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The Quest For the Best N6:N3 Ratio. Swine Study Suggests: 5:1 is Healthy, 1:1 Will Also Cut Fat and Build Muscle

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 Yes, this study is about omega-3s, but it is not about the beneficial effects of fish oil. Ok, I see you are totally excited, so I am not going to beat around the bush for long: According to a soon-to-be-published study from the Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture at the Chinese Academy of Sciences  a 5:1 ratio of n-6:n3 (as in omega-6 to omega-3) is good enough to keep pigs healthy. Kicking out another couple of grams of omega-6 fatty acids, on the other hand, had pretty intriguing effects on the body composition of the ninety-six male cross-bred (Large White£ Landrace) pigs who happened to weigh about as much as an average human being (another advangate, of swine - HED calculations are not necessary; learn more ). Did you know that pigs are opportunistic omnivores just like us and provide a better model of human metabolism than our little, furry remote cousins with the big round eyes and the lo...
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No DHA & EPA in Non-Fish Fed Catfish. No Recovery From Ischemia W/ Low Carb. No Endocannabinoid Effects Without Medium Intensity Exercise. No Need to Tow Only Light Sleds

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Sarah Reinertsen ( click here to visit her webpage) was the first female leg amputee to participate and complete the Ironman (in 15h) and I bet she does not need the recent study by Galy et al. to be reminded of the benefits... no, the necessity of cycling your exercise intensity. In 2005 Sarah Reinertsen (image on the right) was the first female leg amputee to participate and complete the Ironman and honestly this would probably suffice as a figure of the week, but since this is a historic event, it does not necessarily qualify as the SuppVersity Figure of the Week . A figure that does qualify is the -15.7% decrease in post- exercise alveolar-capillary membrane diffusing capacity the highly trained triathletes in a soon-to-be-published paper by Galy et al. experienced after a 6-week "deload" (low training volume, intensity and frequency) period. What's interesting, though, is that the control group who remained on the same high training volume, intensity and fr...
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True or False? Caffeine is The Main Main Stroke Protectant in Tea & Coffee. High MCT Diets Are the Key to Longterm Fat Loss. Soybean Oil Makes You Fat not Heavy.

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Adelfo Cerame Jr. after winning his weight class, the overall and the pro-card ( leave him a message ). The first "True or False?" today, does not really pertain to diet and nutrition science, but it is still highly relevant for the SuppVersity: Adelfo Cerame Jr. did eventually win his well deserved pro-card at the Wheelchair Nationals in Florida, yesterday. - True! Ok, I have to admit that this may have been too easy with the picture of Adelfo holding the trophies for his weight class and the overall in his hands on the right, but it was the best way to include this important news "seamlessly" *rofl* into today's SuppVersity article. You want some more difficult stuff? Well, let's see what you know about tea, coffee, MCTs and heated soy bean oil, then. Caffeine (probably) is the main stroke protectant in coffee and tea True. As a recent study from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Brazil clearly indicates, the "bad" caffe...
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Frying Does not Just Oxidize Oils, It will Also Decimate the Tocopherol & Tocotrienol Content of the Oils and Can Thus More Than Double the Oxidative Burden on Your Body

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Fried butter on a stick - I bet there are more peroxides in the crust than in the butter beneath it. Yesterday we have taken a look at the saturated fat content of the diet and its effects on body composition, insulin resistance and inflammatory markers (see " Study Shows Doubling Saturated Fats Would Yield More Benefits Than Halving Them "). Today, we are going to look at the effects of a way not just Americans, but more or less half of the globe likes to process their foods on the oils and subsequent health of someone who would consume these oils on a regular basis. By now, you will probably already know into which direction this post is heading. Right, we are talking about frying, about lipid oxidation and about the health effects of oxidized soy bean and palm oil the #1 "choices" in processed foods. Oxidized frying oils and their effects on our health The paper by Jaarin and Kamisah, two researchers from the Department of Pharmacology at the Universiti...
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Tocotrienols: What They Are, What They Do & How They Work + Why the RDA of Palm Olein is NOT 1xCup Per Day

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Image 1: If you wanted to get the tocotrienol levels a producer of respective supplements says are  "required", you would have to eat at least 200g palm fruits a day. Alternatively, you can resort to 4kg of oats, if you like those better... What? you are wondering that you are not dead by now? After so many years of tocotrienol deficiency from not getting your 4kg of oats? The long lists of pathologies related to vitamin E deficiency include, among others, all sorts of degenerative diseases from ataxia over general muscle degeneration to degeneration of sperm and subsequent infertility. But despite the fact that there is a pretty substantial amount of evidence that would suggest that a diet rich in vitamin E could not just prevent the aforementioned pathologies, but would also protect us from many of the currently prevalent ailments of western society such as obesity and coronary vascular disease (Mishra. 2003; Rimm. 1993), respective trials with dietary supplements usua...
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Some Things Fishy: Oxidized Fish Oil Totally Benign!?Plus: The Inflammatory Side of EPA and Peroxide & Alkenal Levels in Commercial Fish and Vegetable Oils.

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Image 1: Surströmming, a Swedish delicates is essentially rancid fish and it stinks exactly like that. Now, the results of a recent study show that the rancidity does probably not compromise the health benefits of the fish... so if you like it, go for it! You know that whenever something is so (over-)hyped like fish oil or vitamin D that rings an alarm with me and when I hear "experts" on popular podcast say things along the lines of " as long as you take your fish oil that can compensate for a whacky diet ", this is totally burning me up. Yes, there is conclusive evidence that for someone who has damaged his/her body by years and years of omega-6 over-consumption the inclusion of even "high" dose (I consider 5-6g high!) fish oil supplements can make sense , but NO, it will neither allow you to keep eating the same crap that has brought you to where you are at now, nor (and I think this is even more important for most of the SuppVersity readers) is the...
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Too Much of a Good(?) Thing: When Fish Oil Starts Clogging Your Arteries and Fattening Up Your Liver.

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If you are no regular visitor of the SuppVersity, I guess, you are religiously taking your (high dose?) fish oil , day in day out. So what? It probably l owers your total and low density cholestero l (LDL-C; it may reduce your triglycerides and thus improve your insulin sensitivity . Yet, in doing all those "great" things, the unmetabolized and peroxidized remainder of everyone's favorite wonder-supplement begin to clog your arteries and liver - at least, if you believe in the validity of that kind of rodent studies which suggested the usefulness of fish oil, in the first place. Image 1: Micrograph of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, caused by the same kind of lipid accumulations Shirazi et al. observed in the rats receiving fish oil treatment (image by Nephron ) Shirazi et al. ( Shirazi. 2011 ) recently published a paper reporting exactly that: "Fish oil increases atherosclerosis and hepatic steatosis, although decreases serum cholesterol in Wistar rat...
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