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Vitamins A, C, E + Glycine, Leucine, and Taurine: 6 Common Vitamins + Amino Acids to Help W/ Muscle + Tendon Injury

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You may, in fact, already take these. In a recent systematic review, Christopher Tack et al. have recently analyzed "The Physiological Mechanisms of Effect of Vitamins and Amino Acids on Tendon and Muscle Healing" (Tack 2017). In the corresponding paper in International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism,  the scientist from the  University of Hertfordshire , list six amino acids and vitamins (and their respective combinations) as potential tools to accelerate, help, and support soft tissue, specifically muscle and tendon healing. You can learn more about taurine & other amino acids at the SuppVersity Taurine Strength & Recovery?! Taurine or Caffeine? Taurine ➲ +180% Testosterone Taurine + BCAA Good Combo? Taurine Boosts Good Gut Bugs Taurine for Glycogen The scientists came up with this list by digging through the standard databases, i.e. BSCO, PUBMED, Science Direct, Embase Classic/ Embase, and MEDLINE looking for terms ...
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100% Increase in Exercise-Induced Collagen Synthesis With Cheap, Yet Effective 15g Gelatin + 200mg Vitamin C Stack

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If you premix it with vitamin C, I would guess that this dosage form of gelatin will work just as well as the mix the scientists used in the study at hand. And if it contains 15g + of gelatin, consuming this stuff before a workout could indeed make a significant difference for your tendon health and stability/resilience. The deterioration of collagen is at the bottom of many musculoskeletal injuries. More than 50% of all injuries in sports can be classified as sprains, strains, ruptures, or breaks of musculoskeletal tissues. As the authors of a new paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition  point out, there's hope that "[n]utritional and/or exercise interventions that increase collagen synthesis and strengthen these tissues could have an important effect on injury rates" (Shaw. 2016). Gelatin has long been touted as the "protein of choice" to provide your body with the raw material for collagen resynthesis. Moreover, findings from engineered tiss...
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True or False: Adolescent Athletes at Risk of High Tendon Stress due to Non-Uniform Tendon/Muscle Adaptation

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Not allowing young athletes to lift weights may in fact increase, not decrease, their injury risk and hamper their recovery. I am not sure why, but people won't stop inventing new reasons why professional athleticism would be bad for adolescents. One of the more recently heard claims is that early resistance training will lead to a "non-uniform adaptation of muscle and tendon in young athletes" that may "result[] in increased tendon stress during mid-adolescence" (Mersmann. 2015). In a recent longitudinal study Mersmann et al. investigated the development of the morphological and mechanical properties of muscle and tendon of volleyball athletes in a time period of 2 years from mid-adolescence to late adolescence and the results are quite unambiguous. Read previous True or False!? Articles at the SuppVersity You Cannot Consume too Much Whey?! Caffeine and Creatine Don't Mix, do They?! Creatine is Better Taken After Workouts!? Low Fat fo...
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Peri-Workout Hydro-Whey Supplementation: Tried & Proven Muscle Builder Will Also Increase Tendon Size & Strength

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Squats are by no means the only exercise that requires strong muscles and tendons. In a way you could argue that today's SuppVersity article serves two purposes. Firstly, it provides direct evidence for my outrageous claim that the VPX Shotgun + Synthesize study from Saturday's installment of On Short Notice has little to no practical value, because the use of 2x17g of maltodextrin as a control has little to do with the real-world supplementation regimen the potential consumers of respective products are ingesting. I mean, you can safely assume that people who are willing to spend the money on expensive peri-workout kitchen sink supplements will - just like most of you - be ingesting a whey (or other fast acting) protein source after their workouts, anyways. It goes without saying that it would not have needed a new study to prove this point, so that informing you about another observation Farup et al. made in their most recent study is not just the second, but actually...
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