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The Overfeeding Overview: High Fat, Carb, Protein, MCTs, Leptin, Testosterone, T3 & Reverse T3 - Get an Overview of the Consequences of Short- & Long-Term Overfeeding

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High fat + high carbohydrate foods like mini doughnuts are exactly what you should not eat on a refeed day, let alone during weeks of bulking. Do you want to know what happens during days and weeks of gluttony? How the effects "bulking" will have on your body weight and composition, depending on where those extra calories come from? Have you wondered what the optimal nutrient composition on refeed days may look like? And are you concerned about the potential the health consequences of bulking? Yes? In this case, I would suggest you take a closer look at the following overview of the research. An overview that is probably not complete, but it should suffice to provide preliminary answers to the aforementioned questions. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your health at the SuppVersity Only Whey, Not Soy Works for Wheytloss Taste Matters - Role of the Taste Receptors Protein Satiety Shoot-Out: Casein vs. Whey How many Carbs Before Fat is Unhea...
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Thyroid Issues? Low Energy Intake Triggers Low T3 / High rT3 Syndrome in Exercising Women >19kcal/kg LBM Avail. Energy Required. Low Carbing Worsens the Impact of ED

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It's not your thyroid, but your behavior that's to blame for your low T3 levels, the fatigue and being "unable to lose weight". If you exercised less and ate more, you could fix it without medical intervention or thyroid madness using Lugol's or other junk ;-) It's something I am facing on a daily basis - on Facebook, in Emails and private messages: Women with self-induced thyroid issue who wonder that their body does everything to conserve lean and fat mass. Women who are working out on a daily basis, dieting like crazy and (in their words) "still not losing weight". It does not take a thyroid expert to identify the reason for their problems: They are training too much and eating too little. Just like the 27 women in seminal experiment that was conducted at the Ohio University in the early 1990s. A study I am going to elaborate on in today's SuppVersity article, although I personally believe it shouldn't take experimental evidence t...
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Overtraining, Undereating & Self-Inflicted Hypothyrodism: Thresholds for Low T3 and High Reverse T3 Levels at 8% & 15% Reduced Energy Intake + Exercise After Only 4 Days!

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This is not a "woman thing" only and your T3 levels are not the only thing that's going to "fall flat" if you starve yourself through your workouts! Yep, low libido => low total testosterone => low free testosterone => hypogonadism, that's what we are talking about, guys. While I did promise to summarize some of the things, I said about creatine kinase, ALT, AST & Co on the last installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on the Super Human Radio Network (I will do that in a future blogpost), today's SuppVersity article will focus on a single and in my experience often misinterpreted and / or overlooked symptom of overtraining that I personally have encountered numerous times in both male and female trainees: Self-induced hypothyrodism , low T3- or the euthyroid sick syndrome are just a couple of names that have been used in the science and laypress to describe this peculiar result of the way trainees deliberately ruin their metab...
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Science Round-Up Seconds: Vitamin E Succinate, How It's Extracted from Barley Leaves, Kills Cancer, Ramps up Growth Hormone & Spikes Prolactin. Plus: Testostosterone & Thyroid Hormone Decline Due To Plyometrics & HIIT

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Regardless of all the hypocritical hoopla around his persona, Lance Armstrong has always been able to push himself like no one else. No wonder that intense plyometrics were part of his regimen. If the SuppVersity Science Round Up was a meal, I guess you could say that Carl Lanore and I were sort of gluttonous, yesterday ( click here to download the podcast, if you have not already done so). We almost raced from one topic to another and therefore all the good stuff from the list is gone already and I am a bit pressed on time to get some "private life" in, so that I am not psyched about the idea of writing about auxiliary stuff. Against that background and in view of the fact that I felt that the pace of yesterday's show did not really leave enough room for some important details, I will stick to rehashing and expanding on the stories about Vitamin E succcinate and the detrimental effects of beating the crap out of yourself doing plyometrics or crazy HIIT workouts (...
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The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part II/III: LH, GH, IGF1, Insulin, Ghrelin, Leptin & Co Form a Self-Perpetuating Vicious Cycle

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I usually rant against pizza and beer, but once the athlete triad has struck, they can be an occasional part of the "healing protocol". In last Sunday's first installment of this series we have taken a look at the prevalence, etiology and fundamental cause of an entity that is, and I am repeating myself here, profoundly mis labeled as the " female athlete triad ". In fact, it is, as we have learned in the last installment , neither an exclusively female thing, nor a triad. If anything, it is a quintet or sextet. To make that clear, and give you guys, who make the same mistakes, but usually with less detrimental consequences, I will once more refer to it as "athlete triad" = AT,  in this second part of the Female(?) Athlete Triad Series in which we will take a look at the endocrine underpinnings of the previously described consequences of the temporary and long-term energy deficiency we have identified as the single most important causative fact...
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