia issues aside, what if its not the methyl-group but the prohormone itself that is liver toxic or carcinogenic? A recent study published in the journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology on May 30 2011 ( Blystone. 2011 ) sheds some light onto potential side effects of the "grand daddy of all prohormones". Chard R. Blystone and his colleagues administered  "subchronic" doses of androstenedione @ 10, 20, or 50 mg/kg body weight to male and @ 2, 10, or 50 female mice. And they did that for two years . Figure 1: Cancer risk of male F344/N rats after 2 years of chronic exposure t...
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