SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

The SuppVersity Science Round-Up every Thursday live on Carl Lanore's Super Human Radio -- tune in live at 1PM (EST=  6PM GMT)! I hope that most of you have already had a chance to listen to yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round Up on Super Human Radio . In case you didn't, or have been waiting for me to post the link to the podcast (just a reminder: you can always download the latest show, from the navigation bar on the right, where it says: " Physical Culture for your Ears "), I'd suggest you go and download the podcast either now, or after going through today's SuppVersity Science Round Up Seconds . The "Seconds" are as the name implies no "leftovers", but actually yet another selection from the selection of god knows how many interesting newsbits I usually pile up for the short 1h show, Carl and I are doing every Thursday. I would therefore encourage everyone to do both, listen to the podcast and read...

Image 1: The Ökomonitoring program took a very different approach to the question whether or not organic products are worth the extra cost, they did not look for the additional edge, but rather the "subtractive edge", if you will, and tried to answer the question: "Can we even produce 'organically' in an increasingly polluted environment"; now ten years after the program started the answer appears to be "Yes!" (MLR. 2012a) "Organic produce is no better than conventional! You are being ripped off!" Statements like this have made the headlines in the past couple of days and many people (obviously not you, though!) are scandalized or shaking their head haughtily uttering things "I knew it, and that's why I always buy the cheapest..." What both groups are missing, though is the simple fact that the question the scientists posed, or rather the question the journalists put to the forefront, i.e. "Are organically produced ...

Image 1: Don't get stressed with doing everything right, just do it ;-) Sometimes its strange how things get together unplanned. With me being on Carl Lanore's Super Human Radio, today at 1pm EST ( click here to listen live! ), talking about what happens when science and the real world "collide" and how both scientific paradigms and conventional wisdom are probably the most common causes of questionable conclusions (science) and lack of results (real world) and Adelfo sending me his weekly update on how the "wanna lose fat, got to cut calories"-paradigm is still bothering him... Five weeks out and putting bees into my own bonnet! I am counting the days, ... mainly because I don’t know what else to do with myself *lol* - It just feels like I need to do something to manipulate my training and my diet even further, but I really can’t do much at this point, but stay the course… I’m trying not to cut any more calories, because I want to avoid either losin...

Image 1: Adelfo's trip to Vegas did not end up just as bad, but it still had some CSI-ish elements ;-) Assuming that many of you have already been waiting eagerly to hear, or I should say, read if and how Adelfo has survived his trip to Vegas, I guess it would be best if I put you out of misery right away, but before I let Adelfo tell you his Hollywood-style story, I want to mention that in Adelfo and myself are going to be on Carl Lanore's Super Human Radio in about 2h, i.e. 7pm EST! So, in case you are reading this in time, make sure to tune in live ( update : for everyone who missed the live show, click here to download the podcast )! But enough cross-marketing for now, let's hear what our common friend has gone through in gambler's paradise... "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" If you’ve ever seen the movie, that’s pretty much how I you could sum up the events in Vegas. As wild, and fun as it was, it also got pretty ugly towards the end. Someone b...

In case you are one of the "intelligent" (as Carl likes to emphasize) listeners of Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio, I hope that you have been missing me lately. A tight schedule takes it toll and thus today is the first time in weeks that Carl and I are going to chat about exercise, nutrition and physical culture. The main theme of today's show is going to be Listen live to SHR @ 12:00PM ET Milk... Food For Babies, Muscle Builder for Bodybuilders,... ... or Everybody's Poison? Update : Podcast now available for download ! This is a follow up on a previous "Ask Dr. Andro" on milk and colostrum and I will be happy if you tune in live (I will be on in the 2nd half of the show starting @13pm), post your questions on Carl's Facebook pinwall or even call in @ 206-222-2218, if you feel like you can and want to contribute to the discussion.

I hope you did not plan otherwise, because I just scheduled two appointments for you: At 12pm (EST) you got to tune in live and listen to me & Sean Casey from Casey Performance @ Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio to learn more about the Science of Self Education ... The Science of Self-Education How to Read a Research Study update: Podcast available for Download Listen live to SHR @ 12:00PM ET After that you may have a brief launch break to fuel the gray matter between your ears, in order to then tune in to Dr. Scott Connelly's BodyRX Show for the second installment of the "Hardgainer Episode" @ 3pm (EST) Are We all Hardgainers - Part II Muscle building strategies for those not part of the genetic elite update: Podcast available for Download   Tune in live @ 3pm (EST)

This relevant for all of you - regardless of whether you can or cannot spare the time: Tune in live and listen to me @ Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio to learn that amino acids are far more than just the building blocks of the proteins of your body... Listen live to SHR @ 12:00PM ET Amino Acids for Super Humans. Part II (update: click here to download podcast ) Arginine, Citrulline and Ornithine: Nitric Oxide and Beyond In the second installment of the show we are going to look at the purported and busted NO Booster l-Arginine, its metabolites citrulline and ornithine, malic acid or alpha ketoglutarate binding of this amino acids and their largely overlooked effects on glucose homeostasis, protein synthesis and detoxification . As usual, I will do my best to provide relevant examples and relate the theory to practical advice. The magic of individual amino acids will be tackled in the shows to come. Update: The show is now available for down...

This relevant for all of you - regardless of whether you can or cannot spare the time: Tune in live and listen to me @ Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio to learn that amino acids are far more than just the building blocks of the proteins of your body... Listen live to SHR @ 12:00PM ET Beyond Building Blocks: Amino Acids for Super Humans. (update: click here to download podcast ) Metabolic, Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Functions of Amino Acids In the first installment of the series we will lay the foundations. What is an amino acid? What does it do, but being incorporated into proteins? How do we get (enough) amino acids? What on earth does our body do, once those little nitrogen containing molecules enter our blood streams? As always, I will do my best to provide relevant examples and relate the theory to practical advice. The magic of individual amino acids will be tackled in the shows to come. Update: The show is now available for download .

Just in case you got nothing else to do: Tune in live and listen to me @ Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio to learn whether or not Mr Ioannidis from the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston is right and ... Most Published Research Findings Are False!? Update: Episode steht zum Download bereit! Listen live to SHR @ 12:00PM ET For those interested in the original study , here is the link . Ah, and don't worry! I will try my best to make it more palatable ;-) Update: Episode steht zum Download bereit!

I am back on SHR - this time talking about a very serious topic: The meltdown at the nuclear power plant(s) in Fukushima. "What the Fukushima Is Going On?" Update: Download Podcast Listen live @ 9:00AM AM/12:00PM ET Tune in live and listen to some solid background info that will help you understand what's going on in Japan, California and the rest of the world.

The colleagues over at ergo-log.com dug up a 2009 study ( Narita. 2009 ) on the endocrine effects of royal jelly supplementation on rats. You may now wonder "Why is he suddenly beginning to writing off information about old studies on other sites?" Well, my interest in this study relates to my recent appearance on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio show (I know, I promised a write-up /just have to find the time ;-) and diverges from the original interpretation the anonymous author over at ergo-log provided. As you may have heard on the podcast, the most significant finding of the Ravussin study ( Ravussin. 2011 ) was the down-regulation of pro-opiomelanocortin [ POMC] neurons in the hypothalamus , which went hand in hand with weight gain and weight loss and is associated with a reduction of the metabolic rate to levels at which further weight loss or even weight maintenance become a significant challenge. Here, the findings of the aforementioned study on royal jelly, ...