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Blindfolds and earplugs can improve your sleep quality significantly. The special beauty of blindfolds is: unlike earplugs, blindfolds may also be used to refresh 'other things' you may be doing beneath or on top of your sheets, which in turn will help those who are struggling with getting restorative sleep ( learn more ) While every idiot will tell you that ZMA is "the shit" (it indeed is, literally ) its purported benefits are either insufficiently proven or even disproven, as it is the case for the alleged  anabolic effect of ZMA, which clearly don't exist (Wilborn 2004) outside of the "alternative facts" supplement companies use in pamphlets people call "write ups". Obviously, this won't stop the bros at the gym from telling you: "Dat ZMA gives me an amazingly anabolic sleep, bro!" The reasons ZMA (unfortunately) hasn't disappeared, yet, is still in the TOP10 of an unfortunately high number of supplement retailers...

I suppose you will have known that sleep hygiene & green tea help, but did you know the exact numbers when it comes to their effects on your resting energy expenditure, as well? No? In this case, today's SuppVersity article is for you! In the first installment of this new SuppVersity series , you've learned about the pro-metabolic effects of eating less frequent large(er) meals and the ability of caffeine to boost resting energy expenditure and fatty acid oxidation. Today, we're going to take a look at the effects of sleep and green tea on the amount of energy your body consumes in a given 24h window. In 2011, Christian Benedict and colleagues conducted an interesting study. The German scientists examined the resting energy expenditure of 14 normal-weight male subjects on two occasions during a regular 24-h sleep-wake cycle (including 8 h of nocturnal sleep) and a 24-h period of continuous wakefulness in a balanced cross-over study. Not living in tune with you...