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Garlic & Red Yeast Rice: Manage Your Blood Lipids W/Out Statins - 12+1 Natural Alternatives Reviewed (Part I)

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Red yeast rice is the "+1" in this SuppVersity Mini-Series  because it is actually a "statin". Similar effects, similar side effects and all that (probably) because of the similar structure of its lipid lowering active ingredient(s). "Twelve + 1"? I know that sounds odd, but I have my reason to single one of the natural alternatives, two scientists from the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand list in their 2016 review "A Review of the Efficacy, Safety, and Clinical Implications of Naturally Derived Dietary Supplements for Dyslipidemia", right from the start: red yeast rice (RYR). While garlic, which will also be discussed in today's first installment of what is going to become a mini-series, also has the ability to decrease your HMG-CoA reductase activity, only RYR does that at a similar potency as statins do; which is why its use entails the risk of similar side effects as they have been reported for regular statin drugs Whether RYR i...
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Science Round Up Seconds: Are Statins Good for Your Brain? Have the Scientists Just Forgotten About the Risks?

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Brainy question of the day: Will statins revive or criple your brain? Those of you who made it in time for yesterday's live-show, will already know that I have "postponed" publishing the (by then) commented list of dietary supplements to improve and maintain insulin sensitivity to Sunday. It was my original plan to publish this list along with three suggested supplement stacks on Sunday and sticking to it has the advantage of a "true" ending to the "Maintain and Improve Your Insulin Sensitivity" series ( read previous posts ) - there is already enough chaos among the 1351 published SuppVersity posts ;-). Furthermore, it will unquestionable be good for your brain, if I do not flood it with an informational overload by trying to cram all the information about the insulin sensitizers, as well ;-) Download! Don't forget to download the podcast: If you have not already done so, I suggest you download and listen to the show. With Carl ...
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SuppVersity Science Round-Up: Dairy, Diabetes, Estrogen, IGF-1, Cancer & More + Statins, Fat Gains & Diabesity Risk

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Now you tell me there was nothing magic about milk (poster from the CMPB "Got Milk" campaign) If you actually made it to the end of yesterday's podcast and were not so bored that you fell asleep (specifically during the passage where Carl was praising me to the skies ;-) you will already know that today's summary is above all going to provide you with some figures, suggested reads and, of course, references. Hey, David! Is there something magic about milk? I would also like to emphasize that both explanations I presented to explain the absence of beneficial effects of full-fat dairy and the non-significant detrimental effects of full-fat milk, yesterday, are just as the word implies "hypothetical" and I am not claiming to be sure that any of them fully explains the high vs. low fat difference. To be honest, I would be flabbergast if only one of them was the - meaning the only - reason that full-fat milk consumption does not yield the same reduction...
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Pomegranate for Statin Users, Magnesium for Cancer-Free Colons, Cialis for Diabetic & Healthy Women and Protein Supplementation for 0.81kg More Muscle & 13.5kg More Strength Gains Than Placebo (Data From Meta-Analysis)

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As the data in the graphs at the bottom shows, only vigorous physical activity (right), yet not moderate (middle), let alone light physical activity (left) will help kids to stave off the bad visceral body fat, which increases their waist line from year to year. The photo in the background was by the way taken in 1989 on Orchard Beach, in the Bronx. If I remember correctly that's 6 years before the release of Nintendo's first "Game Boy". And yeah, I got one and it really doubled if not tripled my sedentary time! 7 minutes! That's the SuppVersity figure of the week and a number that should actually ring a bell with everyone of you who is following my advice and pays a daily visit to the SuppVersity Facebook Wall . "Seven minutes" that's what scientists from the University of Alberta and their Canadian colleagues believe would be the amount of "vigorous physical activities" our kids should get (Hay. 2012). I am not sure, if those sc...
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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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Creatine for Type II Diabetics? 5g/Day Augment Exercise Induced Improvements in Glucose Disposal and Reduce Hb1Ac Levels by Increasing AMPK and GLUT-4 Expression

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Image 1: A reasonable carb intake, regular exercise and, interestingly, creatine will help you not to become insulin resistant in the first place. I don't know if you remember my rant against statins being promoted as unproblematic and healthy, when, at the same time, mainstream media portray creatine as a "dangerous gateway drug to steroids" (cf. " Statins Increase Diabetes Risk by >50% "). Today's blogpost is sort of an unintended follow-up on the former. After all the "dangerous gateway drug" just turned out to be useful in the treatment of the side-effects of the allegedly life-saving HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (=statins). A teaspoon of creatine a day keeps metformin away! In the latest issue of the journal Amino Acids Christiano Robles Rodrigues Alves and his colleagues from the School of Physical Education and Sports at the University of Sao Paulo in (guess where ;-) Sao Paulo, Brazil, present the results of a double-blind ran...
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With >50% Increased Risk to Develop New-Onset Diabetes, Statins are "Starter Drugs" for Post-Menopausal Women. Plus: Younger, Leaner & Asian Women at Greatest Risk

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Image 1: A statin here, some metformin to keep the collateral at bay, add an ACE inhibitor and some anti-coagulant drugs and you have a delicious cocktail of highly profitable pharmaceuticals... Do you remember how creatine has gotten a bad rep within the mass media, a few years ago? Initially touted as an over-the-counter "steroid" by a clueless journalist, the did not, as you would have expected backpedal, or at least forget about the whole thing, when some experts raised their hands and said: " Wait a minute! Creatine is a naturally occuring amino acid with thousands of studies backing its efficacy... ", no, they just turned it around and said: " Look, this is how it goes: First creatine, then androstenedione, next real gear! This stuff is a starter drug which will make our youth go astray! " ... Today, or I should say, on January 9, 2012, a study on another, yet in the eyes of the press obviously way less "starter drug" has been published...
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