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The Latest on Glutathione Supplements - Yes, They Can Work; And Yes, They May Even be Beneficial for Athletes

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Do you really need even more pills? The answer is "NO!" - even if GSH supplements actually seem to work. If you'd asked me 2 years ago, I'd answered the question whether glutathione (GSH) supplements even work with a determined "I don't think so!" Meanwhile, there have been a handful of interesting papers which indicate that oral glutathione supplements could actually work. The latest and one of the more interesting of these papers comes from the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the K yoto Prefectural University  where Wataru Aoi et al. took the next step and tried to prove the significance of Kovacs-Nolan et al.'s (in press) and Park et al.'s (2014) finding that glutathione is intestinally absorbed and transported intact across the human intestinal epithelial wall in a rodent model and in humans. The hormesis-concept says: Antioxidants are not always good for ya! Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? ...
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Tabata Workouts: Do They Work & How Energy-Demanding Are They? 14.5 Kcal/Min Sounds Nice, But You Must Earn It!

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Tabata training is intense: So if you don't have the guts to do it on your own, find someone to suffer next to you. Trust me that'll keep you going, if you'd have long surrendered if you had trained alone. Some gyms even offer special courses. Most of you will probably be familiar with the ultra-short + ultra-intense HIIT prescription that's known as the Tabata protocol. Not really? Well, here is the elevator pitch, then:  "Tabata training," was first described by the Japanese scientist Izumi Tabata in 1996. Tabata and his colleagues (Tabata.1996) conducted a study that compared moderate-intensity continuous training at 70% of maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) for 60 minutes, with HIIT conducted at 170% of VO2max. The HIIT training consisted of eight , 20-second all-out exercise bouts followed by 10 seconds of rest for a total of 4 minutes of exercise. Based on what you have read about the contemporary HIIT research here at t...
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Up Your Coffee Intake & The Temperature of Your Baths to Get in Shape; Up Your Mood W/ Self-Paced Aerobics; Up Your Vitamin D in Time; Up Both Fat & Sugar For Diabesity

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Ice cold baths are retarded. A cosy hot tub and a cup of coffee make a way better peak conditioning strategy. +38% that's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and it is the fat liberating advantage of the ingestion of 3mg/kg caffeine (in water) before sitting for 30 min in a hot bath (42°C; up to the navel) - yeah, you read me right:  The latest study from the Graduate School at the Department of Health Care of the Soonchunhyang University in the Republic of Korea is about the thermogenic effects of HOT ( not cold) baths. Even in the absence of additional caffeine ingestion the latter increases the amount of circulating free fatty acids by 52% (80% with caffeine) with the ~200-300mg of caffeine before the bath it almost doubles the amount of free fatty acids and increases the circulating leptin levels by 28% (vs. 5.6% w/out caffeine). Whether the significantly more pronounced reduction in waist circumference (8.9mm vs 6.7mm) Tae-Wook Kim & Jeong-Beom Lee observed in t...
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3.2g of Beta Alanine Reduce Rate of Perceived Exertion, Increase Time to Exhaustion and Ventilatory Threshold. Vegetarians, Older People and Diabetics May Benefit Most.

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Image 1: If you are into running, ladies, beta alanine is for you ;-) Those of you who make sure that they are getting their highly educative daily dose of the SuppVersity *rofl* will be aware that today's blogpost is, once again, dealing with beta alanine. Contrary to yesterday's post , which dealt with its pharmacokinetics, we are today going to have another look at what kind of real world performance outcomes the average (female!) physical culturist can expect from taking at least 3.2g of the beta amino acid per day - a dosage that has been shown in previous studies to increase intra-muscular carnosine levels by 27–39% in fast- and slow-twitch muscle fibers, respectively ( Baguet. 2009 ). And though I do not want to spoil things, I can already tell you that the results make it quite clear why beta alanine is not the next creatine . Somehow ergogenic, yet not really antioxidant For the study that was conducted at the Applied Physiology Laboratory at the University ...
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Intra-Workout Supplementation: Increased Carbohydrate Oxidation with L-Arginine, Lower Fat Oxidation with Glucose & Lowest Rate of Perceived Exertion with Plain Water

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Image 1: This bird certainly knows about the importance of adequate hydration ;-) Have you been at the gym today? If so, what kind of beverage have you been sipping in the rest-periods between your sets , your sprints or during your regenerative (not fat burning ;-) "classic" cardio exercise? Was it Funky XYZ the latest and greatest intra-workout product on the market? If so, you better check out its ingredients, who knows maybe the "latest and greatest" turns out to be quite counterproductive towards the goals you have been setting after reading one of the last two installments of the Intermittent Thoughts ? Let's assume you are the "Peter Griffin"-type of chubby - in that case, I hope that your Funky XYZ did not contain glucose, maltodextrin, waxy maize, or any other of the sugars of which the supp companies are going to tell you that they "superior" to the white poison your granny uses in her delicious muffins. Why? Well, according...
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